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.