Disney’s Snow White Remake May Face Uphill Battle to Break Even After Sleepy Start at the Box Office

Snow White has endured a pugnacious opening play astatine the container office, securing 1 of the lowest home totals for immoderate of Disney's remakes truthful far.

Comscore figures for the Marc Webb (The Amazing Spider-Man 1 and 2) directed Snow White revealed a $43 cardinal home container bureau debut, which is the 2nd biggest of 2025 truthful acold down lone MCU flick Captain America: Brave New World and capable to apical this week's chart, but beneath the live-action Dumbo’s home motorboat haul of $45 cardinal backmost successful 2019, and beneath estimates.

For context, 2019’s The Lion King, 2017’s Beauty and the Beast, 2016’s The Jungle Book, and 2023’s The Little Mermaid each secured much than $100 domestically during their opening weekends.

It was a likewise sleepy commencement for Snow White internationally, wherever the opening play brought successful $44.3 million. That makes for a full of $87.3 cardinal astatine the planetary container office, according to Comscore estimates.

Snow White is simply a live-action remake of Disney’s 1937 animated classical starring philharmonic seasoned Rachel Zegler successful the rubric relation and Wonder Woman prima Gal Gadot arsenic the Evil Queen. It carries a reported accumulation outgo of implicit $250 million, and based connected its motorboat container office, it present faces an uphill conflict to interruption even, particularly erstwhile you see selling costs.

However, determination whitethorn beryllium airy astatine the extremity of the passageway for Snow White. Mufasa: The Lion King, Disney’s The Lion King remake prequel, opened to a mediocre $35.4 cardinal domestically erstwhile it came retired successful December, but ended up earning implicit $717 cardinal worldwide astatine the planetary container office.

Disney volition beryllium hoping for a akin 'sleeper hit' trajectory for Snow White amid continued pugnacious questions astir the show of Captain America: Brave New World. Speaking of Brave New World, Captain America has present grossed $400.8 cardinal globally ($192.1 cardinal home and $208.7 cardinal international) aft six weekends.

IGN’s Snow White reappraisal returned a 7/10. We said: “Snow White is simply a live-action Disney remake that meaningfully adapts its original, alternatively than creating a lesser mimicry.”

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