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How ‘Borderlands’ Landed Cate Blanchett to Star
Over the past few years, one Hollywood mystery has been how the video game adaptation Borderlands managed to attract such a stacked A-list cast led by Cate Blanchett, given its raunchy, violent nature. At CinemaCon on Wednesday, director Eli Roth said the key to landing Blanchett, whom he said he decided to call on a […]
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Video Game Publisher Take-Two Interactive to Acquire ‘Borderlands’ Maker Gearbox for $460M
Video game publisher Take-Two Interactive Software said on Thursday that it has struck a definitive agreement with Embracer Group to acquire The Gearbox Entertainment Co., the maker of the Borderlands franchise, for $460 million in stock. The companies have worked together for nearly 20 years. Take-Two said it expects the transaction “to deepen its successful relationship with Gearbox […]
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First ‘Borderlands’ Trailer Sends Cate Blanchett and Kevin Hart to “Dumpster Fire of a World”
The first Borderlands trailer puts a bevy of A-listers on Pandora, the most dangerous planet in the universe. Cate Blanchett leads a cast as Lilith, the outlaw leader of a crew on a mission to retrieve a treasure from a vault on a planet she describes as a “dumpster fire of a world.” Kevin Hart […]
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How ‘Thanksgiving’ Director Eli Roth Turned a Fake Trailer Into His Best-Reviewed Movie
Thanksgiving filmmaker Eli Roth has been dreaming of a Thanksgiving-themed slasher movie since he was 12 years old, and he thought he’d forever scratched that itch when he made a fictitious trailer for a movie called Thanksgiving inside of Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino’s Grindhouse (2007) double feature. But much to his surprise, genre fans […]
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‘Borderlands’ Sets Summer 2024 Release, ‘Dirty Dancing’ Sequel Delayed as Lionsgate Shuffles Calendar
Lionsgate is making moves to its release calendar, including dating the video game feature Borderlands for summer 2024 and pushing dates for Dirty Dancing sequel and its prequel to Wonder. Borderlands is now set to bow Aug. 9, 2024. The film hails from director Eli Roth and underwent additional photography from Deadpool filmmaker Tim Miller. […]
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‘65’ Star Ariana Greenblatt Talks Getting Adam Driver to Break, ‘Barbie’ and Prank Calls with Josh Brolin
At 15, 65 star Ariana Greenblatt is already an old pro. She’s had a varied and prolific career as a child performer, and she’s especially well-versed in the art of acting opposite CG characters, whether that’s Josh Brolin’s Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War, Sam Rockwell’s gorilla in The One and Only Ivan or the titular […]
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‘Borderlands’ Drops First Footage at CinemaCon
The first footage from the feature film adaptation of Borderlands has arrived — and just like the immensely popular video game franchise, it was spectacular. A sneak peek of the highly anticipated film, based on the games from developer Gearbox Software and publisher 2K, was presented Thursday during the Lionsgate panel at CinemaCon. The studio […]
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Olivier Richters Joins Lionsgate’s ‘Borderlands’
The professional bodybuilder turned actor will play Krom, the terrifying leader of the psycho bandits that rule Pandora.
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Haley Bennett Joins Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart in ‘Borderlands’ Movie
Eli Roth is directing the high-wattage video game adaptation for Lionsgate.
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Jamie Lee Curtis Joins Cate Blanchett in ‘Borderlands’ Movie
Jaime Lee Curtis is the latest to join the feature adaption of the video game Borderlands, with Kevin Hart and Cate Blanchett already set to star.
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