After years of seemingly every movie based on a video game franchise being varying degrees of terrible, it appeared as though we'd entered a sort of golden age. Between movies like the box office-winning The Super Mario Bros.

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

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.

One of the biggest box office flops of the year was Lionsgate’s big screen adaptation of Borderlands . After a dismal $9 million opening weekend, the movie concluded its month-long run at the box office with only $31 million.

Borderlands is one of 2024's biggest box office bombs and Lionsgate's CEO and CFO have both admitted that Robert Rodriguez's adaptation of the hit video game series was an unmitigated disaster for them.

Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer was frank about the poor results of his studio at the box office recently, most notably “Borderlands,” which has shaped up to be one of the year’s biggest critical and commercial busts and led to the studio’s motion ...

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 ...

When it came to the bombing of Borderlands, among other late summer and fall releases, Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer made no bones to emphasize culpa nostra. “On Borderlands, nearly everything that could go wrong did go wrong: it sat on the shelf for too long during the pandemic,

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".

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.