The Little Mermaid drama continues, as racist backlash about the movie seems to have led to abysmal box office numbers in China and South Korea. Just like the hate campaign against the movie in the US (which included the infamous #notmyariel hashtag), Chinese and South Korean social media were inundated with bad, unverified reviews and outcry over the casting of a Black Ariel. Overall, the reaction wasn’t a surprise – Halle Bailey herself told...

*The racist backlash against "The Little Mermaid" is impacting the film's reviews on the Internet Movie Database (IMDb). According to People, Disney’s live-action re-imagining of the beloved 1989 animated classic is getting a lot of “unusual activity” on IMDB, specifically when it comes to ratings for the movie. The film opened Friday to $117 million […] The post Racists Review Bomb ‘The Little Mermaid' on IMDB, Prompts Revision of Rating System...

Halle Bailey shared a first look of herself as Ariel in the upcoming live-action remake of The Little Mermaid as she tweeted the film's poster on Thursday morning.