Box Office Report: It's Snow Joke

The life cycle of the latest Disney live-action remake, Snow White, has been a long and drawn-out slump into flop territory. The thing is that everyone saw this coming. This never felt like a movie with an eager fanbase waiting to devour it and all of the trailers looked cheap as hell. Long before it was hijacked by right-wing losers who pretend that corporate IPs are their personal identities, this film felt doomed. Lo and behold, the box office numbers are not good. Snow White opened at number one but only by merit of zero competition. It grossed a mere $43 million from 4,200 locations. Worldwide, its gross currently sits at $87.3 million. The budget? A reported $240 - $270 million. Ooft.

The next highest-grossing new release of the weekend was The Alto Knights, starring Robert De Niro. This one only debuted at number six, with $3.165 million from 2,651 cinemas.

At 12 is Locked, a psychological horror starring Count Orlok and Hannibal Lecter, with $964,000 from 971 places. And at number 14 is Ash, a sci-fi horror directed by Flying Lotus and starring Eiza González, with $716,777 from 1,136 theatres.

Magazines Dreams was dropped by its original distributor when Jonathan Majors was revealed to be an abuser of women. Now, he’s on the comeback trail and receiving lavish praise and blind adoration from way too many people. Even though we now have a recording of him admitting to putting his hands around a woman’s throat, we apparently have to pretend that Majors is a nice Christian boy who’s been wronged by the world. Well, it didn’t translate into good box office numbers for Magazine Dreams, which was picked up by Briarcliff and put into 815 cinemas. It earned $700,000. Ha. F*ck that guy.

In other limited release news: Bob Trevino Likes It, a comedy starring John Leguizamo and Barbie Ferreira, made $58,138 from five locations; the fascinating-sounding documentary Secret Mall Apartment brought in $40,500 from one theatre (wow); French thriller Misericordia took in $25,200 from three cinemas; and Being Maria, a biopic about Maria Schneider and her troubles making Last Tango in Paris, made $6,270 from one location.

This coming week sees the release of horror film The Woman in the Yard, Jason Statham punch-fest A Working Man, and dark comedy Death of a Unicorn.

You can check out the rest of the weekend box office numbers here.