The Mermaid (2016 film)
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| Traditional Chinese | 美人魚 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 美人鱼 | ||||||||||
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| Directed by | Stephen Chow | ||||||||||
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| Story by | Stephen Chow | ||||||||||
| Based on | The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen | ||||||||||
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| Cinematography | Choi Sung-fai | ||||||||||
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| Music by | Raymond Wong Huang Fuhua Wendy Zhang | ||||||||||
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Running time | 94 minutes | ||||||||||
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| Language | Mandarin | ||||||||||
| Budget | US$60.7 million | ||||||||||
| Box office | US$553.8 million | ||||||||||
The Mermaid (Chinese: 美人鱼) is a 2016 romantic fantasy comedy film directed, co-written and produced by Stephen Chow, which stars Lin Yun, Deng Chao, Zhang Yuqi and Show Lo. A Chinese-Hong Kong co-production, the film tells the story of a playboy businessman (Deng Chao) who falls in love with a mermaid (Lin Yun) sent to assassinate him.
The film was released in China on 8 February 2016, and broke numerous box office records, including biggest opening day and biggest single-day gross through its seventh day of release. The Mermaid had the biggest opening week of all time in China, where it became the thirteenth-highest-grossing film of all time. The film was the highest-grossing non-English, non-Hollywood movie globally from 2016 to 2019.
A sequel is reported to have completed filming. A treatment for an American remake is being written by Cherry Chevapravatdumrong and Teresa Hsiao.