Disney's Snow White remake cost $336.5M to make — and grossed $205.7M

Disney had been remaking its animated catalog into live action for fifteen years, and in 2025 it reached the film that founded the studio. Snow White opened on March 21, 2025, at a cost the company's own accounts later showed was far beyond plan: filings of Hidden Heart Productions, Disney's UK production vehicle, for the year ended December 31, 2024 recorded production costs of $336.5M and stated the film 'was forecasted to be over the production budget'.

The remake took in $87.2M domestically and closed at $205.7M worldwide. Against the production cost alone — before any marketing spend — Forbes calculated a theatrical loss of $168.7M when it reported the filing in February 2026, noting Disney's quarterly results had attributed a fall in entertainment operating income partly to higher programming and production costs. It was the clearest bill yet for the remake strategy: a story every audience already knew, rebuilt at record cost.