Posted on 03/24/2025 12:59:39 PM PDT by Morgana
The crisis facing the Walt Disney Company over its controversial Snow White reboot deepened today amid pictures of empty cinemas and screens with no bookings in primetime slots following a poor opening weekend.
Studio bosses had hoped that the reboot of the 1937 original, which had a budget of more than $270million (£210million), would launch with at least £79million ($100million) in ticket sales.
But the movie starring Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot took just $87.3million (£67.4million) globally including $43million (£33million) in the US after a slow start followed a slew of negative reviews.
Meanwhile, in mainland China, Snow White ranked outside the top five movies in cinemas – bringing in less than $1million (£800,000) in its first three days.
The film has also been accused of 'wokeness' after the Seven Dwarfs were re-imagined as a group of 'magical creatures' - while comments by Zegler and Gadot ahead of its release have also faced criticism.
The Mail's Brian Viner slammed it as a 'painfully muddle-headed affair', adding: 'This production has been cursed from the start. Disney's contorted attempts not to offend anyone have somehow managed to offend everyone.'
One prospective cinema-goer shared on social media how the movie sold zero tickets at one point for a prime weekend slot in the US, and just one for another screening. They posted on X: 'Opening Friday night for Disney's Snow White in Imax. Only ONE person bought tickets for tonight. Yeah, this movie's gonna flop.'
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I suspect this movie will be pulls before the week is over.
I’ve heard it called ‘Snow Woke’ and something like ‘Snow White and the 7 tickets sold’ etc.
Will blame conservative republicans for that disaster.
‘Snow White and the 7 tickets sold’
I’ve not heard that one! They are lucky to get 7 tickets sold.
Good. They deserve this for messing with the culture and traditions of this country. May they go bankrupt.
Shrew White didn’t want a bunch of racist, sexist, homophobes to watch it anyway.
What did it cost to produce this nonsense? Looks like receipts are around 100 million.
This movie is such utter trash you couldn’t pay me to sneak in to see it..maybe Ziegler can get her hamas buddies to go see it
I heard it cost them 250 mil to make
The sooner this movie dies at the box office the better.
Yup, the consumer rejects this woke chit and so did the voters. This is proof that they continue to reject it.
YET, as I write this the Left has convinced itself that everyone really does want this, Trump is unpopular and that they need to double down with better messaging.
Burn some Tesla’s and free America to once again enjoy the woke policies that they truly crave.
Whatever the number, it’s just valuable money the studio wasted on another soulless cash grab.
I’ll post it when it happens and how much Disney lost
It cost way more than that.
But you know why this doesn’t matter..?
Check out Disney’s top three institutional investors.
Disney is starting to remind me of Ukraine in more ways than one.
A lot of the visual effects in the trailer seem appealing, but that’s not enough to make people sit through a movie...
No White — plot not lame enough and needs more gay chicks.
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I’m betting Howard the Duck will outdraw this steaming pile of Disney wokeness; I probably shouldn’t give any of the Disney executive leftards an idea - Howoke the Duke, coming to an empty theater near you.
The one I saw that I liked was.....”off white and the 7 pronouns”
How could Disney wreck a classic film by churning out woke fail production! DON’T MESS WITH THE CLASSICS!!!
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