This new, live-action “The Little Mermaid” from Disney works on almost no level. It hardly has enough music to be a musical (and some of the songs are sung by off-camera voices), the underwater scenes ...

The Little Mermaid, the highly-anticipated live-action Disney remake, earned the No. 1 spot at the box office this weekend, drawing $118 million in domestic sales in its first weekend in theaters, ...

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Fairytales are easy to love. They are told and re-told so often, everyone wants to make theirs stand out from the rest. But with a source material so strong, there’s no need to try and reinvent the ...

Disney has revealed that the cost of its live action remake of The Little Mermaid swelled by 6.8% to $379.8 million last year as further bills came in following its release. The spending didn’t exceed ...

The trend toward long movies has a commercial aspect and an artistic one, and occasionally, as in the new live-action version of “The Little Mermaid,” they converge. With heavy competition from ...

The trick to remaking a massive hit? Plug a livewire into the leading role. The trick to remaking a massive movie hit is to plug a livewire into the leading role. "The Little Mermaid," now in theaters ...

I haven't really been a fan of Disney's recent live-action remakes of its most beloved animated titles — a practice that may make commercial sense, but feels increasingly like an artistic dead end.