SNOW WHITE Remake Looks Set To Face An Uphill Challenge If It Hopes To Break Even At The Box Office

SNOW WHITE Remake Looks Set To Face An Uphill Challenge If It Hopes To Break Even At The Box Office

A great deal has been said about Disney's live-action Snow White remake sharing Rachel Zegler (Shazam! Fury of the Gods) and Gal Gadot (Wonder Woman), but how much will it need to make to break even?

By JoshWilding - Nov 15, 2023 08:11 PM EST
Filed Under: Disney
Source: Forbes (via SFFGazette.com)

Last month, the news broke that Disney had delayed the Snow White remake by a year following a seemingly endless stream of negative headlines from mainstream media outlets. However, in a bid to ease the minds of those angry about rumoured changes to the beloved story, the studio shared a cartoon-accurate shot of Rachel Zegler's Disney Princess alongside the Seven Dwarfs. 

It ended up backfiring because the rough state of the visual effects has led many to speculate the image was thrown together in a hurry. Why? Well, it seems likely the characters will be added to the movie in reshoots which will almost certainly take place between now and the movie's new March 2025 release date. 

We'll see what happens, but a report from Forbes (via SFFGazette.com) has resurfaced this week which claims Snow White will need to make at least $340 million to break even. 

That doesn't sound too difficult, right? The Little Mermaid netted $569.6 million earlier this year and, based on financial statements acquired by the site, $209.3 million was spent producing Snow White. That's a sizeable budget which was helped by $41.1 million in reimbursement cash from the UK’s Film Tax Relief initiative. 

That takes the costs down to $168.2 million. Still, as this report was originally published in September, it likely doesn't take into account what are expected to be some pretty major reshoots. 

Another recent rumour claimed Snow White's budget has ballooned to $330 million, with a supposed insider claiming, "Disney had to delay Snow White because they have spent so much money on it, and if it is a financial disaster at the box office, it might single handedly cripple future remakes and potential Snow White sequels that they have planned." 

"They also have to remove themselves from the bad taste in the mouths of online critics and want to instead deliver a great film and get to a point where they get it right. They realize that they were overthinking things and are now reigning it all in a little bit more."

The truth is no doubt somewhere in the middle, and we are expecting reshoots - which began and were then halted by the Hollywood strikes - will now continue in a bid to salvage the movie. Zegler is currently doing the rounds to promote The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, so common sense says someone will eventually ask her to weigh in on the backlash, much of which has been aimed at her for comments she made about the original 1937 classic.

Marc Webb (The Amazing Spider-Man) directs Snow White from a  screenplay by Barbie director Greta Gerwig and playwright Erin Cressida Wilson.

In terms of cast, the movie stars Rachel Zegler as Snow White, Gal Gadot as the Evil Queen, Ansu Kabia as the Huntsman, Martin Klebba as Grumpy, and Andrew Burnap as Jonathan. 

Snow White is now set to be released in theaters on March 21, 2025.

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thewanderer
thewanderer - 11/15/2023, 8:38 PM
Rachel Ziegler’s getting good reviews for her role in the upcoming Hunger Games movie, which can only help (however small it may).
mountainman
mountainman - 11/15/2023, 8:47 PM
@thewanderer - I’ve only heard good things about the guy playing Snow.
McMurdo
McMurdo - 11/15/2023, 8:38 PM
They weren't overthinking. They were pandering and virtue signaling. Then they got called on it and are now backtracking.
MadThanos
MadThanos - 11/15/2023, 8:42 PM
@McMurdo - the solution:

PUT A CHICK IN IT AND MAKE HER GAY!111
videovac
videovac - 11/15/2023, 8:41 PM
Game.

Over.
BritishMonkey
BritishMonkey - 11/15/2023, 8:53 PM
"if it is a financial disaster at the box office, it might single handedly cripple future remakes and potential Snow White sequels that they have planned."
This is still very good news. Let it die.
AvalonX
AvalonX - 11/15/2023, 8:54 PM
"it might single handedly cripple future remakes and potential Snow White sequels that they have planned"


uh yeah, thats probably over.

Then again, looks like they are moving forward with the female young Avengers.

They are determined to burn it down.
MyCoolYoung
MyCoolYoung - 11/15/2023, 9:43 PM
@AvalonX - there are so many young avengers lined up how do you figure it’s all female. Where’s your evidence?
AvalonX
AvalonX - 11/15/2023, 9:48 PM
@MyCoolYoung - Kamala getting the team together instead of Iron Lad. Where is Vision? Where is any male young Avenger? There aren't any. In the post credit scene, they only showed mentioned females.
Apophis71
Apophis71 - 11/16/2023, 5:05 AM
@AvalonX - White Vision has been introduced and was getting a show and young males setup to varying degrees:

Wiccan and Speed already cropped up in WandaVision/MoM and likely to return, recast, in Agatha and Visions shows
Kid Loki from S1 of Loki
Eli Bradley/Patriot from FatWS
Bruno, Red Dagger and even Kamran could all be included from Ms Marvel
Heimdalls Son from Thor L&T
Skaar with a bette look/CGI
BP's Son from Wakanda Forever

All of those young male characters already introduced without even adding any potentialy on the table that could make their first appearence in a young avengers team such as Iron Lad, Franklin Richards, any of multiple mutants, Dr Cho was pregnant in AoU etc

Sure they dropped a couple female names into the likely mix in the Marvels but doesn't mean much either way yet as to if/who would be on a team and if it would be a series or film

Ultimately down to how good a story is anyway however, male or female is irrelevant as men like watching women in their 20's, teen boys like watching teen girls and attractive young adult females so not like IF a good story there isn't reason or males to be interested even if mostly female. The feedback recieved however I'd guess they would go 50/50 male female or say if a bigger team 5 girls & 4 male say.
Apophis71
Apophis71 - 11/16/2023, 6:40 AM
@AvalonX - More I think about it as Ms Marvel is recruiting and with the intro'd characters

Red Dagger and Bruno a given to appear I'd say
Wiccan, Speed and Hulklng almost a given
We know Stature and Kate in the mix

That makes for a starting point of 5 male to 4 female main characters and an even mix if you class Bruno as only supporting character.

Two of the young females intro'd are offworld thus off the table as in Love and Phyla so I actualy see more young males hero characters contactable than young females easily lined up for potential inclusion (doubt they would bring in Chavez for it as under Wong's wing) esp as there is always that kid from Iron Man 3 they could bring back too and dropped hints about an MCU Miles too plus Peter still young enough for being on a team of teens through 20's grouping.

Make it good, strong story/direction it could be well recieved.
MyCoolYoung
MyCoolYoung - 11/16/2023, 9:36 AM
@AvalonX - but we've had Wiccan speed Eli Bradley hulking and kid loki all show up within the last two years.
MyCoolYoung
MyCoolYoung - 11/16/2023, 9:37 AM
@Apophis71 - all this info was right there for him and he choose to base his decision off nothing
AvalonX
AvalonX - 11/16/2023, 12:20 PM
@MyCoolYoung - in shows no one watched. If you mean Scar yeah but hes not Hulking. Hulking is a Skrull and his father is Mar-vell.

and let be totally honest. At least 3 female characters no one cares about and they will flip Scar to be gay. Add in another Captain America clone and do you think there is any way on earth this is received well?

At this point, I dont even want to be right. At some point, they are going to stop making MCU stuff altogether because they cant keep bleeding money like this.
AvalonX
AvalonX - 11/16/2023, 12:25 PM
@MyCoolYoung - I based my decision off what they showed genius. Does Kamala start the Young Avengers or does Ironlad? So right now, everything you guys are saying are guesses. They only announced those 3 characters.

Remember, Young Avengers wasnt exactly a raging success. Normies have no idea about it so in my opionion, its more a replacement for the all female Avengers team and not Young Avengers. I cant imagine them putting in another Captain America clone, Ironlad and Wiccan and Scar (I guess)being gay for each other. Be honest. There is no chance they stay that close to the source material. That movie would bomb like no ones business and no one watched the D+ shows some of those characters are from.
MyCoolYoung
MyCoolYoung - 11/16/2023, 1:15 PM
@AvalonX - they didn't announce anything. They showed 2 characters and mentioned one. They showed hulking they showed Eli they showed a lot of characters.

Young avengers is not announced or else we'd have a roster.... genius
MyCoolYoung
MyCoolYoung - 11/16/2023, 1:17 PM
@AvalonX - you think ethnicity and gender = reception then you're the problem just like Avi. Good day no longer replying to you fam ✌🏾
AvalonX
AvalonX - 11/16/2023, 1:46 PM
@MyCoolYoung - I think bad stories that deviate from the source material because of an agenda impact reception.

I have no influence on who pays to see movies. Im just calling it the way it is. Otherwise, this thread wouldnt exist because this would be a runaway hit.
LordHarryLatts
LordHarryLatts - 11/15/2023, 8:54 PM
It takes a special kind of moron to completely ruin an adaptation of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
DevilsDreams
DevilsDreams - 11/16/2023, 4:02 AM
@LordHarryLatts - With all the "outrage" thrown around when non-gay, non-trans, non-disabled people are cast in those respective roles, it's funny how quick they were to say that they didn't need dwarfs to play the... dwarfs...
URCOMMENTSUCKS
URCOMMENTSUCKS - 11/15/2023, 8:55 PM
Honestly, if you just make Snow White gay and give her a hot lesbian girlfriend and put a hot scene of them kissing each other for 10 minutes, it would actually make more money than if you'd try to salvage this by doing a legit movie.
McMurdo
McMurdo - 11/15/2023, 9:30 PM
@URCOMMENTSUCKS - I'm a lesbian, and I approve this message.
DevilsDreams
DevilsDreams - 11/16/2023, 4:03 AM
@URCOMMENTSUCKS - I'm pretty sure if you look on porn hub you'll probably find that video...
URCOMMENTSUCKS
URCOMMENTSUCKS - 11/16/2023, 8:41 PM
@DevilsDreams - I'm not saying they should do it for my satisfaction. I'm saying that this would be a better solution to Disney's current predicament with this movie.
bobevanz
bobevanz - 11/15/2023, 8:59 PM
Here's an idea, release the classics! When I was a kid in the 90's, I saw the original when they were bringing all the oldies back for a new generation. Just like when they'd "open the vault" for physical media. This is the tenth live action remake (not counting Cruella and Maleficent) And all of them are WORSE than the originals. Just give up
Lokiwasright
Lokiwasright - 11/15/2023, 9:03 PM
it will break the camels back
NinnesMBC
NinnesMBC - 11/15/2023, 9:13 PM
If this is about the main star being labeled "box office poison" because "of her comments" of the original novel that I'm sure many obviously know of it (pfft) then I wouldn't worry, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snake is looking good at the weekend box office with 100$+ projections, a number that matches it's budget.

Whatever troubles there are with this loose adaptation, it won't be due to Zegler's comments.
EZBeast
EZBeast - 11/15/2023, 9:20 PM
I want this movie to fail…yes I said it!

I’m so god damn sick of the lazy and soulless live action remakes Disney continues to spew out. Idc if they weren’t made for me or my generation they add nothing unique to audiences and fails to inspire them as they’re nothing but a quick cash grab. Please stop supporting these kinds of movies and watch the timeless classics of the animated originals.
SuperCat
SuperCat - 11/15/2023, 9:21 PM
Oberlin4Prez
Oberlin4Prez - 11/15/2023, 9:36 PM
@SuperCat - I’m dead
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