By Walt Hickey Box Office Spider-Man: No Way Home regained its place atop the box office rankings this past weekend with another $14.5 million domestically, but the real action was down below, when the film The King’s Daughter was finally released after spending eight years on the shelf. The film stars Pierce Brosnan as France’s King Louis XIV, a regent obsessed with immortality who in this splendid and intricately-shot period piece attempts to, in a hard genre turn, kill a mermaid he keeps on-site at Versailles to live forever. Paramount, the original distributor, shelved the movie in 2015 just three weeks ahead of its original release, but it did receive a 2,170-screen opening thanks to the ironically named Gravitas Ventures, which picked up the picture from the scrap heap. It made