'West Side Story' is a box office bomb, having only generated around $36 million in ticket sales on a $100 million production budget.
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"Sounds like a write-off to me," said Eric Handler, media and entertainment analyst at MKM Partners. "The markets that have done the best have been New York and L.A. The film wasn't able to grab middle America, and it didn't seem to have that great of a penetration into the Latino community." Box office analysts said "West Side Story" also likely suffered from not having a big Hollywood star attached and because its release was so close to that of "Spider-Man: No Way Home." The latest Marvel Cinematic Universe FilmIn its opening weekend, "West Side Story" garnered $10.5 million, but the figure was more than halved during its second weekend when the film tallied just $3 million.
The box office is an industry of diminishing returns, meaning each week a film will make smaller and smaller amounts. At this pace, "West Side Story" is not expected to turn a profit.
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