The total and utter box-office failure of “West Side Story” should be seen as another example of great reviews and an A-list director not being enough of a formula for success in the COVID era.
Spielberg’s film has so far made just $36.6 million in WORLDWIDE ticket sales — that includes just $23 million domestically. It’s an astonishingly low figure for a movie whose budget is said to be over $100 million, not including marketing costs.
What Disney should now do is just release the damn thing on its streaming platform to see if it can be revived by an over-35 adult audience now more into streaming stuff at home than going to the movie theatre.