Siren’s Mermaid War Claims at Least One Major Casualty — Grade the Finale

RELATED STORIES Siren‘s third season finale made good on its promise of a full-scale mermaid war, as Ryn and her fellow fish-people vowed to rescue Hope and end Tia’s reign of terror once and for all. Though Tia’s massive army of mer-soldiers appeared to have the upper fin on Thursday, Ryn surprised her enemy (and […]

Little Mermaid Live!’s Graham Phillips Dives Deep Into Those Prince Eric Songs You’ve Probably Never Heard

At the time of this publication, Graham Phillips — as The Little Mermaid Live!‘s Prince Eric — is belting out the final notes of “Her Voice,” an emotional ballad that establishes Eric as a multi-dimensional character, one who feels just as trapped in his own world as Ariel is in her’s. Beautiful as it may […]

‘Lu Over the Wall’ Trailer: Masaaki Yuasa’s Mermaid Fantasy Sings With Joy

This is not your grandma’s Little Mermaid. In fact, it’s not your Little Mermaid either. Lu Over the Wall deserves a title unto its own, as a surreal, vividly colored fairy tale that plays with the limits of imagination. But that’s to be expected from visionary animated director Masaaki Yuasa. Most recently known for his incredibly popular Netflix anime Devilman […]

Now Stream This: Spielberg, Outdoor Horror, Cannibal Mermaid Musicals, Aubrey Plaza and More

(Welcome to Now Stream This, a column dedicated to the best movies streaming on Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, and every other streaming service out there.)  Welcome to another edition of Now Stream This. I’ve scoured the wild world of streaming services to bring you the best of the best of the best. It seems every day another new […]

Daily Podcast: The Pros & Cons Of Disney Buying Fox, Slaughterhouse-Five, WarGames, Little Mermaid, Phantom Thread

On the December 6, 2017 episode of /Film Daily, Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film Managing editor Jacob Hall, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson and /Film writers Chris Evangelista and Hoai-Tran Bui to discuss the latest news, including the Gotti biopic controversy, a Slaughterhouse-Five tv series, a WarGames tv series reboot, Disney’s The Little Mermaid […]

The Little Mermaid Live! Music/Movie Hybrid Not Happening at ABC

The seaweed is always greener… in somebody else’s budget: ABC has postponed its planned “live action/animation hybrid television experience” of The Little Mermaid due to financial constraints, USA Today reports. The Wonderful World of Disney: The Little Mermaid Live! was scheduled to air on Oct. 3. Per the report, it is unlikely that the project will move […]

Lin-Manuel Miranda Confirmed to Score Live-Action ‘The Little Mermaid’ Alongside Alan Menken

Lin-Manuel Miranda continues his streak as Disney’s darling, first jumping on the House of Mouse’s ship to co-write the songs to 2016’s animated Polynesian-set adventure, Moana. He then was announced as the co-lead of Mary Poppins Returns, the new sequel with Emily Blunt to the musical classic that originally starred Julie Andrews. Now, Miranda is signing on […]

Sofia Coppola Wanted to Make ‘The Little Mermaid’ a Dark Fairy Tale

Nobody wants to see a Sofia Coppola movie influenced by a committee, including Sofia Coppola. The filmmaker behind Lost in Translation and this week’s The Beguiled was going to make her biggest movie yet with The Little Mermaid, but she exited the project once she realized her vision wasn’t going to go untouched by Universal. “We didn’t agree creatively about how […]

Watch Kate McKinnon Transform From Jeff Sessions Into a Mermaid in Just Three Minutes

Image: SNL / NBC Saturday Night Live is remarkable because so much of it still happens live. In fact, the final four episodes of this season will be completely live in all four US timezones. That commitment to the craft is what makes this video of a Kate McKinnon character change so damn impressive. Advertisement […]

The Little Mermaid live-action movie: FIRST LOOK at new trailer of the classic fairy tale

While the new trailer is, at time of writing, No 1 for trending on YouTube, it is not in fact the upcoming Disney remake. This independent adaptation comes from Conglomerate Media and Kingsway Productions, with a completely different story to that of the 1989 animated Disney version. The Little Mermaid sees a reporter take his […]