Disney (and others) at the Box Office - Current State of Affairs

[TP2000]

Happy St. Patrick's Day Eve, gang! What the heck happened to this thread over the weekend, it blew up!

I had to skim for the past half dozen pages, so someone tell me if I missed something really good, please. Here's the Box Office for this weekend, a slow and sleepy one even with two new movies out.

Onward now to Rachel Zegler's Snow White next weekend!

The Numbers - Weekend Box Office Chart for September 5, 2025

Weekend Domestic Box Office Chart for the weekend of September 5, 2025

thenumbers.com

 

[Vegas Disney Fan]

I had to skim for the past half dozen pages, so someone tell me if I missed something really good, please.

 

[Chi84]

I agree with your views.
I would say Snow White is not a spectacularly inappropriate subject for a live-action remake based on your comments above. Just needs a little fleshing out. Of course easier said than done.

I think most of my previous comments were in response to people who said the original should not be changed in any way or who took issue with Zegler saying that the movie was going to be updated. I watched the interview and I had no issue with what she said, but then again I don't accord much weight to what celebrities say about anything.

I do agree with @Dranth's comments about bullying. Agree or don't agree, but why go to such lengths to dislike someone who has no impact on your life?

 

[Dranth]

Let’s put it this way so we don’t go too far against forum rules. She voiced some rather charged political opinions.

I think we can agree that on BOTH sides there has been a complete lack of tolerance for opposing viewpoints.

It’s her right to have these views but she is the face of a franchise. She should have training on what not to say.

It’s almost like she cares more about expressing her feelings then what’s best for her employer, who is paying her millions.

I don't entirely disagree; I just don't think it is that odd for people that age to be VERY opinionated and say things before thinking about what they are saying or more importantly, how they are saying it. Combine that with the relatively recent inability to accept nuance these days and the desire to pile on and you get the situation she is in.

 

[TP2000]

The comp for live-action Snow White would be live-action Cinderella, which made $542 million a decade ago.

That's probably around what Disney was expecting when this was first green lit.

Here's how that looks accounting for a decade's worth of inflation. Interestingly, Cinderella had just a $95 Million budget in 2015, adjusted to $127 Million in today's money.

Also interesting is that The Numbers has the budget for Snow White pegged at an oddly specific $269,400,000. We'll have to dig into that number more to figure out if that's pre or post the hefty tax rebate check from the British government.

Regardless, the budget for Cinderella was less than half that of Snow White.

While you’re buying a round I’ll take a Bud Light….. Much prefer that then to a Miller Light…. Which seems to be a religion here in Wisconsin

I'm rarely a beer drinker, but I can't stand the domestic "lights". They're just too watery for me.

But sometimes in summer, usually at a late lunch with a beach burger, I will indulge in a cold beer. But when I do that, it's almost always something called Barrio Baja by San Diego brewer Thorn. Barrio Baja is the house "light" beer always stocked by the beach club I hang out at, and it's great when the beer itch hits me from July through September. It's delicious!

That said, I can't imagine the Marketing VP of Thorn ever going on record as saying the Barrio Baja customers are "fratty and out of touch" and the Barrio Baja customer base needs to be "elevated" and made more "inclusive" like the Bud Light Marketing VP did on a taped podcast, just before she permanently torpedoed both her brand and her career.

 

[Dranth]

To be fair I can see some people being upset with this quote by Rachel Zegler.

“May T… supporters and T… voters and T… himself never know peace.”

She later apologized.

So can I, but she did have a subset of those supporters threatening her so is it all that surprising she was upset? Either way, she did apologize.

 

[TP2000]

So can I, but she did have a subset of those supporters threatening her so is it all that surprising she was upset? Either way, she did apologize.

Now step back and think....

What if Annette Funicello, in the 1960 lead up to her starring role in the release of 1961's Walt Disney's Babes in Toyland, was quoted in the Los Angeles Times saying;

"May Kennedy supporters and Kennedy voters and John F. Kennedy himself never know peace."

Walt Disney was a notable supporter of Richard Nixon in the 1960 Presidential campaign, but even after Annette was forced to "apologize" for her purposeful remarks to the media, I can't imagine that Walt would have allowed Annette Funicello to work for his studio and company ever again. Can you?

 

[MagicMouseFan]

So can I, but she did have a subset of those supporters threatening her so is it all that surprising she was upset? Either way, she did apologize.

Yeah it was definitely a missed opportunity for a better approach.

 

[Disney Irish]

I don't entirely disagree; I just don't think it is that odd for people that age to be VERY opinionated and say things before thinking about what they are saying or more importantly, how they are saying it. Combine that with the relatively recent inability to accept nuance these days and the desire to pile on and you get the situation she is in.

People many many decades older than her are just as if not more so as opinionated and also say things without thinking.

 

[Disney Irish]

Now step back and think....

What if Annette Funicello, in the 1960 lead up to her starring role in the release of 1961's Walt Disney's Babes in Toyland was quoted in the Los Angeles Times saying;

"May Kennedy supporters and Kennedy voters and John F. Kennedy himself never know peace."

Walt Disney was a notable supporter of Richard Nixon in the 1960 Presidential campaign, but even after Annette was forced to "apologize", I can't imagine that Walt would have ever allowed Annette Funicello to work for his studio and company ever again. Can you?

Different time and place in history.

We really have to stop comparing Hollywood of yesterday to the Hollywood of today. It’s a much different landscape today than it was even 10-20 years ago let alone 65-70 years ago.

 

[DisneyWarrior27]

Least TDTEBUALTM opened to #5 but with only $3.2M

 

[Vegas Disney Fan]

People many many decades older than her are just as if not more so as opinionated and also say things without thinking.

While I agree I don’t think (or at least hope) most of us have never wished ill will on others simply because we hold different opinions.

That’s the difference for me, I can disagree with you 90% of the time but still respect your opinion and enjoy arguing with you, we could have the most heated argument ever on this forum (and send mom into palpitations and a delete frenzy) and I still wouldn’t wish ill will on you, I might mutter some names about you under my breathe but that would be the extent of it, and the next day might like a dozen of your posts while we are on the same side of a different argument.

Buddy and I got into such heated arguments back in the day I think we both blocked each other for sanity sake… yet I was still happy to hear Tony say he’s doing well the other day when his name was brought up. We couldn’t have been more opposed in opinions but I still viewed him as a Disney compatriot. CA Elitist and I were more 75/25 in our disagreements but it still bothers me one of her last posts was about not assuming we’d be alive and healthy in 2025 so go out and enjoy life, I hope that wasn’t a cryptic message and hope she just got busy doing other things but it still bothers me she has been so quiet since that post.

 

[MoonRakerSCM]

@TP2000 , I've been looking at the presold seats at the Irvine Spectrum for Snow White, 99.9% of available seats still available.

The current fullest 4DX showing in Irvine of any of the showings available at the theatre-

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These are the ONLY RDX showing seats booked in Irvine of ANY of the showings available at the theatre. All other showings are completely open-

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The current fullest 4DX showing in Irvine of any of the showings available at the theatre-

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ZERO of the available ScreenX showing seats are reserved...

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The current fullest VIP showing in Irvine of any of the showings available at the theatre. Most seats of any showing available-

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Note- Other than a couple of additional theatres with 2 or 4 reserved seats... all other showings are 100% unbooked right now, like 95% of theatres currently empty.

 

[Disney Irish]

While I agree I don’t think (or at least hope) most of us have never wished ill will on others simply because we hold different opinions.

That’s the difference for me, I can disagree with you 90% of the time but still respect your opinion and enjoy arguing with you, we could have the most heated argument ever on this forum (and send mom into palpitations and a delete frenzy) and I still wouldn’t wish ill will on you, I might mutter some names about you under my breathe but that would be the extent of it, and the next day might like a dozen of your posts while we are on the same side of a different argument.

This gets into the “say things without thinking” category. We’ve all seen many many many people of varying ages all say things off the cuff without thinking in a moment of emotion and later regret and take it back. That incident is no different in my opinion. And I’ve seen much much much worse said over the last 4-8 years by both sides.

We’re all human and we have to remember that no one is perfect no matter whether they are on screen or not.

 

[Farerb]

Least TDTEBUALTM opened to #5 but with only $3.2M

With that number there is no hope whatsoever for revival of hand drawn animation.

 

[Vegas Disney Fan]

This gets into the “say things without thinking” category. We’ve all seen many many many people of varying ages all say things off the cuff without thinking in a moment of emotion and later regret and take it back. That incident is no different in my opinion. And I’ve seen much much much worse said over the last 4-8 years by both sides.

We’re all human and we have to remember that no one is perfect no matter whether they are on screen or not.

This is one of the primary reasons my social media consists of Facebook and the WDWMagic forums, hard to get in trouble if you aren’t venting every thought online for the whole world to see.

 

[Farerb]

This is one of the primary reasons my social media consists of Facebook and the WDWMagic forums, hard to get in trouble if you aren’t venting every thought online for the whole world to see.

I was never able to find a Disney Facebook group that isn't just meme spamming. But I agree I tend to go to message boards, only keeping Twitter to get news about upcoming movies but I rarely if ever interact with anyone there. I hate that place.

 

[Phroobar]

My nieces are 13 and one of them is interested in seeing this movie, the other isn't interested in movies at all, but she comes along anyway.

Good thing there are only two 13 year old girls in the world to make that statement true.

 

[Disney Irish]

This is one of the primary reasons my social media consists of Facebook and the WDWMagic forums, hard to get in trouble if you aren’t venting every thought online for the whole world to see.

We’re from a different generation, one before the internet and social media. We grew up as the internet was getting started and social media was founded. Her generation doesn’t know a world without social media. Whereas our generation might go have a beer and vent to a stranger at a bar, their generation uses social media to vent.

So I say cut a little slack here, they’ll find their way and it appears she has for the most part. She’ll get past this time and be fine.

 

[Trauma]

I know people are going to claim that they would be in full support of her, but if she made those same comments accept in the opposite direction about team blue, I would have loved to see how supportive this forum was of her.

We will never know, but I for one would be equally disgusted. We should not wish ill will or hate on people . We can disagree. Heck get angry. But talking the way she did is not good for anyone.