Like Snow White and the Huntsman, I really wanted to like Jack the Giant Slayer.

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The new line combined classic princesses like Snow White and Sleeping Beauty with newer characters like Ariel from The Little Mermaid.

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Studios hoped that films like Red Riding Hood and Snow White and the Huntsman would fill the hole being left by the ending of Twilight and Harry Potter.

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Movies like The Hunger Games, Brave, Prometheus and Snow White and the Huntsman did great box office business with female leads.

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That movie included some of the more disturbing aspects of the story like the huntsman who, under orders from the Evil Queen, takes Snow White into the woods with the intention of cutting her heart out.

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"The snow has been causing a lot of problems but from the air it's like a white blanket has been laid over the landscape, " he told BBC Radio Wales.

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Though metropolises like New York may be used to the white stuff, London tends to get little more than a dusting of snow on most winters, which made the 10.0 inches or so of snowfall across the capital all the more startling on Monday.

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