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The (Career) Death of Uwe Boll

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/...34146a09?imw=Y

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Uwe Boll, the German director the critics love to hate, will return to low-budget filmmaking now that his latest and biggest production, the $70 million fantasy epic "In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale," bombed at the boxoffice.

The adaptation of the hit video game, which stars Jason Statham, Ron Perlman and Burt Reynolds, delivered just $3 million over the weekend, marking the third flop in a row for Boll, whose "BloodRayne" and "Alone in the Dark" also failed to deliver theatrically.

Reached at his home in Mainz, Boll said the results from "King" mean he will be unable to continue with big-budget productions.

"In the future, I will focus on small films such as (the video game adaptation) 'Postal' or (the Vietnam war drama) 'Tunnel Rats,' " he said. "These are films that represent my true passion, and they can be done with small budgets."

Despite a number of critical and commercial drubbings, Boll has been able to finance bigger budget films through German tax shelter funds. But "King" marked the last film to be bankrolled by his fund, which, like all similar tax shelters, has been banned in Germany.

Boll will now have to finance films the old-fashioned way -- with presales. Given the director's record, that could prove difficult. Despite being one of Germany's most prolific filmmakers, he is arguably most famous -- or infamous -- for the boxing match he staged with Internet critics of his movies.

"Because of the Boll reputation, it is not easy to get audiences into the cinemas," said Mychael Berg, head of distribution at 20th Century Fox in Germany, which released "King" locally. "We finally managed it, and we are quite satisfied with the abut 250,000 people who watched the movie (in Germany). We proved that you can make money with a Boll film."

But Boll himself acknowledges that will not be enough to produce another $70 million film. Instead, the German director has lined up a decidedly pulpy title for his next adaptation -- the video game shoot 'em up "Zombie Massacre."

So, apparently, after his latest bomb, they aren't going to let him make big-budget movies any more.

Yay...?

It's more like, after his latest bomb, he doesn't have his old means to make big budget films anymore because what he was doing was outlawed by Germany. Now he has to stick with low budgets, or find another way of financing a big budget, which is unlikely with his reputation.

If you say he's not going to make big budget movies anymore, then that'll make him try just that much harder to prove you wrong. He's that fucking stubborn.

Okay now hold on.

Someone actually gave Uwe Boll seventy million dollars to make a movie?

Seventy fucking million dollars?

Don't look at me dude.

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Originally Posted by Meister

Don't look at me dude.

I'm lookin' at you wanting to know where the fuck you were when the German government was handing out seventy million dollar checks to any fool with a Handicam and a gleam in his eye!

We could be forum-moderating from a goddamn castle made out of gold bricks if you'd show any get-up and go!

With the Orbital Death Satellite for heavy-duty bannings!

Yeah I love it too, because he's all "Well this is what I wanted anyway!"

It's like "Well if your passion was doing indie small-budget movies to begin with, why the fuck are you still doing Dungeon Seige movies?"

The guy's not only a shitty director he has like no shame either. He reminds me of American Idol - Two hours of people stomping out of the room crying, screaming "THEY MISSED THEIR CHANCE I'M GOOD AND THEY'RE BIG FAT MEANIE HEADS!!!! WAHHHH!!!"

Man, I've always wanted an Orbital Death Satellite.

I will miss the well scripted and entertaining movies directed by Boll, who always managed to make the stories new and interesting while still sticking to their original source material. By way of example, everyone's played Alone in the Dark, so a Lovecraftian horror about a detective falling deeper and deeper into madness as he investigates a suspicious suicide in a lonely, abandoned manor would have been stale and overplayed if translated into cinema. Boll knew that to really deliver an engaging masterpiece without diverting overmuch from the source material the story needed to be about an armor clad dragon who eats people and the older, mustached detective needed to be an elite special forces team with rockets and bombs.

Uwe Boll new how to turn failed attempts at story into brilliant master pieces of motion picture. It's a shame that the western public has truly degraded itself to the point of blundering Neanderthals where they cannot appreciate such works of art, and I say good on Uwe Boll for returning to his passion and a cultured audience who can appreciate him.

Umm...yeah DFM...

Anyway looks like all we have left to get is Paul W.S. Anderson from Resident Evil, AvP fame. Although he made 2 good movies in my opinion (Mortal Kombat and Event Horizon) the rest were terrible.

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Originally Posted by DFM

Your nice campaign has begun to hurt my brain.