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SPOILER ALERT: This interview includes details about Disney's The Little Mermaid Good tides and accolades continue to roll in for Disney's latest live-action remake, The Little Mermaid. Similarly to the 1989 classic, The Little Mermaid follows the story of the titular mermaid, Ariel, a precocious…

Peter King, the makeup artist behind Ursula’s look in The Little Mermaid, is pushing back on the backlash he has gotten. King has been under heavy scrutiny from the LGBTQ+ community over the makeup Melissa McCarthy sports in the live-action film directed by Rob Marshall. With Ursula being inspired by…

Melissa McCarthy is opening up about a work environment she found herself in that she deemed as “hostile, volatile.” The Little Mermaid star didn’t say what film set this took place in nor who the person was, but she recalled feeling “physically ill” from the tense workplace conditions she was…

Disney’s attempts to reinvent their animated classics as live action versions has proven to be largely a smart boxoffice play, but one with a mixed creative result. Certainly some were huge hits like Bill Condon’s Beauty And The Beast and Guy Ritchie’s less enchanting Aladdin. Others effectively created…

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, In…

Melissa McCarthy is game for a Bridesmaids sequel, the 2011 comedy that also starred Kristen Wiig and Maya Rudulph and directed by Paul Feig. “I would do a Bridesmaids sequel this afternoon, right now,” McCarthy told People in an interview. “That group of women was the most magical thing ever. Almost…

CinemaCon 2023 officially drew to a close this evening in Las Vegas, with NATO handing out its Big Screen Achievement Awards to such recipients as Christopher Nolan, Emma Thomas, Zendaya, Chris Meledandri and Melissa McCarthy. The evening’s sentiment continued the running theme of the four-day conference…

Oscar-nominated actress, writer and producer Melissa McCarthy has been named as CinemaCon's Cinema Vérité Award recipient for 2023. RELATED: CinemaCon 2023 – Deadline's Full Coverage The NATO convention’s awarding of the prize at its Big Screen Achievement Awards ceremony, taking place at The…

Melissa McCarthy looked to her origins performing in New York City under the drag name Miss Y as her inspiration for her Ursula on The Little Mermaid. “There's a drag queen that lives in me," McCarthy told EW in an interview. “I'm always right on the verge of going full-time with her… To keep the…

While the Super Bowl trailer for Disney’s live-action take on The Little Mermaid offered a brief glimpse of Melissa McCarthy’s betenticled baddie Ursula, the spot that aired during the Oscars tonight gave us a much fuller view of Melissa McCarthy as the sea witch who secretly plots to conquer…

EXCLUSIVE: Universal and Working Title have set Melissa McCarthy to star in an untitled Christmas-in-New York movie that will be written by Love Actually scribe Richard Curtis and directed by Sam Boyd. They're making the film for Peacock, and Working Title partners Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner will…

Paul Feig, director of such mega-hits as Bridesmaids, Spy, The Heat, Ghostbusters and A Simple Favor, has branched out into the fairytale genre with The School for Good and Evil, which hit Netflix this week. On Wednesday evening, Feig attended the Newport Beach Film Festival, where he was honored…