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Eli Roth's Borderlands cost a reported $110 million and grossed about $33 million worldwide. The film is bad. The thing that made it a disaster happened in the edit room, three years before release.
Tim Mielants's adaptation of the Claire Keegan novella was reviewed as a modest Cillian Murphy vehicle. The careful reading is that the film's restraint is the indictment, and the restraint is harder to film than the indictment would have been.
Starz and Lionsgate closed their long-announced separation on 6 May 2025, splitting the studio and the premium cable network into two independent public companies. The transaction's specific structure matters.