DISNEY’S live-action version of “The Little Mermaid” netted the top spot at North American box offices on its opening weekend, over the United States’ Memorial Day holiday, industry watcher Exhibitor Relations reported yesterday.
The remake of the 1989 animated tale of an underwater princess who gives up her voice in pursuit of true love on land, starring pop singer Halle Bailey and Melissa McCarthy, raked in US$117.5 million (RM541.2 million) in US and Canadian box offices and another US$68 million internationally, Exhibitor Relations said.