“On Borderlands, nearly everything that could go wrong did go wrong: it sat on the shelf for “On Borderlands, nearly everything that could go wrong did go wrong: it sat on the shelf for too long during the pandemic, and reshoots and rising interest rates took it outside the safety zone of our usual strict financial models,” Feltheimer said. With a budget of around $120 million, Borderlands stands to lose the studio a lot of money. Although Lionsgate did mitigate some of the risks by selling foreign rights, sources told Deadline that Borderlands could still lose as much as $30 million. “The success of our financial models doesn’t take the place of also getting the creative right,” Feltheimer added long during the pandemic, and reshoots and rising interest rates took it outside the safety zone of our usual strict financial models,” Feltheimer said. With a budget of around $120 million, Borderlands stands to lose the studio a lot of money. Although Lionsgate did mitigate some of the risks by selling foreign rights, sources told Deadline that Borderlands could still lose as much as $30 million. “The success of our financial models doesn’t take the place of also getting the creative right,” Feltheimer added

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      There was a director a while back, Uwe Boll, who managed to get the rights to several video games and made bad films out of all of them.

      One of them was Far Cry, being that old, it’s based on the first game.

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        Uwe suck my Bolls, a fraud who did shitty movies on purpose in order to abuse German tax law loopholes that allowed for legal tax evasion

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          I’m surprised he managed to get hold of so many video game licences. All the films were awful.

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        Wow. I mean like a proper mainstream film. The budget on this one is 30 mill according to tmdb, idk if that’s true.