Yes, Snow White Is Bombing At The Box Office
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Snow WhiteDisneySnow White did not impress critics with its 44% score on Rotten Tomatoes, but even with a higher 74% audience score, the movie is in fact currently bombing at the box office, at least according to these initial figures.Snow White brought in $87 million in its opening weekend globally, with just $43 million domestically. That may not mean much out of context, but compared to the other slew of recent live-action Disney adaptations, thats definitely in bomb territory, at least for now. Heres the list along the same opening weekend time period domestically:The Lion King - $191 millionBeauty and the Beast - $174 millionAlice in Wonderland - $116 millionThe Jungle Book - $103 millionThe Little Mermaid - $95 millionAladdin $91 millionMaleficent - $69 millionCinderella - $67 millionSnow White and the Hunstman - $56 millionDumbo $46 millionSnow White - $43 millionMufasa: The Lion King - $35 millionThere are very few ways to spin that. Snow White is close to the worst-performing live-action Disney adaptation ever, doing not even half or a quarter as well as the higher-up ones on the list, and reviewed more poorly than essentially all of them, which is no doubt a contributor here.Snow WhiteDisneyThe single bright spot of the film is said to be Rachel Zeglers performance and her singing, but villain Gal Gadot is criticized roundly, as is the overall structure, script and directing of the film (and those horrifying CGI dwarves). Again, you can even see the unconventional adaptation, Snow White and the Huntsman, opened better than this.There is one thing to note, however, that could be a glimmer of hope. The lowest film on this list, Mufasa: The Lion King, opened poorly, but over time, despite being an original production (which probably hurt it at the outset) snowballed into eventually making $717 million worldwide, a huge hit. But that feels like an anomaly rather than something thats going to happen with Snow White.The movie is bad, its adapting a 1937 film and not one of Disneys most popular ones, despite the wide reach of the character. Not a recipe for success, and it has not found any so far. As for Zegler, the only good aspect of the film, from here she will go to play Eva Pern in Evita in Londons West End, a prestigious role after her Broadway debut in Romeo + Juliet (which I had front row seats for, and she was fantastic). But this movie? Nope, this is unequivocally a bad situation.Follow me , and .
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