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Steven Spielberg’s Woke ‘West Side Story’ Bombs with $10M Opening
Breitbart ^ | 12/11/2021 | John Nolte

Posted on 12/12/2021 8:04:20 AM PST by marcusmaximus

Director Steven Spielberg’s woke West Side Story remake is a box office catastrophe expected to open in the $10 million range.

How awful is that? Well, do you remember that previous woke catastrophe, In the Heights? It opened to $11.5 million.

West Side Story is projected to bomb harder than In the Heights, lol.

Even so, the In the Heights’ production budget was only $55 million.

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KEYWORDS: broke; choke; flop; getwokegobroke; hollyweird; hollywood; movies; spielberg; westsidestory; woke; wokebroke; wokechoke; wokesidestory
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To: DJ MacWoW

Yes, although their virtues are false ones. Not Biblical virtues, but man-made ones that God has no use for. And they use them like a club, telling themselves they are pious while calling everyone else bad people.


41 posted on 12/12/2021 8:55:50 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: marcusmaximus

The live [black] Annie wasn’t much of success, either. It pulled in 5.16 million viewers — low compared to previous live TV musicals.

Classics are classics for a reason, and remakes is not one of them — especially not woke remakes.

Cedric the entertainer’s movie rendition of Ralph Kramden in the Honeymooners remake was another box-office disaster.

Maybe these make for good tax write-off loses.


42 posted on 12/12/2021 8:57:28 AM PST by TomGuy (!)
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To: marcusmaximus

Could this be why...?

https://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2021/12/blind-item-1_11.html


43 posted on 12/12/2021 9:00:39 AM PST by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: marcusmaximus

Officer Krumpke, you’ve done it again!


44 posted on 12/12/2021 9:00:41 AM PST by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Yes. Mind games.....that fool no one including them.


45 posted on 12/12/2021 9:02:41 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: vetvetdoug

Agreed.


46 posted on 12/12/2021 9:04:29 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Florida: America's new free zone.)
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To: LukeL

Hollywood is full of pervs.


47 posted on 12/12/2021 9:05:15 AM PST by irishjuggler
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To: marcusmaximus

So you’re saying its this years Cats?


48 posted on 12/12/2021 9:05:17 AM PST by Skywise
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To: PGR88

They ran out of ideas a long time ago. Just look at many of the dramatic TV series: they have similar plot lines. Over time, long-running shows resort to renditions of previous episode plots.

Hollow-wood has been doing this for many decades. Movies a half-century ago just changed the names and costumes, but the plots were nearly identical.


49 posted on 12/12/2021 9:05:50 AM PST by TomGuy (!)
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To: marcusmaximus

Awfully hard to top the original.


50 posted on 12/12/2021 9:07:07 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dreams)
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To: MinorityRepublican
Hollyweird still occasionally comes out with something good, such as San Andreas from about 5 years ago. In that one, the men were almost all alpha males, including the nerdy seismologist. They were all out there doing valorous, heroic things and protecting and rescuing the women and other people in need. I'm sure that the critics panned the hell out of it.
51 posted on 12/12/2021 9:08:17 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Florida: America's new free zone.)
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To: marcusmaximus

spielburg mucked with an American icon, LEONARD BERNSTEIN!!!


52 posted on 12/12/2021 9:08:51 AM PST by Terry L Smith
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To: marcusmaximus

Guessing that’s why an ad for the movie about blew my headphones off this morning.


53 posted on 12/12/2021 9:12:14 AM PST by bgill (Which came first, the vax or the virus?)
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To: LukeL

https://youtu.be/TK9yLHXDsrM


54 posted on 12/12/2021 9:14:24 AM PST by nesnah (Infringe - act so as to limit or undermine [something]; encroach on)
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To: marcusmaximus

Get work - go broke.


55 posted on 12/12/2021 9:26:30 AM PST by GOPJ (Public Schools: Cease and desist teaching the merits of Mein Kampt and/or the Communist Manifesto. )
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To: Telepathic Intruder
What’s the matter with Hollywood these days? Is it the drugs? They’ve become a ridiculous bunch of idiots who think they’re better than everyone else because they care about things that make no sense.

There's hope. Now that thugs are looting THEIR STORES like Louis Vuitton and up-scale jewelry stores (rather than our stores like Walgreens) - there's a small possibility some of the 'charm' of black thugs/looters will fade.

56 posted on 12/12/2021 9:32:41 AM PST by GOPJ (Public Schools: Cease and desist teaching the merits of Mein Kampt and/or the Communist Manifesto. )
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To: GOPJ

They have money to pay for the fences which they will build around their enclaves. They also can afford armed security guards for where the fences don’t work as well. These things will keep threatening people out of their areas unlike border walls and border patrol agents which don’t work at all.


57 posted on 12/12/2021 9:54:31 AM PST by webheart (I thought I was helping by getting vaccinated but they say I didn’t help at all. )
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Real Puerto Ricans? Well, that does it; break out the oscars. I haven’t seen it, true, but I also don’t intend to see it. Reason: Who cares? I don’t need one; but that said, I’m familiar enough with spielberg’s past stuff not to trust it. Remakes tend to be crap anyway, and suggest the paucity of originality in that pit.


58 posted on 12/12/2021 10:17:08 AM PST by DPMD ( )
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To: mad_as_he$$

You ever see 1968’s STAR with Julie Andrews?

It was so bad it was pulled, re-cut and re-released with a new title, ‘”THOSE WERE THE HAPPY TIMES” (Formerly titled STAR)’is what the previews said.


59 posted on 12/12/2021 10:33:51 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Still OUT of Facebook Jail! But I'm pushing it!)
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To: DPMD
Real Puerto Ricans?

Now you know a movie with white actors with darkened faces to represent a different race wouldn't be made today. That's not wokeness or political correctness, it's just living in modern, contemporary times.

And yes Spielberg for all his leftism and possible shady involvement in the death of that Poltergeist actress, has made some excellent movies.

60 posted on 12/12/2021 10:34:47 AM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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