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Uwe Boll VS.The Phantom

How could Uwe Boll's Bloodrayne go wrong? They had a hot video game property, a gorgeous leading lady in Kristanna Loken, Phantom star Billy Zane...oh there we go. You should never listen to Billy Zane. According to a suit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, Boll is suing the Phantom star for $700,000 in lost revenues over the 2006 'film'. Zane allegedly suggested that Romar Entertainment handle the distribution of the film, with a $10 million advance going to the company towards a promised 2,000 screen opening, which explains where Bloodrayne's special effects budget went. The movie went on to open on only 950 screens, making back only $4 million of its $25 million budget. Boll claims that $900,000 of that $10 million advance went to Billy Zane and Romar principal James Schramm. If Boll's claims holds true, this would mean he began losing money on Bloodrayne before the movie was even released. The man is a master filmmaker, ladies and gentlemen.

Uwe Boll sues Billy Zane [The Hollywood Reporter - Thanks MrPants!]

9:20 AM on Tue May 6 2008
By Mike Fahey
2,569 views, 58 comments

Latest by n/a: so how many people here bash boll but never seen his movies????? I was just thinking of this the other day and I've never seen any of his movies but bash him none the less. I'm not saying more »

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Boll Retreats From Big-Budget Films

Uwe Boll's In The Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale didn't do so well at the box office this weekend, making back a mere $3.3 million of its $70 million budget. Hell, I even forgot to go see it in the face of more interesting pursuits - my toenails are now neatly trimmed and filed. Now that he's suffered three bombs in a row (BloodRayne and Alone in the Dark completing his hat trick of suck) and his German tax shelter funds have dried up, Boll concedes defeat reveals his true passion.

"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."
Which is all I can afford, so it's mighty convenient that they're my true passion. If they really are where his heart lies, he should have just stuck with them in the first place, saving us all a lot of pain and suffering. Oh well, all's well that ends well.

Boll ejected from big-budget ring [The Hollywood Reporter]

9:20 AM on Tue Jan 15 2008
By Mike Fahey
4,530 views, 88 comments

Latest by Cheese: a couple more blows and he's out! Postal may be his last saving grace if people happen to like it... which is never gonna happen lol more »

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Majesco Titles On GameTap

Every week I am feeling a bit better about that $.99 GameTap free trial that I keep forgetting to cancel. Not only will they have Clive Barker's Jericho for the only price worth paying for it (free), but now they've signed a deal to provide Majesco games to lazy folk like me that never got around to stopping the service. If I had actually gone through with ending it only to have Psychonauts suddenly become available I would have kicked myself so hard. BloodRayne 1 & 2 and Jaws: Unleashed I could give or take, but mmmm Psychonauts.
"Given the limited shelf space and relatively quick turn of titles at retail nowadays, we consider GameTap to be a valuable vehicle that can help extend the video game lifecycle," said Ken Gold, vice president of Marketing, Majesco.
That's the truth. I've been using the service lately to fill in a few gaps in my gaming portfolio. If you haven't experienced the joy of Psychonauts, now would be an excellent time. More »

10:20 AM on Fri Aug 24 2007
By Mike Fahey
1,549 views, 24 comments

Latest by Grimspoon: I wish Psychonauts on 360 had widescreen support. more »

perhaps wing commander too?

Thief, Hitman Coming to GameTap

The Game Sack has officially overflowed and sprung a leak on the GameTap forums. GameTap employee The RedEye let spill that four Hitman games will be coming to GameTap soon along with three Thief Games and two BloodRayne games. More »

1:00 PM on Mon Jun 25 2007
By Brian Crecente
1,493 views, 25 comments

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Boll Strikes Again With BloodRayne 2

BloodRayne bombed. The film, which starred Kristanna Loken and Ben Kingsley, took in a mere 3 million dollars. Everyone involved with the rotten picture wanted to put it behind them. Everyone save for "director" and chowderhead Uwe Boll. Thanks to his deal with Satan, Boll was able to secure funds for BloodRayne II: Deliverance. It's a vampire—cowboy flick, complete with outlaw Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett. Since Loken bailed (smart girl), Natassia Malthe will take her place (not so smart). But! Malthe is a glutton for punishment. She last appeared as Ayane in DOA: The Move. Anyway, a trailer for BloodRayne II has surfaced over at horror site Bloody-Disgusting.com. It straight-to-DVD and looks like crap Sergio Leone with vampires. Pretty sure the flick is out this May, but who really cares? Brian Ashcraft More »

10:00 PM on Mon Apr 30 2007
By Brian Ashcraft
2,656 views, 47 comments

Latest by L_K_M: Actually, his movies got better with each attempt. They are still way below average, but personally, I can totally enjoy them. more »

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Boll's Bloodrayne Snubbed At Razzies

I am outraged. I am completely and utterly astounded. If ever a movie deserved to sweep an awards program, Uwe Boll's Bloodrayne was that movie. While over the top acting by some film legends and special effects from the exploding fruit school of gore garnered the movie no less than 6 nominations, Uwe Boll's masterpiece walked away disappointingly unscathed from the 27th Annual Golden Raspberry Awards, a celebration of the worst in film. Nominations for Bloodrayne included Worst Picture, Worst Actress (Kristanna Loken), Worst Supporting Actress (Michelle Rodriguez), Worst Supporting Actor (Ben Kingsly for chrissakes), Worst Screenplay, and the biggest letdown, Worst Director. More »

8:40 AM on Mon Feb 26 2007
By Mike Fahey
1,636 views, 31 comments

Latest by reecord2: I wonder if every movie ever made from a video game has won a razzie? If not every one, I bet it's an awful, awful lot. At any rate, I thought Lady in the Water was fantastic. more »

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Bloodrayne Nabs Six Razzie Nominations

Uwe Boll's craptacular vampire flick based on the cheese-arific video game Bloodrayne got some "love" from the 737 Golden Raspberry Foundation members today in the form of six Razzie nominations. More »

8:20 PM on Mon Jan 22 2007
By Michael McWhertor
1,084 views, 26 comments

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Uwe Doing BloodRayne Sequel

Chowderhead "filmmaker" Uwe Boll recently confirmed that he will inflict visual pain on the world once again by making yet another movie based on the video game BloodRayne, so expect an official announcement soon. The prequel hit theaters last year and sucked. The end. Since the box office disaster that was the previous BloodRayne film, Chowderhead has spent his time beating up overweight internet geeks to prove he isn't a crappy director, but rather a small, insecure jerk. Hey Uwe, your movies are still rotten camp, and the intertubes still hates you. Brian Ashcraft More »

9:42 PM on Thu Oct 5 2006
By Brian Ashcraft
201 views, 30 comments

Latest by boombye: Well despite that he's a really low rated director, you guys forget about all those other directors that make those sci-fi channel movies. I think the only reason we're talking about Uwe Boll and not those guys is because this guy more »

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Uwe Boll Sues BloodRayne Distributors for Mishandling His Film

Professional chowderhead Uwe Boll is taking the BloodRayne distributors to court for mishandling the movie's release. The director is suing Romar Entertainment for failing to release the picture on 2,000 screens last January, failing to pay the producer a share of gross receipts and not using the $10 million Boll's production company shelled out to promote the film. Romar's co-founder James Schramm is three kinds of Hollywood pissed and says his company is preparing its own lawsuit for pulling Romar's name for the DVD release. More »

12:21 AM on Wed Jun 7 2006
By Brian Ashcraft
172 views, 6 comments

Latest by Luke: Hollywood? Nah, I'd say DC is the least honest place in the US. more »

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BloodRayne Torture Hits DVD

If you were lucky enough to miss out on Uwe Boll's BloodRayne (and it was his worst movie by far, so you were lucky), you can go buy it on DVD for self-flagellation of your eyeballs. To make matters worse, there's even an unrated director's cut version. More »

9:00 AM on Tue May 23 2006
By Brian Crecente
309 views, 8 comments

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Loken Signs On for More Uwe Boll

Bloodrayne star Kristanna Loken has agreed to appear in Uwe "Box Office Poison" Boll's next flick, In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale. "I know that Uwe does not have a great track record, to say the least," said Loken in the understatement of the year. Boll's last film Bloodrayne barely made a measly $2.4 million when it was released. Note that the movie's production budget was $25 million and had an estimated marketing cost of $22 million. Boll told 1Up that the film was not distributed properly and thousands of theaters ultimately did not carry the film. True, maybe, but doing Uwe films back-to-back? There is a simple explanation for this: the young actress has been brainwashed by pod people. More »

8:20 AM on Thu Mar 23 2006
By Brian Ashcraft
926 views, 7 comments

Latest by fleshribbon: who knows, maybe she'll end up marrying the guy :-)) more »

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OPM's Sexy Secret Video Game History

Just in time for an assuredly lonely Valentine's Day for many of us, the Official PlayStation Magazine's February feature on notable video game sex has gone live on 1UP. From the well sculpted, superdeformed man-butts of River City Ransom to Fear Effect's polygonal girl-on-girl makeouts to (finally!) straight-up porn for UMDs, the article has your sexy bases covered. More »

12:00 PM on Sun Feb 12 2006
By Michael McWhertor
5,987 views, 3 comments

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Alice and Payne Movie Updates

Producer Scott Faye updates Yahoo! Games about his work on the movie adaptations of Max Payne, Alice and Silent Hill. Faye says that Payne is getting a new writer, Alice has signed Sarah Gellar to star, and also signed the Texas Chainsaw Massacre director, and that Silent Hill is good. More »

9:11 AM on Tue Feb 7 2006
By Brian Crecente
546 views, 5 comments

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Video: Bloodrayne Sex Scene

Blessed are the pirates, for they shall save you a lot of wasted money. And blesses is Fer, he just sent me a link to a guy who uploaded a video showing the topless sex scene from Bloodrayne. That's right $10 worth of movie stuffed into a two minute clip. And did I mention Kristanna Loken is topless. So's whatshis face, the guy she's with. Meh. More »

7:04 AM on Wed Jan 18 2006
By Brian Crecente
19,937 views, 9 comments

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Making Movies the Uwe Boll Way

Wow, Alone in the Dark really sucked and I mean really. More »
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The Uwe Boll Shop

I ve been digging around for background on Uwe Boll recently and stumbled across his site which has a shop. I was totally psyched, thinking I could get myself a classy Uwe Boll hat, but all they seem to have in there is movie promotional stuff. The best of the lot, right behind the lighter (wtf), is the perplexing Bloodrayne energy drink. I shudder to think what s in it. If it has anything to do with the movie it s gotta be either blood or crap. Zing! More »

12:00 AM on Tue Jan 17 2006
By Brian Crecente
139 views, 5 comments

Latest by dMek: Crecente, how about some of those booty shorts with UWE on the butt. (for the lady of course) more »

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Uwe Boll Ain't Heavy

So I watched House of the Dead last night and I'm starting to think you guys need to find another director to pick on. OK, so it was mostly crap, but did you expect Saving Private Ryan from a plot about a bunch of zombies killing people? Sure, this wasn't even up to George Romero standards, but it was a enjoyable trip and it seemed like everyone making it had a lot of fun. I think I actually enjoyed House of the Dead more than BloodRayne. More »

10:00 AM on Mon Jan 16 2006
By Brian Crecente
500 views, 19 comments

Latest by Chef: Ugh, the random clips from the video game were soooo out of place and awful. I don't really see how that really "ties" it to the game other than "Look! Game video! It has zombies TOO!" Whatever happened more »

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Uwe's Not A Real Talker

Well, maybe he's a talker, but he's certainly not into email. In working on my story about the video game movie director for the Rocky, I sent up an email interview. More »

2:00 PM on Thu Jan 12 2006
By Brian Crecente
147 views, 8 comments

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