No matter how well it is done A marketing campaign Promotional in the entertainment industry, there are some premieres whose failure can be anticipated almost from its own conception. Because although most of the Live Action of the mouse house they have worked commercially well to the company, the landing of Snow White At the world box office I looked like it being An poisoned apple for Disney. Your main problem beyond its quality? An exorbitant budget of 250 million dollars.
‘Snow White’ (Disney).The Major Californian has been exploiting the tendency to transfer its great animated classics to real action. But the company currently led by Bob Iger would take a long time to realize the gold mine of its own narrative fantasy castle. Specifically in 2019, when the premiere brand The lion king and Aladdin. Two feature films that would end up entering the top 50 of tapes with more collection in the history of cinema. The portrait of the young thief had an accumulated in the Box Office of 1,054 million dollarsbeing today the 47th higher film of the seventh art, while Simba’s hyperrealist CGI and company occupies the eleventh place on the list, reaping 1,663 million dollars for the rooms around the world. However, the decreasing assistance to the general seat patio, added to all the controversies generated around them ended up undermine one Snow White that has even been below the box office expectations that American analysts They stipulated.
‘Snow White’: A failure for the box office
‘Snow White’ (Disney).In the United States, experts believed that Snow White He would end up obtaining $ 100 million in his first weekend. Numbers that in themselves would be worrying for a production that needs at least, 600 million dollars to not have losses.
‘Snow White’ (Disney).Finally Snow White He has raised 87.3 million dollars at the world box office. Webble data if we take into account above all, that the forecasts of what will end up joining a project are very delimited for what they achieve in their first three days within the billboard. And that in a month without too much competition does not predict anything good for the title starring Rachel Zegler. The level of claim of this first annual quarter has been so lazy that even Webb’s work has managed to sneak into The Top 10 of higher films of 2025.
‘Snow White’ (Disney).The hope of Snow White resides in the background of what happened with MUFASA: The lion king. The prequel that narrated the origin of Scar and Mufasa weakly began its commercial route, raising $ 122 million. However, he had an exponential climb and ended up achieving some more than decent 717 million dollars. The threat on the remake of the first Disney feature film lies in the arrival of titles such as To Working Manthe movie of Minecraft either Thunderbolts. In Spain, however, it has been The second best premiere (Behind Captain America: Brave New World) Of what we have been, accumulating 2.2 million euros in our country.
Rachel Zegler: Failure in failure
‘Snow White’ (Disney).Despite his overflowing talent as an interpreter and as a singer, Rachel Zegler’s relationship with the box office is not being, a rose path. Steven Spielberg discovered her, giving her the prominence of the remake of West Side Story (2021). Film that had a budget of 100 million dollars and only raised 76 million.
‘Snow White’ (Disney).Then it would arrive Shazam: The fury of the godswhich with its 134 million collected dollars originated significant losses for Warner Bros. for the moment, only its appearance in The hunger games: ballad of birds singers and snakes He has had a half decent commercial records, getting almost 350 million dollars. Of course, it is by far the delivery of the franchise created by Suzanne Collins that has less raised. Even his collaboration with A24, Y2K Nor did it work despite having a small budget of 15 million. A job that ended up delimiting poor figures from 4 million dollars In the North American armchair.
Gal Gadot is the evil queen in ‘Snow White’ (Disney).Zegler’s choice as the protagonist in Snow White It was already controversial, but everything that came later ended up turning the aforementioned Latin ancestry of the star into a mere anecdote within production. Dwarves created entirely by CGI (computer generated images), the controversial changes on the original story and the supposed bad relationship between Gadot and Zegler finished precipitating what ended with some devastating criticism.
