The Disney live-action renaissance is set to continue later this month with the long-awaited release of The Little Mermaid. If recent box office predictions are any indication, Halle Bailey’s Ariel is about to make a huge splash among audiences excited to see “Under the Sea” reimagined over 30 years later. Now comes the question of how will it stack up against other remakes from Walt Disney Studios – namely, 2019’s Aladdin, which came out during the same holiday weekend in May.
The Little Mermaid is set to hit theaters during the 4-day Memorial Day weekend. The current box office tracking data for the upcoming Disney movie predicts that Ariel’s journey to find her voice will bring $110 million in its first weekend, per Deadline. It’s a number that flirts with 2019’s Aladdin’s Memorial Day weekend when the movie debuted at $116.8 million ahead of it crossing $1 billion worldwide, surpassing the box office of the animated original and becoming the highest-grossing movie of Will Smith’s career.
