movie The Little Mermaid (2023) | Makes a BIG streaming splash on Disney+ | 16M views! 🫧🐚

[chosensparkles]

First Wednesday for Disney releases:

 

The Lion King - $17.03M (-43,9%)

Beauty and the Beast - $13.3M (-35,9%)

The Little Mermaid - $8.2M (-28,7%)

Aladdin - $7.4M (-37,9%)

Alice in Wonderland - $6.7M (-15,1%)

Cinderella - $4.57M (-21,4%)

Dumbo - $2.38M (-49,3%)

 

[BNF91]

Damn, a brilliant Wednesday hold domestic. Down just 28% to $8.2M 

In comparison, Aladdin fell 38% to $7.4M

 

Edit: Oops I'm late

 

Double edit: Up to $8.3M now. Stellar Wed hold 

Edited June 1, 2023 by BNF91

[Aethereal]

On 4/29/2023 at 7:44 PM, Aristotle said:

My money is on 600M to 650M total box office.

 

From April. Pretty accurate considering the movie is pushing $550M-$610 WW. 

[Delirious]

Oh yea looks like Disney will probably Breakeven from this if it holds this well. The soundtrack will generate a maximum of $1m in profits.

 

Likely $500k only tho

 

Now...merch idk about that but we'll see

[samito]

4 hours ago, chosensparkles said:

$8.2M for Wednesday in the US

2’d biggest of the year

over Aladdin $7.4M

Great!!!

[Mezter]

About to see it for the 3rd time tomorrow 

[Leppie]

So it's looking like there's no chance of any sort of sequel right?  

[V$.]

https://twitter.com/Royal_Flyness/status/1664162962343624704?t=yYDr33a04g7C6jZQgEm0Ug&s=19

 

[BNF91]

Same holds as Aladdin until Sunday gets TLM a $47.5M 2nd weekend and just a few million short of $200M domestic by Sunday already. With Spiderverse about to explode it will likely hit TLM. A little bit. But if anything, it is pretty damn good counterprogramming to Spiderverse and will also be the #1 option for spillover from sellouts so who knows what happens. I'm inclined to believe that this will likely be very weekday heavy as we are entering peak summer weekdays. 

 

Let's say a $40-45M 2nd weekend. Anything sub 60% would be solid IMO and set it up well to play through the summer very much like Aladdin did. This is also skewing mega female heavy, like mid to high 60s percent of viewers are female. Apart from Elemental (which is flop city) there's nothing until Barbie in mid July to affect it a ton. 

Edited June 2, 2023 by BNF91

[ZIVERT]

Just saw this in theater, it was so good

 

Halle IS Ariel. Her voice, her mannerisms, everything. She outsold the original. Sebastian and Scuttle were also hilarious as well, really enjoyed their banter. I’m not a fan of Lin Manuel Miranda, so I might be biased when I say he was kind of meh, but otherwise I thought the movie was really good

[V$.]

https://twitter.com/versacemeg/status/1664425706883883008?t=RyJ_GrU1Xtz3HapQbeSIKw&s=19

 

 

6 minutes ago, ZIVERT said:

Just saw this in theater, it was so good

 

Halle IS Ariel. Her voice, her mannerisms, everything. She outsold the original. Sebastian and Scuttle were also hilarious as well, really enjoyed their banter. I’m not a fan of Lin Manuel Miranda, so I might be biased when I say he was kind of meh, but otherwise I thought the movie was really good

[chosensparkles]

Italy 2nd Thursday 

up from last week (+1.9%)

$525k

$6.5M total 

[chosensparkles]

#3 in France on Thursday

should be back to #2 for the weekend

[Gaia]

Curious why didn’t they hit up James Cameron for some underwater filming or anything. The clips I’ve seen look too obviously fake especially the hair on the water. Makes it hard to want to see it

[V$.]

47 minutes ago, Gaia said:

Curious why didn’t they hit up James Cameron for some underwater filming or anything. The clips I’ve seen look too obviously fake especially the hair on the water. Makes it hard to want to see it

Girl... it's a Di$ney live action not an Avatar movie. 

[Gaia]

18 minutes ago, V$. said:

Girl... it's a Di$ney live action not an Avatar movie. 

Yeah but they could have made it seem like more than a cheap cash grab.

 

Its supposed to be “realistic” hence the awful visuals of the crab and fish to look “real”

 

Like sure that would increase budget but a big part of the flack this movie has gotten has been visuals. 

[Peroxide]

1 hour ago, Gaia said:

Curious why didn’t they hit up James Cameron for some underwater filming or anything. The clips I’ve seen look too obviously fake especially the hair on the water. Makes it hard to want to see it

I honestly don't think it looks that bad...

 

And it's not a totally fair comparison, yes the underwater scenes in Avatar look INSANE.... but the characters aren't belting out huge musical numbers underwater, nor acting their hearts out, they just kind of ... swim? It would have been almost impossible to integrate that technique for TLM.

[chosensparkles]

$6.8M for Thursday

Aladdin did $6.4M

 

The Lion King - $15M

Beauty and the Beast - $10.9M

The Little Mermaid - $6.8M

Alice in Wonderland - $6.7M

Aladdin - $6.4M

Cinderella - $4.5M

Dumbo - $2M

 

Deadline:

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Disney’s The Little Mermaid led all films in regular release yesterday with $6.8M (-17% from Wednesday) ending its week with an estimated $145.7M at 4,320 theaters, +2% ahead of the first week of Aladdin.

 

Edited June 2, 2023 by chosensparkles

[Life Savers]

Of course Avatar looks better. They spent a literal decade making it and coming up with the technology. 

[EmailMySwift]

Nice holds in non-racist markets 

[BNF91]

1 hour ago, chosensparkles said:

$6.8M for Thursday

Aladdin did $6.4M

 

The Lion King - $15M

Beauty and the Beast - $10.9M

The Little Mermaid - $6.8M

Alice in Wonderland - $6.7M

Aladdin - $6.4M

Cinderella - $4.5M

Dumbo - $2M

 

Deadline:

 

Might be a touch higher.. have some saying $7M. Either number would be a great hold against the Spiderman previews. 

[chosensparkles]

20 minutes ago, BNF91 said:

Might be a touch higher.. have some saying $7M. Either number would be a great hold against the Spiderman previews. 

Yes do we have UK

[chosensparkles]

1 hour ago, BNF91 said:

Might be a touch higher.. have some saying $7M. Either number would be a great hold against the Spiderman previews. 

https://twitter.com/borreport/status/1664700349221949463?s=46&t=Eka0cQoMAKutjqYjKTXx8g

[BNF91]

2 hours ago, chosensparkles said:

https://twitter.com/borreport/status/1664700349221949463?s=46&t=Eka0cQoMAKutjqYjKTXx8g

Ok that's pretty awesome. Just -15% in the face of an $18M Thursday preview debut. Couldn't ask for better tbh. 

 

Can't find UK #s just yet. 

[New Edition]

So TL:DR how's this movie doing overall?