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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I would rather sit through Two Showings of SONG OF NORWAY(1970) than this piece of dreck.
How sweet it is! —Jackie Gleason
Walt, these clowns have done you wrong.
We made a shitty movie! But it is still whitie’s fault that we did so - despite the fact that is an original whitie story. Don’t worry about thinking deep thoughts - just think what we tell you.
May it die an ignoble death and its fate serve as a lesson to be learned.
YouTubers and bloggers probably bought half the tickets.
Where I live, the two IMAX showings today sold zero tickets. But it’s a Wednesday. So I checked the weekend when parents have their kids all day out of school. The 1:40 matinee presold zero tickets and the 4:45 show presold 2 tickets. In practical terms it just doesn’t get any worse than that.
She can always ask her buddies in Hamas to watch the film
That’s a shame.
In literal terms- it gets no worse.
But when the star of the movie is a brassy loudmouth that makes leftist politics his/her entire life, it makes me not even want to see the movie in the first place.
This nutjob just cost Disney hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue.
Nobody in Hollywood should ever hire her again.
I wonder how it even got that much at the box office.
Maybe some ghost leftist organization buying up tickets.
the leftsiders don’t or won’t learn. but I’m ok with that because I have no stock in dizzyworld.
The Chosen Season 5 (IIRC) is due to open this coming weekend in theaters.
It should be very enlightening to see the difference in box office sales.
Disney has done a lot of idiotic things for quite some time, and I don't think the success or failure of this movie will change much.
Disney brought this flop on themselves, big time.
And the sooner the better.
It’s amazing. She’s at best marginally prominent; this movie and make or break her career. The first time she popped off it was pretty bad, but you can imagine how the studio could think it could be a one off. What amazing is they didn’t shut her up after that
Wish that were true, but these days they keep foisting losers upon us. Leonardo DiCaprio
for example. Without all his industry inside connections, Leo would be just another twerp
at Starbucks.
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