“Snow White” leading actress Rachel Zegler is getting mercilessly mocked online for bragging about the live-action Disney remake taking top honors at the box office.
“#1 MOVIE IN THE WORLD!” the 23-year-old star captioned a restricted Instagram post with limited comments alongside a photo of her dressed as the titular Disney princess while waving from a trailer on the film’s set. The caption also featured a red apple emoji and a snowflake emoji.
While Zegler may be technically correct that “Snow White” came in first place, the truth is that the film has one of Disney’s worst-ever opening weekends for a remake and came nowhere near to recouping its massive $270 million production budget.
The film brought in just $43 million domestically, which was on par with major studio flop “Dumbo” (2019), which made $46 million during its debut.
For comparison, Disney’s live-action update of “The Little Mermaid” (2023) made $95 million during its first weekend. Movie insiders and mainstream media outlets have all been reporting that “Snow White” is on its way to becoming one of the biggest flops the studio ever had.
Online critics were quick to point this out in the comments, mocking Zegler for celebrating such an obvious disaster.
“What in the Hunter Biden have you been smoking ?? You have the worst opening in Disney history,” one social media commenter replied.
“A lower score than Dragon Ball evolution the movie in IMDb hahahahahahahahaha,” another one said.
“It’s just because there’s no competition .. not true at all,” another person replied, alluding to the fact that there were no other major premieres last weekend when “Snow White” nabbed the top spot.
The next highest earner behind “Snow White” for the weekend of March 21 was the thriller “Black Bag,” which brought in $4.2 million.
“The biggest flop ever,” another Instagram user wrote.
“Are you delusional?” echoed another.
Besides just performing poorly at the box office, the film has also been totally trashed by most critics. “Snow White” currently has a 44% critic score on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes.
One critic described the movie as “a film made by people with cartoon dollar signs for eyes and not even the tiniest glimmer of art in their souls.”
