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"The Little Mermaid" tops the US box office

2023-05-29T06:10:53.630Z

Highlights: "The Little Mermaid" took the top spot at the North American box office for its first weekend. The film grossed $117.5 million at the U.S. and Canadian box office and $68 million internationally. The remake of the 1989 cartoon is still set in the 1830s Caribbean, on the edge of a fictional island. The Marvel movie "Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3" and the animated film "Super Mario Bros. the Movie" also dropped one spot each, to third and fourth.


The live-action version of Disney's "The Little Mermaid" took the top spot at the North American box office for its first weekend...


The live-action version of Disney's "The Little Mermaid" took first place at the North American box office for its first weekend in theaters, taking advantage of the "Memorial Day" holiday Monday in the United States, according to the specialized firm Exhibitor Relations. The film grossed $117.5 million at the U.S. and Canadian box office and $68 million internationally.

The remake of the 1989 cartoon is still set in the 1830s Caribbean, on the edge of a fictional island. In the sea lives Ariel (Halle Bailey), an 18-year-old mermaid, the youngest of the seven daughters of King Triton (Javier Bardem) who rules the oceans from his underwater kingdom. Mischievous and curious, Ariel has always admired the human world. A passion that will push her to accept a terrible pact with her aunt, the sea witch Ursula (Melissa McCarthy).

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For a decade, Disney has made live-action movie remakes a powerful phenomenon," analyst David A. Gross wrote in his FranchiseRe newsletter. He notes, however, that "The Little Mermaid" still does less well for its first weekend than "The Lion King" in 2019 (191.8 million) and "Beauty and the Beast" in 2017 ($174.8 million).

Ariel and her friends nevertheless dethrone "Fast X", which ranks second with only $ 29.5 million raised during the weekend. That's less than half of what Universal's action movie, which is part of the "Fast & Furious" franchise, had garnered the previous weekend when it was released.

The Marvel movie "Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3" and the animated film "Super Mario Bros. the Movie," inspired by the video game of the same name, also dropped one spot each, to third and fourth, with receipts of $25.3 million and $7.7 million respectively.

Sony's action comedy "The Machine" grossed $5.8 million and ranked fifth.

Source: lefigaro

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