The new biopic, Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, failed to garner significant interest from the general audience, as it underperformed at the box office in its opening weekend.
While the buzz from critics was mixed to positive, there was still considerable anticipation for the film, given that legendary music icon Bruce Springsteen is finally receiving his own biopic treatment, with Emmy winner Jeremy Allen White taking on the role. Springsteen himself has also been involved in the project and helped promote the film on its press tour.
However, despite the many efforts, the film failed to make an impression in its domestic opening weekend as its box office results were below the projections.
Why Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere Underperformed at Its Opening Weekend Box Office
According to Variety, Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere opened with a disappointing $9.1 million in its domestic opening weekend.
Including the international numbers, the film only had a global opening gross of $16.1 million. It reportedly has a production budget of $55 million, meaning that they need to perform better in the coming weeks to make it a solid success.
The question now is why Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere failed to have an impressive number in its domestic opening weekend. There are different factors to consider regarding why it performed disappointingly.
The number one potential reason is its competition with the anime film, Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc, which topped the box office charts and attracted a lot of audiences nationwide, especially the anime fan community.
Not only that, the biopic was also in competition with the new romantic film Regretting You, based on the best-selling Colleen Hoover novel, and the second weekend release of the horror sequel Black Phone 2. All of them were ahead of Deliver Me from Nowhere in the charts.
Some have also cited the tepid marketing campaign for the film. While the cast and crew have been actively promoting the film (including Springsteen himself), it was not enough to convince the audience to watch it on the big screen. It doesn't help that the reception from critics was not overwhelmingly positive.
David A. Gross, who runs the movie consulting firm Franchise Entertainment Research, also weighed in on the film's quality and how different it is from other musician biopics that have been box office successes.
"As a genre, these pictures have the natural advantage of great music. Bruce Springsteen was not a controversial figure; his music was not part of a social movement; and he did not hurt himself with self-destructive behavior," he said. "[This film is a] smaller story about the artist’s struggle for his unique voice."
What is Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere About?
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere chronicles the making of Bruce Springsteen’s 1982 Nebraska album when he was a young musician on the cusp of global superstardom, struggling to reconcile the pressures of success with the ghosts of his past.
Recorded on a 4-track recorder in Springsteen’s New Jersey bedroom, the album marked a pivotal time in his life and is considered one of his most enduring works—a raw, haunted acoustic record populated by lost souls searching for a reason to believe.
Aside from White, the cast includes Jeremy Strong, Paul Walter Hauser, Stephen Graham, Odessa Young, Gaby Hoffman, Marc Maron, and David Krumholtz. Scott Cooper directed and wrote the film.
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