Kotaku: Postal

Postal III Will Be Homicidal for Christmas

Mike Fahey — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 12:20:00 EST

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Do not fret, Postal guy fan! The third entry in the PC game series so over-the-top offensive that everyone pretty much forgot about will be ready in time for wrapping paper. Who's excited? Show of hands! More »

Activision Rips Lawmakers' Fixation On Postal

Owen Good — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 16:00:00 EST

When the mainstream debate turns to violent video games, it's inevitable that someone will dredge up Postal. It's like the triple dog dare, or comparing someone to Hitler, a completely bogus trump card with no real argumentative value. More »

The Greatness Of The "Worst" Video Game Movie Maker

Brian Ashcraft — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:00:00 EST

He's one of the most hated men in movies. Critics pan his flicks. Audiences aren't having it. Gamers loathe him. Heck, a chewing gum maker even wanted him to retire. But is it possible that we've all been wrong? More »

Nazi Zombies, Auschwitz And Uwe Boll

Brian Ashcraft — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 06:00:00 EDT

Uwe Boll, the German filmmaker best known for his film versions of video games, is helming two movies about World War II. Both films were shot back-to-back. One is based on a video game and features zombie Nazis. The other? More »

Gary Coleman Dies

Owen Good — Fri, 28 May 2010 15:00:00 EDT

Gary Coleman, best known for his role as Arnold in the 1970s-80s sitcom Diff'rent Strokes, died today of injuries he suffered in a fall at his Utah home. Coleman, who also appeared in 2003's Postal 2, was 42. More »

Why Female Screams And Peeing Were Cut From Postal

Brian Ashcraft — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:00:00 EDT

The Postal series has been a lighting rod. While the series hasn't necessary push the envelope in gaming, it has pushed it in regards to what is acceptable in gaming. More »

GOG.com Goes Postal

Mike Fahey — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:20:00 EDT

CD Projekt's DRM-free classic PC game service GOG.com ditches class in favor of crass with the addition of Running With Scissors infamous Postal series. More »

Postal Babes Go Mobile

Brian Crecente — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:30:00 EST

Running With Scissors is known for two things: Their over-the-top violent shooter Postal and it's sequels and their seemingly tangential monthly NSFW Postal Babes? More »

Postal "Actress" Advances in American Idol

Owen Good — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 10:00:00 EST

The best part of American Idol is when someone overcomes their disadvantaged past and advances to Hollywood. This year, that person is Jackie Tohn, and her disadvantage is an acting ~~credit~~ blame in Postal. More »

Uwe Boll's Razzie Acceptance Speech

Brian Crecente — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:00:00 EST

OK, so the Golden Raspberry Award winners haven't really been announced yet and even if Uwe Boll swept the infamous bad film awards, I doubt even he would have an acceptance speech. More »

Uwe Boll Receives Four Razzie Nominations

Mike Fahey — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:20:00 EST

The Golden Raspberry Awards are the anti-Oscars, celebrating the worst that film has to offer, so it comes as no surprise that our favorite video game movie director Uwe Boll be nominated for four. More »

Uwe Boll Bitches About Movie Industry, Has Action Plan

Brian Ashcraft — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 07:00:00 EDT

We often think: Either director Uwe Boll doesn't get it, or he really, really gets it. Bad flick after bad flick, yet Uwe Boll keeps getting his game-to-film adaptations made. And the man's got loads of opinions about the movie industry, what's wrong with it, and how he can make it better. From Boll's self-penned written rant titled "The Film market — or THERE IS NO MONEY IN MOVIES": More »

Postal Wins Award... Really

Brian Crecente — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:00:00 EDT

Uwe Boll must be on cloud nine, maybe even ten or eleven. More »

Two Hundred Leave Free Postal Screening

Brian Ashcraft — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 03:00:00 EDT

Approximately 200 theatergoers walked out of a free Postal screening in New Jersey last Friday. While Hoboken Mayor David Roberts refused to attend the screening, he stated that he did not like the film's 9/11-style attack gag and added that it was "too soon to mock a plane going into the World Trade Center." According to Boll: More »

Postal Opens On 13 Screens, Box Office Take A Mystery

Michael McWhertor — Tue, 27 May 2008 21:00:10 EDT

Oh! Uwe Boll's movie adaptation of Postal came out this weekend and we totally forgot about it. That might have something to do with the fact that it opened on thirteen screens. That's obviously small potatoes but far, far better than the four screens it was reported to bow on previously. Variety's The Cut Scene looked into Postal's opening weekend—it went up against Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull which did $126 million—and found out that the movie raked in... well, they have no idea. Yes, that's weird. Not screening for critics is one thing, but keeping hush hush on your take is something else. More »

Uwe Boll Gets Serious

Brian Ashcraft — Tue, 27 May 2008 05:00:00 EDT

When we typically see director Uwe Boll, diarrhea is running the mouth with him threatening to beat up internet nerds or trashing Hollywood filmmakers. Here, he's at Starbucks and sitting in the park and *gasp* actually saying intelligent things. Nice interview. More »

Postal Blu-ray Coming In August

Mike Fahey — Tue, 20 May 2008 11:30:30 EDT

Statistically speaking, the chance of you catching Uwe Boll's Postal in the theater is extremely low, and now that we are all feeling either saddened or mildly bemused at his plight with the film adaptation of Running With Scissors' over-the-top game franchise I'm sure we're itching to catch the film when it hits retail outlets. We'll have our chance on August 26th, the day newbie blu-ray publisher UMVD Visual Entertainment has slated for the high-definition release. High-Def Digest has an interesting description for the release in their announcement post.

Directed by much-derided shlockmeister Uwe Boll, 'Postal' stars Zack Ward as a misfit who sets out to rob his local amusement park while getting mixed-up with a faction of the Taliban. Barely released in U.S. cinemas last year, the film grossed less than $5 million at the box office domestically.

Interesting. I suppose saying less than $5 million does cover everything from $1 on up. Let's just hope more than four retailers pick up the disc when it comes out. More »

Uwe Boll A Bit Upset About Postal

Mike Fahey — Mon, 19 May 2008 14:20:00 EDT

You have to feel a bit bad for Uwe Boll at this point. Granted he's made some terrible movies, but he didn't deserve to have his big Postal movie that he was all excited about limited to only four movie screens across the entire country. On the movie's official website, Boll takes a moment to vent about websites that are claiming this setback as a triumph against him.

To all of you writing now about me and the fact that POSTAL is not getting screens.its okay ..its fun kicking a guy nonstop who is on the ground you are all not getting it that i'm the guy who made it against the big hollywood system and you are all only busy to destroy me and finish me up and then you YOU WON WHAT ? the attention of the studios, michael bay .. ????? if you damage me you feel closer to Hollywood ? what is your game plan?

Back when I was 7 my mother threw this big birthday party for me, and the only person who showed up was a little kid who was crying because he had a soccer game and left five minutes after showing up. I imagine this feels a bit like that for Uwe. Granted I can cite bad marketing in my case (I never handed out invitations), but still. More »

Postal Opening On Four Screens (Yes, FOUR)

Brian Ashcraft — Fri, 16 May 2008 05:30:00 EDT

Uwe Boll's Postal is getting a limited release. A very, very limited release. Make that very, very, very limited. Four theaters, actually. Says Boll via press release: More »

Bay vs. Uwe Boll Round 3: "Bay Agreed To Fight" [Updated]

Brian Ashcraft — Fri, 02 May 2008 01:00:00 EDT

It just won't stop. And you can be damn sure Uwe Boll will do everything he can to make sure it doesn't. That's right, we're back for another round of Boll vs. Bay in which crappy low budget director Uwe Boll and crappy big budget director Michael Bay butt heads! Boll said in an exclusive video: More »

Spielberg And Michael Bay Are Plotting Against Me

Brian Ashcraft — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:00:42 EDT

Uwe Boll sure as shit knows how to promote a movie. (Bummer he doesn't know how to make a movie.) With Postal coming out May 23, he's already got a 200,000 signature strong internet petition to get him to stop direction. Think Boll will stop directing? Never! About that petition, Boll says: More »

Michael Bay Responds To "Fucking Retard" Remark

Brian Ashcraft — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 06:00:56 EDT

Michael Bay is a powerful man. He's not a fucking retard. So when Uwe Boll called Michael Bay a fucking retard, the Armageddon director thought he should, you know, say something. On his own official message board, Bay wrote:
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Uwe Boll's Postal Getting Rave Reviews From People You've Never Heard Of

Michael McWhertor — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:20:43 EDT

It's rare that I make it out the local cineplex these days unless former Village People cowboy Randy Jones gives it his stamp of approval. Fortunately for Uwe Boll and whomever bankrolled his latest video game adaptation Postal, they've got a tenner coming their way, fresh from my wallet! Just kidding, obviously, but the film does appear to be on the receiving end of rave review from people you're sure to be unfamiliar with, including that guy from the blog you haven't read Times Square Gossip who wrote that Postal is so funny "you are going to drop your popcorn." What's funny about dropped popcorn? That's serious. More »

Uwe Boll Responds To Million Man Petition: "Look, I'm Not A Fucking Retard"

Michael McWhertor — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:20:00 EDT

Yes, we've definitely heard all about Uwe Boll's claim that if a million concerned gamers were to band together, say via internet petition, he'd stop making movies. You can throttle bak on the tips, Turbo. While no one at the Kotaku Towers complex believes that Uwe will give up the movie biz for a second, it doesn't seem to have curbed enthusiasm for an internet rallying cry. How does Mr. Boll respond? More »

Make Uwe Boll Disappear (Yeah, Riiiiight)

Brian Ashcraft — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:00:56 EDT

Poor Uwe Boll. Beat up some game nerds and making some shitty movies and suddenly everyone hates your guts. What gives?! Some folks dislike Uwe so much that they've created an online petition hoping to do what online petitions typically do: Nothing. That, or convince Dr. Boll to stop making crappy movies. Ha! From an interview with website FEARnet: More »

Uwe Boll Can Write His Name

Brian Ashcraft — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 03:00:22 EDT

Reader Vincent took one for the team. He not only met Uwe Boll, but also saw the early sneak Postal screening. In the same night. Reader Vincent sounds like a total masochist! According to reader Vincent, the movie is a "decent homage" to the game and "decently funny." Writes reader Vincent: More »

Catch An Early Screening Of Postal

Mark Wilson — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:40:10 EDT

I know what you woke up thinking this morning: "How can I possibly wait until Uwe Boll's masterpiece POSTAL hits theaters May 23rd?" Well, my friends...if for some reason you are reading the site while standing, grab a seat. Early screenings will run in both New York (April 1st at the Tribeca Film Center) and Chicago (April 3rd at the Lake Street Screening Room). More »

Uwe Boll - We Will Destroy Indiana Jones

Mike Fahey — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:20:38 EDT

Postal developer Running With Scissors has issued a press release confirming a May 23rd theatrical release for Uwe Boll's Postal film - the same weekend Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull opens. RWS CEO Vice Desi previously made mention of the target date during GDC, explaining that no other movies would be going up against Indy, so they could fill a void. While Desi knows that most of the movie's money comes will come from DVD sales, Boll has other ideas.

"We will go out and destroy Indiana Jones at the box office!" thundered a confident Uwe "Raging" Boll of the first film to win him positive reviews, even from the video game community.

I have to believe at this point that this statement was made with tongue firmly planted in cheek. Hell, if Martin Scorsese said something like this I would be rolling around on the floor giggling. There's no way anyone without a Raging Bull under their belt could really be this confident. At this point Uwe Boll has crafted a better character for himself than will ever appear in his films. More »

Uwe Hates On Spielberg, Harrison Ford, Sir Ben Kingsley

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:30:00 EST

Latest from the Uwe Boll anger files: his adaptation of Postal is hitting theatres on May 23. Same day as some Indiana Jones movie. An error on Herr Boll's part? Not on your life. Dude's out for blood. Spielberg's blood.

On the Indiana Jones weekend - May 23 - we will go out and destroy Indiana Jones in the Box Office! We all know that Harrison Ford is older as my grandpa and his time is up - would Michael Moore say!

Gotta love how the angry, broken English makes it into his emails! More »

New Postal Trailer Arrives in Flaming Bag on Doorstep

Brian Crecente — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:00:57 EST

Apple Movie Trailers has a new trailer up for Uwe Boll bomb Postal and parts of it, god help me, look funny. Of course, I'm sure it's going to suck. Maybe Boll's true calling in life is making trailers. More »

Postal Dev Names Tallarico Person of the Year

Brian Crecente — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 14:40:14 EST

Running With Scissors, publishers of controversial shooter Postal, announced today that they have named Tommy Tallarico, the man behind the Video Games Live concerts, the person of the year. More »

Uwe Boll on Larry King Live?

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Going Postal: The Postal 10th Anniversary Collector's Edition

fdemarco — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 18:00:00 EDT

Running With Scissors' Postal, the game that has a little something to offend everyone, is celebrating its 10th Anniversary with a Collector's Edition that creator Vince Desi describes as "The mother load of swag." The package includes Postal (Classic and Uncut with the bonus Special Delivery levels), Postal 2 (the full and expanded version including Share the Pain multiplayer), Postal 2 Apocalypse Weekend expansion pack (with new weapons, characters, dismemberment and 20 new maps) plus a bunch of fan-made mods including Eternal Damnation, A Week in Paradise and A Very Postal Christmas! Also included is a CD entitled Music To Go Postal By, 10 sets of Postal Babe photos, POSTAL Comics; Posters and POSTAL 3 concept art, preview screens and a sheet of nostalgia inducing Postal colorforms. All this fun comes stuffed in a Krotchy O's cereal box with word puzzles on the back and will be available on Tuesday. Part on an insane balanced breakfast, Uwe Boll not included. More »

Uwe Boll Talks Postal Tonight

Mike Fahey — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:00:52 EDT

Everybody's favorite video game movie director will be chatting with the Xfire community tonight about the movie Postal, which sees wide release next month. Participants will be able to ask Uwe questions about the movie, win signed posters, and hopefully play "Let's See How Mad We Can Make Boll', which is fun for the whole family. The chat starts tonight at 6 Eastern, 3 Pacific, and should last until he tells everyone to do rude things to their mothers and storms off. More »

Hard Proof Canadians Like Postal (Shocker!)

Brian Ashcraft — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 08:00:18 EDT

Maybe Canadians have funny taste in movies. Maybe Postal is actually a decent flick. Here's Uwe Boll chatting it up in a Batman shirt after the Postal premiere in Canada. The clip sheds some light into why the director went fucking batshit insane on Wired's Chris Kohler. The reason? He says that there isn't a huge ad campaign backing the Postal film and that everything hinges on good reviews and good of mouth. Apparently, there's a conspiracy out to shut the movie down and not get it shown in theaters! In the above clip, Actor Zack Ward ask the crowd if they liked the flick, and the audience really seems to dig it. They even clapped and make "wooooooo" noises. No, really. More »

Dude Met Uwe Boll and Lived to Tell

Brian Ashcraft — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 05:00:51 EDT

Thank you, thank you, thank you. Kotakuite Trencher has done us and humanity a huge favor. He met "filmmaker" Uwe Boll, so we don't have to. After getting free tickets from his local comic book shop, Trencher attended the Canadian Postal premiere. What did he think of the flick? "I definitely wouldn't put this on my 'must see' list," Trencher writes, "but it's a good movie to see with a bunch of buddies or a large 'geek' crowd." More, importantly, how was Boll? He tell you to go fuck your mom? Punch you in the chopper? Trencher writes: More »

Uwe Boll Hates Wired Who Hates Him, the Sequel

Mark Wilson — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 14:20:21 EDT

After reading Chris Kohler's review of Postal, Uwe Boll was less than happy. So after their brief email flirtation, Kohler asked for a follow-up ~~wrestling match~~ phone interview and Boll obliged. After Boll asked Kohler to correct his misspellings—we'll give you a second to get that one—they started the discussion.

Wired:...you want people to accept that this is what you're doing with this movie, that you're going to take taboo subjects and satirize them, but when I sort of take a subject like your movie and end up making a satirical or a funny article about that, I don't have the right to do that? Only you have the right...

Ooh, good point! How will the fired up Boll respond? More »

Uwe Hates Wired (Writers)

Brian Crecente — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 17:00:00 EDT

Uwe Boll, it seems was not as taken with Wired's Chris Kohler's take on Postal as we were. In fact the German-born director emailed Chris to, among other things, suggest he go have sex with his own mother. More »

Kohler Hates Boll... and Postal

Brian Crecente — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 16:00:57 EDT

But don't we all, or at least I assume we all would if we took the time to see the movie. I don't envy Wired's Chris Kohler at all, he was paid to watch Postal at it's premiere a, I can only imagine, giddy and constantly clapping Uwe Boll waiting in the wings. More »

Postal Makes Bourne Book Cameo

Brian Ashcraft — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 07:30:49 EDT

Just got a press release directly from Running With Scissors CEO Vince Desi (above). It mentions that the company's game Postal is mentioned in the latest Bourne novel The Bourne Betrayal, written by Eric Van Lustbader. (Bourne creator Robert Ludlum passed away in 2001). The Postal franchise finds its way onto page 270. In the book, a young gang banger is given a gun in thanks for not ratting out some arsonists. The kid decides to use the weapon because he: More »