'The Little Mermaid' dominated at the box office on Memorial Day weekend.
Other new films that opened Memorial Day weekend —"The Machine,""About My Father,""Kandahar" and"You Hurt My Feelings" — opened in fewer theaters and made only a fraction of"The Little Mermaid's" earnings.
If by the end of the four-day holiday weekend"The Little Mermaid" earns a total of $126.9 million, it would rank as the third-highest earner on Memorial Day weekend ever — following 2022's"Top Gun: Maverick," which earned $160 million, and 2007's"Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End," which earned $139 million — according to Fandago's Erik Davis.
The Disney remake of the 1989 animated movie was highly anticipated. When the first teaser of the film was released last year,to it began going viral online. Many were overjoyed to see Bailey, who is Black, play a Disney princess and give representation to young Black girls. "People have been sending these reactions to me all weekend and I'm truly in awe," the 22-year-old actress tweeted at the time."This means the world to me." The film, directed Rob Marshall, features music by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Alan Menken, who is behind the music of numerous other Disney films.
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