The film Borderlands only grossed $8.8 million on its opening weekend in the United States.
As Variety magazine reported, the film debuted at number four in the North American box office, far underperforming last week's other major release, the romantic drama It Ends With Us, which grossed $50 million in its opening weekend.
The film also finished well behind Deadpool & Wolverine (which grossed $54.2 million in its third weekend) and Twisters (which grossed $15.4 million in its fourth weekend).
Variety also reports that the film performed even worse internationally than it did domestically, grossing an additional $7.7 million for a total worldwide take of $16.5 million, which the magazine calls “embarrassing.”
The film's production budget is around $115 million, plus additional marketing and distribution costs of $30 million.
Variety notes that nearly 60 percent of those costs were covered by international presales, but still says the opening weekend “represents a disastrous result for the film, one that fell far short of already low pre-release expectations.”
The signs were not good for the film Borderlands, as initial impressions on social media were negative and subsequent reviews were almost exclusively critical.
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The film Borderlands currently has a Rotten Tomatoes score of 0%
After scoring 0% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes after its first 25 reviews, the film now has around 100 reviews and an overall score of 9% at the time of this writing.
Vicky Jessop of the London Evening Standard gave the film one star, writing, “Is Borderlands the worst film of the year? It's definitely in the running – so laughably bad, in fact, that you feel like you've been catapulted back to a time when video game adaptations were synonymous with mediocrity.”