The Snow White live-action film has been a disaster for Disney since it was announced, but recently, a number came out that told people just how big a disaster it really was.
The 2025 film had a reported production budget of around $240- $270 million at the time, but it grossed only about $205.7 million during its theatrical run. Conventional box office wisdom indicates that a film needs to make two times its budget on the box office to break even, but Snow White didn’t even come close to that.
Now, a new report from Forbes indicates that Snow White went way over budget, with a final cost of $336.5 million, and that new information also makes it easy to calculate how much money Disney lost on the Rachel Zegler film.
If Snow White was made on a production budget of $336.5 million and it made around $205.7 million worldwide, $102.9 million of which would have went to Disney and that would have made Disney to lose around $233.6 million but Snow White was shot in the U.K. and there are certain advantages to that with the main one being that the U.K. government reimburses the studio a part of their production budget for shooting in their country and for that Disney got $64.9 million, which makes the amount Disney lost because of Snow White to be $169 million.
Snow White is directed by Marc Webb from a screenplay by Erin Cressida Wilson, and it stars Zegler in the titular role with Andrew Burnap, Gal Gadot, Jeremy Swift, Martin Klebba, George Salazar, Tituss Burgess, and Jason Kravits rounding out the cast.
Disney’s Other 2025 Flop
While Snow White was the biggest 2025 flop for Disney but it wasn’t the only one as Captain America: Brave New World and Thunderbolts* also lost the studio money as well as Pixar’s Elio and also Disney’s Tron: Ares, which became a massive financial disappointment because it only made around $142 million on the production budget of $180-$220 million.
Disney’s Biggest Hits of 2025
Even though Disney had some massive box-office disasters last year, that doesn’t mean it was a lost cause, because other Disney films made massive amounts of money, with three crossing the billion-dollar mark.
The three biggest Hollywood films from last year were all made by Disney. The third film is Disney’s live-action adaptation of the 2002 animated film Lilo & Stitch, which grossed around $1.038 billion on a $100 million budget. The second-biggest Disney hit of 2025 is James Cameron‘s new Avatar film, which grossed $1.441 billion on a budget of $350–500+ million. The biggest Hollywood film of last year was a sequel to Disney’s 2016 film Zootopia, which grossed over $1.8 billion on a $150 million production budget.