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240B · « **on:** March 23, 2025, 06:37:08 pm »

Disney’s ‘Snow White’ Bombs, On Pace For One Of Company’s Worst Box Office Showings

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By Cullen McCue
March 23, 2025

After years of build-up and hundreds of millions of dollars spent on promotion, Disney’s “Snow White” live-action remake starring Gal Gadot and Rachel Zegler is on pace for one of the company’s worst box office offerings ever.

As of Friday, the remake of the 1937 classic had raked in just $15.5 million across 4,200 North American theaters, including $3.5 million from Thursday night’s previews, Deadline reported. Overall, the film is on pace for just $45 million in sales over its opening weekend, an astonishingly low figure considering its massive budget.

As of this report, “Snow White” is on pace with Disney’s live-action “Dumbo” remake that was released in 2019. The film, which was directed by Tim Burton, was a certified box office bomb that pulled in $46 million over its opening weekend. Costs for “Dumbo” topped out at $170 million, however, while “Snow White” cost $270 million after multiple reshoots and a massive marketing campaign that fizzled out early.

Disney will be holding out hope that the latest film can top December’s live-action “Mufasa: The Lion King” remake, which pulled in just $35.4 million in December after another aggressive marketing campaign.

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240B · « **Reply #1 on:** March 23, 2025, 06:50:14 pm »

Disney has changed every single solitary characteristic of the 'Snow White' story. What they have produced has nothing at all related to the 'Snow White' story. The only thing about it that resembles 'Snow White' is the title of the show. Other than that what Disney calls 'Snow White' has nothing to do with 'Snow White'.

What Disney obviously does not understand is that it is not possible to slap the title "Snow White" on a WOKE production of "The Wiz" intending to bait-and-switch people to come to see it.

In modern times with ubiquitous social media everywhere, this does not work.

cato potatoe · « **Reply #2 on:** March 23, 2025, 07:23:53 pm »

I listened to bits of the soundtrack. Disney’s greatest downfall is its lack of songwriting talent. The Walt Disney era is remembered so fondly this reason, even as his animated films and musicals age. The “renaissance” years captured this again, but the past 25 years is replete with unimaginative story lines and horrible pop music.

240B · « **Reply #3 on:** March 23, 2025, 07:44:40 pm »

They couldn't even leave the bird.

cato potatoe · « **Reply #4 on:** March 23, 2025, 08:11:38 pm »

Rachel seems like she would be an unpleasant person in real life. The only way Snow White could have been more egregiously miscast is if they hired Jada Pinkett Smith.

libertybele · « **Reply #5 on:** March 23, 2025, 08:34:42 pm »

"Snow White" such a classic. They should have figured 'wokeness' would have bombed -- quite frankly I'm glad it did!

Disney is changing "The Lion King"??? That is one of my all time Disney favorites! Saw it a couple of times.

I think Disney needs to concentrate on making another 'classic' without all the social and political correctness.

IsailedawayfromFR · « **Reply #6 on:** March 23, 2025, 08:51:25 pm »

Quote from: libertybele on March 23, 2025, 08:34:42 pm

"Snow White" such a classic. They should have figured 'wokeness' would have bombed -- quite frankly I'm glad it did!

Disney is changing "The Lion King"??? That is one of my all time Disney favorites! Saw it a couple of times.

I think Disney needs to concentrate on making another 'classic' without all the social and political correctness.

Have we ever had a remake that is superior to the original?

Can someone find a list to see?

Some are almost there, like Roadhouse with Swayze vs Gyllenhaal

240B · « **Reply #7 on:** March 23, 2025, 09:30:20 pm »

The fact is, Disney could have made a new movie of their own, with their own title and their own plotline. They did not do this because Leftist woke idiots feel an insatiable urge to correct mistakes of the past. Leftists HATE the fact that everybody LOVES the original Snow White movie. So, they had to correct it by making more inline with Leftist values (which are demented).

The point is, why didn't Disney just make a new movie? Because a new movie was never the point. The point was always to piss on and pervert the original. They cannot leave excellence alone. Artistic excellence like Snow White, like Lion King, like The Jungle Book, drives them crazy because THEY did not create them. So they try to "fix" them in their own image. This is how it should have been done. And it always fails.

It is a 'fairy tale' dumbass! It is not supposed to reflect their version of reality.

But Disney does not care if everyone of their so-called 'remakes' fail. The point is to desecrate the original regardless of how much money they lose. And they will do it again and again and again. Because Disney has become an 'activist organization'. Obviously, Disney is no longer in business to "make money". Disney exists today solely to fanatically push the Leftist 'woke' agenda no matter how much it costs them.

Why not just make new movies? Why do they have the irrational obsession to piss on the classics by trying to 'correct' them?

There! I fixed it!!

mountaineer · « **Reply #8 on:** March 24, 2025, 08:00:07 am »

wokeandwoofing
@wokeandwoofing
I believe Disney can recoup their losses on 'Snow White' by releasing a follow up documentary that lets us see the production meetings where all the creative decisions were made. I do not believe there is a single person alive who would not pay to see that.
11:45 AM · Mar 23, 2025

deb · « **Reply #9 on:** March 24, 2025, 08:49:36 am »

There should be heads rolling (figuratively) today at Disney.

mountaineer · « **Reply #10 on:** March 24, 2025, 08:55:06 am »

Quote from: deb on March 24, 2025, 08:49:36 am

There should be heads rolling (figuratively) today at Disney.

PaintSandRepeat
@SandRepeat
Heads should roll at Disney but they won’t: And no one on the board with any entertainment experience to counter Iger.
5:03 PM · Mar 23, 2025

DCPatriot · « **Reply #11 on:** March 24, 2025, 09:25:02 am »

Quote from: deb on March 24, 2025, 08:49:36 am

There should be heads rolling (figuratively) today at Disney.

ROFL... @deb I see what you did there!

GtHawk · « **Reply #12 on:** March 24, 2025, 12:03:17 pm »

Has Zegler insulted everyone who didn’t go as racist and misogynistic yet, er I mean again?
The new Snow White in one minute.

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/pF6HaLOiJtk

Cyber Liberty · « **Reply #13 on:** March 24, 2025, 12:22:39 pm »

Quote from: 240B on March 23, 2025, 09:30:20 pm

They did not do this because Leftist woke idiots feel an insatiable urge to correct mistakes of the past.

Profound statement of the day, here.

DefiantMassRINO · « **Reply #14 on:** March 24, 2025, 12:25:49 pm »

#Black Buzzard Lives Matter

Quote from: 240B on March 23, 2025, 07:44:40 pm

They couldn't even leave the bird.

DefiantMassRINO · « **Reply #15 on:** March 24, 2025, 12:34:16 pm »

When is Disney's Woke version of 'The Three Caballeros (1945)' being released?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS_Xklf08EY

MeganC · « **Reply #16 on:** March 24, 2025, 01:03:31 pm »

I want to see what a woke version of Song of The South would look like.

berdie · « **Reply #17 on:** March 24, 2025, 05:22:15 pm »

I just think it's a cryin' darn shame that companies can't come up with new ideas. They, instead, "remake" classics and ruin them. It's not just Disney, it seems to be an industry wide problem.

GtHawk · « **Reply #18 on:** March 24, 2025, 05:53:41 pm »

Quote from: berdie on March 24, 2025, 05:22:15 pm

I just think it's a cryin' darn shame that companies can't come up with new ideas. They, instead, "remake" classics and ruin them. It's not just Disney, it seems to be an industry wide problem.

Disney went from having Imagineers to having no imagination only wokeness.

240B · « **Reply #19 on:** March 24, 2025, 06:06:23 pm »

Quote from: MeganC on March 24, 2025, 01:03:31 pm

I want to see what a woke version of Song of The South would look like.

I seem to remember the Disney buried 'Song of the South' in a vault somewhere in a cave in a volcano, guarded around the clock by Indiana Jones style booby traps.

Song of the South movie, represents the exact diametric opposite of everything Disney pushes today. It is happy, uplifting, and cheerful. Disney will never allow it to be released ever again or even anything related to it. Disney is trying to 'disappear' the film from history. If they could, they would erase it off the face of the Earth.

Sighlass · « **Reply #20 on:** March 24, 2025, 06:39:09 pm »

To think, Disney once made a movie (Night Crossing) about a family escaping communist East Germany to freedom.... They could remake it I guess now with methed-out transexuals (w/adopted abused kids in tow) from Austin, TX. Weirdos stuck trying to escape to utopia Disney-land California via a China-owned spy balloon. Scenes could include almost making it but having trouble landing because of a man-made climate change forest fire.

roamer_1 · « **Reply #21 on:** March 24, 2025, 06:59:48 pm »

Quote from: IsailedawayfromFR on March 23, 2025, 08:51:25 pm

Have we ever had a remake that is superior to the original?

Can someone find a list to see?

Some are almost there, like Roadhouse with Swayze vs Gyllenhaal

I would offer 'True Grit' - Forgive me y'all, but I like the new one better than the Duke... And I think they did it justice.

I say that to show that they CAN, if they want to.

240B · « **Reply #22 on:** March 24, 2025, 07:01:23 pm »

240B · « **Reply #23 on:** March 24, 2025, 07:06:19 pm »

Ultra-Woke BBC is lying again, of course.

berdie · « **Reply #24 on:** March 24, 2025, 07:15:05 pm »

Quote from: roamer_1 on March 24, 2025, 06:59:48 pm

I would offer 'True Grit' - Forgive me y'all, but I like the new one better than the Duke... And I think they did it justice.

I say that to show that they CAN, if they want to.

I have to agree @roamer_1 . Being a True Grit/John Wayne purist I resisted seeing the remake. I was very surprised a very happy. It was really good.

I used to sit thru the whole darn movie (original) just to see Rooster put the reins in his teeth with all guns blazing!

(Caution, kids, do not try this at home.)

roamer_1 · « **Reply #25 on:** March 24, 2025, 08:09:53 pm »

Quote from: berdie on March 24, 2025, 07:15:05 pm

I have to agree @roamer_1 . Being a True Grit/John Wayne purist I resisted seeing the remake. I was very surprised a very happy. It was really good.

I used to sit thru the whole darn movie (original) just to see Rooster put the reins in his teeth with all guns blazing!
(Caution, kids, do not try this at home.)

That's right! It has got to be one of my favorite films of all time... And like you, I resisited watching the remake, figuring I didn't have time for them dingbats hacking up such a treasure - That's how I thought going in, when I finally set down to watch it.

And like you, I was very pleasantly surprised - They honored the original in every way.

So they CAN tell a story like they are supposed to.

IsailedawayfromFR · « **Reply #26 on:** March 24, 2025, 10:35:25 pm »

Quote from: roamer_1 on March 24, 2025, 08:09:53 pm

That's right! It has got to be one of my favorite films of all time... And like you, I resisited watching the remake, figuring I didn't have time for them dingbats hacking up such a treasure - That's how I thought going in, when I finally set down to watch it.

And like you, I was very pleasantly surprised - They honored the original in every way.

So they CAN tell a story like they are supposed to.

I never saw remake for same reasons, the Duke.

Now I guess will have to see Jeff Bridges after listening to you 2.

roamer_1 · « **Reply #27 on:** March 24, 2025, 10:41:52 pm »

Quote from: IsailedawayfromFR on March 24, 2025, 10:35:25 pm

I never saw remake for same reasons, the Duke.

Now I guess will have to see Jeff Bridges after listening to you 2.

Opinions vary, surely. But I know no one who would say it is not worthy - Many might defend the Duke, and I get that. but anyone would say Jeff Bridges did a great job. YES go get it. Let me know what you think.

Sighlass · « **Reply #28 on:** March 25, 2025, 04:08:56 am »

Good news is this remake will not kill the love of the original that saved Disney from bankruptcy back in the day...

Bad news (for Disney and the MSM) is all the pushing they did didn't help... You couldn't go to IMDB and not be bombarded with "Snow White" everything on the front page... They bent over backwards to push this film.

Even liberal Reddit had a hard time keeping patrons from dogging on this film... and they report it only got 42.21 (USA) million over the weekend.

BBC is probable reporting global results.

roamer_1 · « **Reply #29 on:** March 25, 2025, 01:47:27 pm »

Quote from: Sighlass on March 25, 2025, 04:08:56 am

Good news is this remake will not kill the love of the original

No, but look at distribution though... It's all locked up behind Disney's paywall. Foolish Disney... In a few years there will be people right here in the US that have never seen the classics... or the Avengers, or Star Trek, or... on and on and on. Their greed for every penny has taken them right out of circulation unless you pay for Hulu, Disney, or Disney Plus.

catfish1957 · « **Reply #30 on:** March 25, 2025, 01:50:29 pm »

I actually viewed that silly prequel to Wiz of Oz as more of an "affront"

andy58-in-nh · « **Reply #31 on:** March 25, 2025, 01:59:35 pm »

Quote from: 240B on March 24, 2025, 07:01:23 pm

Say "have a bite" again, motherf***er!!!

LadyLiberty · « **Reply #32 on:** March 25, 2025, 03:04:03 pm »

It's a shame that some movie theater can't play the original at the same time the "remake" plays on a Saturday afternoon. I'd bet money that seats for the classic version would be sold out, and hardly anyone would be viewing the recent bomb.

LadyLiberty · « **Reply #33 on:** March 25, 2025, 03:08:28 pm »

Quote from: roamer_1 on March 24, 2025, 06:59:48 pm

I would offer 'True Grit' - Forgive me y'all, but I like the new one better than the Duke... And I think they did it justice.

I say that to show that they CAN, if they want to.

That's because the remake was done by the Coen brothers. Their goal was to stick to the original book, not the original movie. I suspect that in the original, some things were changed because viewers didn't want to see Rooster Cogburn (and by association, John Wayne) being such a big scoundrel, and the Coen brothers didn't have those reservations with Jeff Bridges (who did an amazing job playing that character).

roamer_1 · « **Reply #34 on:** March 25, 2025, 03:28:35 pm »

Quote from: LadyLiberty on March 25, 2025, 03:08:28 pm

That's because the remake was done by the Coen brothers. Their goal was to stick to the original book, not the original movie. I suspect that in the original, some things were changed because viewers didn't want to see Rooster Cogburn (and by association, John Wayne) being such a big scoundrel, and the Coen brothers didn't have those reservations with Jeff Bridges (who did an amazing job playing that character).

I will say something here that is hard for me to quantify...
It's all about the storytelling.
There is something ancient in it... In the telling.

I'll give you say, 'Old Yeller'. That is a story imbued in Americana. Everyone, at least everyone from my generation, knows Old Yeller. And everyone is wrecked by that story.

But it is SUPPOSED to wreck you. It is part of what it teaches.

Now, you could remake Ol Yeller... And I guess the writers could make it cleaner... make Old Yeller live on... and save everyone the shock... but that would remove that teaching, you know?

I dunno. I can't exactly put my finger on it. It is something that has my attention these days... The way they have taken the storytelling away from the true storytellers in favor of indoctrination. There is something big in that.

jmyrlefuller · « **Reply #35 on:** March 25, 2025, 03:28:44 pm »

Quote from: Sighlass on March 25, 2025, 04:08:56 am

Good news is this remake will not kill the love of the original that saved Disney from bankruptcy back in the day...

Bad news (for Disney and the MSM) is all the pushing they did didn't help... You couldn't go to IMDB and not be bombarded with "Snow White" everything on the front page... They bent over backwards to push this film.

Even liberal Reddit had a hard time keeping patrons from dogging on this film... and they report it only got 42.21 (USA) million over the weekend.

BBC is probable reporting global results.

the main issue is that this is the dump months, a time of year when there is virtually no competition. So it can do doodoo on a raw numbers scale and still be a huge number one.

The one that is disappointing me is The Day the Earth Blew Up. Rave reviews, true to the characters, and only a few million dollars in sales.

berdie · « **Reply #36 on:** March 25, 2025, 05:28:20 pm »

Quote from: LadyLiberty on March 25, 2025, 03:08:28 pm

That's because the remake was done by the Coen brothers. Their goal was to stick to the original book, not the original movie. I suspect that in the original, some things were changed because viewers didn't want to see Rooster Cogburn (and by association, John Wayne) being such a big scoundrel, and the Coen brothers didn't have those reservations with Jeff Bridges (who did an amazing job playing that character).

I will agree, the remake stayed truer to the book...which is excellent btw.

Smokin Joe · « **Reply #37 on:** March 25, 2025, 11:33:03 pm »

Quote from: andy58-in-nh on March 25, 2025, 01:59:35 pm

Say "have a bite" again, motherf***er!!!

GMTA!

Smokin Joe · « **Reply #38 on:** March 25, 2025, 11:35:56 pm »

Quote from: roamer_1 on March 25, 2025, 03:28:35 pm

I will say something here that is hard for me to quantify...
It's all about the storytelling.
There is something ancient in it... In the telling.

I'll give you say, 'Old Yeller'. That is a story imbued in Americana. Everyone, at least everyone from my generation, knows Old Yeller. And everyone is wrecked by that story.

But it is SUPPOSED to wreck you. It is part of what it teaches.

Now, you could remake Ol Yeller... And I guess the writers could make it cleaner... make Old Yeller live on... and save everyone the shock... but that would remove that teaching, you know?

I dunno. I can't exactly put my finger on it. It is something that has my attention these days... The way they have taken the storytelling away from the true storytellers in favor of indoctrination. There is something big in that.

In a roundabout way, Ol' Yeller encouraged people to get their dogs their shots.
Subtle enough, and I don't have a problem with that.

Wingnut · « **Reply #39 on:** March 26, 2025, 02:17:24 am »

Quote from: roamer_1 on March 24, 2025, 10:41:52 pm

Opinions vary, surely. But I know no one who would say it is not worthy - Many might defend the Duke, and I get that. but anyone would say Jeff Bridges did a great job. YES go get it. Let me know what you think.

I couldn't understand a damn word jeff bridges said in that movie. I hated it.

roamer_1 · « **Reply #40 on:** March 26, 2025, 02:04:29 pm »

Quote from: Wingnut on March 26, 2025, 02:17:24 am

I couldn't understand a damn word jeff bridges said in that movie. I hated it.

Yeah, but you were drunk.

Sighlass · « **Reply #41 on:** March 26, 2025, 02:07:35 pm »

Quote from: Wingnut on March 26, 2025, 02:17:24 am

I couldn't understand a damn word jeff bridges said in that movie. I hated it.

Yeah, I preferred the original too. (Sorry Roamer)

roamer_1 · « **Reply #42 on:** March 26, 2025, 02:15:50 pm »

Quote from: Smokin Joe on March 25, 2025, 11:35:56 pm

In a roundabout way, Ol' Yeller encouraged people to get their dogs their shots.
Subtle enough, and I don't have a problem with that.

Yeah, but there is more than that... A 'life ain't fair' thing... a 'bad things can happen to good folks' thing. A 'life goes on thing... There's a lot of cope in it.

It's a weird thing. A storyteller has always made the story his own. I can imagine some sort of embellishment happening along the way... But there is a framework in the story that must remain... almost a sacred thing.

Look at something more ancient - The story of Arthur and the Round Table, and all of that. You can see embellishment through its iterations, but the framework of the story remains true. The Grail stuff is all a latter addition... but it falls neatly along the lines of the original framework, and thus does the story no harm.

It's weird, I know. I don't have it sussed out... but a storyteller has the art of embellishment without changing the story. That thing is what Disney has lost. Lost utterly and entirely.

Cyber Liberty · « **Reply #43 on:** March 26, 2025, 02:44:36 pm »

I never saw Old Yeller or True Grit.

roamer_1 · « **Reply #44 on:** March 26, 2025, 02:48:08 pm »

Quote from: Cyber Liberty on March 26, 2025, 02:44:36 pm

I never saw Old Yeller or True Grit.

Heathen.

roamer_1 · « **Reply #45 on:** March 26, 2025, 02:49:59 pm »

Quote from: Sighlass on March 26, 2025, 02:07:35 pm

Yeah, I preferred the original too. (Sorry Roamer)

That's alright - I don't mind your preference. The point is that the new version told the story well. At least acceptably. They stayed true to what it was.

catfish1957 · « **Reply #46 on:** March 26, 2025, 03:50:20 pm »

Quote from: Sighlass on March 26, 2025, 02:07:35 pm

Yeah, I preferred the original too. (Sorry Roamer)

John Wayne can't be topped in a Western. Also, watching "The Dude" isn't just the same in the same role.

berdie · « **Reply #47 on:** March 26, 2025, 04:17:43 pm »

Quote from: Cyber Liberty on March 26, 2025, 02:44:36 pm

I never saw Old Yeller or True Grit.

Both are worth the watch. Have a box of Kleenex for Ole Yeller. And, like I've already said, the scene in True Grit (both versions) where Rooster puts the reins in his teeth and rides at the outlaws with guns in both hands blazing is a "Heck Yeah!" moment.

berdie · « **Reply #48 on:** March 26, 2025, 06:26:24 pm »

Quote from: roamer_1 on March 26, 2025, 02:15:50 pm

Yeah, but there is more than that... A 'life ain't fair' thing... a 'bad things can happen to good folks' thing. A 'life goes on thing... There's a lot of cope in it.

Sort of like The Yearling. Both movie and book. I think those types of movies are too real for today's audiences no matter how good the storyteller.

libertybele · « **Reply #49 on:** March 26, 2025, 06:29:19 pm »

Quote from: catfish1957 on March 26, 2025, 03:50:20 pm

John Wayne can't be topped in a Western. Also, watching "The Dude" isn't just the same in the same role.

I love the "Duke" and there's just no one that could ever replace him. I guess I am the odd person out here, I like the original "True Grit" better than the remake.