{"id":1939391,"date":"2023-05-27T04:57:27","date_gmt":"2023-05-27T08:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-little-mermaid-expected-to-earn-120m-opening-weekend-despite-ho-hum-reviews\/"},"modified":"2023-05-27T04:57:27","modified_gmt":"2023-05-27T08:57:27","slug":"the-little-mermaid-expected-to-earn-120m-opening-weekend-despite-ho-hum-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-little-mermaid-expected-to-earn-120m-opening-weekend-despite-ho-hum-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Little Mermaid\u2019 Expected To Earn $120M Opening Weekend Despite Ho-Hum Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-little-mermaid-expected-to-earn-120m-opening-weekend-despite-ho-hum-reviews%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1939391&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/movies\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Little Mermaid<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201d is projected to pull in around $120 million during its opening weekend despite mixed reviews of the live action <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/disney\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Disney<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> film.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The movie will also earn an estimated $80 million overseas between Friday and Sunday of Memorial Day weekend, per <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/little-mermaid-box-office-memorial-day-opening-1235500751\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If the $120 million projection is accurate, that would mean \u201cThe Little Mermaid\u201d would have the fifth biggest domestic start for Memorial Day weekend. That title currently belongs to Disney\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/hollywood\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">live-action<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> version of \u201cAladdin,\u201d which earned $116.8 million during the holiday weekend in 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This updated version of the classic 1989 animated film stars Halle Bailey as Ariel, Melissa McCarthy as Ursula the sea witch, and Jonah Hauer-King as Prince Eric. Daveed Diggs voices Sebastian, Jacob Tremblay appears as Flounder, and Javier Bardem plays King Triton.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Like so many live-action remakes from Disney, \u201cThe Little Mermaid\u201d follows basically the same storyline as the original film with a few updates, which is one of the primary reasons it\u2019s being criticized.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2023\/05\/26\/1177917346\/the-little-mermaid-review-remake-disney-halle-bailey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">NPR<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> reviewer echoed what others were saying by calling it \u201can artistic dead end\u201d that \u201cmay make commercial sense\u201d but is ultimately \u201cunnecessary.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cLike a lot of its fellow Disney remakes, this Little Mermaid too often feels like a dutiful cover version rather than an inspired reimagining,\u201d the review says. While Bailey\u2019s performance is hailed as one of the best parts of the movie, the reviewer describes her beloved sidekick friends Flounder and Sebastian as \u201ccreepy and dead-eyed\u201d in the new version.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThere is nothing innovative or reformist about what happens in this movie,\u201d Huffington Post <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/the-little-mermaid-review_n_646e1f23e4b03557393a5123\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">wrote<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> about the remake.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1685124530010000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2IMwz0_UmyM8nO4-uO1BT-\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWhile the original \u2018The Little Mermaid\u2019 dazzled with its beautifully imaginative underwater kingdom and talking sea creatures, Rob Marshall\u2019s remake is a soulless cash grab utterly devoid of any hint of charm of visual whimsy,\u201d another reviewer <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wionews.com\/entertainment\/hollywood\/news-the-little-mermaid-review-disneys-live-action-remake-fails-to-make-a-splash-596751\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">wrote<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There were other moviegoers who disagreed with the criticism, however, saying the new \u201cLittle Mermaid\u201d is worth seeing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cFor the most part, I had a good time at \u2018The Little Mermaid.\u2019 The film is buoyed by its actors and some of its visuals,\u201d the reviewer at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2023\/05\/22\/arts\/halle-bailey-makes-little-mermaid-her-own\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Boston Globe<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> wrote. Another reviewer insisted it was, \u201can entertaining adaptation that deserves to make a big splash at the box office.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe Little Mermaid\u201d premiered nationwide on May 26.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>(Disclosure: The Daily Wire has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/videos\/introducing-dw-kids\">announced plans<\/a>\u00a0for kids entertainment content.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Little Mermaid\u201d is projected to pull in around $120 million during its opening weekend despite mixed reviews of the live action Disney film. The movie will also earn an estimated $80 million overseas between Friday and Sunday of Memorial Day weekend, per The Hollywood Reporter. If the $120 million projection is accurate, that would<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":1939392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[6962,27766,7323,4183,27765,11606,16230,6665],"class_list":["post-1939391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-the","tag-120m","tag-earn","tag-expected","tag-ho-hum","tag-mermaid","tag-reviews","tag-weekend"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1939391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1939392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1939391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1939391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1939391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}