After so many years in manufacturing, a director change, and a few reshoots, Lionsgate’s Borderlands film is right here, and it’s…apparently not excellent! Even with Cate Blanchett on the helm doing her greatest to have a superb time, the movie’s gotten numerous negative reviews, and that negativity has been equally devastating on its field workplace prospects.
Per Variety, the difference of Gearbox’s well-known loot-shoot collection made $8.8 million worldwide in its opening weekend. Sure, you learn that proper; $4 million got here domestically, and phrase of mouth has not finished it any favors. In response to analyst Luiz Fernando, the movie earned a D+ CinemaScore ranking, which I personally didn’t assume may occur. For additional comparability, that’s practically 3 times lower than the opening weekends for the 2018 Tomb Raider remake, or 2021’s Mortal Kombat film the latter of which needed to deal with the pandemic and a simultaneous streaming launch on then-HBO Max. And for director Eli Roth, barely under the $10.4 million open for final yr’s Thanksgiving, which solely value $15 million to make compared to Borderlands’ reported $115 million.
The overall consensus across the film seems to be to simply go play the video games as an alternative if you would like some whizbang shooty enjoyable, or Tales from the Borderlands if you wish to care concerning the universe and characters. At time of writing, its Rotten Tomatoes rating has shot up from 3% to 10%, and it’s faring barely higher with audiences at 50%. Possibly it’ll discover a barely extra receptive viewers when it hits streaming, after which Gearbox and 2K simply take a couple of weeks to let it fade from reminiscence. The film can’t be sufficient to kill the franchise lifeless—take a look at how a lot Road Fighter’s 2009 film didn’t matter—however it’ll in all probability be an ungainly query some builders must subject each time Borderlands 4 ultimately comes out.
Oh, and Deadpool & Wolverine crossed the $1 billion mark. Yaaaaaay.
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