Box Office: Borderlands Flops

Box Office: ‘It Ends With Us’ Scores $50 Million Opening Weekend, ‘Borderlands’ Flops With $8.8 Million https://t.co/deFsWS3xQU

— Variety (@Variety) August 11, 2024

The Sycophant Sweethearts Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively are 1st (Deadpool and Wolverine, 54$m, now in the 1$b club less than a month after release) and 2nd (It Ends With Us 50$m) respectively. You’ve heard enough about them.

Twisters has 15$m.

That other new release, Borderlands, starring all of your former favorite people, sitting at a whopping 10% on RT, show up with 8.8$m, lower than even my predictions last week. I write this post in snippets over the week an I had a 10$m estimate up.

That’s scarcely better than NEON’s Cuckoo, with 3m$. Curiously, no one is giving numbers for Despicable Me 4 yet, but I fail to believe it didn’t make the top 5.

The budget for this thing (Borderlands) was 110$m.

This could have been a Dungeons and Dragons – Honor Among Thieves level hit (using that term loosely); That with its previews at least opened to about 37$m last year (though it did have early showings up to 2 weeks before it released that somehow count in the weekend gross.)

But, well, 10% RT. Just because something is a popular video game (IS It popular? It’s well regarded, but popular?) doesn’t justify spending that much for a movie. Hell, The Creator, Godzilla Minus One cost less last year.

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Can you name the other movie Jack Black and Cate Blanchett were in (without looking it up)?

No with a hat 🎩

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Next week, starting on the 15th is a wide re-release of Coraline, then the 16th has Alien: Romulus, My Penguin Friend, Ryan’s World the Movie, and Skincare.

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