The new James Bond film aims to steady a shaken industry. But no one seems to know what will leave audiences stirred.

“Dear Evan Hansen,” a teen story based on the smash Broadway musical, flopped when it opened this past weekend, garnering fewer than $8 million in U.S. sales. “Musicals feel right in a theater and feel right for right now,” said Steven Levenson, who wrote the movie and stage versions of “Dear Evan Hansen.” “But it is a story of a complicated character who does complicated and sometimes downright bad things, and that can be hard for some people,” he said.