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Samuel E. Wright, the actor who voiced Sebastian the crab in Disney's "The Little Mermaid" and sang the film's Oscar-winning song "Under the Sea," has died aged 74.
The Little Mermaid director, Rob Marshall, explains why "Les Poissons" is missing from the live action adaptation.
Disney's live action remake of "The Little Mermaid" hits the big screen in less than a week, and Daveed Diggs and Jacob Tremblay are stepping into the iconic roles of Sebastian and Flounder.
Why didn't Shaggy's Sebastian costume include claws? An ABC exec took to Twitter to explain the singer's costume during ABC's "The Little Mermaid" live special on Nov. 5.
Sebastian, Scuttle, Flounder, and the rest of the animals in the live-action Little Mermaid don’t look as terrible as internet backlash suggests.
The Little Mermaid is in theaters today. Peter Vonder Haar writes movie reviews for the Houston Press and the occasional book.
Ariel and her pals have been given a live-action makeover in The Little Mermaid.
The holiday weekend's biggest hit was widely panned by critics. But what does The Little Mermaid's target audience of children have to say about the live-action Disney adaptation?
In 1989, the 7-year-old Daveed Diggs queued up outside Oakland’s Grand Lake Theatre, his hometown multiplex, to see “The Little Mermaid” with his father, Dountes. “It must’ve been ...
Samuel E. Wright, who voiced Sebastian the crab in Disney's "The Little Mermaid," had died at 74 after a battle with prostate cancer.