The live action Little Mermaid is at $543 million globally. Chances are good it won’t crack $600 million.
Reports put the cost of production at around $250 million. The break even point for such a budget is typically $700-750 million. So this movie is on track to lose a cool hundred million dollars, which is bad enough already.
But consider the fact that three previous live action remakes have broken the billion dollar barrier at the box office. In terms of established expectations, Little Mermaid is leaving as much as a quarter to a half a billion dollars on the table.
I blame some of this on the inherently flawed concept. Live action versions of people are obviously fine, and simulated live action versions of cuddly animals are popular. Simulated live action versions of dead-eye fish and creepy sea insects? Not as appealing.
But there’s simply no denying that the unnecessary race swapping of white ginger Ariel to yet another black actress did not go over well with non-woke foreign markets. Asian countries in particular roundly rejected this movie, which is why the international box office fell well short of domestic. This trend was completely reversed with the previous live action remakes, btw.
So yeah, don’t run your retard mouth about shit you don’t understand, whoever you were lol
The Little Mermaid is supposed to be one of the crown gems of the modern Disney Library, right next to Lion King and Aladdin, 90's superhits that any parent who grew up in the 80's and 90's was supposed to adore and want to go see again with their kids. I know my sister loved Ariel as a kid, has a few daughters herself (One with red hair too) and never even considered going to see this, just was a passive whatever response to it all. It stagnated, propped up by going all in at appealing entirely to 20-30% of the nation that hates White people with expectations of others silently filing in as called for. I'm sure beancounters in Florida expected the numbers to be massive, Covid has ended and seeing a movie about fish and sailors swimming in the ocean during summer should be a smash hit, kids are out of school and could be cycling into theaters.
Expect the next Disney Live Action movie announced to be Pocahontas, and go all in on vilifying White Man.