After so many years in the making, changing directors, and some reshoots, Lionsgate’s Borderlands The movie is here and it’s…apparently not very good! Despite Cate Blanchett’s best efforts at the helm to make the film enjoyable, the film received a lot of negative reviews that were equally devastating to its box office prospects.
According to Variety , the movie based on Gearbox’s famous loot shooter series took in $8.8 million worldwide in its opening weekend. Yes, you read that right; $4 million came from domestic sources, but word of mouth didn’t do it any favors. According to analyst Luiz Fernando, the film received a CinemaScore D+ rating, but I personally don’t think that’s going to happen. For further comparison, that’s nearly three times less than 2018’s opening weekend Tomb Raider remake, or 2021 Mortal Kombat The latter had to contend with a pandemic and a simultaneous streaming release on HBO Max at the time. And director Eli Roth’s opening price was slightly lower than last year’s $10.4 million. grateful, By comparison, it cost just $15 million to make Borderlands reported $115 million.
The general consensus surrounding this movie seems to be that if you want some great shooting fun, go play the game, or Stories from the frontier If you want to care about the universe and characters. As of this writing, its Rotten Tomatoes score has soared from 3% to 10%, and its ratings are slightly better at 50%. Maybe it’ll find a more receptive audience when it’s on streaming, before Gearbox and 2K just give it a few weeks to fade from people’s memories. This movie wasn’t enough to kill the series – look how many street fighter The 2009 movie doesn’t really matter, but it can be an awkward question that some developers have to answer at any given time Borderlands 4 Finally came out.
Oh, and Deadpool and Wolverine Passed the $1 billion mark. Yeahhhhhh.
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