Summary

  • Advanced screenings of Borderlands movie show lackluster ticket sales, with average theaters selling around 4.5% of seats.
  • The movie's troubled production history and mixed reactions to trailers contribute to audience trepidation and low ticket sales.
  • Only 609 out of 13,143 available seats were sold across 50 showings, prompting concerns about opening weekend performance.

The movie is now a little over 24 hours from its advanced screenings. The as Gearbox and Lionsgate try to put bums in seats ahead of the first༒ movie in the sci-fi franchise.

Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be working, as we've analyzed 50 advanced screenings from 25 of the United States' biggest movie theaters, and it's not looking good.

Tickets Are Struggling To Sell For Opening Night

The cast of the Borderlands movie on a colourful poster with an explosion in the background

The lead-up to the Borderlands movie hasn't been great. The movie required two weeks of reshoots with a different director, trailers have dropped to extreme🍌ly mixed reactions, and the movie was given a PG-13 rating despite the games being very much M-rated. Metacritic also confirmed that reviews , which is often a bad sign. All of this has resulted in trepid๊ation from the audience, which looks like it has translated to a lack of ticket sales.

As part of our analysis, we looked at 50 screenings of the movie, one in the early evening and one at night, from 25 of America's . These screenings were split across a range of formats, including IMAX, Dolby, XD, Digital, and standard screens.

Across the times we analyzed, showings for the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Borderlands movie were approximately 4.5% full, with little ti🎃me for ticket sales remaining. Of the 50 showings, only two had filled more than 25 percent of the seats, with 11 showings selling zero tickets, and a further three having sold under one percent of its allocation.

The 50 showings we examined had a total of 13,143 seats available for purc♚hase, but only 609 were taken at the time of our analysis.

While this is only a snapshot of the movie's screenings, it's likely to raise alarms for those involved. Loose opening weekend predictions put sales somewhere for the movie that was 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:first pitched in 2009.

You can see our full data set below:

Theater

Time 1

Seats Available

Seats Sold

Percentage

Time 2

Seats Available

Seats Sold

Percentage

AMC Lincoln Square 13

5:30 PM

173

1

1 percent

7:00 PM

519

128

25 percent

AMC Metreon 16

7:15 PM

437

115

28 percent

9:15 PM

116

3

3 percent

AMC Boston Common

8:00 PM

205

14

7 percent

10:30 PM

205

0 percent

AMC Elmwood

7:00 PM

216

20

9 percent

9:15 PM

408

1

1> percent

Regal Majestic Silver Spring

6:55 PM

86

1

1 percent

8:55 PM

86

0 percent

Regal Opry Mills

6:15 PM

325

7

2 percent

7:15 PM

344

3

1 percent

Cinemark Merriam and XD

7:00 PM

249

7

3 percent

9:40 PM

249

4

2 percent

MJR Southgate

7:00 PM

168

2

1 percent

9:40 PM

168

1

1 percent

Megaplex 20 at Jordan Commons

6:00 PM

418

18

4 percent

8:55 PM

418

9

2 percent

Megaplex District Jordan

6:10 PM

560

2

1> percent

8:50 PM

560

0 percent

Cinemark Ann Arbor 20 + IMAX

5:45 PM

131

3

2 percent

8:55 PM

342

0 percent

Regal Warrington Crossing IMAX

6:30 PM

132

12

9 percent

10:20 PM

294

0 percent

Regal Sawgrass

5:40 PM

311

0 percent

8:10 PM

311

0 percent

Cinemark Legacy Texas

5:40 PM

249

20

8 percent

8:25 PM

249

16

6 percent

Cinemark Valley View & XD

5:45 PM

98

6

6 percent

8:35 PM

98

3

3 percent

Regal Hollywood @ North I-85

5:55 PM

414

0 percent

8:55 PM

414

1

1> percent

Cinemark Egyptian

6:00 PM

164

12

7 percent

9:00 PM

164

6

4 percent

Regal Edwards Greenway Grand Palace

6:00 PM

168

3

2 percent

9:00 PM

168

0 percent

AMC Empire 25

5:30 PM

301

32

11 percent

8:30 PM

225

29

13 percent

Cinemark Century Union Landing

5:40 PM

410

9

2 percent

8:20 PM

410

8

2 percent

Regal Edwards Long Beach

6:05 PM

213

4

2 percent

9:00 PM

213

0 percent

Regal Hollywood Nashville

6:05 PM

125

4

3 percent

9:00 PM

125

1

1 percent

AMC Studio 28, Olathe, KS

6:30 PM

256

47

18 percent

10:00 PM

260

10

4 percent

AMC Dine-In Easton Town Center

6:15 PM

211

43

20 percent

10:00 PM

280

0 percent

AMC Forum 30 Sterling Heights, Michigan

5:45 PM

235

0 percent

9:30 PM

262

4

2 percent

🐭All data is correct as of 5ജ am ET, Wednesday, July 7.

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168澳洲幸运5开奖网: Borderlands
Action RPG
FPS
Systems
PC-1 PlayStation-1 Xbox-1
Top Critic Avg: 77/100 Critics Rec: 88%
Released
October 20, 2009
ESRB
m
Publisher(s)
2K Games, Feral Interactive
Engine
Unreal Engine 3
Multiplayer
Local Multiplayer 😼

WHERE TO PLAY

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Gearbox Software's 2009 loot-shooter Borderlands kicked off a popular series, leading to spin-offs and a big-budget Hollywood movie. You play as one of four Vault Hunters looking for an ancient Vault on the planet Pandora.