Posted on 03/26/2025 5:43:17 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Disney's live-action remake of "Snow White" is out in theaters, and with a miserable $42.2 million opening weekend, it's already proven to be a historic flop.
The film, starring Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot, cost at least $270 million to make, with tens of millions, if not more, spent on advertising. Given distribution and exhibition costs, it's likely Disney needed the film to make at least $800-850 million globally to break even. With the importance of the domestic market, US grosses needed to reach at least $400 million to give the entertainment giant a chance at profitability.
It might not even reach $100 million.
There are plenty of reasons why "Snow White" failed: the abandonment of the original source material, bewildering casting decisions, and horrifying CGI, as just a few examples.
But one of the most obvious was the film's open political stance, exemplified both in how Zegler spoke about the plot and original film, and her personal comments. Like, for example, saying she hopes Donald Trump and his supporters "never know peace."
Entertainment media, hoping to deflect blame away from their political perspective, tried to defend Zegler and left-wing politics in a new analysis of where the film made its money on opening weekend. But a closer look at their own data shows that red voters did in fact stay home, hurting the film's bottom line.
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The type of mother that would be likely to take their kids this crappy remake are also more likely to abort their babies.
She’s got eyes on the side of her head like a fish.
Bye ho, bye ho, it’s off to a real job you go.
Maybe Disney can paint it as a win. The movie is getting as much support as the average wnba game does.
Yes she is. She almost looks like a birth defect. Fetal alcohol syndrome maybe.
Mama had too much tequila, I theenks.
Disney should have thrown a few burning dwarf Teslas in the movie. The RATs would have filled the theaters. Dwarves with Molotovs. Yeah! That’s the ticket.
What is interesting about this is that people are clearly not getting their information about such things from the fake media. The fake media is done for.
Lily James is a goddess in my book. That was the best Cinderella movie ever made next to the original animation.
I like Gal Gadot. She is very attractive. Sorry to see her involved. Hope she made scads of money in the contract.
Gee you mean insulting movie goers as part of a publicity tour hurts ticket sales? Who would have thought?
I hope they gave most of that to get Gal Gadot into the picture!
Just checked the local movies....counted five tickets. I checked the weekend and nothing....granted it’s early.
Hey Morgana you were right :)
I thought 270 million included advertising. It didn’t.
They will not break even, even after streaming income.
Good.
She also said to ‘vote blue’, and “If you don’t agree with me, just unfollow me. I don’t need your business.”
Bialystock and Bloom must have picked Zegler.
“THAT’S OUR SNOW WHITE!!!!”
(For one thing, it stars Cab Calloway! Very cool!)
Trumps fault.
Waiting for a fed judge to rule that the White House must pay Disney for its losses.
** What could possibly have been so “special” about it to make it so costly? **
Money Laundering.
‘Snow White’ producer’s son unloads on ‘immature’ Rachel Zegler for pro-Palestine comments: ‘Her actions hurt the film’
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