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That’s actually remarkably close to what it was looking like!

I had an unexpected opportunity to see this in the afternoon so I took it and went. With Spider-Man playing in all the adjacent auditoriums it was sometimes tough to tell what was subway sound effects from WSS and what was superhero rumblings from the other room :) Two years ago, my wife was in...

Yes, Lin-Manuel Miranda did the translations and Arthur Laurents (the book’s original author) directed, so that concept certainly has the blessing of the original creative team.

I think that’s screen count rather than actual number of distinct locations (I could be wrong though), but regardless, I think there was more than enough capacity available to service demand. It looks like the demand just wasn’t there. That’s cyclical with the industry. They do the same for...

We’ll probably never be able to say with any certainty how much of that is pandemic concerns (particularly new variant), how much is audience depletion from too many big ticket films in too small a window, how much is perceived lack of urgency among potential viewers/people who will end up...

Prior to the pandemic, there were sort of different tiers of Marvel movies. The big team up films like Avengers open to $200-300 million at the box office. The more established solo characters (or the ones having breakthrough moments) can open to $100-200 million. The lower tier solo films open...

I don’t believe that to be true. The HBO Max people said in an interview with the trades that the day and date performances on their platform all year basically mirrored what was happening in theaters. Movies that had low turn out in person also weren’t highly watched at home. Movies that did...

Took that young whippersnapper quite a long time to build up that kind of clout :)

I stream. I stream on a 120” screen, with surround sound. I live over an hour away from a big city, in a village that’s just one square mile. I streamed as my house was hit by a hurricane last week.

I said the same a few days ago. The guy who started a thread called “Spielberg is the most overrated director” is not going to change his mind no matter what anyone says.

It’s so weird to me that by and large Broadway is still afraid that if home video versions of their shows were more widely available, people would stop coming out. I think the opposite is true. Broadway tickets are so expensive now that the most popular shows are the ones (in most cases) that...

You’re talking to the person who started a thread called something like “Spielberg is the most overrated director” so at least he’s consistent :D

Wise faces judgment among some Welles fans - though I don’t think it’s fair - for being the editor who cut The Magnificent Albertsons. Welles said he felt betrayed that Wise would do this. But Wise didn’t work for Welles; Wise worked for the studio, RKO, which employed both men and paid for and...

He was also never self aggrandizing or an aggressive self promoter, so there were a lot of conversations about the great directors he might have missed being a part of because he wasn’t big on putting himself in the spotlight compared to some others.

With respect, whenever anyone posts an opinion on this remake that’s different from yours, you tend to post a point by point rebuttal, continuing that line of discussion. It takes two to tango. With all of the casting and production announcements over a year old, and with six months to go until...

A private company choosing not to release an entertainment product is not censorship. Censorship would be if the government told a private company it wasn’t allowed to release an entertainment product.

These should all play in cinemas. The Warner owned titles will debut in theaters and streaming simultaneously so that the viewer has their choice of how to see them, Batman and Jurassic World aren’t expected to be ready until after the pandemic is expected to be under control anyway, and Disney...

I really didn’t want to wade into this but the comment about only young people in New York not wearing masks while only older people are doing the right thing by wearing them... that’s just not accurate. I’ve seen the opposite in my corner of NYC, where it was the younger people taking caution...

In general, I don't think it's a bad thing that studios are moving away from depicting smoking in films. It's often unnecessary, and even when it's being done by "bad guy" characters, it sends a message to viewers (particularly ones of impressionable ages) that smoking is okay and without...

I didn’t realize that Elgort’s name was big enough to justify casting him for the sake of having a name. Maybe I’m just hopelessly uncool and unhip, but I don’t see people buying tickets to this just because he’s in it.

I like that she's the right age, I like that she's not well known, but I still find it hard to believe that there was literally no one of the right age of Puerto Rican descent who was capable of playing the role. It's arguably the most famous Puerto Rican character in all of western drama, and...

Wouldn’t that be a sad commentary on progress if the only person of Puerto Rican heritage in both film versions was Rita Moreno.

I hope that turns out to be not true. Nothing against Ms. Gonzalez, but this is perhaps the most famous Puerto Rican character in the American canon, and I was hoping to see it played by someone with the same background.

I may be mistaken on the finer details, but broadly speaking, when companies like this agree to a sale like this, there are regulations in place that govern how the companies must behave while the sale is being looked into by regulators. Basically, the buyer isn't allowed to start running the...

I haven't personally, but I am aware that it screens in New York City fairly often. Just last year, a special screening was hosted with George Chakiris and Rita Moreno speaking out the film. It also screens as part of the Film Forum's "Forum Jr" kids lineup of classic films that they do once a...

Nevermind that West Side Story is, in and of itself, a musical remake of Romeo & Juliet. I've always wanted to see Romeo & Juliet and I've heard that it's even better than the West Side Story remake, but sadly (and as we all know), when WSS came out in 1961, all copies and previous film...

Puerto Rican ancestry is far richer and more diverse than saying that Puerto Ricans come from Europe. In an era where both the island of Puerto Rico and people hailing from there are being marginilized - one needs to look no further than the lack of support the island has gotten post hurricane...

I'm not really sure why you're arguing this particular point, particularly since I'm stating my opinion for why I think a remake could do some good. Having the Puerto Rican lead played by a while person of European descent is problematic casting for a 2018 audience. I believe in 2018, we can...

I'm well aware of this. But ultimately, it comes down to this: Maria is arguably the most famous Puerto Rican character in the history of American theatre and film, and in the film, she's played by a white woman in makeup.

The fact is, for everything that West Side Story does do well... It's still a film where the leading characters are essentially being played by white actors wearing a version of blackface. And while I can view the film in the context of the time that it was made, I'm also very much in favor of...