Live-Action ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’

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TP2000

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As a reminder, here's the inflation adjusted box office for some of the previous Princess live action remakes of the past decade.

Snow White had a reported production budget of $270 Million back in 2023, before it got sent back for a year's worth of rewrites and reworking after the last PR mess this movie suffered. Snow White is also getting a tax credit from the generous British government of about $55 Million. Assuming the past year of reworking and CGI work tagged a conservative $25-ish Million onto production costs, it looks like Snow White will arrive in theaters next year with a production budget of around $250 Million after its generous tax subsidy is accounted for.

If Snow White can pull in numbers like Cinderella (inflation adjusted), it will likely break even. But if Snow White only performs like The Little Mermaid did, it will lose money at the box office. Do we dare think Snow White could do Beauty & The Beast numbers? I don't get the sense anyone here thinks so, especially after all the PR troubles Miss Zegler has caused it.

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Disney Irish

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As a reminder, here's the inflation adjusted box office for some of the previous Princess live action remakes of the past decade.

Snow White had a reported production budget of $270 Million back in 2023, before it got sent back for a year's worth of rewrites and reworking after the last PR mess this movie suffered. Snow White is also getting a tax credit from the generous British government of about $55 Million. Assuming the past year of reworking and CGI work tagged a conservative $25-ish Million onto production costs, it looks like Snow White will arrive in theaters next year with a production budget of around $250 Million after its generous tax subsidy is accounted for.

If Snow White can pull in numbers like Cinderella (inflation adjusted), it will likely break even. But if Snow White only performs like The Little Mermaid did, it will lose money at the box office. Do we dare think Snow White could do Beauty & The Beast numbers? I don't get the sense anyone here thinks so, especially after all the PR troubles Miss Zegler has caused it.

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As reminded right from that same article you're misquoting -

"Hidden Heart Productions received a $55.5 million (£44.9 million) reimbursement bringing Disney's net spending on Snow White down to $213.9 million. "

That is the actual not the figure you're using. Anything else is just you guessing and not relevant to actual figures.
 

Phroobar

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Back when Snow White had a group of bandits instead of Dwarfs I thought they resembled the friend group from Wish, and I didn't understand what exactly was the difference between the two movies.

Looking at their 2025 slate here are the movies + my prediction:
- Snow White (flop)
- Lilo & Stitch (moderate success)
- Elio (flop)
- Freakier Friday (moderate success)
- Tron: Ares (flop)
- Zootopia 2 (huge success)

MCU:
- Captain America: Brave New World (flop)
- Thunderbolts (flop)
- The Fantastic Four: First Steps (success)

Other:
- Avatar: Fire and Ash (huge success)
That is exactly I see Disney in 2025.

Moana 2 better make money for 2024 to offset 2025. Too bad Wicked will suck the life out of her.
 

Disney Irish

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I’ll have to look for it, I haven’t seen it yet.
Luckily we have a thread for that -

 

Disstevefan1

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As a reminder, here's the inflation adjusted box office for some of the previous Princess live action remakes of the past decade.

Snow White had a reported production budget of $270 Million back in 2023, before it got sent back for a year's worth of rewrites and reworking after the last PR mess this movie suffered. Snow White is also getting a tax credit from the generous British government of about $55 Million. Assuming the past year of reworking and CGI work tagged a conservative $25-ish Million onto production costs, it looks like Snow White will arrive in theaters next year with a production budget of around $250 Million after its generous tax subsidy is accounted for.

If Snow White can pull in numbers like Cinderella (inflation adjusted), it will likely break even. But if Snow White only performs like The Little Mermaid did, it will lose money at the box office. Do we dare think Snow White could do Beauty & The Beast numbers? I don't get the sense anyone here thinks so, especially after all the PR troubles Miss Zegler has caused it.

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Good you placed a question mark after the 250M.

No one (even Disney) has any idea how much over 250M they spent on this total mistake.
 

Tony the Tigger

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That’s why discounted Tuesday Matinees were my go to movie time, cheap seats and far fewer people in the theater making noise.
Got lucky last night. Fairly full, but fairly small theater, an entire family to our right. We were in the left two seats. All seats to our right were purchased, so I believe they wisely purchased an extra seat to keep people away from them, and we truly appreciate that! Kids were well-behaved and quiet. No one in the back was bothersome. It was a very unusual experience at this particular theater, and we thoroughly enjoyed it.

Regarding the cheaper seats of yore, they were literally cheaper seats. I’m now sitting in a reclining heated seat and I’m sure that cost more than the old seats. ETA: and there are fewer seats per theater because they’re larger. We’re technically renting more space! They now have kitchens, and I’m sure that costs more than a popcorn maker. That said, the little bit cheaper prices of a few years ago would be nice! We always went on Tuesdays, and therefore went more often.
 
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MoonRakerSCM

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"A place of fairness."

Good lord I figured the rumor of the story being about who is 'fair' in a sense of being just etc. was too stupid to be true, but here we are.
 

Chi84

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And, your response tells me all I need to know.
The pandemic was in full swing for a good year before he left office. When he left. inflation was at about 1.4%. Went to as high as 9.1% under the current administration, because he flooded the economy with all kinds of printed money, then the “Inflation Reduction Act”, which turned out to be the “Inflation Explosion Act”. Throwing that kinda’ money into the economy is always gonna’ cause inflation on an huge scale, and the amount that was fraudulently obtained is never gonna’ be recovered, and contributed even more to inflation. People, literally, got rich by fraud, and we’re still all paying for it. Well, the vast majority of us are.
“Let’s just throw cash at ‘em, and they’ll vote for me again!!!”
It’s like he was the high school senior class president, and had no clue he was the actual POTUS.

And, yea, see ya’ in Chit Chat… as far as you know….

Which would be an exact analogy for what the incoming administration now has to do.
The previous administration spent almost 4 years not doing a damn thing to fix anything the pandemic caused (not bad orange man) in any measurable way, or the messed up policies they put in place.
Again…
High inflation, open border, high energy prices, high fuel prices (drill baby, drill), high interest rates, two major wars in the world on the brink, etc.
We can go back and forth on this all night.

And, as to your condescending “How can I put this in simple Disney terms?” opening.
Third time’s where I cut it off on insulting me.
Dig a hole, Tony.
That was pathetic.
He’s right though.
 

Chi84

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No he is not right, he is most decidedly left.
You need to be more careful about how you word things these days.
“He’s correct though” would have been more appropriate, but I couldn’t disagree with you more.
As you pointed out, it takes time to correct a previous administration’s mistakes.
 

coffeefan

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I feel like people have amnesia about how we literally had widespread shortages of goods and toilet paper during his first term. Oh, and he never built the wall. Let's see what happens when the blanket tariffs start happening and all vaccines become optional... Enjoy the next year everyone, because after that we will start seeing the results...
 

LittleBuford

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"A place of fairness."

Good lord I figured the rumor of the story being about who is 'fair' in a sense of being just etc. was too stupid to be true, but here we are.
It wasn’t a rumour, though. Zegler herself told us this months ago, as you yourself noted upthread:

“So, when we came to reimagining the actual role of Snow White, it became about the ‘fairest of them all’ meaning who is the most just and who can become a fantastic leader, and the reality is Snow White has to learn a lot of lessons about coming in to her own power before she can come into power over a kingdom.”
 
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donaldtoo

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As you pointed out, it takes time to correct a previous administration’s mistakes.

So, we all just roll with all the politicians blaming each other for the previous administrations mistakes…in perpetuity…?!
They got us where they want us, if that’s what most of the population thinks.
I think I need to try to be a politician…wait, closet skeletons… :cautious:;)
 
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