‘Snow White' Skids To No. 4 At Box Office With Single-Digit Take
Partial poster of "Snow White" featuring Rachel Zegler.
Business for Disney's Snow White, starring Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot, is taking another hit at the box office again this weekend.
The $270 million live-action remake of the 1937 animated classic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs has been embroiled in various controversies over the past three years, including Snow White actor Zegler's sniping observations about the original 'cartoon' and divisive social media posts.
Snow White earned $42.2 million in its opening frame at the domestic box office, far below early tracking projections. The film dropped 66% in business last weekend with a $14.3 million take for a second-place finish behind Jason Statham's action thriller A Working Man, which earned $15.5 in its opening weekend.
Now, with the mammoth opening of A Minecraft Movie this weekend, it appears that audiences looking for PG family fare are all heading to the mystical realm known as Overland that originated in the video game Minecraft instead of the Seven Dwarfs' mine.
As such, Snow White is projected by Deadline to earn $5.7 million at the domestic box office in its third-weekend frame for a fourth-place finish at the domestic box office.
Projected by Deadline to finish ahead of Snow White are A Minecraft Movie with $130 million-plus domestically, followed by The Chosen: The Last Supper Part 2 with $7.2 million and A Working Man with $6.8 million. Following Snow White, Deadline projects that the horror thriller The Woman in the Yard will take the No. 5 spot with $3.7 million through Sunday.
Snow White opened in 4,200 North American theaters on March 21 and maintained the same theater count last weekend. This weekend the film's theater count dropped to 3,750 venues.
Should Snow White's box office estimate for this weekend hold, it will up the film's domestic tally to $77 million. Through Friday, the film's international gross stood at nearly $76 million.
Rachel Zegler in "Snow White."
Given the dismal box office performance of Snow White, Disney is reportedly putting its next live-action remake of one of its animated hits on ice — and not in a touring theatrical sort of way.
On Thursday, The Hollywood Reporter broke the news that the live-action version of Tangled — based on Disney's hit 2010 animated take on the Brothers Grimm classic fairy tale Rapunzel — was placed on hold by the studio.
Disney had hired The Greatest Showman and Better Man director Michael Gracey to helm the live-action version of Tangled and now the film's future appears uncertain.
While Disney hit the wall with Snow White, the studio still has a couple more live-action remakes of its animated hits on the way. The live-action version of Lilo & Stitch is due in theaters on May 23 and Moana leaps from the animated realm into live-action on July 10, 2026.
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