Lionsgate CEO on the disastrous Borderlands movie: “With regards to all of the items which may presumably race sinful did race sinful”
Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer is not perpetually mincing phrases within the case of the Borderlands movie, which by all accounts grew to become a complete observe fracture.
Borderlands grew to become in theaters for a month, whereby time it managed to wrack up $15.4M residence and almost $33M worldwide after a disappointing opening weekend that introduced in decrease than $9 million.
I mediate it is protected to relate we’re not getting another Borderlands movie for a whereas, particularly with the system Feltheimer is speaking referring to the mission in an earnings title at current time.
“On Borderlands, almost the whole lot that would go unsuitable did go unsuitable: it sat on the shelf for too lengthy in the course of the pandemic, and reshoots and rising rates of interest took it exterior the protection zone of our traditional strict monetary fashions,” he acknowledged.
“The success of our monetary fashions doesn’t take the place of additionally getting the artistic proper,” acknowledged Feltheimer.
Useless to relate, as with the rest, the failure of the Borderlands movie attainable got here all the way down to many diversified elements, however from an out of doors perspective, it’s straight ahead to place a minimal of portion of that blame on the ingenious course of the movie, because it frankly did not consider successfully. It’s at the moment sitting at a grim 10% on