Posted on 03/12/2025 3:31:16 PM PDT by bitt
Walt Disney studio chiefs might be feeling their own brand of flop sweat, as one indicator after another piles up that that company's $300 million bet on a live-action "Snow White" is going down faster than the Titanic if the iceberg had been armed with torpedoes and antiship missiles.
The Mouse House "won’t be rolling out a robust red carpet like it usually does" for a big-budget premiere next week, Variety reported Tuesday. Instead of a parade of movie stars and celebrities vying for attention on the red carpet and all the attendant big media names, the "Snow White" premiere will have its coverage "limited to photographers and a house crew."
Stars Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot will attend the March 15 pre-party and screening at the El Capitan Theatre, but "the scaled-back plans come amid controversies surrounding the Marc Webb-directed film."
I've covered the remake's problems in several columns over the last two years. There were the ridiculous non-dwarves ("Snow White, One Dwarf, and Six Painfully Diverse Magical Creatures") who were later replaced at great expense with CGI dwarves just back from the Uncanny Valley. And the $100 million worth of reshoots the studio required when the Woke BS leaked (and Zegler was forced to do a brief apology tour). Finally, there was a one-year delay in getting the hot mess into theaters (see the preceding items).
After all that, "Snow White" won't even enjoy a typical launch.
The industry rags provide what cover they can for Disney's multimillion-dollar embarrassment.
"Why Is Disney Burying Snow White?" Gizmodo asked with mock ignorance. "Could Disney possibly be hiding to play it safe amid the current political climate in the U.S., with conservatives easily alarmed by anything perceived to be too 'woke'?"
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They can make their own story about a bossy woman who straightens out some lazy small men and that she don’t need no man.
It is unnecessary to steal a 400 year old cherished folk tale and to turn it inside out, unless your purpose is to ruin it.
They released the live action just a little while ago. Now they are releasing a CGI version.
Exactly.
And ugly as sin.
Someone reviewed the trailer and posted “If I was watching this on a plane I would still walk out.”
Pretty much like I’ve ignore every movie in the last 30 year or so.
We’ve gone to a couple special independent productions and Sound of Freedom, but that’s it.
Needs to make approximately 650 million TO BREAK EVEN. Maybe a bit less seeing that Disney is scaling WAY BACK the marketing.
When Snow White is Snow fuggly.
She’s half White and 100 percent fuggly.
Let me guess, they put a chick in the movie, and made her gay?
h/t South Park
Yeah, right.
Put me down for Plan B!
https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/watch-nasa-spacex-crew-10-rocket-launch
Per above, backup dates are tomorrow and Friday if the issue/s are resolved.
Wrong thread...
Though now that I think about it, Disney might not mind sending Zegler into orbit...
Oh my lord have they effed this up. People are rooting for the poison apple.
You must mean Sandy from Westchester.
Gal Gadot should run from this debacle. OTOH, she’s probably already been paid.
Disney needs to do a remake of Song of the South with Little Tampon Timmy Walz as Uncle Remus.
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