Director Steven Spielberg's West Side Story Remake From Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment On Mar. 15

Director Steven Spielberg’s reimagining of the 1961 Best Picture-winner, West Side Story, will be making its transition from theatrical venues to the home entertainment packaged media marketplace on Mar. 15 (two weeks prior to the Mar. 27 Oscar telecast) as a three-SKU product offering.

The film will begin streaming on Disney+, as well as HBO Max, on Mar. 2, so we fully expect to see the usual suspects knocking off their own Blu-ray release copies within hours of the first airing.

Planned for release, officially, are stand-alone DVD and Blu-ray editions, plus a 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack buying option.

The head-scratching decision by Spielberg to redo West Side Story has only generated $37.2 million in domestic box office receipts (against a production budget estimated to be north of $100 million) … the ARR works out to 95 days.

On the bright side, West Side Story did manage to score seven Oscar nominations, including Best Picture (Spielberg’s eleventh Best Picture nomination as a producer … winning only once for Schindler’s List and robbed of the Oscar for Saving Private Ryan), Best Director (Spielberg’s eighth Best Director nomination … winning twice for Schindler’s List and Saving Private Ryan) and a Best Supporting Actress nomination for Ariana DeBose (her first).

Bonus features are “Over 90-minutes worth of behind-the-scenes bonus extras.”