New York – The live action of Walt Disney Co. “Snow White” He opened in theaters with a sleepy sale of tickets of $ 43 million, according to Studio Estimates Sunday.
With a budget above $ 250 million, “Snow White” had been established with higher ambitions, particularly because it returns Disney to its origins. The original 1937 “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” was the company’s first animated feature, and paid its bubank study batch.
But this “Snow White” struggled to find something like a fairy tale ending. The advance for the launch was plagued by controversies about the management of the dwarf film, which are presented in CGI, and reactions on the comments of its star, Rachel Zegler. Public relations headaches led Disney to go back at their premiere.
Also working against the film, directed by Marc Webb: Poor Reviews. Critics were not largely impressed with Disney’s last live action remake, with criticism in just 43% “fresh” in Rotten Tomatoes.
There has been a wide variation between the box office performance of other Disney remakes of “live action”, but “Snow White” could mark a new Nadir. Jon Favreau’s photorealist “The Lion King” (2019) also did not have great criticisms, but raised more than $ 1.6 billion worldwide. “Snow White” opened worse than “Dumbo” (an opening of $ 46 million in 2019) and a territory of “Cinderella” ($ 67.9 million in 2015).
The foreigner, “Snow White” added $ 44.3 million for a global launch of $ 87.3 million. But when they went to the weekend, “Snow White” had been looking at a world total closer to $ 100 million, and a few weeks ago, expectations were significantly higher.
The result will surely add the questions about Disney’s long -term strategy to extract your vault for live action remakes. In the pipe there are new new versions of “Moana” and “Tangled”. A live action “Lilo AND Stitch ”is launched in May.
However, efforts to modernize “Snow White” rapidly ran into. In 2022, actor Peter Dinklage criticized Remake’s plans as “backward.” Disney finally chose to drop “and the seven dwarves” of the original title, and encourage the dwarves. Some right -wing commentators pointed to “Snow White” and Zegler’s launch as a production too “awakened.” Delays and restarted also increased costs.
However, Disney has recently directed a handful of movies of modest beginnings to enviable final sets. The Barry Jenkins directed “MUFASA: The lion king” It was inaugurated with $ 35.4 million nationwide, but finally exceeded $ 717 million worldwide. “Snow White” will face little direct competition in the coming weeks. The public gave him a “B+” cinemacore.
Warner Bros. ‘ “High Knights” A period gangsters movie starring Robert De Niro in both main roles, was a total failure. The film led by Barry Levinson, which cost around $ 45 million, was opened with only $ 3.2 million of 2,651 theaters. The failure of “Alto Knights” followed another Warner Bros. ruling with the science fiction of Bong Joon Joon Ho Budget “Mickey 17.” In three weeks, it has counted $ 40.2 million nationwide compared to a budget of $ 118 million.
“Dreams of magazines” protagonist Jonathan Majors As an aspiring disturpulist disturbbed, he opened with $ 700,000 for Briarcliff Entertainment in 815 locations. The film was released by Searchlight Pictures after Majors was convicted of two minor crimes Assault and harassment against Grace Jabbari, his ex -girlfriend. Students avoided prison time, but received a year of probation.
The weekend full of disappointment joined a rough 2025 so far for Hollywood. The box office has dropped 6.9% since last year, according to the Comscore data firm, and 38.6% since 2019.
With the final national figures that were published on Monday, this Factor list in the sale of estimated tickets from Friday to Sunday in the US theaters. And Canada, according to Comscore.
1. “Snow White”, $ 43 million.
2. “Black Bag”, $ 4.4 million
3. “Captain America: Brave New World”, $ 4.1 million.
4. “Mickey 17”, $ 3.9 million.
5. “Novocaine”, $ 3.8 million.
6. “Los Caballeros Alto”, $ 3.2 million.
7. “The day that the earth exploded”, $ 1.8 million.
8. “El Mono”, $ 1.5 million.
9. “Dog Man”, $ 1.5 million.
10. “The Last Supper”, $ 1.3 million.
