While Marvel’s “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” broke the bank at the weekend box office earning top honors, Disney’s live-action remake of “The Little Mermaid” sunk in comparison to its previous similar tentpole films.
That’s according to box office analysts who noted the rarity of a Disney film based on a popular animated musical making a less than stellar showing over the Memorial Day holiday period, while also beckoning the question as to whether or not the Walt Disney Company’s woke policies are coming back to bite them.
According to Deadline and other online publications, The Little Mermaid took in a three-day total of $40.6 million, which is a 57 percent decline from its May 26th opening weekend. So far it’s grossed a total of $186.2 million in the two weeks it’s been in theaters….