As Predicted, Snow Woke Is Another Costly, Shareholder-Value-Destroying Flop for Propaganda Corporation Disney

I know you are as sick of this movie as we were sick as Biden. I think this is one of the last posts I'll be doing about it.

It "won the weekend," though a weekend without a single major-film competitor.

Robert DeNiro's newest "passionless" hackwork bombed even harder.

Snow White had a mediocre opening day at the US box office amid the ongoing controversy surrounding the film, while Robert De Niro's mob drama The Alto Knights has completely tanked.

The Disney live-action remake, which stars Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot, took $16m across Friday and preview screenings from 4,200 venues across the US.

Variety reports that this figure puts the film on track to land a projected opening weekend north of $45m.

It made $44.3 million. They keep lowering projections and it keeps missing them.

On Saturday, I think, Disney and the Disney Shill Media revised projections to $100 million global, and set this as the new bar of success.

It failed to come close to that, making $87 million globally.

Snow White has a steep climb ahead -- it carries a production cost of more than $250m, meaning it will have to have a successful theatrical run to reach profitability.

By comparison, 2023's The Little Mermaid, which had a similar budget of $240m, made $95m on its opening weekend, more than double what Snow White is projected to make.

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Robert De Niro's The Alto Knights also opened this weekend but bombed on its opening day, with sales of $1.17m across Friday and previews, playing in 2,651 cinemas in the US.

The film, which sees De Niro playing two identical gang leaders, has already been projected to be one of the year's biggest flops -- with The Independent's film critic Clarisse Loughrey giving it two stars, calling it "passionless".

I heard Anthony Cumia note that it sure is hard to watch a Robert DeNiro movie now that we all know he is a venom-filled ridiculous hatemonger with a subnormal IQ. He's literally a moron (and not the good kind). It's hard to take him seriously once you realize he barely even understands the lines he's mouthing.

Fortune:

'Snow White' built Disney into entertainment powerhouse; now its remake risks becoming a culture war casualty and its biggest flop

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The $250 million film hauled in a disappointing $43 million at the domestic box office, far below recent projections of at least $65 million amid generally middling reviews.

Both its critical and commercial reception currently rank it the lowest among any of Disney's modern remakes of its animated classics. Even 2019's Dumbo performed better with nearly $46 million on its opening weekend and a slightly better review score on aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes.

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First there was the issue of how to treat the once titular dwarves. Peter Dinklage from Game of Thrones fame sparked a public feud with fellow short-statured actor Dylan Postl over whether it was culturally insensitive to use real actors born with dwarfism.

Briefly there was speculation they would simply be a bit more bohemian--the "seven Seattle baristas" as one critic put it--until finally the decision was taken to simply resort to CGI in an manner that seemed to pleased no one. Even the reference to the Seven Dwarves was stripped from the movie's official title.

Then there was the casting of Rachel Zegler in the lead role, who has proven to be a PR headache for corporate execs. She rarely hid her criticism of the 1937 film that put Disney on the map. For example, she revealed being actually "scared of the original cartoon" as a child, while also slamming it for featuring a dated love story around a prince "who literally stalks" Snow White.

Just six months before the debut of what should be the actor's biggest role on the silver screen to date, she drew heavy criticism immediately following the November election. In a social media post, she wished Trump voters "may never know peace" for their role in ushering in "another four years of hatred". She issued a formal apology later, claiming emotions got the better of her.

Finally there was the personal friction between the two main leads. Israeli actress Gal Gadot is an ardent supporter of her country's war against Hamas militants. Zegler by comparison has vociferously opposed the killing of Palestinian non-combatants, including the more than 14,500 children who have died according to UNICEF estimates.

Note that Gadot is portrayed as favoring "war" while Zegler just wants the people murdering and raping Israelis to suffer no consequences.

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Some bemoan the adaptation of such classics into versions updated for "modern audiences", others for draining away all the expressiveness of beloved characters like Little Mermaid's Flounder and Lion King's Simba, while others simply see them as a cynical cash grab inferior in all ways to their original.

The Daily Mail reports on the almost-completely-empty theaters showing Snow Woke.

The crisis facing the Walt Disney Company over its controversial Snow White reboot deepened today amid pictures of empty cinemas and screens with no bookings in primetime slots following a poor opening weekend.

Studio bosses had hoped that the reboot of the 1937 original, which had a budget of more than $270million (£210million), would launch with at least £79million ($100million) in ticket sales.

But the movie starring Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot took just $87.3million (£67.4million) globally including $43million (£33million) in the US after a slow start followed a slew of negative reviews.

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Alongside the caption was a photograph of the cinema booking screen, showing just a single seat reserved.

They also posted another image of Saturday night's bookings and penned: 'And for Saturday night? ZERO. I've never seen a major movie from Disney have this little interest opening weekend. This is hilariously abysmal.'

The post attracted more than 13million views and drew comments from people who observed similar scenes in their cinemas -- with one writing: 'I have one better. Dolby Cinema and only a small handful of people.'

Even the annoying liberal feminist "Beyond the Trailer" sees trouble for Rachel Zegler. She thinks Zegler has proven herself too alienating for general audiences, and will have to make do with starring in Broadway shows. Probably more niche left-leaning ones that weren't going to see many conservative ticket-buyers anyway, I'd add.

Just before this POS hit the screens, she declared that her fans will "line up" to see her so suck on that H8erz!

The movie, I'm told, is a straight-up share-the-wealth #EattheRich Marxist agitprop effort.

Meanwhile:

Demian Reidel @dreidel1 Have you heard about the so-called Argentinian economic miracle? I have news: there is no miracle. This is a lie.

I am the chairman of President Milei's council of advisors, and I want you to know that there is no miracle here at all.

You read that correctly. No miracle whatsoever.

What you are witnessing is the most impressive turnaround in the country's history.

We slashed wasteful spending that once enriched the few at the expense of the many.

We brought down inflation--a tax that disproportionately burdens the poor. As a result, we lowered poverty rates by more than 11% and lifted millions out of poverty

We eliminated the thousands of pickets that made travel across the country a nightmare. Imagine the relief of breathing in fresh air after years of suffocating congestion.

Welfare programs? The left's favorite: they mostly served politicians. They even stole food from the poor. Yes. They stole food from the poor.

Now, welfare flows directly to those who need it most.

At the core of our strategy, we eradicated the source of the macroeconomic instability that had plagued our nation for so long: we eliminated the fiscal deficit. We now run a fiscal surplus, which has dramatically reduced our country risk--from the 3000s to the 700s.

A miracle, some say? How dare they!

This is not a miracle. This is hard work. This is putting the country first, not politicians.

Why is the opposition protesting so fervently? Not because they care for the people or the nation, but because they fear the truth--that they have been the problem all along. Their time is over.

Again, this is not a miracle.

This is hard work. This is having a vision, formulating a plan, and executing it without fear. This is having the guts to do what is right. This is president @JMilei
leadership.

The jig is up for the left. They have nothing, and they never did. They do not love the poor. They love poverty.

Now, tell me again that this is a miracle.

We didn't know it was impossible--so we did it.

Viva la libertad, carajo!

posted by Ace at 05:00 PM

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