Snow White is Dead Disney is having a very bad time at the box office. by Daniel Greenfield
https://www.frontpagemag.com/snow-white-is-dead/
There’s bad news in fairyland. Snow White isn’t white. The Queen is the fairest of all. And after eating from the woke apple, Snow White is so dead that all the mocap CG dwarves in the Mouse House can’t begin to raise her. Neither can Prince Charming who now identifies as a woman.
After last weekend’s poor opening, there was a scramble in Hollywood to deny that wokeness was the cause, followed by prognostications that this weekend would fix all. The Friday numbers are in and while the weekend numbers aren’t set yet and certainly not final, they’re catastrophically bad
A Working Man, the latest Jason Statham male-skewed action movie, walloped Snow White Badly. To make matters worse, Friday numbers actually have Snow White behind ‘The Chosen: Last Supper Part 1’.
While Snow White may not actually end up in third place, it was struggling to keep pace even with The Woman in the Yard horror movie.
Making matters even more depressing, Captain Un-America, Brave New World, fell 91% to a miserable 7th place.
Again those numbers may not end up holding, but at the moment Disney’s spring is off to a really bad start.
It’s not just about the numbers, which are bad enough, but the per theater average which registers enthusiasm.
Disney’s Snow White had the highest number of theaters, monopolizing 4,200 theaters, but its per-theater average was below $1,000, putting in 5th place for public enthusiasm. And Captain Un-America in 9th place with a $306 per theater average and still short of $200 million.
Disney’s IP spam is no longer looking like a solid bet for theater owners and that’s really bad news for the mouse.
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