“The Mood Was Grim Sunday on the Disney Lot As Snow White Oped Bened Behind Expectations to An Estimated $ 43 Million Domestically. Globally, The Live-Action Remake of the Iconic 1937 Film Was Expert To Clear $ 100 Million, But Institute Came in At $ 87.3 Million. Final Weekend Numbers Released Monday Showed The Domestic Opening Coming in Lower at $ 42.2”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
Final Weekend Numbers Released Monday Showed the Domestic Opening Coming in Lower at $ 42.2 Million; Ditto for Global. The pic took in $ 43.9 Million Overseas for a Global Start of $ 86.1 Million, Accounting To Comscore.
While Those Hauls Wuldn’t Normally Spell Disaster for a Female-Targeted pic, Snow White Has Found Itself in Potential Bomb Territory Because of Itfty Production Budget of $ 270 Million Before Another $ 100 Million or So In Marketing Costs.
Based On Initial Ticket Sales and Mixed Word-of-Mouth, Snow White May have Trouble Getting to $ 300 Million or $ 400 Million Globally, Well Short of A Box Office Safety Net of $ 500 Million or More, Seval Rival Studios Execs and Box. Thr. (Consider that 2019’s DumboWHICH DEBUTED TO $ 45 MILLION DOMESTICALLY, TOPPED OUT AT $ 353 MILLION AGAINST A $ 170 MILLION BUDGET.)
Disney Supporters Wuld Say If Anyone Is Capable of Pulling Off A Fairy-Tale Ending, It’s Them. Case-in-Point: Over Christmas 2024, Many in the Media ImmediaTely Wrote Off Mufasa: The Lion King WHEN IT OPENED TO $ 35.4 MILLION DOMESTICALLY. The Live-Ection Pic Did Seven Times ITS OPENING NUMBER, A Rare Feat, To Top Out at Nearly $ 718 Million Globally. Elemental Was Another MOVIE THAT Disney Rescued Post-Release with a Five-Time Multiple Before It Became A Streaming Sensation.
The Big Differents: Those Two Films Weren’t DOGGED by Underwhelming Reviews and So-So-Exit Scores. Snow White is the Rare Disney Live-action Remake that Earned A B+ CinemaScore from Audiences; ALMOST Everi film have has receveed some variation of an a grade.
Snow White Also Had to Contend with Headlines Related to Rachel Zegler, The Young Lead Actress Not Afraid to Speak Her Mind, Even IF IF Meant Taking on President Donald Trump Far-Right Conservatives have labeled the Film “Snow WOKE,” and Sprang Into Action by Disliking Travers President’s Deportation Policies. Several Days Later, She Apologized for the Tone of the Post.
But Data Shows the AVERAGE MOVIEGOERS MAY BE PAYING FAR LESS AT THE THE POLITICAL DYNAMICS THAN SOCIAL MEDIA AND News Headlines would Suggest.
Accorging to a poll Conducted by Steve Buck’s Research Firm Enelligence, 63 Percent of Ticket Sales for Family and Animated Films Generally Come from Blue States, While 37. In the Case of Snow WhiteIt Overindexed in Red States at 40 Percent.
The Pattern for General Audience Followed the Same Tradery. Cinemas in Blue States Generally Account for 67 Percent of All Ticket Sales, While Red States Account for 33 Percent. In the Case of Snow WhiteBlue States Came in Behind the Norm at 60 Percent of All Sales, While Red States Accounted for 40 Percent.
“In Spite of Prerelease Conceerns of A Boycott in Red Leaning Districts, There Is No Evidence to Support that Occurred,” Says Enelligence Founder Buck.
Though Snow White Landed A Rare B+ Cinemasscore, On the Plus Side, Female Moviegoers and Moviegoers Under The Age of 18 Gave It A- CinemaScore. And Parents and Kids Poled by Market Leader Posttrack Gave the Film Four Out of Five Stars, Compared to Three Out of Five Stars Among General Audienses. However, Only 50 Percent of Kids Said They Wow Tell Their Friends to See The Film Right Away.
Snow White‘S Budgeter Steadily Rose Because of Strict Covid Protocols, 2023’s Labor Strikes and A Fire on Set. (One Source Says The pic Was Originally Greenlit at Between $ 200 Million and $ 210 Million.) There Were Also Creative Conceerns that Required Addrational Work. Snow White Was Made by the Previous Regime at Disney’s Live-Arction Studio, WHICH IS NOW LED By David Greenbaum, Who Suggested Certain Tweaks WHEN Taking the JOB A YEAR AGO.
The World Has Changed Dramatical Since Disney Decided to Make A Live-action Snow WhiteWHICH SEEMED LIKE A SAFE BET CONSIDERING The SUCCESS OF OF Other Disney Live-Ection Princess Remakes. Beauty and the Beast Astomedted WHEN OPENING TO $ 174.6 Million Domestically in Mid-March 2017, not Adjusted for Inflation. In the Spring of 2015, Cinderella DEBUTED TO $ 67.9 Million Domestically Against A Much More Modest Budget of $ 90 Million; MaleFicent LAUNCHED TO $ 69 Million in May 2014 (The Sequel, MaleFicent: Mistress of EvilStalled AT $ 37 Million).
Comscore Chief Box Office Analyst Paul Dergarabedian Acknowledges that Given Itthty Budget, Snow White Didn’T get off to an Ideal Start. He Says ITS FATE IN TERMS OF PROFITITY WILL DEPEND ON “ITS Long-Term Playability in Theaters, Eventual Streaming, Merchandising, Music Revenue Plus Theme Park Tie-in.”
March 24, 6:40 AM: Updated with Weekend Actuals.