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Disney's Snow White Has a Sleepy Start With $60m at Box Office
The Straits Times
|March 25, 2025
Disney's latest remake, Snow White, arrived in cinemas on March 20 as one of the most snakebit projects in the company's 102-year history. Almost everything that could go wrong did, resulting in a torrent of negative pre-release publicity.
LOS ANGELES — Disney's latest remake, Snow White, arrived in cinemas on March 20 as one of the most snakebit projects in the company's 102-year history. Almost everything that could go wrong did, resulting in a torrent of negative pre-release publicity.
Did the tumult have an impact on the box office? It certainly did not help. Based on projections from analysts, Snow White will finish the weekend with a saggy US$45 million (S$60 million) in ticket sales.
In the 15 years that Disney has been producing live-action remakes of its animated classics, none of the big-budget entries has arrived in cinemas to less than US$58 million, after adjusting for inflation. That was Dumbo in 2019.
Snow White was the No. 1 movie in the United States and Canada over the weekend, according to Comscore, which compiles box-office data.
This story is from the March 25, 2025 edition of The Straits Times.
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