Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer has addressed Borderlands‘ recent box office flop. Borderlands was released in United States theaters in August 2024. Directed by Eli Roth, the feature film adaptation of the popular video game only made around $33 million at the global box office off an estimated $110-120 million budget.

"Nearly everything that could go wrong did go wrong: it sat on the shelf for too long during the pandemic, and reshoots and rising interest rates took it outside the safety zone of our usual strict financial models,

Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer said its release of 'Borderlands,' 'everything that could go wrong, did go wrong.'

Motion picture division's segment profit collapsed 96% to $2.6 million after “Borderlands” flopped in theaters The post Lionsgate Suffers $163 Million Q3 Loss Amid Box Office Slump appeared first on TheWrap.

Specifically, Lionsgate's Jon Feltheimer addressed "the poor box office performance of Borderlands," the critically reviled adaptation of the beloved looter-shooter games. Releasing this past August after a long development and production period ...

Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer isn't mincing words when it comes to the Borderlands movie, which by all accounts was a total train wreck. Borderlands was in theaters for a month, in which time it managed to wrack up $15.

Earlier this week, we learned of Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick's response to Borderlands' "disappointing" silver screen debut, and now, Lionsgate CEO has commented publicly, too, saying that "nearly everything that could go wrong did go wrong".