Posted on 03/21/2025 11:29:01 PM PDT by Morgana
Disney's live-action 'woke' remake of Snow White is shaping up to be one of the iconic franchise's worst-performing movies in recent years, according to initial box office figures.
Snow White has been mired in controversy due to comments from its star Rachel Zegler and the absence of the iconic song 'Someday My Prince Will Come.'
The first results from theaters have been revealed, and they're not great.
The movie made just $3.5 million in Thursday previews and is projected to earn a disappointing $45 to $55 million during its opening weekend.
That places the film below Disney's Little Mermaid remake, which premiered in 2023 and made $95 million during opening.
Disney's 2019 Dumbo remake made $2.6 million in previews and profited a total of $45 million on opening weekend.
However, Dumbo only required $170 million to make, while Snow White cost over $250 million, excluding marketing costs.
Despite the underperforming figures, Snow White did rank higher than Disney's Cinderella remake, which only grossed $2.3 million in previews.
The film has also failed to impress critics, clocking in at only 44 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.
A review by Daily Mail's Brian Viner gave the film a pitiful two stars, calling it 'a painfully muddle-headed affair.'
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Fagney needs to Die like Sears
Get and keep The Mouse outta your house.
They could have reused the original scripts, the original songs re-scored, and just used real actors and saved a ton of money.................
It's pretty unbelievable how badly they screwed this movie up, from making the Snow White character uglier than she is IRL, the cheap costume they put her in, the creepy low-quality graphics used to create the dwarfs, the condescending diversity-check-box approach to hiring one real dwarf and some minority actors, the replacement of the Prince with a band of career criminals, and on and on and on.
Disney doesn't re-release classic iconic movies like Song of the South, Dumbo, or Snow White.
They have done their best to bury them.
read the room idiots...
You aren’t here to entertain each other
This is the Entertainment Business
And deservedly so.
It’s too bad Disney was too stupid and arrogant to do so. They deserve to have this soulless remake be a huge box office dud.
From the movie Get Shorty.
Chili Palmer (John Travolta) : Rough business, this movie business. I’m gonna have to go back to loan-sharking just to take a rest.
What’s the writing that makes the most money?
Ransom notes.
Everybody knew this was a stinker more than 2 years ago. Disney should’ve just pulled the plug back then. It would’ve been expensive, but not as expensive as this will be.
CC
Since then Disney had reshoot several scenes after negative comments from the Right. I suspect to make it less woke... Still...
My daughter got married last November, and her wedding photos finally arrived this week. In between I suggested she sing “Someday My Prints Will Come.”
Apparently it wasn’t nearly enough. Which suggests the original edit was riddled with woke nonsense.
CC
The cost of these movies is way too high.
It must be hollywood accounting.
$3.5 million in Thursday previews
That much, huh?
There are people actually willing to watch this trash?
Maybe they can do Bambi next, using a doe...
Exactly right!
The whole premise of the story was thrown in a cocked hat.
They’re saying it made 45 million friday night.
With video release and then selling it to netflix or whatever, it will make a few bucks above profit probably.
But thats not what they need. They need a huge box office hit. A lot of time and energy to just about break even is a disaster.
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