A direct-to-video sequel was released in 2000, focusing on Ariel's daughter, Melody. The film's success led to a media franchise. The film won two Academy Awards for Best Original Score and Best Original Song (' Under the Sea'). It also marked the start of the era known as the Disney Renaissance. After the major success of both the 1986 Disney animated film The Great Mouse Detective and the 1988 Disney/ Amblin live-action/animated film Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Little Mermaid is given credit for breathing life back into the art of Disney animated feature films after some films produced by Disney were struggling. It was also a commercial success, garnering $84 million at the domestic box office during its initial release, and $235 million in total lifetime gross worldwide. The Little Mermaid was released to theaters on November 17, 1989, to critical acclaim, earning praise for the animation, music, and characters. Katzenberg warned that the film would earn less since it appealed to females, but he eventually became convinced that it would be Disney's first blockbuster hit. With supervision from Katzenberg, they made a Broadway-style structure with musical numbers as the staff was working on Oliver & Company (1988). Ashman became involved and brought in Menken.

In 1985, while working on The Great Mouse Detective (1986), Clements and Musker decided to adapt the fairy tale and proposed it to Disney Studios chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg, who initially declined due to its similarities to a proposed sequel to the 1984 film Splash, but ultimately approved of it. Walt Disney planned to put the story in a proposed package film containing Andersen's stories, but scrapped the project. Wright, Jason Marin, Kenneth Mars, and Buddy Hackett. The film stars the voices of Jodi Benson, Christopher Daniel Barnes, Pat Carroll, Samuel E. The Little Mermaid was written and directed by John Musker and Ron Clements and produced by Musker and Howard Ashman, who also wrote the film's songs with Alan Menken. The film tells the story of a teenage mermaid princess named Ariel, who dreams of becoming human and falls in love with a human prince named Eric, which leads her to make a magic deal with the sea witch, Ursula, to become human and be with him. The 28th Disney animated feature film, it is loosely based on the 1837 Danish fairy tale of the same name by Hans Christian Andersen. The Little Mermaid is a 1989 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures.

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