The first 2-3 weeks in box offices are like the vast majority of cash a movie makes.
It probably wont go past 250m at this rate, before its put on say Disney Plus.

I heard people say that movies typically need to make back 2.5x their budget to break even.
Because something like 49% of the profits are kept by the movie theater, and there is typically marketing costs ontop ect.
In that case its probably going to need to make like 675-700m to break even.

Disney might going to lose like $250m on this movie, when its all said and done (before its taken from movie theaters).

I still think a 3D remake of the animated films (in the like of Frozen and Tangled) with the original story/design intact would have been more successful than the slop of grime, grey, dark and soulless creations we got in the live action remakes.

Well, after a month on the market and with revenue having slowed to a trickle, the film has yet to hit either $100 million domestically or $200 million globally, having crawled to around $185 million in total, well short of its budget and marketing costs.

A lesson to be learned.

Brandon Sanderson has talked about how a screenwriter wrote a script for one of his books but when he read it, everything was changed.  It had new characters, a new love interest, and even the world itself was altered extensively.  Sanderson said that Hollywood writers have in mind what THEY want to write and simply use the shell of infinitely more popular works to do it.  We see this over and over.

What I don't understand is how Hollywood cannot grasp why this would tick people off.

The thing about Snow White in particular is that they could have updated some of the more "problematic" elements without much fuss if they had been even remotely subtle and respectful about it.  Instead they had to scream to the heavens that the original was trash and that their own version was only related on a superficial level.

I can only assume it's the bubble these people live in, where everyone they know thinks the same way.  Kind of what we're seeing with game developers, too.

On top of that, many of these writers aren't nearly as talented as they think they are, which is probably why they can't find success with their own original material.  Forget Snow White being a remake, even if it wasn't the writing would be terrible.  For example, it's supposed to be about female empowerment but their Snow White is a princess who literally does nothing to earn her place or her victory.  Even feminists have pointed out how that makes no sense.

Forbes now reports that the film incurred a loss of $170 million

https://www.forbes.com/sites/carolinereid/2026/02/10/disney-loses-170-million-on-snow-white-as-studio-reveals-movie-blew-its-budget/

Thanks, I hate it!

Over $336,5 million in production costs.

The UK then gives the studio ~ $65 million back, for filming in the UK.

"This brought its net expenses down to $271.6 million"

"research lends weight to the widely-established 50-50 split which would give Disney just $102.9 million from Snow White yielding a $168.7 million loss at the box office after deducting the $271.6 million net spending on the movie."

This is ~ $170 million LOSS (on production vs earning).

However, this does NOT factor in the costs of Marketing.
There could be another ~100m in loss on top, from that.

I would not be surprised if the total loss (with marketing) is over $250 million.

Disney just tripping over its own feet, with the production, writing, cast.... and social media stunts.

Go woke, go broke.

This is seen as quite a insensitive thing to say by some.... however I can't help but agree with the sentiment.

Look at Gillette razors, they tried appealing to women (to grow market share), hired a women, who wanted them to change their ads, to lecture men about "how to be a man" (by the female perspective) and it cost them billions.

Same with Bud Light (beer), that went with Dylan Mulvaney, and the cost that had.

The same thing is happening in the game industry.... were men are being lectured about the male gaze, and how and what we should like ect.

The pattern is repeating.

https://xcancel.com/madcap412/status/2021749638668390490#m


" - Highguard's dev team got laid off

- Horizon Hunters Gathering got more dislikes than likes

- Relooted released DOA

- Ubisoft is in flames with strikes and cutbacks

Seriously, Western devs, STOP! JUST STOP!

This is not working...go back to traditional gaming!

How many more flops, layoffs, and how much more money do you want to lose to push this "modern gaming" shit?! "   - madcap412:

Even Asmongold is like "I can tell with upto 95% accuracy if a game is going to flop based on.... "


There are patterns.

This Woke agenda push, has consequences. 

Sweetbaby Inc, is like a death touch.


Look at something like Relooted.... Journalist praised it... and it now has like ~30 people playing it.
Most are playing it because "I can't believe it is this bad, or racist" ect.... basically "hate" playing, it or would be much lower.
(these are like youtubers and reviewers... so they can film content to use in a video.... no one actually wants to play the game itself)

I can make this move in AI for $7.99.