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Good Old Games
GOG.com Goes Postal
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 » -
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Postal Babes Go Mobile
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 » -
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Postal "Actress" Advances in American Idol
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 actingcreditblame in Postal. More »
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By Owen GoodComment by JonnyDee: Jeez, give people a break. Im an Actor and would happily be in an Uwe Boll film. Its a paid... 11 Responses | Other threads
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Uwe Boll's Razzie Acceptance Speech
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 »
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Comment by liquid_kore: I actually would like to see a movie about Uwe directed by Uwe, just so I can know what its... 4 Responses | Other threads
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The Boll Cut
Uwe Boll Receives Four Razzie Nominations
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 »
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By Mike FaheyComment by Dryden: In other news, M. Night Shyamalan's next horror film is reportedly centered around an everyman-aspiring writer/director/producer that dumb lucks his... 20 Responses | Other threads
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hollywood
Uwe Boll Bitches About Movie Industry, Has Action Plan
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 »
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Comment by I_Hate_This_Place: @johnny_ultimate:@Filthy_O_Bedlam: What's wrong with people who make money off of someone else's work being imprisoned? Did I miss some cultural update... 6 Responses | Other threads
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Comment by freespeech: whenever someone watches a boll movie a demon gets his horns!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! more » | Other threads
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hollywood
Two Hundred Leave Free Postal Screening
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 » -
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uwe boll
Postal Opens On 13 Screens, Box Office Take A Mystery
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 »
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Comment by Shabadage: I saw this movie and it's fucking awesome. Not as in good movie awesome. As in totally over... more » | Other threads
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Uwe Boll Gets Serious
Comment by freespeech: WHY WHY WHY do you still give this man press?????????????? He is paying for it isn't he, just admit... more » | Other threads
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Postal Blu-ray Coming In August
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 »
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By Mike FaheyComment by freespeech: i can see it make 5mil, you have to wait another 1000yrs. for it to hit that number but it... more » | Other threads
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Uwe Boll A Bit Upset About Postal
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 »
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By Mike FaheyComment by freespeech: "a live version of south park" now that IS funny@!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! more » | Other threads
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hollywood
Postal Opening On Four Screens (Yes, FOUR)
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 » -
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Bay vs. Uwe Boll Round 3: "Bay Agreed To Fight" [Updated]
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 »
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Comment by munkah: I'm hoping this ends in Double KO. I don't think the world is that lucky though. more » | Other threads
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uwe boll
Spielberg And Michael Bay Are Plotting Against Me
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 »
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Comment by Mysticgamer: Yeah, Steven and Michael need to berate him to make themselves feel big because you know nobody is going... more » | Other threads
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Michael Bay Responds To "Fucking Retard" Remark
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: More »
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Comment by goofindoo: The only thing separating Michael Bay from Uwe Boll is a obscene movie budget. I think both are hacks. more » | Other threads
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movies
Uwe Boll's Postal Getting Rave Reviews From People You've Never Heard Of
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 »
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Comment by freespeech: I don't care if this guy actually did make at least a decent movie, I"D NEVER FUND HIS CRAPPY MOVIE... more » | Other threads
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movies
Uwe Boll Responds To Million Man Petition: "Look, I'm Not A Fucking Retard"
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 »
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Comment by freespeech: didn't he already admit he was doing this all cause of the money he was able to get????? Who... more » | Other threads
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hollywood
Make Uwe Boll Disappear (Yeah, Riiiiight)
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 »
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Comment by freespeech: @Len Bias Cocaine Surplus: that's just insulting to Ed Wood, COME ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! anyway, what's the link to the petition????? more » | Other threads
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kotaku stalku
Uwe Boll Can Write His Name
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 »
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Comment by Unfather: I like Uwe Boll. He doesn't make good movies, or at least hadn't until Postal, but he seems like a... more » | Other threads
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movies
Catch An Early Screening Of Postal
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 »
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By Mark WilsonComment by freespeech: damn, just missed it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! more » | Other threads
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movies
Uwe Boll - We Will Destroy Indiana Jones
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 »
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By Mike FaheyComment by am8708: I get more rave reviews for my cheaply made flash cartoons than Uwe Boll's ever seen in his career. I... more » | Other threads
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Uwe Hates On Spielberg, Harrison Ford, Sir Ben Kingsley
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 » -
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New Postal Trailer Arrives in Flaming Bag on Doorstep
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 »
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Comment by NunianVonFuch: @Ninja-Z: Fine then since we're being really picky rather than just following my main point, Life is Beautiful. more » | Other threads
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awards
Postal Dev Names Tallarico Person of the Year
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 »
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Comment by Smadubaku: @MURDERFACE: Hmmm... As much as I enjoyed the word "fucktard" and am going to add it to my vocabulary as... more » | Other threads
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Comment by HonestObserver: I like it how everyone's being an apologist for Boll. There can't possibly be a greater 180-degree turnaround in 2008... more » | Other threads
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anniversary
Going Postal: The Postal 10th Anniversary Collector's Edition
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 »
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By fdemarcoComment by rebelphoenix: Of course there are hardcore Postal fans. I am one. I ordered this thing on sunday as soon as it... more » | Other threads
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xfire
Uwe Boll Talks Postal Tonight
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 »
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By Mike FaheyComment by mandarin: Bet this is going to be news tomorrow."Hecklers provoke Boll's balls!" more » | Other threads
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Hard Proof Canadians Like Postal (Shocker!)
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kotaku stalku
Dude Met Uwe Boll and Lived to Tell
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 »
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Comment by FlapjacksAreTasty: The thing I don't get about Uwe is how he can make a comedy, and be so utterly humorless about... more » | Other threads
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mudfight
Uwe Boll Hates Wired Who Hates Him, the Sequel
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-upwrestling matchphone 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 »
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By Mark WilsonComment by dabu: I wish Uwe Boll and Jack Thompson had a deathmatch. Film that...instant Oscar. more » | Other threads
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hollywood
Uwe Hates Wired (Writers)
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 »
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Comment by Enigma_20XX: ... because he makes bad movies, tries to hide the suckiness of his latest piece of work behind shock value,... more » | Other threads
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Comment by foetoid: Boll's movies are generally a piece of arse but having found the postal games fun merely for the "I can't believe... more » | Other threads
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literate
Postal Makes Bourne Book Cameo
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 »
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Comment by Baramos: The Bourne Legacy (the other Erik Van Lustbader Bourne book that comes before The Bourne Betrayal) mentions Grand Theft Auto.... more » | Other threads
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running with scissors
Postal Babes Mobilize
Just when we thought to Cold War a thing of the past, the Russians develop Postal Babe technology and threaten to unleash it on unsuspecting mobile users across the globe. Running With Scissors just announced a deal to turn their long-running flimsy excuse to post pictures of half-naked women on their website into a video game for Windows Mobile and PalmOS. Breaking with RWS tradition, Vince Desi isn't nearly as offensive in the announcement as he normally is, and there isn't one poop joke to be found."I feel like Austin Powers," admitted a shagged out Vince Desi. "The world is truly going POSTAL. The Postal Movie by Uwe Boll and now the Postal Babes going mobile. I welcome Herocraft into the Running With Scissors family. This represents a new era in the history of our brand's extension as the first time a subset of the POSTAL world has received its own license."
As for what the game will actually be about, Herocraft CEO Pavel Prokonich could only say that "This game will give you a real chance to play with your own Postal Babe!" Joy and rapture. Every time a Running With Scissors press release crosses my desk I throw up a little in my mouth. More » -
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Boll Sued by NY Post
New York Postal? Geddit? So clever. The New York Post is suing "filmmaker" Uwe Boll for swiping the paper's trademarked logo for his Postal movie website. The paper claims the Postal site goes pass the point of parody and into the realm of stealing. The Post demands that its design not be used in promotion for the controversial film and is seeking financial compensation for damage done by this promotion. The NY Post site appeared after the newspaper published an article on the film in mid-April. Here's what Boll had to say at the time: More »
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Comment by EnigmaNemesis: NY Post suing someone ... ROFL ... with their hyperbole journalism ... *pinch me* more » | Other threads
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Postal Is "One of the Best" Films. Ever.
Citizen Kane. Vertigo. 8 1/2. Postal? According to "filmmaker" and chowderhead Uwe Boll, who says his film got a standing ovation at the prestigeous Cannes Film Festival and "no other film has ever been applauded there since it's all business people who attend the screenings." No other film has ever been given a standing ovation at Cannes? Bwah? More »
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Comment by leetdood: @ThaB055: I keep repeating this. It's not a loophole. It's a legit tax shelter. Boll is using it for legit... more » | Other threads
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the money pit
Boll Signs Three Picture Deal, Postal Coming To Theaters
A report from the Hollywood Reporter confirms that Uwe Boll's adaptation-of-sorts of the Running With Scissors game Postal is going to see a theatrical release courtesy of distributor Freestyle. According to the agreement, Boll's comedy will open in some 500 theaters on September 28th in North America following a series of film festival screenings. More »
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Comment by cuecue: EliasAlucard says: I don't care what movies this guy makes, as long as he keeps his distance from a... more » | Other threads
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Postal Movie Gets Summer San Fran Premiere
Uwe Boll will be premiering the director's cut of his ultimate (one, can only hope) movei, Postal at Dead Channels: The San Francisco Festival of Fantastic Film this August. More » -
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Someone Actually Likes The Postal Movie
Normally respectable film site Twitch, an invaluable resource for underground and international film buffs, has posted something few of us would consider possible: "Uwe Boll has made a good movie." Woah. More »
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Comment by Chiriko57: 15 bucks says Uwe put a gun to this Todd guy's scrotum... more » | Other threads
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