The theatrical run of the Borderlands movie is over, and very similar to my very transient profession as a prepare dinner at KFC, it didn’t finish nicely and no one is stunned. After flopping badly (I imply, badly) in its opening weekend, film trade analysis and information agency The Numbers (by way of Forbes) says Borderlands managed to attract in a complete of just below $31 million globally—a fraction of what it value to make and market.
Look, in some contexts $31 million is some huge cash. If I had $31 million, as an illustration, another person can be scripting this story. However within the context of a Hollywood movie starring Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, and Jamie Lee Curtis? That is one thing else fully.Â
Selection estimates the Borderlands flick had a manufacturing finances of roughly $115 million, after which value one other $30 million to advertise and distribute. If correct (and Selection is often fairly good about this stuff) meaning Borderlands earned simply sufficient in theaters to cowl its advertising and marketing finances.
In order that’s dangerous, yeah, however simply how dangerous is it? With assist from Google and The Numbers’ film comparability function, I can inform you this: It is actually dangerous.Â
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An Incomplete Checklist of Shitty Videogame Motion pictures That Made Extra Cash Than Borderlands
(in no explicit order)
Warcraft ($439 million)Max Payne ($88 million)Doom ($59 million)Road Fighter ($99 million)Murderer’s Creed ($241 million)Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time ($336 million)Hitman ($99 million)Mortal Kombat (however Mortal Kombat is definitely good) ($122 million)Want for Velocity ($194 million)5 Nights at Freddy’s ($297 million)Uncharted ($401 million)
One big-budget, huge(ish)-cast Hollywood movie Borderlands managed to beat, which I deliver up solely as a result of I paid good cash to see it in theaters and I am nonetheless sore about the entire thing, is Wing Commander, an totally execrable celluloid waste of effort and time that bumbled to $11.5 million globally. Frankly I am stunned it did that nicely.
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There may be some small solace for Borderlands amidst all this wailing and gnashing of field workplace receipts: It not less than handily beat something ever finished by Uwe Boll, the infamously dangerous director of infamously dangerous videogame movies who dunked on the movie in August. Boll’s Home of the Lifeless, apparently his greatest success, earned simply $14 million globally on the field workplace; however, its manufacturing finances was reportedly simply $7 million. Maybe a greater instance is his later flick, Within the Title of the King: A Dungeon Siege Story, which one way or the other starred Jason Statham, Leelee Sobieski, Ron Perlman, John Rhys-Davies, Claire Forlani, Matthew Lilard, Ray Liotta, and Burt Freakin’ Reynolds, and pulled in nearly the identical sum of money on the field workplace as Home of the Lifeless on a $60 million manufacturing. Win some, lose some.
In any occasion, our lengthy nationwide nightmare is over, and there is nonetheless an opportunity that Borderlands will recoup not less than a few of its finances on direct-to-home streaming providers, which it was unceremoniously relegated to simply three weeks after its theatrical debut. Sufficient to show it right into a money-maker? Properly, no, however typically “barely much less terrible than it might’ve been” is one of the best you are going to do.