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Subject: Re: Is Snow White going to make money?
Date: Mon, 5 May 2025 15:59:40 -0400
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On 2025-05-05 3:42 PM, shawn wrote:
> On Mon, 5 May 2025 15:36:15 -0400, Rhino
> <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
> 
>> Just out of curiousity, I looked up Snow White at IMDB just now and was
>> pleased to see that the rating has stayed steady at 1.6 out of 10.
>> However I was rather surprised to see the box office returns. At the
>> moment, we have the following numbers:
>>
>> ==================================
>> Budget
>> $250,000,000 (estimated)
>>
>> Gross US & Canada
>> $86,123,346
>>
>> Opening weekend US & Canada
>> $42,206,415 Mar 23, 2025
>>
>> Gross worldwide
>> $200,568,210
>> =================================
>>
>> Despite the miserable opening weekend it had in the US and Canada (and
>> the much worse one it had in China, one of its biggest markets, where it
>> made less than 2 million!), the film continues to make money and is
>> already at 200 million dollars, which is 80% if its (estimated) budget.
>> It looks like there is a real chance that it will break even. Any money
>> it makes after that is actual profit! (I expect these numbers don't
>> include marketing costs, which can be tens or even hundreds of millions
>> of dollars, but Disney cut back drastically on marketing when it was
>> obvious the film was going to be really awful.)
> 
> The marketing budget for this film is very likely at least one hundred
> million. Which means this film won't make back the budget in the
> theaters. Maybe after streaming and DVD sales it will barely make a
> profit, but Disney isn't in the business of barely making a profit. So
> there is no way they can look at these results as a good thing.
> 
>> Wouldn't it be wild if a film that was so reviled by practically
>> everyone still made money?
> 
> Lots of films that shouldn't can make money eventually.

I remember that Waterworld was the biggest budget film ever when it was 
released and tanked in the US and Canada - it was out of the theatres in 
either one week or two - but it eventually made money by virtue of a 
decent reception in foreign markets. I'm sure that was a great relief to 
Kevin Costner, who I believe financed a lot of it.
>>
>> I wonder if Disney executives will use this as a rationale for
>> continuing to make woke garbage on the grounds that, whatever the
>> critical reaction, it's still profitable so why not stay with a
>> "winning" formula?
> 
> It's not the Disney way to barely make a profit. Bring home wheel
> barrows of cash or don't bother is their approach so this movie is a
> clear failure.

Let's hope they learn a lesson about what audiences want - and what they 
don't want - from Snow White....

As for Rachel Zegler, I see a future for her that involves being the 
Hispanic Greta Thunberg, agitating about whatever causes obsess her 
while she looks back on the film career that might have been.

-- 
Rhino