‘Borderlands’: What Lionsgate Eli Roth Pic Has Planned For San Diego Comic-Con

EXCLUSIVE: The stars and filmmaker of Borderlands aren’t planned to attend San Diego Comic-Con, but at least you can live the movie if you’re at the fanboy confab, or on your way.

The movie, which stars Cate Blanchett, Haley Bennett, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, Edgar Ramirez, Ariana Greenblatt, Florian Munteanu and Gina Gershon, hits theaters on Aug. 9 via Liosngate.

For those in the Gas Lamp district, there will be Moxxi’s Bar, the infamous water hole in the Eli Roth directed movie based on the hit videogame. Lionsgate, IGN, and Ballantine’s Scotch whisky are teaming to transform 207 Bar at the Hard Rock Hotel into Moxxi’s from Thursday, July 25 through Saturday, July 27. Inside the DJ, Claptrap, will be performing live sets with Borderlands cocktails curated by Ballantine which are inspired by the pic. Slots will be available to play with a chance at Borderlands film merch.

Walk-ins are welcome but fans can RSVP entry with timed tickets at https://feverup.com/m/187744. 

Ballantine’s Scotch whisky has a long-term partnership with Borderlands. In 2022, Ballantine’s teamed up with Borderlands, by appointing bar mogul Mad Moxxi to the role of Chief Galactic Expansion Officer (CGEO) to help launch the world’s second-largest Scotch into the stratosphere. To kick off her contract, Moxxi created her own Borderlands x Ballantine’s bottle of Scotch whisky: the Ballantine’s x Moxxi’s Bar Edition. The limited-edition launched on Pandora and later across selected retailers. During Comic-Con, Ballantine’s will be supplying Moxxi’s bar with a limited run of the Ballantine’s x Moxxi’s Bar Edition.

Now for those descending upon San Diego, and happen to be traveling through Albuquerque, NM, there’s the Mountain Dew Borderlands Motel at the Monterey Motel. The experience, which happens on July 22 at 5:30PM MT, is co-sponsored by Mountain Dew and Regal Cinemas. The 18+, 21+ to drink event will give fans an immersion into the dystopian planet of Pandora. The Mountain Dew Borderlands Motel is one of a few stops on Regal Cinemas’ Ultimate Borderlands Road Trip tour across the country, en route to SDCC. The refueling stops are also located in Knoxville, Atlanta, Birmingham, Oklahoma City, Dallas, Albuquerque, Las Vegas, Hollywood, with all roads leading to SDCC.