Disney’s live-action remake of Snow White and the Huntsman was a bona fide hit in 2012. Snow White is the latest in a long line of live-action reimaginings of classic Disney animated films. Most of them have been successful at the box office, like Aladdin and Beauty and the Beast, and some of them have even been well-received by critics, like The Jungle Book. But Snow White has been a critical and commercial disappointment; it received mostly negative reviews from critics and got review-bombed by audiences.
While A Minecraft Movie has been breaking box office records and exceeding expectations left and right, Snow White’s controversies haven’t helped it, but a different live-action Snow White movie seemed to set up a much stronger theatrical run.
Disney's Snow White Remake Has Made Significantly Less Than 2012's Snow White & The Huntsman
Snow White & The Huntsman Was A Bona Fide Blockbuster Hit
Back in 2012, a different live-action Snow White film — Snow White and the Huntsman — was a much bigger box office hit than Disney’s official live-action remake. Throughout its theatrical run, Snow White and the Huntsman grossed a worldwide total of $396.6 million against a production budget of $170 million (via Box Office Mojo). It was a big enough hit to turn a profit for the studio and score a sequel, The Huntsman: Winter’s War. Disney’s Snow White remake isn’t out of theaters yet, but it won’t come close to making that amount.
Disney’s Snow White remake isn’t out of theaters yet, but it won’t come close to making that amount.
Much like Rachel Zegler’s Snow White movie, Snow White and the Huntsman set out to tell a more empowering version of the original fairy tale that gave Snow White a bit more agency. Snow White and the Huntsman tells the story as an action-adventure and turns Kristen Stewart’s Snow White into a badass action hero. When Charlize Theron’s Evil Queen sends Chris Hemsworth’s Huntsman to assassinate Snow White, they team up to overthrow the queen.
Why Snow White & The Huntsman's Box Office Is So Much Bigger Than Disney's Remake
Twilight's Popularity Was At An All-Time High
By featuring Stewart in a gloomy fantasy epic, Snow White and the Huntsman was able to capitalize on the success of Twilight, which was at an all-time high in 2012 in between the first and second halves of Breaking Dawn. It’s also important to that movie theaters were in a much healthier place in 2012. It was long before streaming would dominate the industry and COVID-19 would land a devastating blow to the market. Still, even taking all of that into , Disney’s Snow White remake isn’t close to matching the success of Snow White and the Huntsman.
Source: Box Office Mojo
Snow White and the Huntsman
- Release Date
- May 30, 2012
- Runtime
- 127 Minutes
- Director
- Rupert Sanders
WHERE TO WATCH
- Writers
- Evan Daugherty, John Lee Hancock, Hossein Amini
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