When is Borderlands coming to streaming? A look ahead to a potential digital and streaming release date

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.

The Borderlands movie may have been announced during a time where cinema releases were dropping day-and-date on streaming, but that’s no longer the case. Confusing matters slightly, Borderlands isn’t obviously attached to a big streaming service – think Netflix orDisneyPlus – and its future outside of the cinema remains unclear.

Still, we’ve done some digging to help you avoid the claptrap… Below, you’ll find our prediction on when Borderlands will release on streaming and digital, including which platform it might end up on.

When is Borderlands releasing on streaming?

Unlike other major releases this year, it’s hard to pinpoint exactly when Borderlands will release on streaming.

For one thing, there’s no obvious streaming home for it to end up on as it’s being distributed by Lionsgate. Also, any potential rush to streaming and digital storefronts will be dependent on how the video game adaptation performs at the box office.

UsingThe Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakesas a guide does help, however – especially both are films attached to IP, distributed by Lionsgate, and come with a $100 million budget.

The Hunger Games prequel took six months to head to streaming. There, it went to STARZ in the US and Prime Video in the UK. A digital release was much sooner, with it being made available to rent and buy from the likes of Apple six weeks after its premiere date.

If that’s the case again – though tempered in case of a less-than-stellar box office – we predict Borderlands will be available to rent and buy on digital storefronts in late September/early October.

Sign up for the Total Film Newsletter

Bringing all the latest movie news, features, and reviews to your inbox

As for streaming, Borderlands could be heading to STARZ and Prime Video in the US and UK respectively by December 2024, though we expect an early 2025 release is more realistic. We’ll update this as soon as we have an official announcement.

A little further out – potentially in late 2025 and early 2026 – we anticipate Borderlands to also be streaming on Peacock. That’s due to a ‘Pay 2’ exclusivity window signed in 2022 between Lionsgate and the streaming platform, which appears to still be in effect (viaTheWrap). That allows films to join Peacock around 18 months to two years after its cinematic release.

Borderlands, starring Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, Ariana Greenblatt, and Jamie Lee Curtis, is out in cinemas on August 8 in the UK and August 9 in the US. For more, check out theupcoming moviesandupcoming video game moviesthat are heading your way very soon.

I’m the Senior Entertainment Writer here at GamesRadar+, focusing on news, features, and interviews with some of the biggest names in film and TV. On-site, you’ll find me marveling at Marvel and providing analysis and room temperature takes on the newest films, Star Wars and, of course, anime. Outside of GR, I love getting lost in a good 100-hour JRPG, Warzone, and kicking back on the (virtual) field with Football Manager. My work has also been featured in OPM, FourFourTwo, and Game Revolution.

The most emotional moment in the Christopher Reeve Superman documentary came from a poem his son accidentally found the night before filming

Mike Flanagan is producing a new horror movie with Midnight Mass and Oppenheimer stars

In a first for Dragon Age, The Veilguard director reiterates the RPG won’t have DLC as BioWare pivots to work on Mass Effect 5