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Actor Mena Massoud is in hot water after making an unsolicited remark about “The Little Mermaid.”
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The “Aladdin” star deleted his Twitter account after receiving criticism for allegedly taking a jibe at the box office prediction of the soon-to-release Disney film.
The Egyptian-Canadian actor contrasted the new movie to his 2019 feature, which has not been allowed a sequel despite debuting to a similar figure, in response to a news that the live-action musical adaptation of the 1989 cartoon picture is anticipated to gross $115 on its domestic box office weekend.
“Our film was unique in that audiences went to watch it multiple times. It’s the only way we reached the billion dollar mark with our opening,” he tweeted on Saturday, May 13.
“My guess is TLM doesn’t cross the billion mark but will undoubtedly get a sequel.”
He tweeted in response to another user who questioned why “Aladdin” didn’t receive a sequel despite having a successful box office run.
“ALADDIN managed to end up at over a billion worldwide. It depends on how well this holds up against SPIDER-VERSE the following week I guess,” the said person wrote.
As soon as his statement drew criticism, Massoud deleted his whole Twitter account. Now, when someone tries to access his account, they are met with the notice “This account doesn’t exist.”
“and what exactly did u gain from commenting this?” tweeted one person. Another wrote, “I’m honestly still confused as to why Mena Massoud tweeted this in the first place. Did he WANT to start a fight?” wrote one person.
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“The Little Mermaid,” but not for any reason you’re likely imagining. Twitter users criticized the publication and critic Wesley Morris for saying that the children’s movie lacked “kink.”“Disney’s live-action remake of ‘The Little Mermaid,’ with Halle Bailey starring as Ariel and a diverse cast, ‘reeks of obligation and noble intentions,’ Wesley Morris writes,” the viral tweet read.
Rotten Tomatoes. There’s a good chance that “Little Mermaid” can keep legging out even against Sony’s “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” and Paramount’s “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts” given the female-majority audience doesn’t have significant overlap with those films.
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castmates. During the final part of this season's tell-all that aired Sunday on TLC, Mahmoud and his brother, Ahmed, made a virtual appearance from Egypt and Mahmoud quickly displayed his hot temper.Mahmoud's relationship with his wife, Nicole, has been shaky this season due to her not wanting to conform to the more conservative Muslim culture that Mahmoud wants her to. But a surprising revelation during the season finale was that Nicole caught him having an inappropriate conversation online with a woman from China.
Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Egyptian director Omar El Zohairy, whose absurdist social satire “Feathers” won the Cannes Critics’ Week prize in 2021 and went on to make a major splash, is set to helm “Mammals,” an English-language drama that will be a reflection on Western capitalism and family ties. El Zohairy’s sophomore film, which will feature still unspecified actors from different countries, is being co-written by the buzzed-about auteur with British Egyptian writer-director Mohamed Adeeb, who wrote the hit Egyptian TV series “Bimbo,” directed by Amr Salama. “Mammals” is partly inspired by the biography of El Zohairy’s father, who died in 2016 in the United States, where he was an immigrant living under difficult conditions. In the film, a young man visits his distant father in one of the world’s most lavish resorts. When he arrives there he discovers that, unbeknownst to him, his father has locked him into a business deal that he cannot reject. The young man rebels, but also starts to like his new life and eventually loses his sanity.
Seun Kuti has been released from police custody after meeting his bail conditions for allegedly assaulting a police officer, and will now embark on a delayed Europe concert tour.Last week (Monday May 15), the youngest son of the Nigerian Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti was arrested and detained in his hometown of Lagos by local police. Seun Kuti is alleged to have assaulted a police officer, who the 40-year-old claims was drunk.On Wednesday (May 24), it was ruled that the public prosecutor – not the police – had the power to prosecute the musician.
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Netflix, and already received an extremely low audience rating of one per cent.The new series in question is titled Queen Cleopatra, and is the second instalment of the African Queens franchise.Produced by Jada Pinkett-Smith, the new series launched on Netflix on Wednesday last week (May 10). Now, just five days since it premiered on the streaming platform, viewers have been quick to blast the show online, and given it an audience score of one per cent on Rotten Tomatoes.Queen Cleopatra follows on from the first part of the franchise — African Queens: Njinga — which also received a mostly-negative reception from viewers: 22 per cent, to be exact.While both Njinga and Queen Cleopatra have been on the receiving end of mostly poor reviews from viewers, the latter has got a noticeable negative reaction from critics too.
Mena Massoud has deleted his Twitter account.
Janelle Monáe has shared the details of her first new album in five years. The Age of Pleasure, the long-awaited follow-up to 2018’s Dirty Computer, is due out June 9 via Monáe’s own Wondaland Arts Society and Atlantic Records.
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Thania Garcia Janelle Monáe has revealed her new album “The Age of Pleasure,” her first full-length effort in five years, and the follow-up to 2018’s “Dirty Computer,” will arrive on June 9 via Wondaland Arts Society/Atlantic Records. The news came attached to a new single, “Lipstick Lover,” and its matching music video — where the singer-songwriter and an entourage of women soak by the pool in bikinis and t-shirts emblazoned with the song’s title and the word “Pleasure” — co-directed by Monáe andAlan Ferguson. “As we enter into ‘The Age Of Pleasure,’ ‘Lipstick Lover’ is our freeassmothafucka anthem inspired by f.a.m. for f.a.m.,” Monáe wrote in the album’s press release. “This is our oasis made with love, rooted in self acceptance, throbbing in self discovery, and signed with cherry red kisses from me to you.”
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