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Postal Wins Award... Really

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

Running with Scissors just announced that his Postal film won not one, but two awards at the Hoboken International Film Festival. Boll took home $500 cash money for the best director award, beating out the directors of films like Crazy, Strange Girls, The Sensei and Flyboys. Oh, snap! Boll beat out D. Lee Inosanto!!!

Postal also was named the best of the festival despite showings of The Noogies, In The Eyes of a Killer, Predator’s Return and The Pack.

"When the fans speak, WE WIN,” said Vince Desi, the movies executive producer and founder of Running With Scissors. “We know this from our experience in the game industry and now the film business just confirms it. The continued success of the POSTAL franchise in all its forms is proof that democracy works; you cannot stop what’s in the hearts of the people. Freedom will always triumph over tyranny."

The New Jersey awards fly in the face of the movies mysterious box office opening when it hit 13 screens nationwide, and put a little salve on Boll's ego, bruised when hundreds walked from a free screening of the movie earlier this month... oh wait, that was at the same festival.


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Postal the Movie To Take on Indiana Jones?


"I was laughing, and I was like 'Wow, I'm laughing."

Vince Desi wants to get something straight right from the get go: Uwe Boll's Postal movie isn't a masterpiece, but it is, he thinks, at least entertaining.

The funny thing is that it probably wouldn't have even been that if it weren't for Boll's decision early on to mostly ignore the treatment that Postal developer Running With Scissors turned in and take the film in a different direction.

RWS's take was a hardcore action flick, something filled with "Postal scenes", something that even the Running With Scissors guys admit, isn't Boll's forte.

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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:

"already had some experience with blowing people's heads off playing Postal 2..."

Vince Desi has openly declared to "perform a BJ in gratitude — that is, a Bourne Job." Using lame puns and reinforcing negative gaming stereotypes, that's our Desi. More »

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Ron Perlman Signed to Postal Movie

Filming begins on the Postal movie next week and Running with Scissors president Vince Desi says that they have signed Ron Perlman to the cast. More »

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Running with Scissors, Stabbing with Knives

So I was minding my own business yesterday working away on a story about mobile gaming at the Rocky when I get an email from Vince Desi, CEO of Running With Scissors. All it says is: "What's your number?" More »