Posted on 05/13/2025 5:20:06 AM PDT by Red Badger
Not content with the new Snow White bombing in March, Disney decided to release it again in the US last week, only for it to bomb even worse than the first time and take just $252 per screen. The Telegraph‘s Ed Power has more.
Hi-ho, it’s back to the cinema for Disney’s flop live-action Snow White. Having originally crashed and burned in March, the movie misfired all over again after the House of Mouse re-released it in the US last week. Talk about putting the ‘grim’ in Grimm Fairy Tale.
Disney’s apparent calculation was that that the advent of summer blockbuster season could give this dead-on-arrival feature a new lease of life. You can sort of appreciate the logic: after all, May saw the ailing Marvel Cinematic Universe return from purgatory when Thunderbolts proved a surprise hit.
Where a caped crusader can go, surely Snow White and her terrifying CGI dwarf friends could follow? Who, moreover, wouldn’t want to hear Gal Gadot ham her way through the dreadful ‘All Is Fair’ one last time? A sort of evil twin of Frozen’s ‘Let It Go’, the tune has acquired a cult fanbase on social media, where people are intoxicated by its sheer ‘how did this get made?’ awfulness.
Sadly for Disney, such logic did not long survive contact with reality. Incredibly, the second coming of Snow White was an even bigger disaster than the original run. Unleashed on an unsuspecting 1,000 cinemas across the US, the Rachel Zegler v Gal Gadot calamity brought in a pitiful $252 per screen. To date, the remake has cost Disney an estimated $115 million – much of the cost eaten up for by the bizarre decision to have Zegler act opposite CGI dwarfs straight from the Uncanny Valley.
The studio will no doubt claw back some of that cash when Snow White is released to video streaming this month. But if the film is about to be made available at home, why put it back in cinemas? It’s the most illogical re-release since Sony tried to capitalise on the mockery directed at its dire Jared Leto superhero bust Morbius by putting it back in cinemas in June 2022 – when it did almost as badly as Snow White, bringing in $289 “per theatre”.
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Maybe if they put moar lipstick on it?
If they had only buried Walt Disney in a electricity-producing coffin his spinning would be churning out Mega-watts of electricity...maybe enough to power DisneyWorld.
Stupid is as stupid does, again and again.
I don’t think the film was gay enough. Disney needed to make Snow White a lesbian and the prince a transgender man.
Did I really need a “/s” switch there?
And the dwarves could be replaced by the freaks in the latest Jaguar commercial.
Why don’t they release the 1937 Snow White? I bet it would make $100 million at the box office.
I’m no movie mogul but maybe a 3rd release? 😂
They could but the original soundtrack would sound horrible.
They would have to re-record it with newer technology and modern acoustics.
Is it salvageable? I don’t know. Or they could simply do it over completely with new voices...............
No, not at all!
It’s a great way to lose $500 millioin!
I’m waiting for the sequel, “Yellow Snow”.
No you did not, lol.
they are going to have to go with mandatory viewing
if they want to make money
call it a woke tax
Noticed this morning that it’s available for rent on Amazon for $24.99
ROFLMAO
I’m sure they can fix it, assuming there isn’t one good print left? If they had 5 or 10 halfway decent prints they can digitize it and edit in the best parts of each print to make one whole film. The music would be out of style for sure, and make crackle and pop, but that too can be remixed and made into clean stereo using audio technology. Most theaters don’t project film anymore they use digital projectors. So no film, just a high quality digital cut projected onto a very large screen. And some are direct to screen, like a TV or streamer on a device though that is not ubiquitous yet. Besides is it not available already on Disney+ stream service? Perhaps not.
A relaunch of Snow White 1937 could be a cultural revival and a lot of fun if done right. Which is probably the main reason Disney wouldn’t do it. Bring in some live action princesses and some sets - like a Disney version of Santa at the mall - and the kids will make a day out of it, get pictures taken, buy souvenirs, and probably mom and dad will pay extra for the ticket too. But I’m sure whomever is in charge of film release has thought of this, and either knows it won’t fly with the bosses or has been told by the CEO to forget about the idea as it would undermine their attempt to normalize their “put a chick in it and make her gay” approach to entertainment. 😂
If you have X, this is worth hearing.
Someone took the best comments under the #SnowWhite trailer & put it to song! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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