Recent opening weekend results for musicals have been modest. This version, still set in New York in the late 1950s, sees Ansel Elgort and Rachel Zegler play star-crossed lovers Tony and Maria, who are caught up in the beef between rival gangs, the white Sharks and the Puerto Rican Jets. The director is positioning it as a reimagining of the original stage musical, as opposed to a remake of Robert Wise’s 1961 film, which took $44m at the worldwide box office and won 10 Oscars. West Side Story is Spielberg’s third collaboration with playwright Tony Kushner, who also scripted Munich and Lincoln. West Side Story is receiving a wider release, with Disney opening it at 684 locations. His last title, Ready Player One, opened to a three-day total of £4m across 624 sites in 2018. Given enhanced concerns around the Omicron variant, it’s unlikely that West Side Story will prove a contender for his personal best.

Multi-Oscar winner Spielberg’s highest-grossing UK film remains Jurassic Park, which took £47.9m in 1993. Steven Spielberg will be hoping to make moves at the box office with his version of West Side Story, which goes up against a top five packed with resilient holdovers.Īt last week’s UK-Ireland box office, House Of Gucci, Encanto, Ghostbusters: Afterlife and Eternals all stayed put in the top five, with the only new entry being filmed concert performance Christmas With André, which came in at number four, and knocked No Time To Die out of the chart for the first time in its 10-week run. Source: Niko Tavernise / 20th Century StudiosĪnsel Elgort as Tony and Rachel Zegler as Maria in ‘West Side Story’

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