Snow White debuts with $43M in its opening weekend, $44.3M internationally

[Teletubby 142,078]

“Snow White” may be the fairest of them all with a leading $43 million in its domestic box office debut, but Disney’s latest live-action remake is off to a sleepy start. The musical earned $16 million across Friday and preview screenings from 4,200 venues. 

Overseas, “Snow White” also opened slightly behind projections with $44.3 million for a global launch of $87.3 million. Heading into the weekend, the film was estimated to collect $100 million globally. 

"Snow White” carries a massive production cost north of $250 million, meaning it faces a steep climb to profitability.

At an estimated $43M, the live action take of the 1937 toon is opening higher than other controversial laden movies such as Warner Bros’ Catwoman ($16.7M) and Joker: Folie a Deux ($37.6M) and even Relativity’s very expensive-at-the-time 2012 version of Snow White, Mirror Mirror ($18.1M).

However at that level, it’s right on par with Dumbo’s lackluster start ($46M), and far behind other Disney feature takes of vaults animated movies, i.e. The Little Mermaid ($95.5M), Maleficent ($69.4M), and Cinderella ($67.8M).

Oh, and Snow White received a B+ CinemaScore, which is extremely low grade for this type of Disney genre, for even the middling ones, i.e. Dumbo (A-), Mufasa (A-), Pete’s Dragon (A), and the Maleficent franchise (both As) have top grades with audiences. A fairest grade resides in the Rotten Tomatoes score of 71% for Snow White which is better than Dumbo (47%), and not far from Maleficent (70%) and Cinderella (78%).
 

The chart — Sunday updated box office figures:
1.) Snow White (Dis) 4,200 theaters, Fri $16M, Sat $15.5M Sun $11.5M 3-day $43M/Wk 1
2.) Black Bag (Foc) 2,713 (+8) theaters, Fri $1.26M (-55%) Sat $1.9M Sun $1.2M 3-day $4.4M (-42%), Total $14.88M/Wk 2
3.) Captain America: Brave New World (Dis) 2,900 (-350) theaters, Fri $1.1M (-25%) Sat $1.8M Sun $1.2M 3-day $4.1M (-27%), Total $192.1M/Wk 6
4.) Novocaine (Par) 3,369 (+4) theaters, Fri $1.07M (-73%), Sat $1.5M Sun $1.1M 3-day $3.76M (-57%), Total $15.76M/Wk 2
4.) Mickey 17 (WB) 2,584 (-1223) theaters, Fri $1.075M (-51%), 3-day $3.8M (-48%), Total $40.1M/Wk 3
6.) Alto Knights (WB) 2,651 theaters, Fri $1.1M, 3-day $3M/Wk 1
7.) Looney Tunes…(Ketchup) 2,703 (-124) Fri $472,5K Sat $801K Sun $560K , 3-day $1.83M (-41%)/Total $6.4M/Wk 2
8.) The Monkey (NEON) 1,452 (-842) theaters, Fri $435K Sat $675K Sun $438K 3-day $1.55M (-38%), Total $37.8M/Wk 5
9.) Dog Man (Uni) 1,766 (-641) theaters, Fri $400K (-42%) Sat $650K Sun $450K 3-day $1.5M (-41%), Total $95.6M/Wk 8
10.) Last Supper (Pinn) Fri $365K Sat $539K Sun $431K, 3-day $1.33M (-52%), Total $5.3M/Wk 2
11.) Paddington in Peru (Sony) 1,653 (-836) theaters, Fri $342K (-51%) Sat $580K Sun $378K 3-day $1.3M (-46%), Total $43.66M/Wk 6

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Edited Sunday at 03:35 PM by Teletubby

[Red 97,254]

Oh

[Bronco 8,108]

Disney needs to end the remake train.

Especially when they've increasingly gone down the route of rewriting beloved classic movies that have inspired decades of disney fans. 

Its setting every PR campaign up to fail and is just creating flops. And its not even like we can point to it being part of the enshitification of Hollywood going on with all the layoffs and cuts- these films aren't cheaper than usual, the budgets aren't going down. 

[Creyk 17,505]

This flopped but they will move forward with the other remakes.

[AnnTakamaki 6,816]

they've been flopping so hard many years now it feel like they're in witness/smile/143 era

[RAMROD 106,891]

2 minutes ago, AnnTakamaki said:

they've been flopping so hard many years now it feel like they're in witness/smile/143 era

Mostly because far right people boycotting cos "they went woke"

[TwistedTeeth 2,041]

[Murakami27 3,422]

Who was this for? Adults didn’t want this and I don’t see how kids would enjoy this live action. 

If anyone “reheats nachos” it’s Disney. They’re so lazy with these remakes. There is no reimagining and making it better. And casting unlikeable actors won’t help bring people to the theatre. 

[Mister Gaga 22,618]

They won’t stop. For every flop, they have a success. Lilo & Stitch will join the billion club

[The Ew from Judas 1,029]

3 minutes ago, Mister Gaga said:

They won’t stop. For every flop, they have a success. Lilo & Stitch will join the billion club

Not if all of us make a human barricade outside of the theater doors 

[jimmytimestep 2,607]

The remakes aren’t going to be stopping anytime soon, but now they’re pivoting to the post-Pixar era. Moana is shot and done, and they’re currently casting Tangled. Frozen will inevitably be around the corner, I’m sure.

Perhaps the remakes of the more modern films will fare better, as they were written in a contemporary landscape, and won’t need as much re-working. Snow White was DOA because quite frankly, who wants to see her belting a pop power ballad? The choices to contemporize the story are artistically dissonant with the original source material…so who is it even for?

[Bambino 24,131]

Nobody asked for this movie, and casting a genocide-supporter zionist wasn't a very smart thing to do either.

[Pablo 7,596]

The film looks terrible, sorry to Gal Gadot but she was not the right actor for the evil queen role. 

[ThisGuyTony 29,542]

9 minutes ago, jimmytimestep said:

Perhaps the remakes of the more modern films will fare better, as they were written in a contemporary landscape, and won’t need as much re-working. Snow White was DOA because quite frankly, who wants to see her belting a pop power ballad? The choices to contemporize the story are artistically dissonant with the original source material…so who is it even for?

Not only that but the story makes no sense in a contemporary landscape.

The Evil Queen sends her army to kill Snow White in the forest and the army fails.

So she wastes time and magic to: turn into an old lady, travel thru the forest as a old lady, and when she does come face to face with her, she just poisons her with an apple that has an antidote? What?  

Why not just create a sword with magic and finish her off (like she tries to later in the movie and what she asked her army to do)? 

[River 110,408]

23 minutes ago, ThisGuyTony said:

Not only that but the story makes no sense in a contemporary landscape.

The Evil Queen sends her army to kill Snow White in the forest and the army fails.

So she wastes time and magic to: turn into an old lady, travel thru the forest as a old lady, and when she does come face to face with her, she just poisons her with an apple that has an antidote? What?  

Why not just create a sword with magic and finish her off (like she tries to later in the movie and what she asked her army to do)? 

The script was awful, all the changes are so dumb and when you check who wrote the screen writer you see that it's Erin Cressida Wilson, with snow White she wrote 7 screen plays for 7 movies.. all of them has bad RT score.