Jersey Boys movie looking at a weak 12 million opening — Page 2

As far as box office expectations, this doesn't exactly strike me as a film that would set the box office on fire anyway. I doubt the studio went into this with expectations that it was going to gross as much as the giant summer tentpoles. If they did they probably would've tried to get the film a PG-13 rating instead of an R, so that it could appeal to the widest possible audience.

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The musical is a glorified concert with HIGH ENERGY. Thats what has them rocking in the aisles and coming back. I was dragged to Jersey Boys with a loathing and walked out loving it due to the high energy of the production numbers.

Looks like Eastwood stripped the music and truncated the songs. It's like cutting off its legs.

I think its gonna suck hard. Old people wont even like it if you take out the music.

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Waiting for cable.

Could be wrong but the way I see it is that it wont do nearly as good as Les Miz, but wont tank as bad as Rock of Ages did (which also opened this same exact time 2 years ago). Eastwood has a following so seems it will do modestly well. Summer can be a real roulette at the box office though...some big budget flicks tank while small films like "Chef" surprise everyone at the box office.

For those who think the movie isn't doing that poorly, be aware that a movie like this has to make about three times what it cost to even see some sort of profit. And you bet the studio wanted the film to make a lot more than this when they acquired the property, you don't make a Tony-award winning movie musical that uses well known standards to make less than $100 mil.

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Saw an afternoon showing in upstate NY that was packed with old people. It could have been trimmed but my grandfather LOVED it. Said it was the best thing he'd seen in years. I liked it better than the musical which I only 'liked'.

The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Jersey Boys may outpace the tracking, and may actually perform between $ 16 to $ 20 Million this weekend, based on Friday results.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/box-office-think-like-a-713840

"Just got back from the Friday 10pm showing... In a 400 seat theater there were 12 people."

This movie is being attended by older people, go to an 11 a.m. screening if you want to gauge attendance.

Just got back from the Friday 10pm showing... In a 400 seat theater there were 12 people.

I was at a 10 p.m. showing last night too. It was way more populated at 8 p.m. (we got there as they were letting out). That didn't surprise me, though. Look at JB's target audience! They don't want to be leaving a movie theater at 12:30 a.m.

Interestingly enough, I went with a friend who's seen the show, but only twice, and both times were about 7 years ago (once with me). She said that forgetting a lot of what she saw on stage (though she enjoyed it at the time) helped her enjoy the movie. She really, really liked the beginning and the buildup to the big three hits. I didn't really imagine anyone could be that enthusiastic about that part. I think it's well-done, but it's stretched out so much that once you get to Sherry/Big Girls/Walk Like a Man, it's too much of a relief.

As for the "snippets of songs" complaints, I'd have to count it out (don't think I won't, ha!), but it may have used the same amount as on stage -- just distributed differently. It just feels like less. There are verses to Sherry, and I think My Eyes Adored You, that aren't used on stage but are in the movie. I feel like we hear more of Stay on the jukebox in the movie than we do on stage.

This was my second time seeing the movie, and I can't say that anything I thought the first time changed all that much. I've concluded that I really dislike Freya Tingley's Francine, but I'm not sure if it's her, the direction, or how they decided to portray the character. I took a bathroom break once I correctly anticipated when that painfully bad diner scene was coming up.

I still think this feels like a really good HBO movie. Maybe that should've been how they went with it, if it wasn't going to be a cinecast type of thing. It's more of a biopic about the Four Seasons that happens to be called Jersey Boys and cast some former cast members... than an adaptation of Jersey Boys.

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Updated On: 6/21/14 at 10:20 AM

My friend and I caught a 7 pm showing of Jersey Boys last night. We were the youngest people in the audience.
The high points for me were John Lloyd Young's voice and Vincent Piazza as Tommy.
I'm not sure if this was intentional (I haven't seen Jersey Boys on stage yet) but I thought Tommy was the best written part. The whole audience seemed to care about him the most and respond to him the most. Frankie really didn't become interesting until his daughter ran away, and Nick didn't become interesting until he quit the group.
Overall I thought it was okay. I think it could've been better with a different director.

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The boxofficemojo estimate for Friday is: $4,640,000.

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Ouch. It's not like they hired a bunch of musical theater unknowns or anything.

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"And then you add the R rating, to my thinking (others disagree) a bizarre component."

For how much cursing there is in the show, an R rating was inevitable. As soon as you saw the f-word twice, it is R rated. But again, it's sort of irrelevant, since no one under 17 cares about this movie anyway.