‘Little Mermaid’: Matt Damon, Emily Blunt Attend Private Screening

The joy and buzz continues to construct for “The Little Mermaid.”

A supply tells me that director Rob Marshall and husband, producer John DeLuca, hosted a non-public screening of Disney’s reside adaptation of the 1989 animated basic on Sunday evening at New York’s Whitby Resort.

The visitor checklist of about 80 folks included Emily Blunt and John Krasinski, Matt Damon and his household, Emily Mortimer, Ben Platt and his “Parade” co-star Micaela Diamond, Marc Shaiman, Scott Wittman, Bob Balaban and Lynn Grossman, Diane and Brian Sutherland, and Scott Ellis. The movie’s composer Alan Menken and Lin-Manuel Miranda, who co-wrote three new songs for the film, have been additionally there.

I’m instructed the star-studded viewers applauded after every musical quantity and continued to rave throughout a post-screening reception. Marshall joked that the night’s torrential downpour was becoming as a result of it felt like they have been really “beneath the ocean.”

I caught up with star Halle Bailey on the Met Gala on Monday evening. “I’m so excited,” she stated in regards to the soon-to-be-released movie. “I’m somewhat anxious as a result of it’s been a very long time coming.”

Disney previewed a scene from the film throughout its CinemaCon presentation in Las Vegas late final month. It was the primary time audiences received a glimpse of Melissa McCarthy as Ursula, who within the clip sang a show-stopping rendition of the character’s signature quantity, “Poor Unlucky Souls.”

“I undoubtedly assume it’s going to be completely different as a result of you’ll be able to see a contemporary tackle our world, and you’ll see a mirrored image of the world that we reside in as we speak,” Bailey stated on the Met Gala. “This world that we reside in is a good looking melting pot of variety.”

Hailey performed coy when requested if she is signed for extra “Little Mermaid” films. She smiled, “Oh, I don’t know.”

Together with Bailey and McCarthy, the solid consists of Jonah Hauer-King as Prince Eric, Javier Bardem as King Triton, Jacob Tremblay as Flounder and Daveed Diggs as Sebastian. 

“The Little Mermaid” will swim to theaters on Might 26.