{"id":55861,"date":"2023-06-10T01:06:14","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T16:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2023\/jun\/09\/disney-little-mermaid-flops-china-racist-backlash-casting"},"modified":"2023-06-10T01:06:14","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T16:06:14","slug":"disneys-little-mermaid-flops-in-china-amid-racist-backlash-over-casting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55861","title":{"rendered":"Disney\u2019s Little Mermaid flops in China amid racist backlash over casting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poor box office performance reflects broader challenge for Hollywood as it vies with domestic productions<\/p>\n<p>The poor performance of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2023\/may\/27\/the-little-mermaid-review-bland-but-good-natured-disney-remake-halle-bailey\">Disney\u2019s The Little Mermaid<\/a> at the Chinese box office has reopened questions on Hollywood\u2019s increasing difficulties in the world\u2019s second-largest economy and the role racism has played in the film\u2019s reception.<\/p>\n<p>The live action remake has grossed just $3.6m (\u00a32.9m) since its release in Chinese cinemas on 26 May, according to Box Office Mojo.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2023\/jun\/09\/disney-little-mermaid-flops-china-racist-backlash-casting\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poor box office performance reflects broader challenge for Hollywood as it vies with domestic productionsThe poor performance of Disney\u2019s The Little Mermaid at the Chinese box office has reopened questions on Hollywood\u2019s increasing difficulties in the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3580,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,71,69,362,616,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-culture","category-film","category-race","category-walt-disney-company","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55862,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55861\/revisions\/55862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}