There are still 4 days left before the movie "The Little Mermaid" is released simultaneously at home and abroad, but the pre-sale box office results of "The Little Mermaid" are not satisfactory, and it has just exceeded the 100,000 yuan mark.
Since the official opening of pre-sale of "The Little Mermaid" on the 19th of this month, the box office growth has been very slow, and the box office contribution is mostly in second-tier cities.
Previously, there were also many Hollywood blockbusters that were cold at the Chinese mainland box office, but the 2-digit pre-sale box office of "The Little Mermaid" is extremely rare, and the Disney IP movies released in Chinese mainland, the mainland pre-sale box office is mostly 3-digit, of which "Sleeping Curse 2" pre-sales are nearly 10 million.
There are even netizens who ridiculed that the pre-sale box office of "The Little Mermaid" in the Chinese mainland is not as good as the ticket revenue of Shanghai Disney in ten minutes after the opening of the park.
Disney attaches importance to the Chinese market, invites stars to sing the theme song, and the publicity is widespread, but many netizens still do not buy it, thinking that the dismal box office of "The Little Mermaid" is very normal, after all, the casting of "The Little Mermaid" is not satisfactory, the heroine's eye distance is wide, and the proportion of three courts and five eyes is exaggerated, which does not meet the beautiful imagination of many people for fairy tale mermaids.
Especially in the exposed trailer and poster footage, the heroine and the male protagonist are like a mother and son, the skin color difference is large, the heroine is wearing a mermaid costume and does not show temperament, and the mouth shape is exaggerated like a catfish.
Some netizens believe that the values conveyed by the entire movie story are also very common, and there is no high intention and story core.
And such a bleak box office trend, but also attracted some foreign netizens questioning and curiosity, some netizens said that out of curiosity, checked the box office of films such as "Black Panther 1" in China, and found that they are more than one million, in sharp contrast to "The Little Mermaid", he thinks this is a strange phenomenon, and even foreign netizens blame the poor box office performance on mainland audiences.
There is also a foreign film critic who compares the box office results of the two films and does not understand why the box office results set by "Fast and Furious 10" are so good, while the pre-sale box office of "The Little Mermaid" is terrible.
Of course, netizens think that "Fast and Furious 10" is at least a cool and sentimental movie, and there is no comparison with "The Little Mermaid".
Seeing these curious voices of foreign netizens, some viewers may feel puzzled, what about the pre-sale results of "The Little Mermaid" on the Internet? The North American media is optimistic about the expected box office of "The Little Mermaid", which is expected to open with a box office of 110 million US dollars, in line with Disney's consistent level.
However, while the North American media advocated the estimated box office of "The Little Mermaid", it did not give accurate pre-sale box office data, only gave a predicted box office, and some Chinese netizens in North America posted pictures of nearby cinemas saying that the pre-sale box office of "The Little Mermaid" was not very good, and there were many vacant seats that were not sold.
And at present, the audience has an aesthetic consensus on "The Little Mermaid", not only Chinese mainland audience is not interested in this movie, Disney Japan YouTube Channel is suspected of negative attacks, and closed the trailer comment area of the Japanese version of "The Little Mermaid".
Even Mena Massoud, the actor of Disney's live-action film "Aladdin," questioned the box office of the "The Little Mermaid" movie and met with criticism.
Aesthetics is a subjective thing, for a movie role, some people appreciate and some people criticize are normal, but the movie casting should still be in line with the public's aesthetic preferences, of course, the current film has not yet been released, perhaps after the release, there will be some new changes, can only say that everything depends on the follow-up.
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