Breitbart: The hacks in the entertainment media are much more interested in retaining the Disney Grooming Syndicate’s advertising dollars and access than telling the truth and have invented a litany of hilarious excuses for why Snow White bombed like nothing’s ever bombed in the history of bombs.

Let’s run through this anti-science nonsense one by one…

Disney could have screened the movie early for social-media influencers to get great word of mouth out there. But the movie sucks. And its suckage has nothing to do with the controversy created by star Rachel Zegler or Disney’s decision to alter the dwarfs and the prince and turn the Snow White character into a girlboss.

The movie objectively blows chunks. And, in fact, there were early Twitter/X reviews, all of which I would sum up this way: Not as bad as I expected. Where exactly was this “great word of mouth” expected to come from?

Still, as we reported, the uphill with Snow White is the fact it’s a feature take of a classic Disney toon (Dumbo, Maleficent). And those have a very different box office outcome than anything being adapted past the 1989 Jeffrey Katzenberg musical renaissance (Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Lion King). 

So, live-action adaptations of pre-1989 productions are bound to struggle at the box office for generational reasons.

Okay.

Then why did the 2016 live-action adaptation of 1967’s Jungle Book nearly clear a billion dollars worldwide?

Why did the 2015 live-action adaptation of 1950’s Cinderella clear $542 million worldwide?

Why did Maleficent, the 2014 live-action adaptation of 1959’s Sleeping Beauty, clear $759 million worldwide and spawn a sequel that grossed $491 million?

Why did the 1996 live-action adaptation of 1961’s 101 Dalmations clear $321 million worldwide 30 years ago, which is $653 million in today’s dollars?

Alice in Wonderland is the exception with a $1 billion global take, made with the acid stylings of Tim Burton and Johnny Depp when the latter was hot as hell in a pre-streaming 2010.

But-but-but excuses… And I just listed FOUR “exceptions,” which makes Snow White the exception. And Snow White is the exception because Rachel Zegler trashed the beloved original. Disney woke-raped the beloved original. And the movie sucked. This has ZERO to do with pre-1989.