Snow White
It has been an explosive month for Disney , with its live - activity remaking series on the face of it culminate in the firing ofSnow White — a new iteration of the original Disney classic — and that movie failing spectacularly . StarringWest Side StoryandThe thirstiness Games’Rachel Zegler as the title fiber andWonder WomanandFast & Furious’Gal Gadot as her malefic counterpart , Snow White ’s controversiesgarnered a lot of media attention extend up to its dismission — but it is , at the conclusion of the day , just not a very good movie , and its box seat office and RT score of 39 % reflect this .
As of 2025,Disney has make over most of the classical princess movie into live - action , seeing some genuine hits that contrast the glide path ofSnow White — such as 2015’sCinderella , a non - musical which offer a better exploration of the in the beginning flat characters . Disney ’s roster of coming alive - action remakesalso means that this ecological niche of the company is n’t done yet , as these projects were set in motion tenacious beforeSnow Whitecame out . However , this release demands we question how successful bouncy - action remakes will stay on to be — and Disney ’s next couple of releases seem more promising .
Snow White’s Box Office Hasn’t Lived Up To Expectations
The History Of Snow White Suggests It Should Have Made A Profit
Snow White ’s box officereports are dismal , with the worldwide gross ( at the time of writing ) stand at just under $ 185 million , against a budget of $ 209 million ( viaBox Office Mojo ) . When movies generally demand to gross two and a one-half sentence their budget to kick downstairs even , this is a massive going for Disney . Roughly a month after its wide of the mark release , any hopes of it making some kind of financial comeback are well-nigh non - existent . After pass short of opening weekend projection , it was only downhill from there . And Disney might have reasonably hoped that the movie would do well .
Snow White Movie
Worldwide Box Office
RT Critics Score
Snow White and the Huntsman(2012 )
$ 396,592,829
48 %
Mirror Mirror(2012 )
$ 183,018,522
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50 %
Disney ’s Snow White(2025 )
$ 184,910,998
Image via Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
39 %
For dispatcher , there have been multiple live - actionSnow Whitetakes in the twenty-first century that at least broke even . Most of Disney ’s live - military action remaking , despite mixed reviews , have seen fair to criminal record - break run at the box office.2025’sSnow Whitestarred some bad name who have look in democratic movies in late years , and the whole thing was the long - awaited remaking of what was once Walt Disney ’s underdog project that started it all . Yet none of this assist when March 2025 finally came around .
Disney’s Next Live-Action Remakes Are Guaranteed To Be Major Box Office Hits
Summer Blockbusters To Be Lilo & Stitch And Moana Will Probably Do Better
Disney ’s next two live - action remaking areLilo & Stitch(scheduled for release May 23 , 2025 ) andMoana(July 10 , 2026 ) , and both potentially have more go for them , allowing Disney ’s live - action remaking scheme to spring back . Both have the family - friendly appeal that is a big draw at the box seat office these Clarence Shepard Day Jr. and sit nicely with summertime blockbuster release dates . Both are also outside the kingdom of the bona fide Disney classics , offering something a bit different from what most of the hot - action remake have been so far .
The Disney classic Lilo & Stitch is have a hot - action remaking . Here ’s everything we recognise about the income tax return of the bluish noncitizen and his unseasoned Quaker .
If boredom with more of the same is the problem , these two movies will probably avoid it . Lilo & Stitchis a fundamentally different story than all the Disney Princess movies , and leans more into the clowning music genre — it can be debate thatSnow Whitetook itself too gravely , and that was part of its fall when the moving-picture show savings bank on playfulness and nostalgia . Moana , meanwhile , is at least intriguing as the most advanced remaking yet , with the thrilling return of Dwayne Johnson to play Maui again , now in live - action .
Lilo & Stitch ’s former box office projectionsare predicting it will track the $ 100 million St. Mark on its scuttle weekend , follow from the start where Snow White failed ( viaDeadline ) . It also seems to have a lower budget thanSnow White , making it easier to sprain a lucre . We will have to wait a while to see how thelive - actionMoanaturns out , butnoMoanamovie so far has come up anywhere close to being a floating-point operation .
Upcoming Live-Action Remakes Will Make Snow White’s Box Office Easier For Disney To Forget
Disney Can Handle A Few Flops, & Still Loves Its Live-Action Remakes
Disney has gone through approximative patches before and come back more successful than ever , and when a few of the alive - natural process remake have even crossed the $ 1 billion Deutsche Mark ( 2017’sBeauty and the Beast , 2019’sAladdin , and 2019’sThe Lion King ) in just the last few years , the race is n’t over yet . It will certainly avail Disney ifLilo & Stitchcomes out in the wake ofSnow White — two drastically dissimilar movies that are still wide consider to be Disney classics — and is a hit , eclipse the fiscal difficulty of March and April .
peculiarly after Snow White , movie buff are getting increasingly skeptical of how long Disney can go on chop-chop produce remakes .
Lilo & Stitchwill have to compete with the live - actionHow to Train Your Dragonshortly after its initial release , but it will at least have moving-picture show theaters to itself for a while . Especially afterSnow White , movie rooter are getting more and more skeptical of how long Disney can go on rapidly produce remakes — andLilo & Stitch ’s likely popularity entail that the caller will only thirstily explore new projects , delving into what they can do with a second rendering of some of their more modern animated titles .
Source : Box Office Mojo , Deadline
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