Posted on 12/19/2021 9:48:48 AM PST by marcusmaximus
All hope for Steven Spielberg’s racially divisive West Side Story remake died in week two, plummeting 68 percent with a humiliating take of just $3.4 million.
After ten days in release, which includes two weekends, this historic box office bomb has grossed just $17.9 million.
The hope had been that word of mouth would give Woke Side box office legs. Sorry, nope. No legs. Just two little stumps.
Between production and marketing, this stinker probably cost close to $200 million. As a result, Disney’s going to lose a fortune.
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And the two pay services that we are currently using, Netflix and HBOmax, are not the greatest. We extended HBOmax another month so that we could watch the the new Matrix movie, terrible by the way, and we are watching Netflix since we are binging the Breaking Bad TV series. We will be canceling HBOmax after this month and then canceling Netflix when we have finished Breaking Bad. The problem? - no new movies, just garbage. Toss in the wokeness BS and add insult while we are watching garbage. No thank you.
The problem might be in part because there are no new ideas coming from Hollywood. Just retreads of old, now tired and worn out, plots and genres.
Yup. Their loss.
The trick is to make it look new and relatable to current times.
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