Soldato
Rubbish cast, rubbish acting, rubbish story, rubbish takings.
Who wudda thunk it?
Who wudda thunk it?
$8.8m opening weekend in the US. ($16.5m globally.)Rubbish cast, rubbish acting, rubbish story, rubbish takings.
Who wudda thunk it?
$8.8m opening weekend in the US. ($16.5m globally.)![]()
Haha, it’s still not even managed to make just the marketing budget back.
I just don’t understand modern Hollywood. So many movie flops.
At this stage, they’d be better off just paying me a small amount each time so I could tell them NOT to bother. They’d save so much.
I always think there has to be some people that always profit regardless. The big Hollywood scam. I just can't see any other way that this could happen so frequently, when this amount of money is in a project.
I honestly can't remember where I read this so definitely take it with a pinch of salt, but the news story I'd read about "where does the money go" made reference to the studios taking a large chunk of the money "back" from the budget to feed back into the company whilst still being able to claim (for tax reasons) they'd spent $xxx on the project and therefore "lost" money, making it a huge tax write-off - i.e. Film has a $250m budget, company then takes $100m "back" so the film only actually costs $150m but they can claim they've spent $250m for tax purposes and pay less tax on any profit (which it won't have made so minimal tax due).
From what I remember the accounting story was all very "smoke and mirrors" and all of it was solely to do with paying less tax in the end.
Just seen this. Or you can purchase for 20 usd... No takers?Coming to streaming on the 30th![]()
Coming to streaming on the 30th![]()
I've only played 1 borderlands game, possibly the second. It was ok. But I just remember grinding to get better weapons, not much storywise!
To me it's like dungeons and dragons, halo TV show, world of warcraft film etc. if I didn't play it or enjoy the games, I won't pay to watch a film based on it. Plus videogames to films/tv usually end up rubbish, although I have no stats to back that up!
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Have to agree with those who say I don't think borderlands has too much of a story line.
Great characters, like handsome Jack.. But not much of a story line.
Borderlands will arrive on unspecified home streaming services on August 30, per the Hollywood Handle, 21 days after its August 9 premiere. Note that this doesn't mean it'll be free on Netflix, but is more likely to be available for rent or purchase on the likes of Prime Video (the distributor is Lionsgate, which has films available across various platforms).
The move indicates that Borderlands' various backers have given up on any significant returns from its cinema run, remarkably quickly, and are now looking to squeeze as much as they can out of it, Morbius-style, while people still might be interested in hate-watching the thing.
The likelihood is that this is going to go down as a massive flop regardless, with a potential loss north of $100 million, and it's certainly going to have people looking at the viability of Borderlands as a wider franchise outside of the fourth mainline game in the series.
The Borderlands movie continues to circle the drain in a way that, as I mentioned yesterday, is so dramatic that it just makes me kinda sad—its US box office debut coughed up a 'not good enough for the balance sheets' number of $8.8 million which, according to Variety, is a whole lot of scratch shy of the $115 million it took to make and the $30 million it cost to market and distribute.
As per GamesIndustry.biz, the global box office numbers are out and, oof, they aren't looking that much better. The grand gross (as in gross income, I'm not just being extra mean) of the Borderlands movie? $16.5 million.