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Borderlands Director Breaks Silence on Movie Bombing at Box Office: 'We Got Our Asses Handed to Us'

Eli Roth said in a new interview that he and the producers of his 2024 movie 'Borderlands' — an adaptation of the popular video game series of the same name — 'got our asses handed to us a bit' when the movie bombed at the box office in August 2024. 'You can’t prep a movie on that scale over Zoom,' Roth said.

Roth, 52, appeared on the Wednesday, April 9 episode of The Town podcast with host Matthew Belloni to discuss his newly formed production company The Horror Section; during the episode, the filmmaker and actor admitted that a myriad of issues resulted in his adaptation of the Borderlands video games bombing at the box office. "I remember [thinking,] ‘Am I at the point of my career where I’m going to sit down to watch my own movie that says I wrote and directed it, and I genuinely don’t know what’s going to happen?' While Roth is now pivoting away from working with major studios with his new independent production company, the actor-director said he accepted changes made to Borderlands without much trouble.

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