The tone surrounding Lionsgate's quarterly earnings report on Thursday was a somber one, and the studio's CEO didn't mince words when talking about some of its recent missteps.Specifically, Lionsgate's Jon Feltheimer addressed "the poor box office performance of Borderlands," the critically reviled adaptation of the beloved looter-shooter games. Releasing this past August after a long development and production period, it quickly became an inarguable flop, ending its box office run with a dismal $31 million worldwide. "On Borderlands, nearly everything that could go wrong did go wrong," Feltheimer admitted on the call. "It sat on the shelf for too long during the pandemic, and reshoots and rising interest rates took it outside the safety zone of…

Nintendo has generated headlines this week for plummeting Switch sales, confirmation that the Switch 2 is backwards compatible, and the company's its rollercoaster share price. Now, we have perhaps the biggest news of all: the Zelda movie will be released before the end of the decade.Admittedly, that’s not much to go on, but it does confirm the hotly anticipated film movie is at most five years away. Given the Super Mario Bros. movie sequel is due out in 2026, there’s plenty to be excited about if you’re a fan of Nintendo on the big screen over the coming years.Confirmation comes from a Nintendo financial report that looks to the company’s future. One slide, under the title “Visual Content,” lists the blockbuster Super Mario Bros. Movie as coming out in 2023, its sequel in…