Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who’s the richest of them all?
Snow White is—at least this week. The film took first place at the box office, grossing $43 million domestically in its opening week. Compared to other Disney live-action remakes, that puts the slumbering princess right behind 2019’s Dumbo ($46 million) and trailing nine other live-action remakes released since 2013. With a reported budget of $209 million, the movie just may be a poisoned apple to Disney’s pocketbook.
Still, Snow White easily dominated the box office, since its competition seems to have dropped the bag this weekend. The Black Bag, that is. The spy thriller earned second place with a mere $4.4 million.
Perhaps more interesting, however, is Captain America: Brave New World’s continued tussle with Mickey 17. The superhero and the clone have clawed and kicked each other for box office supremacy ever since the latter joined the fray.
This week, Brave New World came out on top, taking third place with $4.1 million, bringing its total domestic earnings just north of $192 million. To come full circle, that’s the same dollar amount that Disney’s most profitable live-action remake, The Lion King, made in its opening weekend back in 2019.
But back to the clone in the danger zone: Mickey 17 took fourth with $3.9 million. That puts it just ahead of last week’s first place winner, Novocaine, which plummeted all the way to fifth this week by scrouging up $3.76 million. Sure, the flick may be about a guy who doesn’t feel pain, but even he must have felt the impact of that fall.
After that, we have The Alto Knights, starring Robert De Niro. The Warner Bros. film earned a lackluster sixth place with a mere $3.17 million. Still, that’s better than Locked, the Bill Skarsgård flick which was locked out of a profit. It earned $964,000 for 12th place in its opening weekend.
The sci-fi horror mystery, Ash, found that its scariest moment was taking 14th place in its opening weekend with $717,000. And Magazine Dreams, featuring Marvel’s scrapped big bad villain, Jonathan Majors, failed to impress. The movie, originally slated for a 2023 release, made a mere $700,000 for 16th place.
