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Silver lining here: If Rita Moreno had been nominated, she would have been in the same category as Ariana DeBose. That scenario would have created the possibility that the two could split the vote and allow someone else to win. With DeBose as the only nominee from West Side Story, admirers of...

I'm not sure how a sequel to West Side Story is even allowable because the original show should still be under copyright. Unless the estates of the authors authorized this, it seems like possible copyright infringement to me.

Yes and no. They acquired it in development, but it shot in summer 2019. So Disney owned the studio before it was actually filming. Disney probably could have stopped it and put it into turnaround if they had not wanted to proceed. It is a recognizable property and came with one of the...

This is plainly incorrect. In 2019, Disney made a billion dollars each with remakes of Aladdin and The Lion King. Neither of those were anywhere near as well-received by critics as Spielberg's West Side Story has been. The Lion King was (almost) a shot-for-shot recreation, which West Side...

That might have been the case before COVID-19. But certainly not now. We are still in a public health emergency which is currently getting worse again from the rise of Omicron. Spider-Man had the second-biggest domestic launch ever behind only Avengers: Endgame. Although I am glad that the...

Just to be clear, the film was never actually intended to be released in 2019. Principal photography occurred in summer 2019, but I don't think it was ever going to be finished with post-production in time for an Oscar season release in 2019. The original announced intended release date was...