We can only hope Frozen is half as lovely as these Snow Queen

We've only gotten a few glimpses of Disney's upcoming adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Snow Queen," Frozen, but there are some truly lovely visuals in the film's concept art. deviantARTist a-hour takes a very different approach to the fairy tale, but shows off the striking images it can inspire.

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Whether you like It or not, the "Dark Little Mermaid Movie" is happening

We all know that the original story of Hans Christian Andersen's Little Mermaid, a dark tale that includes sea-foam stabbings, and magical hair-cutting. But are we really ready for a dark Little Mermaid reinvention, with less singing and more suicide?

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Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey uses her mermaid wiles in the new Pirates of the …

We recently talked to Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey, who plays the main mermaid Syrena in the upcoming Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. She told us about her mermaid history and what makes Syrena different from mermaids we've seen before.

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Joan Vinge’s The Snow Queen: The girl-power counterpart to Star Wars

Do you enjoy space opera, fantastic technologies, millennia-old mysteries, and terrifically wicked villains who want their offspring to embrace their dark side? Do you like women too? Then you'll love 1981's Hugo winner, The Snow Queen, by Joan D. Vinge.

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Will the live action Little Mermaid be as gruesome as the original?

Atonement director Joe Wright is making a real life Little Mermaid film. We're flipping our fins over this, but will his version have the dark ending Hans Christian Andersen originally intended for the Mermaid?

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