Violent and outspoken Hollywood “star” Rachel Zegler appears to have another bombshell on her ever-growing list of box office failures with her latest film's underwhelming debut. Y2K.
The low-budget $15 million horror/comedy opened to great success in theaters on its opening weekend, grossing $2.1 million in three days. With a slow opening, the film has little chance of recouping its budget and advertising costs.
It's a new hurdle on her path to stardom. Zegler wowed critics with her star performance as Maria in the 2021 remake. west side story And she was quickly tagged as Hollywood's rising star. But since then, every movie she's appeared in has had an egg on its opening weekend. In fact, even the musical beloved by critics failed to recoup $100 million. budget And only earned $76 million worldwide.
Her two other big films also had disappointing opening weekends. Shazam! rage of the gods and The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes Both grossed less than half of their opening budgets. Both later turned a profit, but despite being two hugely popular series entries, neither got off to a strong start.
Of course, Zegler has been very outspoken about her woke ideals, not allowing her “star power” room to grow before revealing her intolerant side to the public.
Stars of Disney's big-budget remakes snow white He was variously heard telling white people to “learn Spanish,” attacking “white privilege,” and slamming the 1937 version of the famous Disney film. snow white She suggested that it was sexist and that the Prince character should be removed from the story, and expressed support for Palestinians during the film's promotional tour. She also accused President Trump's voters of being mentally ill and hateful, then said she wished harm to come to them, and went on to say that anyone who opposes her wild proclamations is racist. He concluded by lamenting that he was a man.
Her loud antics are having a serious negative impact on Disney's upcoming remake snow white. The negative reaction to the film's star and her constant proclamations of wokeness can be seen in the backlash that hit the film's trailer on YouTube. By December, the trailer received just 17,000 “up” votes and was slammed with a staggering 215,000 “down” votes.
As for her latest movie: Y2Kstarted far behind the pack as the eighth most popular film at the box office.
Y2K It performed so poorly at the box office that a re-release of the 2017 film and a Bollywood production surpassed Zegler's film at the box office last weekend.
The top three movies are Moana 2, Wickedand gladiator 2. However, the fourth place went to an Indian Telugu action drama. Pushpa: Rules Part 2. And in sixth place, with two films still grossing more than Zegler, was a re-release of a 2017 sci-fi film. interstellar.
Even the 7th place movie earned twice as much as Zegler. Y2K Made from little-known animated movies Solo Leveling: Reawakening Earns 4.1 million.
Despite being such an up-and-coming star, Rachel Zegler just can't seem to get audiences into the theater seats for any of her movies, not just this weekend. This all bodes very badly for Disney, who is reportedly already sinking box office revenue. $400 million in future investments snow white.
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