MOVIE NEWS – The financial and critical disaster that is Borderlands is coming to digital stores on Friday.

The Borderlands movie will also be released digitally this week. The film will be available to buy or rent on streaming platforms such as Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV and Google Play starting Friday, August 30. The movie will cost $24.99 to buy and $19.99 to rent.

Given that the film opened in theaters on August 9, that means the film went from theaters to digital in just three weeks. Of course, this does not mean that no cinema will show the movie from now on. However, there is a good chance that this is the beginning of the end for him on the big screen.

The quick digital release is undoubtedly due to the film’s disastrous box office sales.

In what Variety called an “awkward” opening weekend, it earned just $8.8 million in U.S. theatres. This means that it was only able to take fourth place at the North American box office.

According to Box Office Mojo, the film has grossed just $24 million worldwide so far against a production budget of roughly $115 million. (With an additional $30 million in marketing and distribution costs…)

It didn’t bode well for the Borderlands movie when early impressions on social media were negative, and subsequent full reviews were almost exclusively damning. (We were still quite lenient with the film – you can read our review at this link.)

After scoring 0% after the first 25 reviews on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, it now has around 150 reviews and an overall score of 10% at the time of writing. Let’s add, based on the public vote, it stands at 53%, which is not so bad…

Vicky Jessop of the London Evening Standard gave the film one star and wrote: “Is Borderlands the worst film of the year? It’s definitely in contention – so laughably bad, in fact, that it feels like being catapulted back to a time when video game adaptations were a byword for mediocrity.”

Source: Variety, Box Office Mojo, Rotten Tomatoes, London Evening Standard