Snow White” may be the fairest of them all with a leading $43 million in its domestic box office debut, but Disney’s latest live-action remake is off to a sleepy start. Overseas, “Snow White” also opened slightly behind projections with $44.

Disney's Snow White didn't do well at the box office this weekend. But Robert De Niro's new gangster movie The Alto Knights did even worse.

Disney executives might feel more aligned with the dwarves known as Grumpy or Bashful rather than one called Happy after a Sleepy box office start for “Snow White.” The studio’s live-action remake of 1937’s “Snow White and the Seven Dwarves” opened slightly behind expectations at the international box office with $44.3 million from 51 markets. …