snow White It’s easy to beat the game at the box office. The live-action film remakes Disney’s first ever animation feature, starring Rachel Zegler with Gal Gadot as the evil queen. While several Disney’s live-action remakes were a billion-dollar release (including 2019 The Lion King and Aladdin), the 2025 Princess Movie has been working hard to keep the most out of the predictions. Its release is caught in controversy, especially around the portrayal of the character’s fellow dwarfs and the co-star’s opposition to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. also, snow White The comments have been in a negative state, earning 44% of Rotten Tomatoes scored.
Every Deadlineas of Saturday morning snow White At the end of the opening weekend, the total domestic box office is expected to total $45.5 million for three days. That’s enough to win the first place on the weekend Alto Knight ($3 million) and Magazine Dream ($1 million). Its debut is about half as good as 2023 Little Mermaid Production on Opening Weekend ($95.5 million), almost with its debut in 2019 Dumbo ($46 million).
What does this mean for Snow White
It is being compared to other live remakes for negative
Movies usually need to earn two and a half times the budget, as the theater keeps half of the ticket sales and advertising costs in the production budget. because snow White The budget is reportedly between $24 billion and $270 million, meaning its breakeven point is likely to be $600 million or more. Given its massive global marketing campaign, it may even be higher. Given the precedent of previous live-action films in Disney, this break-even may not be possible in the end. Below, check out the comparison to every dramatic release of Disney’s live-action remake that is not a sequel, prequel, or reimagined (e.g. Malicious):
title | First appearance in China | Global box office |
|---|---|---|
101 dalmatians (1996) | $33.5 million | $136.2 million |
Alice in Wonderland (2010) | $116.1 million | $1.025 billion |
Cinderella (2015) | $67.9 million | $542.3 million |
Jungle Book (2016) | $103.3 million | $966.5 million |
beauty and the Beast (2017) | $174.7 million | $1.263 billion |
Dumbo (2019) | $46 million | $353.3 million |
Aladdin (2019) | $91.5 million | $1.051 billion |
The Lion King (2019) | $191.8 million | $1.657 billion |
Mulan (2020) | N/A. | $696,000 |
Little Mermaid (2023) | $95.5 million | $566 million |
snow White (2025) | $45.5 million | TBD |
Finally, the data pair snow Whitedue to budget expansion. Previous Disney live-action remakes revenues of over $600 million were $90 million or more, which is the total snow White During its domestic debut, it was far from enough. In addition, the rate of return is reduced Little MermaidIt’s also adapted from one of Disney’s iconic Princess musicals, suggesting it may not be able to achieve that, even if it has already doubled the current opening weekend forecast.
We’re at the weekend box office
There are some important signs of overall improvement
Although snow White Probably not profitable in the theater and compared to peers, its opening weekend is still important in a positive way. On the one hand, it is the second highest debut of the year so far, second only to Captain America: A Brave New World ($88.8 million). In addition, its estimated total is almost exactly equal to the cumulative domestic total of the entire top ten ($45.49 million) last weekend, the lowest box office weekend of the year. This at least shows that the theater is recovering to some extent after being in a grim state at the beginning of the month.
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Source: Deadline
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snow White
5/10
Release date, March 21, 2025
Runtime for 109 minutes
Director Marc Webb
Writer Erin Cressida Wilson, Wilhelm Grimm
Producer Callum McDougall, Marc Platt
