Highlights
- Borderlands is nowhere near making back its budget, all of the while critics and audiences are slamming the movie.
- It isn’t a reasonably picture, to say the least. But to rub salt within the wound, Coraline’s 15-year anniversary re-release outperformed Borderlands’ opening.
- Even Harold and the Purple Crayon is doing higher immediately.
The Borderlands movie has been a whole and utter trainwreck. Debuting at zero percent on Rotten Tomatoes, things one way or the other only got worse for Gearbox and Lionsgate on release, because it sold so few tickets that it became one in every of the most important flops this 12 months while even Uwe Boll, the king of bad video game movies, poked fun from the sidelines. Regardless, Randy Pitchford spent the higher a part of every week adamantly defending the film on Twitter.
Rubbing salt within the wound, this brand-new splashy $110 million blockbuster’s opening was beaten on the domestic box office by the fifteenth anniversary re-release of Coraline, the classic Henry Selick stop-motion film.
Coraline, as per Box Office Mojo, grossed $11.3 million in its four-day run, whereas the Borderlands movie made $9.2 million in its first 4 days of release. To make matters worse, Coraline was shown in only 1,535 theatres, whereas Borderlands opened in over double that with 3,125.
Coraline Is not The Only One Outperforming Borderlands
Borderlands is way from making back its budget, especially if you think about marketing. So, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that it’s being beaten on the box office by loads of other latest releases.
Straight away, the next movies have completely overtaken Claptrap’s silver screen debut;
- Alien: Romulus (twenty second vs seventieth)
- Harold and the Purple Crayon (61st vs seventieth)
- Trap (thirty first vs seventieth)
The god-awful Madame Web movie performed higher, making $100 million because the twenty third highest-grossing movie this 12 months (although, it still lost Sony money). But even that prime a spot would not be enough to recoup Borderland’s budget—actually, if Lionsgate and Gearbox hoped to make back their investment, they might have needed to be in the highest 20 movies of 2024, joining the likes of Garfield, Furiosa, and Civil War.
Something tells me that each one hopes of a sequel might need been dashed as the primary movie stumbled naked right into a Bullymong den lathered in slag—there is no way in Hell-burbia that we’re seeing that cinematic universe now. But hey, Pitchford is warming as much as the thought of an animated film not less than.
