Disney loses $170 million with woke ‘Snow White’ live action flop
NY Post
After years of controversies and tepid results at the box office, Disney’s 2025 live-action “Snow White” remake has reportedly netted an approximately $170 million loss.
Forbes reported on Tuesday that filings indicate the recent controversial live-action “Snow White” remake cost a whopping $336.5 million, yet met with low returns after years of controversy.
The outlet explained that this can be discerned thanks to the fact the movie was filmed in the United Kingdom. The U.K. has local laws which benefit films with a generous reimbursement, but come with heavy rules. As a result, Disney had to create a subsidiary company, Hidden Heart Productions, in order to film there. As a result of these local U.K.-based rules, showing expenditures that otherwise remains a closely-guarded secret for films made in the United States, Disney’s massive expenses were revealed.
“In 2023 this author revealed in Britain’s Daily Mail newspaper that by July 31, 2022 Disney had already spent a staggering $183.3 million on making Snow White even though principal photography had only just wrapped,” contributor Caroline Reid wrote. “The latest set of filings are for the year to December 31, 2024 which was less than three months before the movie debuted so should give an almost-complete picture of its costs.”
The writer went on to emphasize, “The $336.5 million spent on Snow White is higher than the cost of Disney’s Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, its Guardians of the Galaxy Marvel movie and its live action version of Beauty and the Beast which grossed a staggering $1.3 billion in 2017.”
The United Kingdom indeed came through with a reimbursement for Disney, but the writer argued this was not enough to redeem the production.
