{"id":1131946,"date":"2021-12-19T11:04:43","date_gmt":"2021-12-19T16:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1131946"},"modified":"2021-12-19T11:04:46","modified_gmt":"2021-12-19T16:04:46","slug":"nolte-spielbergs-woke-side-story-dives-68-at-box-office-in-week-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nolte-spielbergs-woke-side-story-dives-68-at-box-office-in-week-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Nolte: Spielberg&#039;s &#039;Woke Side Story&#039; Dives 68% at Box Office in Week Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnolte-spielbergs-woke-side-story-dives-68-at-box-office-in-week-two%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1131946&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/westsidestoryBO1-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">All hope for Steven Spielberg\u2019s racially divisive <em>West Side Story<\/em> remake died in week two, plummeting&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2021\/12\/spider-man-no-way-home-50m-preview-easily-pandemic-record-all-time-for-sony-100m-friday-likely-1234898486\/\">68 percent<\/a> with a humiliating take of just $3.4 million.<\/p>\n<p>After ten days in release, which includes two weekends, this historic box office bomb has grossed just $17.9 million.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The hope had been that word of mouth would give <em>Woke Side <\/em>box office legs. Sorry, nope. No legs. Just two little stumps.<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"West Side Story l PART 1\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UzVSTeQFKmM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>Between production and marketing, this stinker probably cost close to $200 million. As a result, Disney\u2019s going to lose a fortune.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>To understand just how awful those numbers are, in its second week, <em>West Side Story<\/em> lost to <em>Ghostbusters: Afterlife<\/em>, which is in its <em>fifth week<\/em> \u2014 $3.4 million for the woke musical, compared to $3.63 million for the non-woke continuation of the <em>Ghostbusters<\/em> franchise, which I finally had a chance to see this week and loved. <em>Ghostbusters: Afterlife<\/em> is a real charmer, sort of a <em>Goonies <\/em>meets <em>Ghostbusters<\/em> set in Middle America with a nice religious theme. Thus far, it\u2019s grossed $118 million and should do very well over the Christmas holidays.<\/p>\n<p>Director Guillermo del Toro\u2019s remake of <em>Nightmare Alley <\/em>is an even bigger flop than West Side Story. In its first week of wide release, it died an ignoble death at just $3.25 million.<\/p>\n<p>Here you have a director coming off a Best Picture\/Director win for <em>The Shape of Water <\/em>who assembled a cast that includes Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Willem Dafoe, Rooney Mara, and Toni Collette; he then earns rave reviews and a ton of buzz, and what happens? Floperoo.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>Well, first off, the Internet isn\u2019t real life. Then there\u2019s the fact that del Toro is a great visualist but weak storyteller. Finally, nobody outside of Manhattan or Beverly Hills liked <em>The Shape of Water,<\/em> and instead of selling a story, the <em>Nightmare Alley<\/em> trailers sold the visuals.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Granted, if this were playing in my area, I would have gone to see it. The 1947 original starring Tyrone Power cannot be improved upon, but it\u2019s such a killer story I wouldn\u2019t mind seeing another interpretation. It looks like I\u2019ll have to wait for streaming.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of streaming, that\u2019s what will be blamed for <em>Nightmare Alley\u2019s<\/em> floperoo, along with the China Flu. Okay, but then someone\u2019s going to have to explain to me why <em>House of Gucci<\/em> has already earned a perfectly respectable $45 million. <em>House of Gucci<\/em> was another one I caught this weekend. It\u2019s never dull, but it\u2019s nothing special. Nevertheless, people still wanted to see it, so people went out to see it\u2014 even though it\u2019s an adult drama.<\/p>\n<p>Same with <em>Spider-Man: No Way Home<\/em>, which opened this weekend dead in the middle of the Omicron fear porn to a quarter of a billion \u2014 with a \u201cB\u201d \u2014 dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone\u2019s saying, <em>Oh, people will still go to the movies to see superheroes<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Again, that\u2019s spin. People didn\u2019t see <em>Spider-Man: No Way Home<\/em> because it\u2019s a superhero movie. They went because it\u2019s a movie they want to see.<\/p>\n<p>If Hollywood makes movies people actually want to see, woke-free entertainment like <em>No Way Home,<\/em> <em>Ghostbusters: Afterlife<\/em>, and <em>House of Gucci<\/em>, people will show up.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t hard.<\/p>\n<p>Idiots.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Follow John Nolte on Twitter <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NolteNC\"><strong><em>@NolteNC<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong>. <em>Follow his Facebook Page <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JohnNolteNC\/?skip_nax_wizard=true\"><strong><em>here<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All hope for Steven Spielberg\u2019s racially divisive West Side Story remake died in week two, plummeting\u00a068 percent with a humiliating take of just $3.4 million. 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