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”.
A hit song from the original "Snow White"--before songwriting became a lost art.
It would have to be re-recorded with a modern equipment as it is too compressed, without a lot of dynamic range.
Since it’s a cartoon, they could redo the entire soundtrack with new actors’ voices and new musicians with all the modern technology at their disposal.
Color of the original could be enhanced and brightened quite a bit and a digitized version could be edited so that gaps in motion could be filled in with computer averaging to make the action smoother and more lifelike.................
Creative, aside from the obscenities. Turn down your volume a little because it comes in loud and clear!
Rooting for the apple, lol!
They’d get more to watch if they let the MST3K people have it at.
Indeed.
That’s what they should have just done.
Or rather, they should have made both Snow White and the prince trannies instead.
The charm for sure!
lol
They could but the original soundtrack would sound horrible.
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I have:
Cinderella
Fantasia - Both of them
Sleeping Beauty
Snow White.
All sound reasonable - they won’t make you cringe - except for the tail end of the original Fantasia where the gal is singing “Ave Maria”. That breaks up a little - something got a little overloaded in the audio chain. Not cringeworthy but noticeable.
I think next it’s gonna be Kung Fu Panda.
I refuse to grow up so don’t even bother (grin).
(and take just $252 per screen)
😃😄🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Live action remakes are dead. They don’t have to be but the DIE hires that do the scripts and casting and OR work are not interested in being entertaining. They are preachy activists. Disney and Marvel and Lucasfilm can’t go bankrupt fast enough. It would be interesting to see who keeps bankrolling these flops.
PR work. Not OR.
Most times jumping out of a window and crashing into the ground teaches DON,T DO IT! Some people just don’t learn.
The taxpayer is paying for this.
This nonsense didn't happen when Harvey Weinstein was in charge.
Nobody even wants to watch it for free.
Get woke. Go broke!
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