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The director offers a refreshingly candid perspective.
Borderlands opened to a Rotten Tomatoes score in the single digits as critics called Eli Roth's video game movie "a catastrophic disappointment."
Its sensibilities are juvenile, its aesthetics are plastic, and there isn’t a solitary stretch during its 102 minute runtime when it accomplishes something creative or absorbing.
Thanksgiving 2 may still be in the works, but Eli Roth's horror hit will return this fall in a pleasantly surprising form.
Ariana Greenblatt and Eli Roth developed a weird Borderlands bond that involved messing with the likes of Kevin Hart and Jamie Lee Curtis.
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Director Eli Roth recalls his initial genuine concern with casting TikTok star Addison Rae in Thanksgiving.
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Eli Goree was the perfect man for this job.
The first real casting news about Eli Roth’s upcoming Borderlands film has hit, and boy is it a doozy. Oscar-winner Cate Blanchett is in talks to portray Lilith, the Firehawk herself, in the upcoming video game adaptation from Lionsgate, Variety reports. [caption id="attachment_893603" align="alignright" width="360"] Image via 2K Games[/caption] Borderlands is a first-person shooter RPG franchise that originally launched in 2009, taking place in the distant future on the backwater planet of Pandora, where treasure seekers called Vault Hunters are searching for a legendary alien loot cache. The series became a hit thanks …
The Hostel director will take on the popular video game franchise.
Eli Roth is set to direct a feature adaptation of the hit video game Borderlands for Lionsgate, the studio announced on Thursday. Two-time Emmy winner Craig Mazin (Chernobyl) wrote the latest draft of the script, and the film will be produced by Avi Arad and Ari Arad via their Arad Productions banner, as well as Erik Feig and his company Picturestart. Executive producers are Randy Pitchford, the founder of Gearbox Software who serves as the executive producer of the Borderlands video game franchise, and Strauss Zelnick, chairman and CEO of Take-Two Interactive. The game's story focuses on …
Eli Roth is set to helm the motion picture adaptation of Borderlands.
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Eli Roth, director of Hostel, Cabin Fever, and The Green Inferno is returning to clown horror again with a new franchise, Clownpocalypse.
Eli Roth, the filmmaker behind gore fests like Cabin Fever and Hostel and the unexpected family horror film The House With a Clock in Its Walls, has created a brand-new franchise to infiltrate virtually every form of entertainment outside of the written word. Working with James Frey, the infamous writer of A Million Little Pieces, and digital entertainment studio 3BlackDot, Clownpocalypse will consist of a feature film, an AR video game, short-form digital content, merchandise and live events. According to 3BlackDot’s website, the story behind Clownpocalypse is as follows: “When a tech genius CEO with a dark …
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