Box Office: 'Snow White' Drops 66%, 'Hundreds of Beavers' Tops $1M Global
The little movie that could continues to do so, now with a traveling 35mm roadshow coming (hopefully) to a theater near you in the coming months.
The good news is that Disney’s much-maligned live-action remake of Snow White was technically the top-grossing movie of the weekend worldwide, with a second global weekend of $36 million. That’s just above the $30 million opening of A Working Man while also representing a 66% drop in North America (from $42.2 million to $14.2 million) and a global drop of around 58% from its $86 million worldwide launch. It held better in the likes of Germany (-23%), Australia (-33%), Brazil (-38%), Japan (-39%), the UK (-49%), France (-49%), and Mexico (-50%). With $66 million in ten days in North America, it should (barely) pass DreamWorks’ $40 million Dog Man ($97 million) to become the year’s second-biggest domestic earner (until A Minecraft Movie and… hopefully… Sinners) heading into the summer.
With $143 million globally thus far, we can expect that, unless it really hangs on, it may nab a global total below the $225 million that Moana 2 earned in its Wed-Sun domestic debut. That would also put it just over/under the $219 million global cume of Lightyear and make it the third-lowest grossing “Disney live-action remake” flick over the last 15 years behind Pete’s Dragon (the best of the bunch, but with a $138 million cume on a $65 million budget in 2016) and Mulan (while released in August of 2020 and earned $69 million in limited theatrical play amid concurrent Disney+ Premier Access availability. Even Alice Through the Looking Glass ($299 million in 2016) and Dumbo ($350 million in 2019) and Wish ($255 million in 2023) now seem aspirational.