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Uwe Boll Returns To Small-Time Terrible Films
SatanicPuppy writes "According to Reuters 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 North American box office. The tax shelter loopholes that funded the previous films have been banned in Germany, making further large budget films unlikely."
In the Name of the King bombed? Even when they appended "A Dungeon Siege tale" to the end of the name? I figured referencing an obscure game that the average moviegoer never heard of would be a surefire marketing strategy.
praise the lord
blessed be legislators of german tax shelters
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Whose films will I mercilessly mock now??? I guess there's always the faint hope that they'll greenlight Ghost Rider 2...
"Life's short and hard, like a body building elf." -- The Bloodhound Gang
Q: What's the difference between a big-budget Uwe Boll film and a low-budget Uwe Boll film?
A: The budget.
Taxes stopped Uwe Boll. Taxes stopped Al Capone. Is there anything taxes can't do? Actually, is there anything that can do my taxes?
Looking at the comment count on this story, even a slashdot story about him isn't even getting viewers!
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Now how will i know which movie based on a game to avoid?
Easy. Just ask yourself, "Is this movie based on a video game?" If the answer is yes, avoid it.
Because when you license or option a game, book, etc. to a film company, you usually get paid cash up front whether the film is ever made or not. It's like free money that falls from heaven.
And considering the short shelf-life of today's games, and the fickleness of the market, it's wise to take the money and run. Given the slow pace of even the cheapest film production, the movie won't come out til after the game's shelf-life is pretty much over anyway, so it certainly won't have a negative impact on sales, and may get you a few straggler-buyers you'd not have otherwise.
All in all, a win-win for the game company, no matter what kark the film proves to be (or even if it never gets shot, as most don't).
~REZ~ #43301. Who'd fake being me anyway?
how about making a game where you are Uwe Boll and you have to make terrible movies about games.
It could be a MMORPG (since they are all the hype now) where you get a quest, kill a few hundred of scripts, find a game, steal the funding from some old lady orc and then you join all the ingredients in a smithy thing to create the movie. The worst the movie the more XP you get.
Could be UwerQuest or something.
Then I can already picture Uwe making a movie out of this game with some fantastic title like The Creation of a Dynasty: a UwerQuest.
Bah, better get back to working.
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