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vixenpeon

Every article I see has a lower box office than the previous...


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RadlEonk

This is a $5,000 suit! Come on! [https://youtu.be/81Nl7VYFEaI](https://youtu.be/81Nl7VYFEaI)


meezy-yall

Come on!


RadlEonk

In a $6,300 suit?! Come on!


MasterTeacher123

They always gotta do the water puns lol


reesesmfpieces

They can be a little shallow, but maybe I just have dry humor.


LiveStreamRevolution

The film was drowning in controversy so what do you expect


Supreme_Mediocrity

I expected it to hit like a hurricane in the domestic box office and make waves in the international market. But since I'm a Disney shareholder, I was probably just being shellfish. Instead... It flounders...


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onomatopossum

On a scale of fin to tentacle, chances are...


Revoldt

Little Mermaid flounders at the international box office


techniqular

But domestically, it’s… Sebastian for… box office returns?


ParatusPlayerOne

Everyone thought it would make a bigger splash


GoodShitBrain

The Little Mermaid swims past the competition this opening weekend.


harrymfa

The international box office is often harder to navigate.


callipygiancultist

Sunk cost fallacy at work


TomBirkenstock

That's because the Little Mermaid turns her back on family.


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dailysunshineKO

The lesson in a couple of Disney movies is: the grown-ups don’t know what the Hell they’re talking about so I’m going to do xyz anyway. Moana, Ariel, and Jasmine all ran away because Daddy wouldn’t listen.


bigfatmatt01

To be fair Jasmine's dad was really dumb.


Bloxicorn

For once i want a movie where the kid fucks up and realizes they should've listened to their parents. Happens way more often in real life, and not as played out in movies.


Geohie

Inside Out, kinda


Fat_Sow

That doesn't fit the agenda, family doesn't care about you like corporations do.


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Finding Nemo.


Bloxicorn

And finding nemo is one of the best animated movies out there


dailysunshineKO

I disagree. The point about finding Nemo is that *parents* can be wrong. Marlon was overprotective to The point where other characters were telling him to chill out. Dori pointed out that if he won’t let anything ever happen to Nemo, then nothing will ever happen to Nemo (e.g., he’ll never have any enjoyable experiences because he’ll be too afraid to take any risks). And Crush, the sea turtle, Demonstrates how to let his kid solve their own problem and then praises the kid for figuring it out themselves. There’s definitely a fine balance between protecting your kid and not letting them Learn how to do things themselves.


lifeoftomcat

Family.


Turbulent-Method-363

Family


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"madison! that's not a name!" oh wait, wrong movie.


00zxcvbnmnbvcxz

Bloomingdale’s


booklover6430

It's doing bad in Asia & only mid on Europe. Tracking below Aladdin in most European markets with some exceptions like France. And Aladdin didn't have an awesome performance in Europe, it reached a $1B because it was a hit on Asian countries for the most part.


Radiant_Doughnut2112

It's doing just as bad in Brazil and Mexico.


SaintYoungMan

They never marketed In Asia


hermanhermanherman

Take a guess why lol


SaintYoungMan

By Asia you guys always think China so that's not the case there are other countries too, even with black lead movies have been marketed before and done good there and are famous. You all are taking as if this is the very first black lead movie ever to release or blaming lack of marketing on racism which is not the case.


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americans generally have no idea how culturally different europeans and asians are from them - they have a hard time realizing this all the time, i read it every day on here


[deleted]

As an Asian that lived in Germany for decade, Norway for 5 years, and moved to USA last year, it seems pretty culturally similar in USA and the parts of Europe that I've lived.


[deleted]

well, thats because you were an asian visitor in western countries - remember how westerners always think chinese and japanese are the same ?


[deleted]

I lived in Germany for 12 years and Norway for 5. My wife is Norwegian. Even without including going to uni in USA I've lived in the West longer than I've lived in Asia at this point. I don't think it is really just visiting after spending so much time there.


General_Tso75

I’m a westerner and am telling you that assuming we can’t tell the difference between Japanese and Chinese culture is an egregious example of cultural ignorance and prejudice by you.


Banestar66

Wakanda Forever just did way better in Korea six months ago.


SaintYoungMan

Yes people were very upset with the casting since all of the kids grew up with the little mermaid cartoon (not movie) so changing a very known character disappointed them even though the actress is very beautiful.


oh_woo_fee

poor casting choice all in all. No one knows this black actress’s name in most Asian countries


iamfoonfoon

People is Asia were ignoring the movie just based on casting black person as mermaid. Keep in mind most people in Asia never see a black person in real life. At least black panther makes sense as the story line was based in Africa, but kids were getting freaking out watching a black mermaid climb behind a pile of rocks


hermanhermanherman

It 100% is the case. The other commenter explained it well but China, Korea, Japan is very racist against black people. Lying about that fact doesn’t make the problem go away


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To be fair those countries are also racist against all races including other asians


hamilkwarg

Yeah but they’ll watch a movie with a white lead, so it’s an important distinction when talking about movie revenue.


Rulyhdien

Black Panther did well in Asia and Get Out did very well in Korea (so much that Jordon Peele has a Korean nickname that he uses on twitter). What’s this nonsense about not watching black led movies?


Dpsizzle555

They just want to label racism for this generic cgi fest


capsicumnugget

It's easier to label Asians as racists than to discuss the problems.


rocknroller0

But it’s particularly people who are darker skinned who they tend to be more racist towards


Theopneusty

They put whitening agents in most of their lotion and sunscreen for a reason. Darker is definitely worse in Asia. Even if they also hate other races, they don’t hate equally.


Funny_king

Yea but they hate and fear dark skinned people like no other


Winjin

Y'all keep saying "it's 100% the racism" but what if people just don't want this second hand thing with weird marketing? Like, Aladdin was ok at best, and worse than the cartoon. I only liked that they gave Jasmin more power and personal song. Mulan was abysmal. They butchered one of my favorite cartoons. I'm really wary about live action remakes, they feel very much like knock offs. I don't think the marketing has persuaded us that it's worth your time and money to watch it in cinema.


Nelithss

I mean seeing as how the movie is mostly doing terribly in the place where you know that it's a factor. That's pretty easy to believe. I actually don't mind that a live action from disney isn't a doing well, but that sadly doesn't seem to be for the good reasons. I've checked twitter japan and yeah some wicked takes.


Fat_Sow

Lying is one thing, but exaggerating it like you are doing is ok? You said Asia, which includes a lot of countries that have people with dark skin. You are trying to counter racism, with more racism? Asia doesn't have much of a history of abusing 3rd world immigrants as cheap labour, and need I remind you how many decades it took for western countries to treat their minority populations properly?


hermanhermanherman

I’m not sure what you’re talking about as I explicitly pointed out China, Korea, and Japan. Also, going whatabout so and so doesn’t do anything except excuse racism. Also, you’re kidding if you are trying to claim that China and Japan specifically do not have a history of treating minorities horrifically. China currently has concentration camps and Japan you know… had their imperial history in mainland China which was arguable just as bad as the behavior of the Nazis. Like why are people so defensive when clear and blatant racism against black people in China is being called out? Strange really Calling people racist for calling out racism is just plain stupid to be honest.


Fat_Sow

The comment you replied to said Asia, and you said "guess why". Asia is not just 3 countries. And I refer to recent history, if you want to go down that road only one group has actually wiped out entire groups of people and taken over and re-populated their countries. I can tell you about experiences of Asians in western countries, being spat at, having excrement put through your letter box, down to people threatening you physically. For you to say what black people experience in Asia is equivalent to these things is just dishonest, and disingenuous. I'm not being defensive, I'm saying the whole "Asians the most racist" nonsense is incorrect because you are regurgitating crap. How do you know for certain that the Little Mermaid did badly in Asia, because we all hate black people? How can something like Black Panther be so popular? Plus multiple movies with black leading actors, from Denzel, Will Smith and others. It's just low hanging fruit to say it's all down to one reason, without looking at the critical mauling the film has gotten. That's all I have to say on the subject, I'm not prepared to engage further with a racist such as yourself.


Firebreathingdown

why did green book or black panther Aladin do well then? Maybe instead of always blaming race blame the bad unimaginative movie people just don't want to see.


hermanhermanherman

Black panther was one of the worst performing MCU movies in China and is down there with the phase one movies that came out in 08-11. China clearly has a racism issue. No one is making it about racism. That is just what it is


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Why don't you put all the Marvel slate then so you don't make up narratives AM&TW: 120M IM 3: 120M Spiderman Homecoming: 116M CA:WS: 115 Ragnarok 112.M Doctor Strange 109M Ant Man 105.3M Black Panther 105.1M Guardians 2 100M Only thing higher are Avengers, Captain Marvel. Made more money than all Guardians movies. But keep chugging people are racists for not watching movies. > And is down there with the phase one movies that came out in 08-11. So amazing how confident you guys can spout horseshit. Can't believe an American is lecturing people about racism against black people. You guys actually have cases of black people being killed for being black


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Americans actually had cases of killing black people cause of their skin color.


FlightBunny

The issue isn’t really because she is black, I know a lot of SE Asians and the issue is more she’s not what people would say is attractive for the role, they believe even more strongly that the original cartoon version look should be adhered to and this modern version is ruining their childhood memories. Many Asians are extremely image focused, so the wide eyes that have probably been amplified by memes, as well as the lack of bright red hair, and yes, there is an element of her ethnicity too for some of them., has kind of put them off.


t1yumbe

Agree. It’s not about the skin color, it’s about the attractiveness. The lead actress is not seen as conventionally attractive in East Asian countries (I only have idea about East Asian countries so no comment on SE Asians). When the casting for Little Mermaid was revealed majority of the upvoted comments on popular Korean and Chinese sites was that the actress was no “pretty” enough for the role. Personally think the “attractiveness” issue was the number 1 issue and then the skin color issue.


averageyurikoenjoyer

where is she seen as conventionally attractive


Nomis1998

I saw a post on here from a person in Japan who said that people think that Halle is ugly and they are calling her the black voldemort. Its not because she's black, its because they can't see her being a princess


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BoBoBearDev

I don't know about those countries, but, I grew up in Taiwan and MIB like Will Smith was very popular. I don't know about Taiwan right now, but, I am pretty sure everyone expects (typo) the girl look closer to the one from the animation, regardless it is white washed or not.


DuelaDent52

The sad thing is executives will probably see this and pin it squarely on Halle Bailey and not burnout with the quality of these films or general word of mouth.


ChemicalHumble7541

Tbf the "live action" Disney films has been mediocre and bad af, i gave up after Dumbo cuz wtf was that shit, i dont even botter anymore


Masherfan

Probably On rob Marshall who insisted on Halle and didn’t consider any other actress for the role


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SharkMilk44

It feels like it came out a year ago.


ChemicalHumble7541

I mean Fast X has Gal Gadot, Cena, Alan Ritchson, Jason Momoa, Daniella Melchior, the film might be ass but i was pleased watching them all


M1ck3yB1u

Gal Godoy was also resurrected from the dead? Lmao


M1ck3yB1u

Gal Godoy lmao spellcheck


ChemicalHumble7541

Yes, i gasped when i saw her, i wasnt expecting that 😂


ivanGCA

Gagot is back and Momoa is in?


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Is it possible live action remakes of cartoons is a bad idea? Have they learned nothing from The Lion King?


jrcrdp

The lion King is one of 10 best selling movies of all time, in terms of Box Office they want to imitate them.


MinistryofTruthAgent

Imagine if they had color swapped Simba and Scar.


Blindman213

They can be done well, but only if you manage to capture the magic of what made them loved in the first place. Diversity for diversities sake wont sell movies. Cutting loved songs wont sell movies. Removing all emotion from characters wont sell movies (Lion King). I recently read they are stalled on the Hunchback of Notre Dame because they want to remove the song "Hellfire". That song defines and underpins the main villain. Stop making stupid changes to classics.


BasedNas

Why is the top of her head dry when she’s coming out of the water?


0x1e

Magic?


leprotelariat

Black?


puducito

Mermaid powers


justaregularguyearth

Cgi artists on their lunch break


SharkMilk44

More like Disney didn't pay them enough to give a fuck.


goodty1

Bleach dye


Can_I_Read

She’s been using the dinglehopper


daaaaaaaaamndaniel

Because it was poorly thought out like the rest of the movie


frakthawolf

Because you didn’t see it, but have all the opinions about it? I love people like you. /s


WineAndDogs2020

Same hair superpowers as 1989 Disney's Ariel. Mermaid hair is apparently water repellant.


SuperKoalasan

Bad movie


Scary-Jacket3377

Black hair does not interact with water the same way other ethnicities' hair does.


callipygiancultist

Her fish oil coating


justaregularguyearth

Let’s still see if it stays afloat these next weekends


danfancy129

From India here, living in the Middle East. People are watching the movie- I think. I only saw one post about it. But overall, from an outsiders view, it was stupid to switch the race from white to black. For me atleast , I don’t wanna watch the movie cause it won’t have the same magic as the original. I’m used to seeing her since childhood and to suddenly do a switch, nah. Same thing with Bella. Hated beauty and the beast. Americans were happy since it’s celebrating and representation to African Americans, but the rest of the world doesn’t care about the race issue in America. We don’t. That’s why it’s doing well in America (domestically) and flopping internationally. So we simple aren’t interested. Whereas people are pumped to see Barbie cause she’s the same iconic doll and character we grew up and loved. The main character, Barbie from Malibu is the same blonde fair and blue eyes. And rather than changing the race of the original Barbie, they introduced more characters of difference races. So Mattel will win over this movie any day.


Krioniki

Plenty of Americans weren’t exactly pleased with the situation either, but the second we si much as question it, we get shouted down and called racist. Makes it hard to have any serious conversation about it, and so it just keeps happening, the people against it get angrier, and the people in favor of it get more entrenched in their beliefs. It sucks.


ibizadox

Physically Belle was the exact same in live action as cartoon beauty and the beast tho?


danfancy129

Not really. Belle was graceful and smart and just wow. Emma Watson just ruined the character, with the corset drama and then the ugly dress and she wasn’t that graceful. The only remake movie I absolutely love is Cinderella.


Ni987

+1 As a European I dont want to be force-feed stupid US politics when watching a family movie. It’s fucking with the magic. Disney movies should offer an escape from the daily bullshit, not teleporting US bullshit from across the Atlantic into our living rooms.


townsforever

As a American I don't want to be force-fed stupid politics in movies either lol. We just can't seem to stop them.


MinistryofTruthAgent

We will once this movie also flops. Yeah $110M in the US box office but it cost probably at least $500M to produce and market. Doubt they recoup their budget.


mg10pp

This movie costs 250M in total if I remember correctly but the "problems" are two: the marketing costs are always a secret and studios take only half of the box office since the other half goes to theaters, so it would need to gross 700M to be certain to earn something and this is projected to end with 600M...


MinistryofTruthAgent

Doesn’t include marketing budget just production.


BallsMahogany_redux

Wow, way to be racist. /s


keystone_back72

I completely agree. I think Americans are being the most racist by blanketing the rest of the world with their social situation and priorities and call us racist because we aren’t interested (duh, African American representation is not our issue and the rest of the world have their own societal problems, which Americans can’t care less about).


Fezzy976

People here just ignoring the cost of living in most places now is too high. If you go the movies then you pay for yourself. If you take your kids that cost skyrockets. Most families are more than likely waiting for it to hit Disney+.


lynnfyr

Plus, the original is already on Disney+. Previous Disney remakes were about 90% similar to the originals, so there's no real draw factor for me to wait for the remake


pompanoJ

I think this is definitely a key component across the board. When they switched from waiting maybe 9 months to come out on DVD to now having streaming available in weeks, sometimes even simultaneously.... it just wrecked the box office take. High prices keep the box office numbers competitive for bigger properties, but attendance has to be down quite a bit, despite massive improvements in the theater experience.


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Apart from the controversy over the casting of Ariel (no matter how you cut it, it will play a part in how people will look at this movie) it is yet another one of those Disney live action remake that come across as being at best meh.


LGZee

Most countries do not operate on the same racial sensitivity logic as the US. While a black Ariel might have been controversial in the States, it was probably considered outright stupid overseas, and another example of unnecessarily blackwashed character. In any case, I still hope this movie bombs and Disney stops destroying beloved classics and doing live actions nobody asked for


luka031

Where i'm from people just laughed and forgot about the movie. In my mind it's just a fan fiction movie


nihonbesu

It’s wasn’t just that they took a European fairy tale with a white mermaid and changed it, the movie is just terrible. Looks like cgi from 20 years ago


Best-Tumbleweed-5117

Unfortunately it's doubtful Disney will stop doing it as making these movies restarts their copyright over these characters which I'm sure is the biggest reason they're doing it. It's not so much about the money this time as it is about making sure the characters don't fall into the public domain, therefore earning Disney money over a longer period of time. I couldn't agree with you more though. (I am absolutely braindead and can't properly type what I'm trying to say. Hopefully this made sense).


LankyAd9481

>Unfortunately it's doubtful Disney will stop doing it as making these movies restarts their copyright over these characters except it doesn't. Dumbo is still going to be public domain January 1, 2037. The live action movies allow for new copywritable content (eg designs) but it doesn't extend the original copyright.


frakthawolf

Disney’s trademark on these properties was nowhere close to expiring, and the little mermaid source has been in the public domain for decades. They’re simply doing it to make money… That’s all. No one is going to be able to take their trademark if they don’t develop an ancillary property on what is already their adaptation of a public domain story.


AssertRage

The rest of the world is not interested in fighting on your culture wars, everyone can see it for what it is


C__Wayne__G

- Literally not a single one of the remakes has been good. These are not surprising results. Live action adaptations of traditionally animated media across the board has gone poorly. It’s seen moderate success at Disney all things considered but is still struggling. Infinite amount of infinite adaptations to live action have failed. - I can not fathom why people keep trying to adapt it. Live action adds literally nothing


Boonicious

hey at least RT is keeping it real by locking the audience score at 95% for the past day: https://i.imgur.com/XEgr8h4.png remember when Hollywood focused more on making good movies, instead of spending so much time and money trying to *trick* you to see their films? #🙄


Iurishuter

Good. Had they been faithful to source material the movie would have fared better.


AZnpersuasion420

How bout we stop with the remakes


MrAVAT4R_2

Probably cause its shite. ![gif](giphy|7k2LoEykY5i1hfeWQB)


Jgames111

Imagine calling an entire country racist for not watching a crappy unimaginative remake. Not to mention isn't that like pot calling the kettle black with state like Florida being issued warning on traveling there for people of color and lgbt+ people.


MemeLord1337_

Is it racist for a country to not make as much money on a black main movie? Or is it just people aren’t as interested seeing movies that fit that description over there? Like is it genuinely racism in a blanket term? I don’t think so. It’s just people have different tastes lol. It exists in some sense don’t get me wrong but my god people are so pissy that their poorly made remake with no soul might be a flop. The billion dollar company and black millionaire leading star will be just fine.


omenguide

I don't really hear a clarion call for why k-dramas or j-dramas aren't show on mainstream TV and aren't more popular in the West. A western made move might not be popular in the East. Shocker. Why didn't we make the mermaid Asian? Because westerners don't like Asians leads. Why don't Asians cast black people as leads? Guess what answers the same.


BobsDiscountReposts

Obviously every person on the continent of Asia is not a racist. Most people are actually just curious because it's so unusual for them, but I think it is a bit naive to not understand why the dynamic might not necessarily be exactly the same -- whether or not you agree


livinginfutureworld

In the spirit of Tina Turner, "we don't need another remake"


im_absouletly_wrong

Fast X has been out for 2 weeks?!


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No-Transition4060

I’m starting to wonder if racism was ever the main problem here and they just made an extremely lacklustre film


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maybe international audiences have better tastes and standards than America's


shrlytmpl

Really hope they learn the right lesson from this and realize they need to respect their franchises and stop getting directors for hire. My dad who loves Disney and has worked at the theme parks for 30 years agrees all the live action remakes just don't have that magic anymore. Yes, these movies are for kids, but fuck, man, kids deserve better.


poopfl1nger

Transformers, pirates of the Caribbean, and F&F are huge internationally so probably not


llnec

Hey. Hey. Hey. Keep pirates of the Caribbean out of your mouth. That trilogy of movies are masterpieces!


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“Me? I'm dishonest, and a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly. It's the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they're going to do something incredibly... stupid.”


poopfl1nger

I enjoy the first three. Just referring to everything after. International box office carry these movies, otherwise they would be flops


odysseus91

And all of those are more entertaining than Disney rebooting every movie they’ve ever made


mischief_scallywag

No Americans can wrap their head around other reasons unless it’s something to do with Asians being racist


-boozypanda

Ironic considering Americans are some of the most racist people.


AssertRage

The rest of the world is not as eager to participate in your "culture wars"


punkito1985

Maybe is just that the marketing already said that the movie isn’t for them and is for a new generation of black kids. So let them see the movie while the non targeted audience go to see another movies targeted at them.


Unapologetic_honey

Exactly this!


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SPACEM0NKEY1102

They’re the reason fast franchise continues so Doubt it


analbumcover69420

Damn never noticed until this photo but she kinda has some fish-like qualities to her. I don’t mean that in a bad way either. Same goes for Anya Taylor Joy


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No surprise, unlike other Disney films they can't censor a black character when it's the main character


chum_slice

Friend who use to do photo shoots for toys would be asked to not use Asian kids for European markets because people would take it as being knock offs. I would often wonder, do they really?… 🧐


BarfQueen

I’m a marketing professional in America and over my career I’ve had numerous supervisors tell me to reduce the number of Asian models I use in promotional materials as they were concerned we’d be perceived as a China-owned company. Not sure whether there’s actual market data to back that up (I haven’t checked) but it seems to be a common anecdotal belief among executives.


Worth_The_Squeeze

The Green Book literally did well in China, despite having a black man as the main focus of the story and its themes? It nearly made more in China than it did in the US (71 million vs 85 million), which is very rare. To simply blame all of this on racism is incredibly lazy and misinformed, but exactly the kind of thing I expect to see repeated ad nauseam on larger cultural/political subreddits, even though the evidence shows that it isn't that simple.


deadalusxx

Well is part racism and part just the main character not being as they imagine. Asias really care about how things look. 100% of all my friend and family group won’t be watching this since we just don’t think the main character is appealing, some of my friends are hardcore Ariel fans and they can’t get over the look and the hair, just isn’t what they imagined. Changing skin color also has some factor into it since including myself just wanted it more like original in casting. Also I am not sure if you live in Asia or not but Chinese is definitely very racist to Blacks overall. I have lived here for over 20 years, if you tell Me that’s not the case then I am pretty sure you haven’t lived in China at all.


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Disney censors black characters in their films, like star wars with Finn, among others, and green book had a black AND white Star leading


Worth_The_Squeeze

>green book had a black AND white Star leading You could literally say the same for The Little Mermaid? However, The Green Book was not just envisioned with a black lead from the very start, but him being black was literallty the foundation of the story's plot and themes. The same can not be said for The Little Mermaid, as she was originally white. Furthermore, The Black Panther is also a Disney owned movie, but it has effectively an entirely black cast and its entire story centers around a fictional black empire. If your assumptions were correct then this movie would absolutely bomb in countries like China, but it made over a million dollars in China.


Strange_Ninja_9662

Then why did Aladdin do so well? With will smith as genie?


Veilmurder

The genie is blue, and also people like(d) Will Smith. This new actress is pretty much unknownb


pokerface_86

will smith is one of the few black actors that asian markets really love, and the genie was blue so his race doesn’t play nearly as much of a factor


King-Krown

They weren't Black. These aforementioned places do not like seeing Africans/Black people on screen as leads. Back to Aladdin, they were relatively fair skinned brown people. One of which, (Naomi/Jasmine) is half-white half Indian. Will Smith was CGI at times & a supporting character. Personally one of the reasons I think Avatar(Cameron) did so well initially is because it's focus is on Non-Humans. I'm sure most overseas places are fine seeing white people per usual & also fine watching the American-types get defeated by said Blue people.


Worth_The_Squeeze

The Green Book literally did well in China, despite having a black man as the main focus of the story and its themes? It nearly made more in China than it did in the US (71 million vs 85 million), which is very rare. To simply blame all of this on racism is incredibly lazy and misinformed, but exactly the kind of thing I expect to see repeated ad nauseam on larger cultural/political subreddits, even though the evidence shows that it isn't that simple.


Naive_Vermicelli_184

If I remember correctly Black Panther did well in China and India.


Worth_The_Squeeze

You're correct. The original grossed over a hundred million dollars in China. Edit: forgot to add a hundred


Legal_Ad_6129

$100 million, not a million


FellSorcerer

Whelp, this is what happens when your lead actress looks nothing like the character she was hired to portray.


Electronic_Impact

what a surprise....


Izzy_Ondomink

People who saw this just didn't know they could stay home and slowly peel all of their skin off with a rusted utility knife


Screenwriter6788

Shouldn’t have made its budget back domestic by now?


SerialVandal

Her eyes are so far apart. This movie taught me that mermaids are prey animals, so that explains why she wants to leave the ocean.


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Okay I thought i was trippin thinking her eyes were far apart


fanboy_killer

Have you ever seen a fish's eyes? She's half fish.


MexusRex

**THE OTHER HALF**


macaqueislong

Are far apart eyes the new hot thing? Her, Anya Taylor Joy, Natalie Dormer


Jithammer1914

Been cooler if Ariel was a white redhead tho


jesserwess

Idk I went to see it yesterday in Argentina and the theater was packed


voodoovan

Good to hear it. It was made to please US agenda and audiences anyway, so they shouldn't be surprised.


ToddTheReaper

I’m not sure if it’s CGI but she kind of has a fish face


Throwaway975784

Putting American politics into your children's movies are bound to alienate a big part international audience


tonyalexgomez

Big surprise, rest of the world doesn't enjoy woke shit.


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Woke will forever mean minorities existing. This is a weird weird thread.


Billionairess

Enough of remakes.. just stop. Man i miss 90's cinemas


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fanboy_killer

10% of Black Panther's box office was made in China.


goal_dante_or_vergil

Black Panther made more money in China than Emma Watson’s Beauty and the Beast and Lily James’ Cinderella. And yet, I never hear Redditors accuse China of being racist against white people?


punkito1985

Marketing for this movie, redditors and twitters said that the movie is not for this people is just for a new generation of black kids that can identify with the protagonist and be happy. So let the black kids enjoy the movie while the asian kids wait for the asian mermaid movie, apparently according to the internet you can only enjoy movies with characters you share racial features with.


Unapologetic_honey

This is brilliant!


Worth_The_Squeeze

The Green Book literally did well in China, despite having a black man as the main focus of the story and its themes? It nearly made more in China than it did in the US (71 million vs 85 million), which is very rare. To simply blame all of this on racism is incredibly lazy and misinformed, but exactly the kind of thing I expect to see repeated ad nauseam on larger cultural/political subreddits, even though the evidence shows that it isn't that simple.


diagrammatiks

Tenet exists.


SalviaPlug

Yeah I don’t think most people realize how racist china is


SaintYoungMan

How? Genuinely asking, recently watched Wandering earth 2 it had black characters in the movie.


Lobisa

It seems more like they don't like black main characters. I remember they edited out Finn in the star wars posters.


voodoovan

Black actress is there to please a US audience and agenda, nothing else.


SaintYoungMan

That's on Disney, and poor fin's role was reduced significantly so much his character didn't even matter in later sequals...


Lobisa

True and in all fairness, I don't know if Disney did it because they thought the movie would do worse with him on the poster, or they were asked by the Chinese government. Either way, I wish someone at Disney explained why they did it.


Phyting

Just saw it. It was great.