“West Side Story" can still be expected to play well through the lucrative holiday corridor, during which younger-skewing films like “Spider-Man: No Way Home” (expected to next weekend become the first pandemic release to open with $100 million or more domestically) and “Sing 2” will likely be the top draws. The 1961 film, directed by Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise, made $43.7 million (or about $400 million adjusted for inflation) and won 10 Oscars, including best picture. “West Side Story," too, is among the most beloved musicals. Surely, one of the movies' dazzling craftsmen, a director synonymous with box office, could spark a fuller revival in theaters. If anyone could reignite moviegoing, the thinking went, it was him. The critically panned “Dear Evan Hansen,” from Universal, debuted with $7.4 million in September.īut this was Spielberg. release simultaneously streamed on HBO Max. Lin-Manuel Miranda's “In the Heights” launched with $11 million in June but the Warner Bros. Musicals, too, have struggled to catch on in theaters. ![]() Audiences have steadily returned to multiplexes in the second year of the pandemic, but older moviegoers, who made up the bulk of ticket-buyers for Spielberg's latest, have been among the slowest to return. But “West Side Story” faced a challenging marketplace for both adult-driven releases and musicals.
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