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Snow White leads a sleepy box office

Snow White leads a sleepy box office

[html]The Disney remake upped box office totals co*pared to last week, but still proved not to be the fairest of them all.
     

Well, we finally have an answer to the question we asked earlier this month (and have been asking intermittently for over a year now): in the case of Snow White, is all press good press? The answer, seemingly, is no. The controversial Disney remake finally opened this weekend to $43 million domestic and $87.3 million worldwide. That’s not exactly the true love Disney hoped would be shown to the film, despite all the drama. The Rachel Zegler-led feature cost the Mouse House $270 million to produce, per Deadline, which will be difficult to make much of a profit on at this rate. Maybe the movie would have fared better if the studio had spent a bit more of that budget making those CGI dwarves anything other than horrifying.


Snow White isn’t even close to being crowned as the fairest of Disney’s live-action remakes. Other princess features like The Little Mermaid, Maleficent, and Cinderella opened to $95.5 million, $69.4 million, and $67.8 million respectively, while Snow White is more on par with Dumbo, which opened to $46 million in 2019. But hey, look on the bright side: at least it did better than infamous flop Joker: Folie À Deux ($37.6M), per the trade. Yeah, there’s no real happy ending for Disney here.


It wasn’t a great weekend for Warner Bros. either. Two Robert De Niros couldn’t save The Alto Knights, which opened to a mere $3.1 million on its $50 million budget. That’s “arguably” not the Oscar winner’s lowest opening ever, per the trade. That honor goes to 1989’s We’re No Angels, which opened to $2 million unadjusted for inflation.


Unfortunately, this weekend was yet another poisoned apple for the box office overall. Check out this week’s top 10, courtesy of Box Office Mojo, below:



  1. Snow White, $43,000,000

  2. Black Bag, $4,400,000

  3. Captain America: Brave New World, $4,100,000

  4. Mickey 17, $3,900,446

  5. Novocaine, $3,760,000

  6. The Alto Knights, $3,165,000

  7. The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie, $1,834,285

  8. The Monkey, $1,548,750

  9. Dog Man, $1,500,455

  10. The Last Supper, $1,335,000


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