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Lionsgate CEO Dissects ‘Borderlands’ Bust: ‘Everything That Could Go Wrong Did Go Wrong’

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Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer dissects the epic failure of their big-budget
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  • film, based on the popular video game franchise, has become one of the biggest critical and commercial busts of the year, with Lionsgate's motion picture division generating a mere $2.6 million in profit for the quarter.
  • Feltheimer was refreshingly frank about the disastrous results, highlighting that the studio is determined to learn from this experience and do better with their future big-screen adaptations of popular gaming IPs.
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