Disney’s live-action adaptation of the 1989 animated classic “The Little Mermaid” is so far swimmingly along nicely, with the film set to rack up $95.5 million for the three-day and $117.5 million for the four-day Memorial Day holiday weekend domestically.
Overseas where there is no holiday, the film is tracking for a $68.3 million haul – which will bring the film’s total to $163.8 million by the end of Sunday. The film bombed on release in China with just $2.5 million for the weekend.
The Rob Marshall-directed feature so far appears to have been well received by U.S. audiences with an A CinemaScore and a 95% verified audience score on Rotten Tomatoes – notably higher than the 67% critics score for the film.
However, the film has reportedly been targeted by review-bombers across several film ratings websites, with sites like IMDb and Allocine witnessing an unusual distribution of scores and voting activity to the point they’ve issued advisories.
IMDB says in its statement: “When unusual voting activity is detected, an alternate weighting calculation may be applied in order to preserve the reliability of our system”.
Outside of ‘Mermaid,’ this weekend saw “Fast X” go past the $500 million mark globally and “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” surpass $730 million worldwide.
“Fast X” will come in with $22.9 million for the three-day weekend this week – down 66% from its debut – and around $28.5 million for the four-day. ‘Guardians’ is tracking for a $24.3 million four-day.
“The Super Mario Bros. Movie” will come in fourth with $6.2 million, “The Machine” will be fifth with $5.8 million and “About My Father” will be sixth with $5.3 million.
In limited release, the Julia Louis-Dreyfus-led and Nicole Holofcener-directed “You Hurt My Feelings” is set for an estimated $1.7 million for the four-day holiday weekend – on the high end of expectations.
Source: Deadline
