After all these years, we finally have a date.
Ever since 1937, Snow White has been singing about how someday her prince would come.
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The song was featured in Disney’s (DIS)  animated fantasy Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which is based on the 1812 fairy tale “Snow White” by the Brothers Grimm.
Snow White was the highest-grossing film of 1938, and it held the record as the highest-grossing animated film for 55 years.
It is the first animated feature film produced in the United States and the first cel-animated feature film, meaning each frame was drawn by hand.
Snow White tells the story of…oh, c’mon, really? Do we have to do this? It’s the one with the poison apple, the Prince, and all those singing dwarfs.
Anyway, skipping ahead 88 years, we arrived in the 21st Century, and someday is now just around the corner.Â
Disney is scheduled to release a live-action reimagining of the animated classic, which stars Rachel Zegler, Andrew Burnap, and Gal Gadot, on March 21.
CEO of Disney Bob Iger (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP) (Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images) said streaming is the future of the television business,
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The world has changed a great deal since the 1930s. The new film has attracted more than a little controversy, including complaints from some circles about casting a Latina actress–Zegler–as the title character, the depiction of the Seven Dwarfs, and Zegler’s comments about the original film being old and in need of a refresh.
There are also reports that Zegler and Gadot, who plays the Evil Queen, weren’t exactly whistling while they worked.Â
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Gadot and Zegler are on opposite sides of the IsraeliâPalestinian conflict, with Gadot supporting Israel and Zegler supporting Palestine, and the release of the teaser trailer provoked calls to boycott the film.
The two actresses appeared together at the Oscars, presenting the award for Best Visual Effects.
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â Walt Disney Studios (@DisneyStudios) March 3, 2025
The teaser trailer for Snow White was released on YouTube in August and reportedly became the most disliked teaser for a film trailer on the platform. Then, the first full trailer was released on YouTube in December and became one of the most disliked film trailers on the site.
Meanwhile, the merch machine is buzzing right along, with Disney teaming up with Mattel (MAT)  on two new âDisney Collectorâ edition dolls.
First unveiled at the New York Toy Fair, the limited-edition release features 12-inch dolls of Snow White and the Evil Queen, respectively, Variety reported.
Disney shares are down 3.3% from a year ago, and shares have slipped 1.24% since the start of 2025.
The entertainment giant beat Wall Street’s first-quarter earnings expectations on Feb. 5.
“Our results in Q1 demonstrate our creative and financial strength and they reflect the success of our strategic initiatives that we set in motion over the past two years,” CEO Robert Iger said during the company’s earnings call.Â
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“We had the top 3 movies of 2024 at the global box office, and I want to thank and congratulate our creative teams on such an incredible year,” he added.
Iger told analysts that streaming is âreally the future of the television business,” but Disney+, the companyâs streaming service, reported a 1% decline in subscribers compared with the previous quarter, with a 1% increase in domestic subscriptions and a 2% decrease internationally.
The company had already predicted this slowdown last quarter, warning investors about an upcoming slight decline in streaming subscribers and advising that there would be another âmodest declineâ in subscribers during the second quarter.
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Disney recently pulled the plug on its Tiana princess series as it abandons making original longform content for streaming, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The series was announced in December 2020, and was envisioned as a musical featuring Anika Noni Rose reprising her role as Tiana from the 2009 film The Princess and the Frog, the film centering on Disneyâs first Black princess.
Sources close to the streaming series say that despite best efforts, including several changes to the creative team, Tiana ultimately could not get to where it needed to be given production costs.
Loop Capital analyst Alan Gould raised the firm’s price target on Disney to $130 from $125 on March 4 and kept a buy rating on the shares, according to The Fly.
The company’s FY25 guidance appears conservative, implying that the next 9-months earnings per share is down year-over-year.
However, the analyst said that assuming Snow Whiteâan expensive title with mixed early reception being released later this monthâis not a problem, guidance and estimates should rise.
Disney’s DTV profits are growing quicker than linear profits are declining, he said. Linear, by the way, takes in cable and satellite television and follows a predetermined programming schedule,
The combined DTV/linear profits should top the recent combined peak of FY21 and keep growing, Gould added.
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