JForrest English : 'The little mermaid' makes box office splash with $95.5 million opening

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'The little mermaid' makes box office splash with $95.5 million opening

Idiom - To make a splash - to attract a lot of attention

To splash - To move water

"The little mermaid" made moviegoers want to be under the sea on Memorial Day weekend. 

moviegoer - noun - someone who goes to the movies (movie theatre/cinema)

Disney's live-action remake of its 1989 animated classic easily outswam the competition, bringing in $95.5 million on 4.320 screens in North America, according to studio estimates Sunday.

outswam - performed better than

And Disney estimates the film starring Halle Bailey as the mermaid Ariel and Melissa McCarthy as her sea witch nemesis Ursula will reach $117.5 million by the time the holiday is over. it ranks as the fifth biggest Memorial Day weekend opening ever.

nemesis - rival or opponent - someone/something you need to defeat

future simple - will + be

it will rain by the time the week is over

I will buy a new bathing suit by the time I go on vacation.

It displaces "Fast X" in the top spot. The 10th installment in the "Fast and Furious" franchise starring Vin Diesel has lagged behind more recent releases in the series, bringing in $23 million domestically for a two-week total of $108 million for Universal pictures

lagged behind - to perform less than expected

two-week - adj

I went on a 2 week vacation

I went on a vacation for 2 weeks

The performance of "The little mermaid" represents something of a bounce-back for Disney's animated to live action remakes, and makes it likely they will keep coming indefinitely.

Poor reception and the pandemic had some recent reboots either performing poorly or skipping theatrical releases for Disney +, including "Dumbo," "Mulan" and "Pinocchio."

a bounce-back - recovery

Don't worry, it's just a cold. You'll bounce back quickly

reboots - to start an electronic device again

skip - missing

I think I'm going to skip the party tonight

You can't skip the meeting today

The opening puts it in the top tier of Disney's remakes, with a similar performance to 2019's "Aladdin," though it was well short of 2017's "Beauty and the Beast," which opened to more than $170 million, and 2019's "The lion king," which brought in more than $190 million in its first weekend.