October 27, 2025 • 5 mins
“Can a biopic flop simply because the artist wasn’t controversial enough?”
That’s the question at the heart of this hilariously offbeat edition of The Ben and Skin Show, where Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray dive into the weekend box office with their signature blend of sarcasm, pop culture savvy, and unpredictable tangents.Bruce Springsteen’s Biopic Bomb: Deliver Me From Nowhere starring Jeremy Allen White earns just $9 million on a $55 million budget. The team explores why it flopped, including a quote from a film consultant: “Springsteen wasn’t controversial, didn’t self-destruct, and wasn’t part of a social movement.”
That’s the question at the heart of this hilariously offbeat edition of The Ben and Skin Show, where Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray dive into the weekend box office with their signature blend of sarcasm, pop culture savvy, and unpredictable tangents.Bruce Springsteen’s Biopic Bomb: Deliver Me From Nowhere starring Jeremy Allen White earns just $9 million on a $55 million budget. The team explores why it flopped, including a quote from a film consultant: “Springsteen wasn’t controversial, didn’t self-destruct, and wasn’t part of a social movement.”
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Juicys, Hot Gods, Every Stay on Top in the Boots shovel.
All right, So the Bruce Springsteen movie starring Jeremy Allen
White hit theaters this weekend, and I have your weekend
(00:24):
box office report. Let's go coming in at number one.
Chainsaw Man the movie. What is that? What?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
That's a real name of the movie.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Anime and it has a ninety nine percent on Rotten Tomatoes. Cool,
but yeah, there, here you go.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
What did it do?
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Like?
Speaker 1 (00:44):
You got that seventeen?
Speaker 3 (00:46):
That's not a big box office.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
I was confused. I thought it was like a Chainsaw
massacre spin off or something that I wasn't aware of.
And that's what I thought it was. Too. Yeah, do
a little dig and it's like, oh yeah, that's definitely
it's anime.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
It could have been the people that brought you Roofman
and frog Man a Roofman getting good reviews.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
By the way, two Black Phone two thirteen million dollars?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Was that opening weekend?
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Or is no? That's the second or third week? Okay?
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Third A. Brian Williams, the former NBC anchor, his daughter
is starring in a movie with Dave Franco called Regretting
You it feels like a real fall season pumpkin spice,
Lotte tear jerker. What it feels like to me for
these lonely cat women. It doesn't have any funny in it.
(01:33):
I don't know, man, I don't know a cat women thing.
By the way, all women in all animals.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
And she's a jerker.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Yeah, if you shure, if you'd seen the TV show Girls.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Okay, yeah, okay, kind of like Steve Martin, Yep.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
That one's an interesting scene. If you didn't have a
lot of greens this weekend, you might might order a
salad to night. I ate horribly this weekend out of
mighty Let's go back. Let's have all the worst food
you can have for a weekend. Kevin like, why not
even that sad?
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Let's go back to that tight ends joke from earlier.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Okay, we'll replay that right now. Let's go back in time. Okay.
Then we get to Bruce Springsteen Deliver Me from Nowhere,
based on a book from twenty twenty three, and it's
about the making of his sixth album and probably the
most popular ab Nebraska. That movie got nine million in
(02:30):
ticket sales sixteen million worldwide, but nine million it cost
fifty five million dollars to make. The studio was hoping
it'd get twenty million on opening weekend, and it did not.
It did not. Jason Garrett the only guy who went,
and he bought so many tickets.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Laufenberg went too. He loves the boss absolutely.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Now, the guy who runs this consulting firm called Franchise
Entertainment Research, he said this. I thought this was an
interesting quote. As a genre, uh, biopics fiole picks have
the natural advantage of great music. But the problem with
this film is that Bruce Springsteen was not a controversial figure.
(03:11):
His music was not part of a social movement, and
he did not hurt himself with self destructive behavior. So
it's got a sixty one percent score on Rotten Tomatoes
so far critics. That's from critics, eighty four percent from
the audience. So the people that did go see it
loved it because guess what, if you're going to see
a Bruce Springsteen movie, you probably like him.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Uh yeah, I think that he's got such a huge,
rabid following. That's what they were banking on. And I
would also say, you know, I haven't seen it. Uh
so I don't know. You know that you talk about
it leading up to the Nebraska album. I think your
average person, not your hardcore Springsteen fan, knows him from
Born in the USA, which was a monster album, and
(03:53):
they could have done some stuff with that, because you know,
he started had why and then he started dating his
long time back up singer you know there, so there
was some of that going on. And then also, you know,
People magazine famously called him a wimp and so he
got old jacked up like that happened in real life.
So I don't know if that's what this is. There
(04:14):
are some things you could do, but they were banking
on the fact that he probably has about as big
a loyal following as any of those you know, legacy acts.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Yeah, and they talked about how it's most of this
is accurate. One thing that's not accurate is a relationship
in the movie. But the idea was they basically put
a bunch of his girlfriends during that era together and
form one as a love interest from a movie makes sense.
I mean the Van Eric movie they left out a brother,
so I left out one of the brothers. Yeah, but
(04:48):
you know, like I was a little interested just because
Jeremy Allen White is good.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Yeah, and oh wait was the brother they left out?
Did he die?
Speaker 3 (04:57):
He died, so he wasn't gonna miss The filmmakers like, man,
there's a bunch of these guys that died. Don't die?
Speaker 2 (05:03):
What only just eliminated the death?
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Have it in me to show another tragic death?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:08):
That movie is wild, so no one saw it. I
was interested. Now the other movie I'm interested in that
comes out next week is Bogonia, which is Emma Stone
Jesse Plemons.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Yeah, he's gonna.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Shave her head. They shave her head. They think she's
an alien.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
But in that movie, when you see her with a
shaved head, doesn't she look like that gal on snl?
That's so funny, not to me, but you know what
I'm talking about, right, Sarah Sherman. Yeah, she When I
saw the previous for that movie with a shaved head,
I think old girl looks like Sarah Sherman.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Eighty nine percent on the Tomatoes for that movie from critics.
The audience has it fully got to see it. They
only did it in you know, a few big cities.
So that's next next week if we want to catch
that one.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Thank you. Kevin. Coming up next is skin Falling Down.
How many angry altercations can you have with people in
one day? We're two encountering. Let's get the details next
Juicys, Hot Gods, Every Stay on Top in the Boots shovel.
All right, So the Bruce Springsteen movie starring Jeremy Allen
White hit theaters this weekend, and I have your weekend
(00:24):
box office report. Let's go coming in at number one.
Chainsaw Man the movie. What is that? What?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
That's a real name of the movie.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Anime and it has a ninety nine percent on Rotten Tomatoes. Cool,
but yeah, there, here you go.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
What did it do?
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Like?
Speaker 1 (00:44):
You got that seventeen?
Speaker 3 (00:46):
That's not a big box office.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
I was confused. I thought it was like a Chainsaw
massacre spin off or something that I wasn't aware of.
And that's what I thought it was. Too. Yeah, do
a little dig and it's like, oh yeah, that's definitely
it's anime.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
It could have been the people that brought you Roofman
and frog Man a Roofman getting good reviews.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
By the way, two Black Phone two thirteen million dollars?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Was that opening weekend?
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Or is no? That's the second or third week? Okay?
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Third A. Brian Williams, the former NBC anchor, his daughter
is starring in a movie with Dave Franco called Regretting
You it feels like a real fall season pumpkin spice,
Lotte tear jerker. What it feels like to me for
these lonely cat women. It doesn't have any funny in it.
(01:33):
I don't know, man, I don't know a cat women thing.
By the way, all women in all animals.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
And she's a jerker.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Yeah, if you shure, if you'd seen the TV show Girls.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Okay, yeah, okay, kind of like Steve Martin, Yep.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
That one's an interesting scene. If you didn't have a
lot of greens this weekend, you might might order a
salad to night. I ate horribly this weekend out of
mighty Let's go back. Let's have all the worst food
you can have for a weekend. Kevin like, why not
even that sad?
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Let's go back to that tight ends joke from earlier.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Okay, we'll replay that right now. Let's go back in time. Okay.
Then we get to Bruce Springsteen Deliver Me from Nowhere,
based on a book from twenty twenty three, and it's
about the making of his sixth album and probably the
most popular ab Nebraska. That movie got nine million in
(02:30):
ticket sales sixteen million worldwide, but nine million it cost
fifty five million dollars to make. The studio was hoping
it'd get twenty million on opening weekend, and it did not.
It did not. Jason Garrett the only guy who went,
and he bought so many tickets.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Laufenberg went too. He loves the boss absolutely.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Now, the guy who runs this consulting firm called Franchise
Entertainment Research, he said this. I thought this was an
interesting quote. As a genre, uh, biopics fiole picks have
the natural advantage of great music. But the problem with
this film is that Bruce Springsteen was not a controversial figure.
(03:11):
His music was not part of a social movement, and
he did not hurt himself with self destructive behavior. So
it's got a sixty one percent score on Rotten Tomatoes
so far critics. That's from critics, eighty four percent from
the audience. So the people that did go see it
loved it because guess what, if you're going to see
a Bruce Springsteen movie, you probably like him.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Uh yeah, I think that he's got such a huge,
rabid following. That's what they were banking on. And I
would also say, you know, I haven't seen it. Uh
so I don't know. You know that you talk about
it leading up to the Nebraska album. I think your
average person, not your hardcore Springsteen fan, knows him from
Born in the USA, which was a monster album, and
(03:53):
they could have done some stuff with that, because you know,
he started had why and then he started dating his
long time back up singer you know there, so there
was some of that going on. And then also, you know,
People magazine famously called him a wimp and so he
got old jacked up like that happened in real life.
So I don't know if that's what this is. There
(04:14):
are some things you could do, but they were banking
on the fact that he probably has about as big
a loyal following as any of those you know, legacy acts.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Yeah, and they talked about how it's most of this
is accurate. One thing that's not accurate is a relationship
in the movie. But the idea was they basically put
a bunch of his girlfriends during that era together and
form one as a love interest from a movie makes sense.
I mean the Van Eric movie they left out a brother,
so I left out one of the brothers. Yeah, but
(04:48):
you know, like I was a little interested just because
Jeremy Allen White is good.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Yeah, and oh wait was the brother they left out?
Did he die?
Speaker 3 (04:57):
He died, so he wasn't gonna miss The filmmakers like, man,
there's a bunch of these guys that died. Don't die?
Speaker 2 (05:03):
What only just eliminated the death?
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Have it in me to show another tragic death?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:08):
That movie is wild, so no one saw it. I
was interested. Now the other movie I'm interested in that
comes out next week is Bogonia, which is Emma Stone
Jesse Plemons.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Yeah, he's gonna.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Shave her head. They shave her head. They think she's
an alien.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
But in that movie, when you see her with a
shaved head, doesn't she look like that gal on snl?
That's so funny, not to me, but you know what
I'm talking about, right, Sarah Sherman. Yeah, she When I
saw the previous for that movie with a shaved head,
I think old girl looks like Sarah Sherman.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Eighty nine percent on the Tomatoes for that movie from critics.
The audience has it fully got to see it. They
only did it in you know, a few big cities.
So that's next next week if we want to catch
that one.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Thank you. Kevin. Coming up next is skin Falling Down.
How many angry altercations can you have with people in
one day? We're two encountering. Let's get the details next
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