New York – The live action of Walt Disney Co., “Snow White”, opened its doors in theaters with $ 43 million in sleepy ticket sales, according to Studio estimates on Sunday.
With a budget over $ 250 million, “Snow White” took place with higher ambitions, especially since it returns Disney to its origins. The 1937 original “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” was the company’s first animated feature and paid its batch of Studio Burbank.
But this “Snow White” had a hard time finding something like an end of fairy tale. The breakup to be published was tormented by controversies on the treatment with the film of the Dwarfs, which are made in CGI, and the reactions on the comments of his star, Rachel Zegler. PR’s headaches prompted Disney to remove its first.
Also works against the film, directed by Marc Webb: bad reviews. The criticisms were not largely impressed by the last live remake of Disney, the criticisms being only 43% “fresh” on Rotten Tomatoes.
There was a wide variance between box office performance of other Disney remakes “live”, but “Snow White” could mark a new Nadir. The photorealist of Jon Favreau “The Lion King” (2019) also had excellent criticism, but reported more than $ 1.6 billion worldwide. “Snow White” opened worse than “Dumbo” (an opening of $ 46 million in 2019) and very shy from the “Cinderella” territory (67.9 million dollars in 2015).
Abroad, “Snow White” added $ 44.3 million for a global launch of $ 87.3 million. But in the weekend, “Snow White” had watched a world total closer to $ 100 million-and a few weeks ago, expectations were much higher.
The result will surely be added to questions about Disney’s long-term strategy to exploit its safe for live remakes. In the pipeline are the new versions to come from “Moana” and “Tangled”. A live “Lilo & Stitch” is launched in May.
The efforts to modernize “Snow White”, however, quickly took place. In 2022, actor Peter Dinklage criticized remake plans as “back”. Disney finally chose to drop “and the seven dwarfs” of the title of the original, and animate the dwarves. Some right-wing commentators have targeted “Snow White” and Zegler’s casting as an overly “awake” production. Delays and reshuffles have also increased costs.
Disney, however, recently directed a handful of modest films to enviable final departures. The “Mufasa: The Lion King” led by Barry Jenkins opened with $ 35.4 million at the national level, but finally exceeded $ 717 million worldwide. “Snow White” will face little direct competition in the coming weeks. The public gave him a cinemascore “B +”.
Warner Bros. ‘“Alto Knights”, a vintage gangster film with Robert de Niro in the two main roles, was a total failure. The film directed by Barry Levinson, which cost around $ 45 million, opened with only $ 3.2 million in $ 2,651 theaters. The “Alto Knights” flop followed another failure for Warner Bros. With Big Budget Science fiction by Bong Joon Ho “Mickey 17”. In three weeks, he represented $ 40.2 million at the national level against a budget of $ 118 million.
“Magazine Dreams”, with Jonathan Majors as a disturbed grass bodybuilder, opened with $ 700,000 for Briarcliff Entertainment in 815 sites. The film was abandoned by images of projectors after Majors was found guilty of two chiefs of aggression and harassment against Grace Jabbari, his ex-girlfriend. The majors avoided the prison sentence but received a year of probation.
The weekend filled with disappointment added a gross 2025 for Hollywood. The box office is down 6.9% compared to last year, according to the Comscore data office, and 38.6% compared to 2019.
Top 10 films at the national ticket office
According to Comscore, with the national national figures, this list is billed in the sales of estimated tickets from Friday to Sunday in the United States and Canadian theaters.
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. “The Alto Knights”, $ 3.2 million.
7. “The day the earth exploded”, 1.8 million dollars.
8. “The monkey”, 1.5 million dollars.
9. “Dog Man”, 1.5 million dollars.
10. “The last supper”, 1.3 million dollars.