Borderlands

Returning to her home planet Pandora, an infamous bounty hunter forms an unexpected alliance with a ragtag team of misfits. Together, they battle alien monsters and dangerous bandits to uncover one of Pandora's most explosive secrets.

Release date: August 8, 2024 (Hungary)

Director: Eli Roth

Budget: $110–120 million

Distributed by: Lionsgate, Lionsgate Films

Based on: Borderlands; by Gearbox Software

Music by: Steve Jablonsky

While it is certainly par for the course for many Hollywood movies to rush themselves to home release on streaming services within a month or two, Borderlands is doing close to an all-time speed run.

The massive box office miss will be headed to digital platforms on August 30, 11 days from now and just three weeks after it released in theaters on August 9.

This doesn’t mean it will be streaming on a specific service for free, but rather be available for digital purchase and rental on August 30 in places like Amazon Prime Video or Apple TV. It will make its way to being on an actual service later, but not yet. Lionsgate movies stream a lot of places so I’m not sure where that would be.

Borderlands remains one of the worst-reviewed major movies of the year with a 10% critic score, which also puts it around the bottom ten of all video game movie adaptations in history. This was not offset by a mass surge of fan support from gamers, and in two weekends now, the film has only made $18 million worldwide on a budgets north of $120 million and marketing costs on top of that. As it stands, it’s probably going to lose $100 million or more.