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Borderlands movie earned $4m on its opening day
The Borderlands movie adaptation generated just $4m across 3125 locations on its opening day. As reported by Variety, e…
Watch on YouTube Variety points out that distributor Lionsgate has "financially shielded itself" and recouped 60 percent of its production costs through international pre-sales, but right now the film has the dubious honour of boasting the worst critical reviews of any movie released this summer. It was initially announced back in 2015 before vanishing, and just as it looked like the project was dead and buried, Gearbox re-announced it in February 2020, this time with Hostel director Eli Roth at the helm. But then came the reviews and… well, as Matt summarised for us earlier in the week, the early impressions were not great, with critics lamblasting the live-action film adaptation of Gearbox's looter-shooter as everything from a "huge misfire" to a "disaster".
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