More Uwe Boll

[Malcolm]

do his movies make money?

Hah! Here's the shit I was looking for. Click here for source.

"Alone in the Dark" made about $6.5M, cost about $20M.



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[TheCatt]

House of the dead:
Worldwide gross: $13.8MM
Production & Marketing: $22MM

[TheCatt]

Blackwoods:
Gross: $1,500
Costs: Unknown

[Zetleft]

Can't remember where I read it, could have been SA forums, but he seems to get the money though some Euro comglomerate or something... as in not exactly Hollywood types.

[Malcolm]

Can't remember where I read it, could have been SA forums, but he seems to get the money though some Euro comglomerate or something... as in not exactly Hollywood types.

Christ, if they wanna waste $5M or so a picture, they can just give the cash to me. Was he their bitch back in boarding school or something?

[Leisher]

I wonder if this is a long term investment on their part.

Maybe they're buying the rights to these films and whipping something out to offset the costs, but their real goal is to waiting until someone wants to make a real film and needs to buy the rights from them...?

I really hope that's it. Otherwise it's just moron Euros giving Uwe Boll and excuse to make dogshit over and over and over without making a profit.

[Malcolm]

Well, if you wanna do that, why not just make a shithole movie for $20K as opposed to $20M?

[Leisher]

Maybe as director he can't get laid making a 20K movie, but he can making a 20M movie.

[Malcolm]

He may be less articulate than Dubyah.

[Zetleft]

Holy Crap, by way of the Evil Avatar website, the explanation behind Bolls Funding.

And how we've all been wondering how or earth he can still find suckers willing to give him money? Well, it turns out that Uwe is the sucker - you see, German tax law is such that people who see fit to invest in movies receive "a hefty tax write off on funds invested [in] failed films." So basically, Germans with knowledge of obscure tax law have been lining up to invest in Boll's films..... however, Uwe Boll's days as a human tax write-off are over: in January 2006, the Make Money By Investing In Failed Movies loophole will be closed.

Click for full article. Hoo-fucking-ray



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[GORDON]

Holy shit......... that makes a lot of sense.

[Malcolm]

So the socialists have been responsible for this. I knew it.

[Leisher]

In case you missed it...

Uwe Boll has quit filmmaking.

Remember this petition from 2008?

[TPRJones]

Well, there's some good news.

[Malcolm]

Uwe Boll has quit filmmaking.

I have to wonder what the fuck this dude is smoking. Is there some mental fog in his brain which prevents him from perceiving his own movies or he has just been playing a long practical joke for a decade and a half?

“The market is dead,” he said, “you don’t make any money anymore on movies because the DVD and Blu Ray market worldwide has dropped 80 per cent in the last three years. That is the real reason; I just cannot afford to make movies.”

Wait, you're saying streaming killed you? As in you can't get any online distributors to pay you nearly as much as the brain-dead stoners you tricked into buying your movies because they mistook them for video games?

“Now when I don’t make any more movies,” he said, “maybe they’ll find the time to actually watch the movies, starting with Postal in 2005, the movies of the last ten years. They will see they were a lot of very interesting movies and a lot of movies that I think made sense and said a point about things. They deserve to be discussed bigger than they were.”

No, they really don't.