Rising from the mysterious depths of the cinematic ocean, the live-action version of The little Mermaid, a wonderful work of Disney, has raised a wave of wonder among North American audiences, thus lifting the film to the top of the box office in its first weekend in theaters. A tour de force achieved under the benefic star of memorial daya holiday celebrated with great fanfare on the last Monday of May in the United States, according to information gathered from specialist firm Exhibitor Relations.
The melodious song of this enchanted siren was not content to charm American and Canadian audiences as it collected the handsome sum of $117.5 million. This mythical creature also knew how to cross the seas, captivated the international audience and as such accumulated the sum of 68 million dollars. It is the figures revealed by Exhibitor Relations that testify to the resounding success of this film, a modernized revival of the timeless adventure.
Still rooted in the exotic Caribbean landscape of the 1830s, on the edge of a fictional island, the 1989 revival of the famous cartoon, The little Mermaid, made a sensational debut on the cinematic stage. In the deep blue, Ariel (Halle Bailey), an 18-year-old mermaid, the youngest of seven siblings, lives under the sovereign rule of her father, King Triton (Javier Bardem), in his underwater kingdom.
Mischievous and insatiably curious, Ariel has always been fascinated by the human world, an obsession that will lead her to make an extremely dangerous pact with her aunt, the sorceress of the seas, Ursula (Melissa McCarthy).
“Disney has made live-action remakes a mainstream cinematic phenomenon for a decade,” said analyst David A. Gross. However, he noted that despite its undeniable success, The little Mermaid failed to eclipse the numbers for the first weekend of Lion King in 2019 (191.8 million) or Beauty and the beast in 2017 ($174.8 million).
However, Ariel and her marine friends did not fail to capsize the box office and move down FastX in second place with a weekend gross of $29.5 million, less than half of the franchise’s last installment Fast & furious from Universal had scooped the previous weekend when it was released.
