Dopey “Snow White” is a bust for Disney.
The live action remake of the 1937 animated classic didn’t work or whistle this time out.
“Snow White,” Disney says, made $43 million this weekend over four days.
With a $250 million budget, that’s a mini disaster for the Mouse House.
But modernizing the story, cutting songs like “Someday My Prince Will Come,” and so on, plus controversies about everything, were a turn off to audiences.
They actually took out the prince as a hero, so “Someday” couldn’t be included. I think they should have changed it to “Someday Prince Will Come” and have the dwarfs sing “Little Red Corvette.”
But what do I know?
Meantime, no one went to see “Magazine Dreams” starring Jonathan Majors. Total $700K for the weekend. Extremely grim and depressing, this movie would not have been a hit even without Majors’ arrest and conviction. Searchlight dodged a bullet here.
There’s not much going on in movieland right now. All I heart about is streaming TV. “Severance,” “White Lotus,” etc. The studios are doing this to themselves.
