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‘The Little Mermaid’ surges at box office, bringing in $95.5 million – UnlistedNews

Halle Bailey attends the Australian premiere of ‘The Little Mermaid’ at the State Theater on May 22, 2023 in Sydney, Australia.

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“The Little Mermaid” made moviegoers want to be under the sea on Memorial Day weekend.

from Disney The live-action remake of its 1989 animated classic easily topped the competition, grossing $95.5 million on 4,320 screens in North America, according to studio estimates Sunday.

And Disney estimates that the film starring Halle Bailey as the titular mermaid Ariel and Melissa McCarthy as her nemesis, the sea witch Ursula, will fetch $117.5 million by the time the holidays are over. It ranks as the fifth largest Memorial Day weekend opening.

Displaces “Fast X” in the first place. The tenth installment of the “Fast and Furious” franchise starring Vin Diesel has lagged behind most recent releases in the series, grossing $23 million domestically for a total of $108 million in two weeks for Universal Pictures.

In its fourth weekend, Disney and Marvel’s “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” grossed approximately $20 million in North America to rank third. He has now earned $299 million domestically.

The fourth went to Universal’s “The Super Mario Bros. Movie,” which continues to reach new heights in its eighth weekend. Now available to rent on VOD, it still made $6.3 million theatrically. Its cumulative total of $559 million makes Mario & Luigi the biggest earner of the year so far.

The comics couldn’t cope with Ariel when the week’s other new releases tanked.

“The Machine,” an action comedy starring comedian Bert Kreischer, finished in fifth place with $4.9 million domestically. And “About My Father,” the stand-up comedy starring Sebastian Maniscalco and Robert De Niro, came in sixth with $4.3 million.

Estimated ticket sales Friday through Sunday at theaters in the US and Canada, according to Comscore. The final national figures will be released on Monday.

1. “The Little Mermaid,” $95.5 million.

2. “Fast X,” $23 million.

3. “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3,” $20 million.

4. “The Super Mario Bros. Movie,” $6.3 million.

5. “The Machine,” $4.9 million.

6. “About My Father,” $4.3 million.

7. “Kandahar,” $2.4 million.

8. “You Hurt My Feelings,” $1.4 million.

9. “Evil Dead Rise,” $1 million.

10. “Book Club, The Next Chapter,” $920,000.

Disclosure: Comcast is parent of NBCUniversal, parent of Universal Pictures and CNBC.

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