Little Mermaid: Box office results have MAGA fuming

Disney’s live action “The Little Mermaid” has been a huge success as it raked in $95.5 million at the box office between May 26 and May 28.

The film, staring Halle Bailey, far exceeded the competition on Memorial Day weekend, especially as there was a ‘woke’ backlash due to the colour of Halle Bailey’s skin.

It was the fifth-biggest Memorial Day weekend film opening of all time.

Swimming laps

A report by The Hollywood Reporter’s Pamela McClintock described the reboot of Disney’s 1989 animated hit as “swimming laps around the competition,” as the movie is “headed for an estimated four-day domestic debut of $118.6 million, the holiday’s fifth-biggest opening of all time, according to final weekend actuals.”

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The film was attacked by commentators on the right like The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh over the decision to cast a Black actress, Halle Bailey, in the lead role of Ariel.

Looks fun behind the scenes!

Halle Bailey and Jonah Hauer-King on the set of ‘THE LITTLE MERMAID’ pic.twitter.com/5NqR8p03Fu
— Film Updates (@FilmUpdates) May 30, 2023

Its closest competitor was “Fast X” — the 10th installment in the “Fast & Furious” franchise — which opened on May 19 and earned $23 million between May 26-28

There were a lot of reactions, and hate, when the trailer landed for the The Little Mermaid.

BOX OFFICE: Disney’s #TheLittleMermaid scores $38M in its first day & is on pace for $120M+ over the 4-day weekend. If it tops $126.9M, it will be 3rd highest Memorial Day weekend ever.
1. TOP GUN: MAVERICK $160M
2. PIRATES/AT WORLD’S END $139M
3. INDY/CRYSTAL SKULL $126.9M pic.twitter.com/iBc9Q26wMv
— Erik Davis (@ErikDavis) May 27, 2023

Halle Bailey is chuffed!

thank you jesus 🥹🥹🥹🥹💕💕💕💕 https://t.co/nfbxRXuRDb
— Halle (@HalleBailey) May 28, 2023

Reactions

MAGA snowflake heads explode. Woke Disney’s “The Little Mermaid”, with the woke casting of Halle Bailey, wins the holiday weekend box office with $119 million. This makes the film the holiday’s fifth-biggest opening of all time. pic.twitter.com/5kJ5UW8iM5
— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) May 31, 2023

Me after watching the little mermaid pic.twitter.com/5zBRDFQTMX
— The Realest (@deiistiny) May 29, 2023

Now do you silly muthaf******s get it pic.twitter.com/SVYF2cSD4l
— Que22 (Bruce Wayne ) (@JusAGuyinToms22) May 29, 2023

https://twitter.com/LAVISHSZN_/status/1663737196057075719

I am huge MAGA….and I speak for many folks like me! You leftists are the racists! We see the hypocrisy in taking white characters throughout the corpus of stories and changing them to black…point fingers at us when you folks were the racists that never included black in Disney! https://t.co/JcgGrQ4f4U
— @Andy (@finGeorge4) May 31, 2023

People upset over a cartoon character not being white. Saying it will disturb white children. Naw, but it will disturb their white supremacist parents. https://t.co/PVNqvdMQqo
— Julia Seymour (@JuliaSeymour58) May 31, 2023

Oops

https://twitter.com/RedPillPoppers/status/1663756596630126592

lets just say it; woke-BS, their heads exploding cause she's cast as black. I've even heard the utterly ridiculous- she cant be black, lives in the sea, should be pale white, albino-ish even. Really u racist assclowns, have u never seen the dark skin of sharks, whales, rays, etc! https://t.co/Y1YFk1xE10
— vera liberta (@veraliberta22) May 31, 2023