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‘The Little Mermaid’ trailer earns most views for a Disney live-action since ‘The Lion King’

The official trailer for ‘The Little Mermaid’ pulls in an astounding number of views.

Jeff Kravitz

Update: Mar 18th, 2023 14:03 EDT

The official trailer for the upcoming live-action of ‘The Little Mermaid’ premiered during this year’s Academy Awards ceremony where it was introduced by stars Halle Bailey and Melissa McCarthy.

The trailer generated over 108 million views during its first 24 hours, making it one of the most watched Disney live-action trailers alongside ‘The Lion King’, which raked in approximately 130 million in spring 2019 for its first trailer.

What to expect from ‘The Little Mermaid’

The remake is expected to depict the same plot as the original film from 1989, which follows the adventurous mermaid, Ariel (Bailey), who is fascinated by humans. After falling in love with a human Prince (Jonah Haur-King), Ariel makes a harrowing deal with the sea witch, Ursula (McCarthy).

The film stars Halle Bailey, Melissa McCarthy, Jonah Haur-King, Simone Ashley, Jacob Tremblay, Daveed Diggs, and Lin-Manuel Miranda.

Alan Menken, composer, and songwriter for the animated film, returns to compose the score and songs of this new film. Lin-Manuel Miranda worked alongside Menken to co-write new songs.

Miranda told Variety’s Awards Circuit Podcast: “We wrote three or four original tunes, replacing none of the ones you like. All of those are in.”

“There’s no bigger ‘Little Mermaid’ fan than me,” he added. “But we found a couple opportunities for some other music that I can’t wait to see. I’m in the dark as anyone else, honestly.”

Miranda is indeed a huge fan of the original ‘Little Mermaid’ as he notoriously named one of his sons after the character Sebastian.

Disney live-actions

Disney has been pumping out live-action adaptations of their movies for years now with ‘Peter Pan & Wendy’ and ‘The Little Mermaid’ slated to release later this year and there are many more on the way.

The general reception to these remakes have been mixed. While they almost always pull in a staggering amount at the box office, many have deemed these adaptations to be unnecessary.

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Only a few titles like ‘Cinderella’ (2015) have managed to appease both fans and critics alike.

Other upcoming Disney live-actions include ‘Snow White’, ‘Mufasa: The Lion King’, ‘Hercules’, ‘Hunchback’, ‘Tink’, ‘Robin Hood’, ‘Lilo & Stitch’ and many more.

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Who is Jon Hamm married to? What to know about actress wife Anna Osceola

The Mad Men actpr met co-star and bride-to-be in 2015 and began dating during the pandemic. They tied the knot in Anderson Canyon, Big Sur in June 2023.

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Update: Apr 12th, 2025 14:06 EDT

One of Hollywood’s most eligible bachelors Jon Hamm married Mad Men co-star Anna Osceola in Anderson Canyon, Big Sur back in June 2023. They walked up the aisle to Nancy Sinatra’s 1967 James Bond theme song, You Only Live Twice.

Jon Hamm marries fiancée Anna Osceola where they filmed ‘Mad Men’ finale https://t.co/nbcbDE81Ub pic.twitter.com/AZ4wgLX04m
— Page Six (@PageSix) June 25, 2023

The couple got engaged in 2021 and had been dating since 2020. Hamm had previously been in a long-term relationship with Jennifer Westfeldt - their 18-year liaison was one of the longest and steadiest among Hollywood’s glitterati before it came full circle in 2015. “With great sadness, we have decided to separate, after 18 years of love and shared history,” they explained in a joint statement to People magazine in September 2015. “We will continue to be supportive of each other in every way possible moving forward.”

Hamm and Westfeldt were more or less the same age, and according to several sources, she was almost like a mother figure to him, so it came as a surprise to some observers when he was rumoured to have started dating a woman 17 years his junior. The actor is believed to have first met Anna Osceola while they were both filming Person to Person in Season 7 of Mad Men. Anna had a cameo role as a receptionist, Clementine, in the final episode.

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Whirlwind romance

Romance blossomed during the Coronavirus pandemic when they began dating. They were photographed walking Hamm’s dog Splash in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles in late 2020. The couple were engaged in February 2023 and appeared together on the red carpet the following month at the 2023 Vanity Fair Oscar Party.

For the first couple of years, Jon and Anna tried to keep their relationship private and away from the limelight so what do we know about the new bride? Anna was born on April 8, 1988 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Anna Osceola, from a large family

Her father, Fuad Phillip Alan Osceola, is fully qualified massage therapist with over 30 years of experience in his field while little is known about her mother Lisa. Curiously, the surname Osceola is of native American origin and relates to the Seminole Tribe of Florida. Anna has two elder sisters - Ariel and Alexandra and a brother Sam - who are now Jon’s new in-laws.

Like all of her siblings, Anna went into higher education after high school, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Drama from NYU Tisch School of the Arts on Broadway, New York City.

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Early career and acting roles

She made her screen debut playing Charlie in spoof Not Another High School Show in 2007 although the pilot never aired and the follow-up series was subsequently scrapped. Minor walk-on parts followed in a number of films, series and TV movies and gradually some recurring roles. She played US soldier Abby Sherman in Rizzoli and Isles, Robin Wylie in the ABC family series Greek and Casey Logan, a fashion model who witnesses a member of the Russian mafia kill someone in USA Network drama, In Plain Sight.

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She made separate appearances in Law & Order, first as Jamie Spears in the season 18 episode Rape Interrupted, then was brought back in 2017, cast as Noelle Terlesky, who listens to Erik Menendez’s grim confession that he and his brother had murdered their parents.

Anna starred as Larry alongside her new husband in the 2022 Miramax production, Confess, Fletch. It was reported that Hamm donated two thirds of his fee to help the producers stay within their budget.