Halle Bailey Swims Over To London For 'The Little Mermaid' Premiere with Jonah Hauer-King

 presents the proclamation for viewers with their first look at the Blitz Bazawule-directed reimagining of the story made iconic in the 1982 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker, the 1985 Warner Bros. Pictures film and the Tony Award-winning stage musical.Called a «revival» by producer Oprah Winfrey during the trailer's presentation, the preview gives a brief look at how the film tells the powerful and heartbreaking story of Celie, a young Black woman living in the South from the early to mid-1900s, who finds strength in an extraordinary sisterhood and unbreakable bond.«The reason this moment is so important is because for as long as there is a need for self-discovery, self-empowerment, as long as there's a need for victory in someone's life, as long as there's a need for people to know what it feels like to be loved up and to be made full and whole through somebody's love, there will be a need for ,» Winfrey told journalists. Steven Spielberg and Quincy Jones serve as producers alongside Winfrey, a full-circle moment for the trio since Spielberg directed the film adaptation in which Winfrey made her film debut and Jones produced. Fantasia Barrino makes her major motion picture debut by reprising the role of adult Celie, which she first portrayed in her Broadway debut in 2007 and won a Theatre World Award for. Danielle Brooks stars alongside her as Sofia, a role that she played on Broadway during the 2015 revival production, which earned her a Tony Award nomination.The star-studded cast includes Taraji P.

latest flesh-and-blood cash grab that’s more lifeless than far better two-dimensional painted drawings.The magic and soul of the studio’s animated classics never, ever translate to this colder, realistic context, and still they keep churning them out.   Why learn their lesson? “The Lion King” and “Beauty and the Beast” both grossed over $1 billion. The movies don’t need to be high-quality because the titles and logos do the heavy-lifting for them. While director Rob Marshall (“Chicago”) and writer David Magee make enough prudent changes to ensure their musical film functions efficiently, many alterations seem to exist only to achieve a bloated two-hour runtime or to wedge Lin-Manuel Miranda’s name into the end credits.For instance, when a smitten Prince Eric (Jonah Hauer-King) takes speechless Ariel (Halle Bailey) around his island kingdom, the Caribbean carriage ride is more of the “Gilligan’s Island” length — a three-hour tour.  That’s one of many middling efforts to deepen the prince’s character from just a smile on legs.

Halle Bailey and Melissa McCarthy are joined by director Rob Marshall as they walk the red carpet for the the Australian premiere of The Little Mermaid on Monday (May 22) in Sydney, Australia.

The Little Mermaid,” there is a sense that a true loss of innocence is on the brink. In this new live-action adaptation things are not as bubblegum sweet and bright as the last time we visited Ariel’s story.

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic Here’s the funny thing about “The Little Mermaid”: Ariel spends most of the film wishing she were human, wondering what it’s like to go walking around on those … what do you call ’em? But practically every girl who sees the movie dreams of swimming in the opposite direction — which is to say, they want to be mermaids … or else an animated Disney princess. “The seaweed is always greener in somebody else’s lake,” as the song goes, and the most important thing about remaking this particular favorite for a fresh generation is maintaining the fantasy that any of us can be Ariel, when in fact, it takes a one-in-a-million talent like Halle Bailey to fill those flippers on-screen.

Melissa McCarthy is opening up about working on a set that was so toxic, it made her physically sick.

Disney’s live-action “The Little Mermaid” — the highly anticipated and revamped musical starring Halle Bailey — is finally here to take us back under the sea. The music by Oscar-winner Alan Menken that made the first one a hit is also back, but these songs have been rewritten for the live version with help from Lin-Manuel Miranda.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Halle Bailey recently praised her “The Little Mermaid” co-star Melissa McCarthy for teaching her how to speak up and say what works for her on set, but there was a time when McCarthy herself wasn’t always so vocal. In a recent interview with The Observer, McCarthy revealed she once became sick due to working on a toxic set that left many of the cast and crew “weeping.” The experience led McCarthy to realize she can’t remain quiet amid inappropriate working conditions. “I did work for someone once who ran such a volatile, hostile set that it made me physically ill,” McCarthy said. “My eyes were swelling up, I was absorbing all of this nuttiness.”

EXCLUSIVE: Briarcliff Entertainment has snapped up North American distribution rights from Concourse Media to Christian Swegal’s true crime thriller, Sovereign, starring Nick Offerman, Dennis Quaid, and Jacob Tremblay.

Three of this year’s Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover stars celebrated the release at a launch party on Friday night (May 19) in Hollywood, Florida.

The star of Disney’s big-budget live action remake of The Little Mermaid, due in theaters on May 26, says seeing a black mermaid on screen when she was younger would have “changed my whole life.”

Halle Bailey put in the work to play Ariel in The Little Mermaid.

, is finally coming to the big screen on Friday, May 26. After making a big splash when Disney dropped the first trailer last year, the live-action remake has been one of the most highly anticipated films of 2023.As we get closer to the film's release, tickets to see  are now on sale and people are pouring in to watch this movie in theaters. Be prepared for your breath to be taken away when the movie premieres next week by securing your tickets now.Enjoy the classic story of in Disney's live-action remake.

Disney is taking some heat following news yesterday that it will be removing dozens of titles from its Disney+ and Hulu streaming services on May 26, including some LGBTQ+-themed content.

The soundtrack for The Little Mermaid has been released!

Emiliano De Pablos Anonymous Content has partnered with Spain’s Morena Films, one of the country’s top production companies, to launch a joint venture aimed at developing and producing Spanish-language content for the global market. The alliance marks the fifth international joint venture for Anonymous Content as they continue to build partnerships with local producers and companies in key territories around the world. Anonymous Content’s president of international, David Davoli, and Morena Films CEO Pilar Benito will oversee the joint venture, whose managing director will be named in the coming weeks, the companies announced Friday in a statement.

Halle Bailey was reduced to tears as she recorded 'Part of Your World' amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The 23-year-old singer plays Ariel in the 'Little Mermaid' movie and Halle has revealed that she developed a deeper connection with her character during the health crisis. Halle - who was working overseas in the UK and Italy at the time - told PEOPLE magazine: "We were filming in the height of the pandemic, and I was suddenly living alone away from everything I knew.

Film fans who take in Disney’s new live-action remake of “The Little Mermaid” may leave the cinema wondering what the filmmakers have against Kate Middleton.

Yikes! This fairytale couple is stirring up some very real drama!

EXCLUSIVE: After a herniated disc during a Cats performance prompted Rob Marshall to switch from dancer to director, his first feature, Chicago, won Best Picture. It has been a charmed run for Marshall since, with hits from Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides to Memoirs of a Geisha, Nine, Annie, Into the Woods and Mary Poppins Returns. Rarely has Marshall been as charged up as he is after coming through a four-year ordeal to turn Disney’s 1989 2-D animated classic musical The Little Mermaid into a live action feature. Beyond the logistical complexities of staging a musical set half undersea and the other half on land where the title character sacrifices her voice for a chance at life as a human, the film is the most color blind major studio adaptation of a classic property you’ve ever seen.

Disney's new live action adaptation of The Little Mermaid seemingly contains a "pointed dig" at Kate Middleton, according to one critic, which has left Royal fans up in arms.

casting Halle Bailey as a black Ariel, the new live-action remake of Disney’s 1989 animated classic will find the mermaid heroine having a “more grown-up and mature” relationship with Prince Eric, according to his portrayer Jonah Hauer-King.That includes an update of Alan Menken’s “Kiss the Girl” lyrics so that it wouldn’t seem as if Eric was forcing himself on Ariel.“My understanding is that there were some feelings around consent and asking to kiss someone, which makes total sense to me,” Hauer-King, 27, told the Hollywood Reporter.Having witnessed the racist backlash that Bailey faced for playing Ariel, the London native said he does “not really understand what to make of it.”“Rob [Marshall, the director] and the producers and Disney didn’t approach this film and this casting with any kind of agenda — they just wanted to cast the person who was best for the role,” said Hauer-King.“Ultimately, you want someone who has the best voice and the best spirit and the most charisma, charm and humor and best acting talent, and that’s Halle,” he concluded.Hauer-King — whose credits include the 2019 film “A Dog’s Way Home” and the BBC drama “World on Fire” — initially auditioned for “The Little Mermaid” as just a “fun experience.” But after seven months of auditions, he scored his own casting coup, beating out none other than Harry Styles for the coveted role.“He’s pretty cool and amazingly talented, so yeah, it was cool to be mentioned in the same breath,” he said of the “As It Was” singer, who talked with Marshall about playing Eric.But it was Hauer-King who ended up going through three months of rehearsals for the part, learning to ride horses, work with dogs, scuba dive, row and operate a horse carriage“I’ve never done so

 

Who would’ve thought Disney would be commenting on the feud between Meghan Markle and Princess Catherine?? Nonetheless publicly taking sides!?

Ryan Seacrest has already booked a return to daytime as a guest on . Seacrest will appear on Thursday's episode for the first time since exiting the series last month. The 48-year-old media mogul previously co-hostedwith Kelly Ripa for nearly six years.

A report is circulating online that some are taking to be a diss towards Princess Catherine (aka Kate Middleton), while others are just thinking its a big coincidence!

In case you hadn’t heard, mermaid-core is set to be the next big beauty trend, with Pinterest searches for ‘mermaidcore’ skyrocketing by 614% according to a new analysis from fashion site Nasty Gal. With Google searches for mermaid style also rising by 736% worldwide over the past year, it looks like the power of Disney’s long anticipated live action remake of The Little Mermaid has already found its way into the makeup bags of beauty fans everywhere.

NewJeans‘ Danielle has released her version of ‘Part of Your World’ for the upcoming live-action adaptation of The Little Mermaid.The new music video features shots of Danielle, dressed in a sparkly light-blue outfit, performing the Korean-language cover, intercut with shots from the upcoming film. Danielle has also been cast as the voice actor for The Little Mermaid‘s lead character Ariel in the Korean version of the upcoming Disney film.The Little Mermaid is set to be released on May 26 in the United States.

Beyoncé may be on her  world tour, but that didn't stop her from making sure her children -- Blue Ivy Carter, 11, and Sir and Rumi, 4 -- were treated to a special surprise!On Monday, Bey's mom, Tina Knowles-Lawson, took to Instagram to share that she and her grandchildren were in attendance for the London premiere of Disney's live-action remake of Sharing a photo of herself from the event, Knowles-Lawson wrote, «At the premiere in London last night. Didn't get to go on the real beach red carpet last night, because I had my grand children but the carpet was so enchanting it looked like a beach.

Timothee Chalamet is opening up about why he wanted to do the upcoming Wonka movie – Just Jared Jr Find out who was photographed together amid romance rumors! – Celebitchy Andrew Garfield gets hit by a car in new photos from set! – Popsugar Listen to Melissa McCarthy sing “Poor Unfortunate Souls” – Just Jared Jr

and that's thanks to Halle Bailey.The 23-year-old stars as the titular, headstrong princess in Disney's new live-action reimagining, and her casting has hit home in a big way for little Black girls who are seeing themselves portrayed as the beloved Disney character for the first time onscreen.The film also stars Jonah Hauer-King as Prince Eric, Melissa McCarthy as Ursula, and Javier Bardem as King Triton, with Daveed Diggs as the voice of Sebastian the crab, Jacob Tremblay as Flounder, and Awkwafina as Scuttle.The role feels like a dream come true according to Bailey, whose previous forays into acting include starring alongside her older sister and musical partner, Chlöe Bailey, on Freeform's  series. The singer tells ET that while it «feels absolutely amazing» to join the iconic ranks of the Disney Princesses, being one of the few Black Princesses is on a whole new level.«I just am really grateful to be in this position,» Bailey tells ET's Nischelle Turner, citing Brandy Norwood's Cinderella and Anika Noni Rose's Princess Tiana as her inspirations.«I loved Brandy as Cinderella; she was so amazing, such a role model and inspiration and a really big kind of studying point for me as I was taking on Ariel,» Bailey shares.

Halle Bailey delivered a mesmerizing performance of “Part of your World” as she sang “The Little Mermaid” track live for the first time post-production.

Halle Bailey shared a sweet encounter with a “Little Mermaid” fan.

Which celebrity’s relatives are competing on Claim to Fame this summer? Here’s a first look! – Just Jared Jr People think Princess Catherine was not actually playing the piano during that surprise appearance – Celebitchy You have to see Halle Bailey‘s performance of “Part of Your World” on American Idol – Popsugar Find out when you’ll be able to stream the new Avatar film – Just Jared Jr

Halle Bailey bursts out of a sea of blue for her performance of “Part of Your World” on American Idol‘s Disney Night!

Disney’s live action movies are huge money makers!