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Published Feb 14, 2026, 3:00 PM EST
Rohan Naahar is a Weekend News Writer for Collider. From Francois Ozon to David Fincher, he'll watch anything once.
He has covered everything from Marvel to the Oscars, and Marvel at the Oscars. He also writes obsessively about the box office, charting the many hits and misses that are released weekly, and how their commercial performance shapes public perception. In his time at Collider, he has also helped drive diversity by writing stories about the multiple Indian film industries, with a goal of introducing audiences to a whole new world of cinema.
After a handful of music biopics emerged as box office hits, it seemed like the genre was among the few that could survive the recent shift in audience viewing patterns. Romantic comedies certainly couldn't, nor could some horror subgenres. Encouraged by the success of movies such as Bob Marley: One Love, Elvis, and even Rocketman, studios began green-lighting a slew of music biopics. Not all of them survived at the box office. While the Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown, was both a critical and commercial hit, the Amy Winehouse movie Back to Black underperformed because of its poor quality. The Robbie Williams biopic Better Man emerged as an even bigger disappointment because of its subject's perceived unpopularity in the United States. However, there was another music biopic whose underwhelming performance at the box office is more difficult to explain.
The movie in question has since been released on the PVOD and streaming markets, where it hasn't done much better. There's a case to be made that A Complete Unknown benefited from the presence of star Timothée Chalamet, who put his entire back into not only his performance but also the film's marketing. The movie we're talking about, however, lacked a star with that level of popularity. It also didn't earn the sort of positive reviews that a would-be awards contender should. More recently, however, it has been suggested that the movie didn't turn out well simply because its subject insisted on having creative control and was present on set daily.
The Music Biopic That's Struggling on Streaming
The movie we're talking about is Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, directed by Scott Cooper and starring Jeremy Allen White and Jeremy Strong. It earned just $45 million worldwide against a reported budget of $55 million, roughly $100 million less than A Complete Unknown, which was distributed by the same studio and produced at a similar budget level. According to FlixPatrol, Deliver Me from Nowhere has slipped out of domestic viewership charts on all PVOD platforms, and no longer has a spot on the Disney+ leaderboard either. Its performance will certainly make Lionsgate and Sony nervous; the studios have major biopics of Michael Jackson and The Beatles in various stages of production. Michael, directed by Antoine Fuqua, will be released this year, while the four-part Beatles series will be released theatrically in 2028.
You can watch Deliver Me from Nowhere at home. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
Release Date October 24, 2025
Runtime 120 minutes
Director Scott Cooper
English (US) ·