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OW: $15M; Update $8-10M @ #5

posted 4 months ago by Satan2016 (25577)
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https://deadline.com/2024/08/ryan-reynolds-blake-lively-box-office-deadpool-wolverine-it-ends-with-us-1236032813/

It Ends With Us will be in better financial shape by leaps and bounds than Lionsgate‘s feature adaptation of popular videogame Borderlands, which cost the studio $110M-$120M before a $30M+ P&A spend. Why so high for the Eli Roth-directed movie? Its mega all-star cast in Kevin Hart, Jack Black, Cate Blanchett, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ariana Greenblatt, Edgar Ramirez and Gina Gershon. Tim Miller stepped in for reshoots when Roth had a scheduling conflict.

Lionsgate aimed to be responsible in financing, with 60% of the production cost covered by presales and extra dough from LG’s slate-financing deal with Media Capital Technologies. The expected start for Borderlands isn’t that high in regards to its budget, in the $15M range give or take at 3,000 locations with some sharing of Imax screens with Deadpool & Wolverine.

[–] Kowalski (76300) 4 months ago

REGARDLESS...I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO BORDERLANDS.

[–] MyPhoneAccount (253) 4 months ago

I forgot this was even coming out still. Havent seen any ads for it, nobody is talking about it.

[–] Satan2016 (25577) 4 months ago

https://deadline.com/2024/08/box-office-it-ends-with-us-blake-lively-ryan-reynolds-1236034150/

As far as Borderlands goes, light candles and say prayers. The Lionsgate movie per industry estimates is eyeing around $4M today and just under $10M for the weekend in 5th place. Nobody was pining for a big screen take of what is billed as “the world’s most successful video game franchises” at 68M units sold WW, including over 24M units for Borderlands 2, and 12M-plus for Borderlands 3. Again, it’s not about bad movies, just bad budgets. What studio executive in their right mind spends $110M+ on the first installment of anything?

[–] Creamofdacrop884 (1893) 4 months ago

It's going to open in single digits. Saw it yesterday and it's complete pile of shit in every single possible way. Critics and fans hate it and word of mouth is overwhelmingly negative.

[–] Lord Rake (4469) 4 months ago

It's a strong showing that's for sure.