Deliver Me From Nowhere’ hits low note at box office with $9.1 million debut

Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere hit a sour note with an underwhelming debut weekend after its Oct. 24 premiere, coming in at $9.1 million at the domestic box office. The Jeremy Allen White-led biopic came in No. 4 and also launched below projections at the international box office with $7 million, bringing its global tally to a soft $16.1 million.

Based on Warren Zanes’ book of the same name, the film follows an isolated Bruce Springsteen (White) as he grapples with depression, generational trauma, and his personal and musical identity while crafting what would become his critically acclaimed 1982 album, Nebraska. 

Writer-director Scott Cooper‘s vision for the film was more about depicting the “intimacy” he found in Zanes’ book, which detailed Springsteen as he channeled his trauma into his music.

“It wasn’t about Bruce Springsteen, the icon and stadium-filling rock star,” Cooper previously told Entertainment Weekly. The book, Cooper said, “captured the tension between the myth of Bruce Springsteen and the man. That’s where the film lived for me. Not in the spectacle, but in the silence, the hesitation, the uncertainty. I saw a cinematic portrait of an artist who was willing to strip himself bare.”

With a budget of $55 million and showing in 3,460 locations, the film still has time to rise to its potential. Moviegoers gave it a B+ grade on CinemaScore and it carries a 60 percent Rotten Tomatoes score.

Sony’s anime distribution banner Crunchyroll claimed another win after Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Infinity Castle dominated the box office late last month. This time Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc nabbed the top spot with $17.3 million in the domestic box office, with both subtitled and dubbed versions.

The sequel to the popular manga TV series has also grossed $108 million worldwide, setting it up for a theatrical run that could rival the recent installment in the long-running multimedia Demon Slayer franchise.

The Black Phone 2, the sinister sequel to director Scott Derrickson and star Ethan Hawke’s 2021 hit, came in at second place, dropping from the top spot last week. The serial killer thriller took home $13 million during its second week, a 52 percent decline from its domestic debut. Despite the seemingly steep drop, the film has earned $48 million in North America and $80.4 million globally, scoring a win for Blumhouse and continuing the theme of horror reigning supreme at the movies this year.

Coming in third was the true surprise of the weekend: Colleen Hoover’s latest big-screen adaptation, Regretting You, made a better-than-expected debut with $12.8 million domestically and another $10 million overseas for a global debut of $22.85 million.

Starring Mckenna Grace, Mason Thames, Allison Williams, Dave Franco, Scott Eastwood, and Willa Fitzgerald, the romantic drama based on Hoover’s bestseller could mark another win for the author if it continues to trend upward. Regretting You follows a mother, Morgan (Allison Williams), and her teen daughter, Clara (Grace), as they navigate losing two family members amidst the realization of a major betrayal.

The second of four planned Hoover adaptations — Verity and Reminders of Him are being adapted by other studios for release in 2026 — Regretting You‘s modest success shows that the author’s work leads to box office hits.

Elsewhere at the box office this weekend were Tron: Ares with $4.9 million and Good Fortune with $3.1 million both in their second weekends. Shelby Oaks, which debuted with $2.35 million, slid in at No. 7.

The R-rated horror film tells the story of a woman’s obsessive search for her missing sister that leads her into a terrifying mystery at the hands of an unknown evil. The film stars Keith David, Michael Beach, Camille Sullivan, Brendan Sexton III, Phoung Kubacki, Robin Barlett and is written and directed by Chris Stuckmann.

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One Battle After Another maintained its spot on the top 10, bringing in $2.3 million over the weekend, putting its domestic total to a little over $65 million and its global gross to over $179 million.

Channing Tatum and Kirsten Dunst’s Roofman, a based-on-a-true-story comedy, collected $2 million, with Fathom’s re-release of ParaNorman (Remastered) rounding out the 10 top with a gross of $991,910. The remastered version celebrating the film’s 13th anniversary features a bonus CG short titled ParaNorman: The Thrifting, featuring Anna Kendrick as Courtney and introducing a new character voiced by Finn Wolfhard.