Jersey Boys, the film based on the long-running Broadway show directed by Clint Eastwood, is looking to come up short in its opening weekend with a total of less than $14 million.
The film opened Friday with $4.6 million and appears to be taking in a bit more on Saturday and Sunday but has a problem with audience as the age group of the people attending the movie is skewing much older than expected. Even though it plays well on the Great White Way, the story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons is falling flat with teens and young adults in the rest of the country.
It appears that the movie will come in fourth for the weekend behind Think Like a Man Too (estimated around $32 to 34 million), 22 Jump Street ($30 to $32 million in its second week) and How to Train Your Dragon 2 ($25 to $26 million, also in its second frame).
Jersey Boys reviews have been running just slightly more positive than negative with its Rotten Tomatoes score at 55%. Many complained about the more dark nature of the non-performance portions of the film with Richard Roeper stating “At times the movie version of Jersey Boys captures the electric excitement of the musical, but for every soaring moment, there are 10 minutes of bickering or brooding.” Claudia Puig of USA Today stated “The catchy hits by The Four Seasons are indelible, but Jersey Boys, the drab movie based on the Broadway musical about those tunes, is sadly forgettable.”
On the other hand, Chris Nashawaty of Entertainment Weekly said “What saves it are those nostalgic, soaring doo-wop numbers … and Eastwood’s measured doses of directorial playfulness, such as when the actors cheekily break the fourth wall and talk directly to the audience, as they did on Broadway” and Kenneth Turan of the L.A. Times opined “Eastwood, as always, has simply done things his own way, and the result is a leisurely old-school entertainment with a bit more edge than you may be expecting.”
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