West Side Story’ Disappoints With Poor $4.1 Million Friday:
topped the Friday box office with a mediocre $4.1 million gross. Even noting still-potent Covid variables keeping older viewers out of cinemas, this is below the $5 million Friday for-style duel between Steven Spielberg's Hispanic-centric musical and Jon M. Chu's Hispanic-centric musical.
Many mistook online interest and demographically-specific media passion for general audience interest inEven Warner Bros. knew that hype wasn't extending beyond Film Twitter. Conversely, the only reason any of us thought a newfangledwould score in 2021 was that Steven Spielberg was in the director's chair. That helped makegross $581 million worldwide in 2018. It didn't remotely move the needle in summer 2016 with. Spielberg's recent historical dramas have been decent-sized hits .
Speaking of nobody showing up for the kind of intelligent, adult-skewing, inclusive, non-franchise films we all claim to want, STX Entertainment essentially snuckinto 1,200 theaters yesterday. The of-the-moment drama, about a star college football player who tries to get his teammates to sit out on the championship game to demand that NCAA athletes be paid, is penned by Adam Mervis and directed by Ric Roman Waugh.
Keanu Reeves and Hugo Weaving face each other in a scene from Andy and Larry Wachowski's 1999 movie The Matrix. In this scene, Neo fights the computerized Agent Smith . Law Abiding Citizen . I'm old enough to remember when an original, R-rated, high-concept thriller starring Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler could be a hit with $128 million worldwide on a $50 million budget. Speaking of rereleases, the only other “new release” of note this weekend is Warner Bros.’ reissue of. The Wachowskis’ trendsetting smash got a first-ever IMAX release obviously timed to the upcoming debut ofon December 22.
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