'Moana' joins 'Snow White' as the latest live-action Disney film to bomb at box office

The era of the lazy live-action Disney Studios remake might be finally, mercifully, coming to an end.

Disney has, for most of the past decade, made a point to abandon original movies in favor of taking its beloved catalog of animated films and turning them into "live-action" remakes. Some of these have been successful either critically or commercially, like the 2015 version of "Cinderella," 2016's "The Jungle Book," or the 2019 remake of "The Lion King," which inexplicably made nearly $1.7 billion worldwide.

As recently as 2025...