the idea was scrapped and it was rewritten as a stand-alone story. Reception Box office The film opened at number three at the North American box office, making 14.3 million in its first weekend, behind The Beach and Scream 3, the latter of which was on its second week at the top spot. Snow Day was a box office success, earning $60,020,107 in its domestic run, and $62,464,731 worldwide. Critical response Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes reports the film holds an approval rating of 29% based on 66 reviews, with an average score of 4.26/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Weak assembly of characters and story lines made this movie forgettable and silly." Metacritic gives it a weighted average score of 34 out of 100, based on reviews from 22 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews." Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B−" on an A+ to F scale. In a comparison to 1983's A Christmas Story, Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times called Snow Day "an uninspired assembly of characters and story lines that interrupt one another until the battle against Snowplow Man takes over just when we're hoping he will disappear from the movie and set free the teenage romance trapped inside it." Aside from the film itself, Ebert also wrote, "What a thoughtless place is Hollywood, and what talent it must feel free to waste", in reference to Pam Grier being given another "lousy role" after her "wonderful performance" in Jackie Brown. Entertainment Weeklys Owen Gleiberman wrote "Even Snow Days winter wonderland looks fake," and gave it an F grade. Accolades Soundtrack The film's soundtrack peaked at number 183 on the Billboard 200 chart. The following songs were included in the film but not featured on the soundtrack: Al Martino – "Love Letters", "Fascination" and "To Each His Own" Irving Berlin – "Heat Wave" Smash Mouth – "Satellite" Ernest Gold – "The Big W" Simon Chardiet – "Drag Blob" The Wiseguys – "Ooh La La" Schuyler Fisk – "It's Not Her" The Brian Setzer Orchestra – "Switchblade 327" Musical remake On March 1, 2022, it was announced that a remake of the film had gone into production in Montreal. Reimagined as a musical, it stars Ky Baldwin, Jerry Trainor, Laura Bell Bundy, Rob Huebel, Michaela Russell, Shelby Simmons, and Fabi Aguirre. It was released on Nickelodeon and Paramount+ on December 16 of that