Hoppers Had a Worse Debut than Rachel Zegler's Snow White: The Media Pretends It's the Opposite

Hoppers Had a Worse Debut than Rachel Zegler's Snow White: The Media Pretends It's the Opposite

The new movie from Pixar, Hoppers, may be performing worse than last year’s Snow White, the media refuses to say so. The theatrical debuts of Disney’s live-action Snow White (2025) and Pixar’s animated Hoppers illustrate how dramatically the tone of media coverage can shape the public perception of a film’s box office performance. While the two movies opened to broadly similar revenue levels, the industry press treated their debuts very differen…