If at first, you don’t succeed …
Disney’s “Snow White” turned one of many 12 months’s greatest field workplace duds mere weeks in the past. The movie’s theatrical launch shrunk to a couple hundred theaters final week earlier than its VOD debut Could 13.
“Snow White” earned $1.5 million on Friday. Home gross now stands at $72 million, and the movie is in critical hazard of not even hitting $100 million in North America — a disastrous end result for a $250 million Hollywood manufacturing. https://t.co/4fzA5S814X pic.twitter.com/dvgNh7mRjh
— Selection (@Selection) April 5, 2025
Finish of story. Not so quick.
Disney re-released the movie in additional than a thousand theaters over the weekend, hoping to construct on the Mom’s Day vacation.
Not fairly.
“Snow White” pulled in $335K over the weekend, giving it a thirteenth place rating. The film’s per-screen common proved even worse – $251.
In the meantime, different releases did a lot of the heaving lifting over the vacation weekend. “Thunderbolts*” fell simply 55 % for one more first-place end, suggesting phrase of mouth helps this MCU entry. The movie made $33 million stateside for a $128 million US haul thus far.
“Sinners” additionally held robust, incomes $21 million for a mixed $218 million stateside.
The information proved grim on one other entrance.
“Shadow Drive,” an motion thriller starring Kerry Washington, stumbled in its opening body regardless of little new competitors. The film earned simply $2 million on 2,000+ screens.
The worst information? The movie price $60 million.
“Shadow Drive,” co-starring Mark Robust, Omar Sy and Oscar winner Da’Vine Pleasure Randolph, wasn’t screened for critics and had microscopic pre-release buzz. That title screamed “streaming title,” too.
The reviewers who did test it out weren’t happy, witness its 32 % “rotten” ranking. Normal audiences begged to vary – an 82 % “contemporary” rating from shoppers.
Both approach, it offers 2025 one other large flop for Hollywood to think about, becoming a member of “The Alto Knights,” “Mickey 17” and “Wolf Man.”