I might not have seen a movie flop as hard as the Bruce Springsteen biopic, so forgettable that I can’t even remember the title. Born in the USA, no. That’s not it. The Promised Land? Nope.
Ah, now I remember. How could I forget? They changed the title from Deliver Me From Nowhere to Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere. And we had to always write it that way, every single time. They hoped name recognition would boost ticket sales. They were wrong.
With a budget of $55 million, it was one of last year’s unequivocal flops.
It couldn’t even break even internationally, but here, with just $22 million, it was the flop heard round the world.
They did everything right. Fox (owned by Disney) released it. Springsteen himself showed up at the fancy Telluride Film Festival and wowed all the sycophant bloggers (of the kind I used to be).
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