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Vincent's point is that if you look at the song list, it's only listed once in the track title. But "Tonight, tonight" is absolutely the correct lyric, so you had it right in that sense. "I Feel Pretty" is another song altogether though.

It's an in-line spoiler tag to protect the spoiler so that people reading this thread who haven't seen the movie yet won't know. Click on it and it will un-blur.

I am not saying this in order to berate you or to make it seem like your response is not valid. Whether you like the film or not is your opinion and that is valid. However, the issue you are referring to in your spoiler tag also happens in the 1961 film, and the Broadway show, and Romeo and...

That is definitely a possibility. We'll have to see what happens when Disney issues a press release, which I'm surprised they haven't done yet. A March 8 digital purchase date for Nightmare Alley is two weeks before the disc release. West Side Story is also (almost) two weeks between Disney+...

I don't have any official information, but I think the digital purchase date is likely to be March 2. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Eternals and Encanto were all made available for digital purchase on the same day that they appeared on Disney+. So that appears to be Disney's...

For those interested, pre-orders are live. The release date is March 15. In addition to the standard 4K+Blu-ray and Blu-ray single editions, Best Buy has an exclusive steelbook release. I locked in my pre-order for this and then came over here to let you all know. Hopefully it is a little...

I think that is exactly what they are going to do. I haven't seen a press release yet, so I can't say this with certainty. But Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Encanto and Eternals became available for digital purchase on the same day that they arrived on Disney+. So that does...

Having the movie on a subscription service (or in this case two, because Disney is obligated to share it with HBO Max) is intended to drive people to the streamer. They don't care if you pluck down $20 to buy it. I'm sure they will be happy to take any sales they can get. But they would...

Even if it had been a huge box office hit, nothing that this version was ever going to do would have displaced the status of the original film as a major achievement in film history. I do not think that was Spielberg's intention. I think he has made a great second film which exists in...

This film didn't make as much money as those involved had hoped. But I still think it will stand next to the original. If anything, streaming will provide it to a new audience that perhaps wasn't willing to go out to the theater during the pandemic. The full story of this film has not been...

How do you figure that? Steven Speilberg made a critically acclaimed film which was nominated for seven Oscars, including Best Picture and Director. I think it will stand next to the original with pride and distinction.

A streaming debut date of March 2 gives West Side Story an 82-day theatrical window (83 days if you consider the Thursday night sneak previews on December 9.) This is remarkably close to the old 90-day model, even though they were only committed to 45 days.

A bit about the costumes with designer Paul Taswell:

We've already discussed this and I've said my thoughts about it, which are well documented earlier in this thread. I don't feel the need to add more on this subject.

The reason that the box office (or lack thereof) concerns me is because the industry has a habit of treating every musical like it has the weight of the entire genre on its shoulders. If a horror movie happens to underperform, people ask why that movie didn't work. They don't question whether...

I agree. It would have been nice for some of the Spanish to be subtitled, but the film still works tremendously well as-is. I think that the two films are actually very complimentary to each other and I love that we have them both now.

West Side Story was originally written in English by men who speak English. Therefore, I disagree with Spielberg's assertion that subtitling the Spanish would give "power" to the English. I understood the majority of the scenes in Spanish because I am already acquainted with West Side Story...

Respectfully, that is absolutely not the case.

There were six people, including me, with reserved tickets for my showtime this afternoon on the Cinemark XD screen, which is the biggest one in my theater. One or two others might have come in from walkup business, but I don't think so. It was essentially dead. As has been documented at the...

Is there a way to change the cover image at the top of this thread? The image that is up there now is from the 1961 film, which made sense before there were a lot of pictures available from the 2021 film. Now, since the new film is out and it is the subject of this thread, it would be nice to...

Because the weekend following Thanksgiving is typically one of the lowest-grossing weekends of the year even before the pandemic. Studios generally steer clear of it. Although Spider-Man is going to get a lot of business, West Side Story is not a particularly similar film, so I don't think...

West Side Story is not a Marvel film and to judge it against the metrics of a Marvel film is ridiculous. No one who worked on this movie would expect it to open in line with a Marvel film. Spielberg tends to draw older audiences to his recent awards bait movies. We know that the older...

I started this thread way back on January 19, 2018 when news of this project was announced on Deadline. Like many people, my initial reaction was one of confusion and skepticism as to why Spielberg would even attempt doing this, and I came around to the idea of the movie during discussion here...

If we are talking about differences between the two films before this one comes out, can those be put under spoiler tags, please? I'd rather not know any more than I already do going into my screening.

Amazon has billed me for my copy of the soundtrack, so it should be sent out tomorrow to arrive on Friday. I am seeing the film on Saturday. So far, two other people besides me have purchased tickets to my screening.

West Side Story is absolutely something that makes sense to me to receive a PG-13 rating. The rating reason from the MPAA says "Rated PG-13 for some strong violence, strong language, thematic content, suggestive material and brief smoking. " All of that makes sense given what we already know...

I suspect it will be Krup You like it always is. I don't see any reason to change that. But if you really want the answer right now, the soundtrack is already available digitally.

Right. That's an interesting choice. I guess we will find out how it is played very soon. I am going to the movie on Saturday.

I don't know. Maybe Spielberg just wanted to cast Iris Menas in the role?