As per informations available online, Disney’s ‘Snow White’ will have a premiere at the El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles on March 15, 2025, while it will be released in the US theaters on March 21, 2025.
The European premiere was held on Wednesday at a castle in Northern Spain, instead of a more traditional and high-profile location such as London’s Leicester Square. The film is a live-action remake of ‘Snow White’, starring Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot.
As per BBC, the film has faced several issues throughout its production and now the movie is being released amid a debate about how the seven dwarfs are represented on screen, while Zegler has made headlines for critical comments about the original 1937 film.
The debate around the film began making headlines in January 2022, when Game of Thrones star Peter Dinklage, an actor with Dwarfism, described the decision to retell the story of “seven dwarfs living in a cave” as “backward”, BBC reported.
“Disney has used computer-generated dwarfs in the remake and said it would “avoid reinforcing stereotypes from the original animated film”, the report added.
Despite the backlash, Snow White is expected to perform well at the box office. Industry experts project the film could gross up to $53 million during its opening weekend, making it the second-biggest opening of the year, behind Captain America: Brave New World. Disney’s decision to host a smaller premiere for the film, excluding most media outlets, is seen as an effort to control the narrative ahead of its release.
