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Disney’s “snow white”, a live budget story of the classic fairy tale, opened at $ 43 million asleep at the national box office this weekend in the middle of a flow of controversies.
Early industry estimates predicted “Snow White”, which Cost of around 270 million dollars to do, would take 48 to $ 58 million In his first weekend. Despite the end of expectations, “Snow White” exceeded Focus presents “Black Bag” ($ 4.4 million) and “Captain America: Brave New World” by Disney ($ 4.1 million), and could see regular growth in the coming weeks, according to industry analysts.
“It is a Disney film. It is settling in, there will not be much family competition,” said David A. Gross, who directs a film consultant. “This weekend is the locomotive that pulls the train.”
Although the remake of the Disney classic in 1937 exceeded the box office, it was very short compared to “Cinderella” of Disney, which was published about a decade ago on March 13, 2015. The “Cinderella” without controversy brought in 91.8 million dollars in its opening weekend against a budget of 138.3 million dollars, inflation. But the kind of Princess Disney has experienced different levels of success, said Comscore analyst Paul Dergarabedian, in part because of the interest of the box office and the over-saturation of the remakes.
“There may be a little fatigue on these live remakes of classic animated films,” he said.
It also did not help that “Snow White” drew attention to all bad reasons before his release. The musical film and for children ended up in the reticle of a cultural war on the holder Rachel Zegler castingAn American actor of Colombian origin, as well as the War of Israel-Hamas with the cast of Gal Gadot, who had compulsory service in the Israeli army, like the “bad queen”. Then there was the reimagination of the seven dwarfs as magical creatures, drawing critical of the actor of “Game of Thrones” Peter Dinklage.
It is likely that the cast of Zegler injured “Snow White” and caused a distraction, said Gross. He said that some audiences prefer new and original stories highlighting various characters, rather than changing character for remakes.
However, it is unlikely that controversies have reached the main audience of the film: families and young girls, said Shawn Robbins, director of analysis at Fandango and founder and owner of Box Office Theory.
“The relaxed cinema crowd sees an overview for a trailer where they hear about a film, and they decide if they want to go see it Depending on what they think, “he said.
The moviegoers have attended theaters less in the past three weeks, leaving the box office of almost 7% in annual shift, according to Comscre data. It is a passage from a stronger start to the year, when the box office increased by 22% compared to 2024.
It is not surprising, said Robbins to CNN, since the films scheduled for the end of February and March 2025 pale compared to “Dune: Part” of March 2024 and “Kung Fu Panda 4.”
“This is part of the box-office flow and flow,” he said. “I definitely see this return in favor of 2025 as soon as possible.”
The box office could change at any time, especially since the release of summer blockbusters is getting closer.
Dergarabedian expects the gains to be very different in a few weeks, in particular with the April 4 release of the “A Minecraft Movie” by Warner Bros. Warner Brothers Discovery is CNN’s parent company.
“Minecraft” will attract families and children, explaining the reliability of the genre that stimulated the box office, according to Dergarabedian.
“This is the history of the box office-it’s always the ups and downs, the heights and the valleys,” he said.