Disney Re-Releases Snow White – and it Bombs Even Worse Than the First Time
Not content with the new Snow White bombing in March, Disney decided to release it again in the US last week, only for it to bomb even worse than the first time and take just $252 per screen. The Telegraph‘s Ed Power has more.
Hi-ho, it’s back to the cinema for Disney’s flop live-action Snow White. Having originally crashed and burned in March, the movie misfired all over again after the House of Mouse re-released it in the US last week. Talk about putting the ‘grim’ in Grimm Fairy Tale.
Disney’s apparent calculation was that that the advent of summer blockbuster season could give this dead-on-arrival feature a new lease of life. You can sort of appreciate the logic: after all, May saw the ailing Marvel Cinematic Universe return from purgatory when Thunderbolts proved a surprise hit.
Where a caped crusader can go, surely Snow White and her terrifying CGI dwarf friends could follow? Who, moreover, wouldn’t want to hear Gal Gadot ham her way through the dreadful ‘All Is Fair’ one last time? A sort of evil twin of Frozen’s ‘Let It Go’, the tune has acquired a cult fanbase on social media, where people are intoxicated by its sheer ‘how did this get made?’ awfulness.
Sadly for Disney, such logic did not long survive contact with reality. Incredibly, the second coming of Snow White was an even bigger disaster than the original run. Unleashed on an unsuspecting 1,000 cinemas across the US, the Rachel Zegler v Gal Gadot calamity brought in a pitiful $252 per screen. To date, the remake has cost Disney an estimated $115 million – much of the cost eaten up for by the bizarre decision to have Zegler act opposite CGI dwarfs straight from the Uncanny Valley.
The studio will no doubt claw back some of that cash when Snow White is released to video streaming this month. But if the film is about to be made available at home, why put it back in cinemas? It’s the most illogical re-release since Sony tried to capitalise on the mockery directed at its dire Jared Leto superhero bust Morbius by putting it back in cinemas in June 2022 – when it did almost as badly as Snow White, bringing in $289 “per theatre”.
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Who would’ve thought it when we were growing up. They could take something as innocent as Snow White and mess it up so much that literally no one wants to see it. It isn’t brain surgery to read those runes.
Re-releasing the remastered original in cinemas would have been a way better idea, recover some of the losses. People of all ages would have went even if just to humiliate the new version even more… You have to give it to Disney, they succeeded in uniting audiences from both sides of the political spectrum against the same product!
Echoes of ‘vote again until you get it right’?
Spot on!
Ah, amateurs…!
In the communist country where I was brought up, all primary schools would have been communally ordered to watch it, thus ensuring huge popularity for the film.
Having said that, even they would not have produced such tat.
It has been under attack for a long time. I saw a horrific left wing cartoon of Snow White where she had her legs wide open and was giving the dwarfs a golden shower (urinating on them) and they all had looks of satisfaction and glee on their faces like they were loving it.
If you were looking after a girl and she suddenly pisses in your face then you would probably be perturbed. That’s the message. They look after her because they enjoy the piss. Believe me they really don’t. If she carried on pissing in their faces they would simply execute her.
I think Dylan Mulvaney should have played “Bud White and the $7 of takings”
Thanks to Will Jones, the DS & Ed Powers for mentioning the extraordinary new Marvel film “Thunderbolts”! There were a few nasty comments on IMDB about the “nepo babies” Wyatt Russell (son of Kurt Russell & Goldie Hawn) and Lewis Pullman (son of Bill Pullman) starring in it, but that was countered in the review below: “Sentry is a Captive Archangel What a wonderful surprise this movie was! Superb acting by the whole cast, especially the charismatic team of David Harbour, Florence Pugh, Wyatt Russell and Lewis Pullman. They masterfully created warm, endearing characters the viewers really cared about, even Wyatt Russell’s cranky John Walker, and Lewis Pullman’s triple portrayal of Sentry, Bob & The Void was an astonishing tour de force. May I add that most parents are happy if their children decide to follow them into their professions, and the current silly fashion for sneering about “nepo babies” is like sneering at farmer’s sons who want to be farmers! The cinematography, fight scenes and costumes were excellent, and the jokes were really funny, though I was a bit disappointed by the musical score. The heart-wrenching final battle between Bob & the Void was a slow-motion masterpiece. There is… Read more »
She looks really creepy
I think so, too! There’s something about her facial expressions, something cold, calculating, weird & creepy trying to feign wide-eyed innocence. It’s repulsive.