The Friday box office numbers are in.
“Regretting You,” a romcom from Paramount not about the studio’s take over by Skydance and David Ellison is number 1.
Total yesterday was $5.2 million. Allison Williams and Dave Franco are the stars. Josh Boone is the director.
“Regretting You” is one of those Colleen Hoover books, like “It Ends With Us.” Hoover is the beef jerky of fiction right now, more popular in airports than neck pillows.
The movie has been totally panned by critics, has a 30% on Rotten Tomatoes. Who cares? It’s about mopey teenagers, a subject that never goes away.
The success of this movie should underline why Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni are still in a war worse than the one in Ukraine. Baldoni owns the rights to Hoover’s “It Starts with Us.” Lively wants it.
Not great news for Bruce Springsteen on his biopic, “Deliver Me from Nowhere.” The Scott Cooper movie is turning out be like an Amazon delivery to a non doorman building. It’s missing.
Total take is $3.5 million for Thursday and Friday, which means that $10 million may not be attainable this weekend. A sold B+ Cinemascore, There’s a similar — 88% — audience ranking on Rotten Tomatoes. Go see this movie! Awards are in the offing.
“Bugonia” opened in 17 theaters and made $320,000. Mostly bald people in the audience. I haven’t seen it so I can’t tell you anything. A Twitter reader told me that dialing a push button phone was a plot point.
As for Bruce, this has been an exceptional period for releases of unheard material. The “Tracks II” box set is amazing. Now I’m loving “Electric Nebraska,” with the E Street Band version of the original acoustic album. This is the album Bruce is writing in “Deliver Me.”
Here’s “Atlantic City” in all its glory.
