Uwe Boll to make BloodRayne 2
10-04-06 | 01:57 PM
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Uwe Boll to make BloodRayne 2
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Someone, for the love of every video game ever made into a movie, PLEASE stop Uwe Boll. We mean physically stop the guy. Find out where he's shooting, go out there, and take the camera away from him. Be sure to destroy any writing utensils or anything he might use to draw with as well.
Why? Because he's recently announced that he's making BloodRayne 2. That's right, a sequel to what people have been calling one of the worst films of the past few years. Don't forget, Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith came out in the last few years and so did Aeon Flux, Elektra, Son of the Mask, and The Pacifier.
The movie, like the first one, will no doubt have nothing to do with the game, but will have everything to do with sucking. That's despite the presence of Kristanna Loken, who really needs to take Uwe's number out of her cell phone.
Why? Because he's recently announced that he's making BloodRayne 2. That's right, a sequel to what people have been calling one of the worst films of the past few years. Don't forget, Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith came out in the last few years and so did Aeon Flux, Elektra, Son of the Mask, and The Pacifier.
The movie, like the first one, will no doubt have nothing to do with the game, but will have everything to do with sucking. That's despite the presence of Kristanna Loken, who really needs to take Uwe's number out of her cell phone.
Domestic Box office revenue - $2,405,420
Production Budget - $25,000,000
Why?
10-04-06 | 02:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Jam Master Jay
Why is Star Wars Episode III included with Son of Mask and The Pacifier??
10-04-06 | 03:56 PM
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Originally Posted by RyoHazuki
Didn't Bloodrayne make bank in the foreign market? Add in dvd sales and you got a nice little profit.
Domestic: $2,405,420 67.0%
+ Foreign: $1,186,560 33.0%
= Worldwide: $3,591,980
10-04-06 | 04:40 PM
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Originally Posted by RyoHazuki
Didn't Bloodrayne make bank in the foreign market? Add in dvd sales and you got a nice little profit.
no. no it didn't. You still have a huge negative profit. But Uwe is insane and as long as some morons give him money to fund his stupidity I'm sure he'll continue to make bomb after bomb.
10-04-06 | 09:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Jackskeleton
no. no it didn't. You still have a huge negative profit. But Uwe is insane and as long as some morons give him money to fund his stupidity I'm sure he'll continue to make bomb after bomb.
10-04-06 | 10:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Tarantino
Because they're all embarassingly bad movies.
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10-04-06 | 10:31 PM
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The way the system is set up in Germany is that an investor can pour money into a movie and if it loses money, that investment can be written off. I thought I read somewhere that the particular loophole had been closed. Maybe not.
10-04-06 | 11:33 PM
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Originally Posted by RyoHazuki
Didn't Bloodrayne make bank in the foreign market? Add in dvd sales and you got a nice little profit.
Too many bad things have been said of the guy here...if I do piss away the 90 minutes, I'll have no one to blame but myself.
10-05-06 | 03:13 AM
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Originally Posted by zekeburger1979
The way the system is set up in Germany is that an investor can pour money into a movie and if it loses money, that investment can be written off. I thought I read somewhere that the particular loophole had been closed. Maybe not.
In the DVD commentary of Alone in the Dark, Boll explains how he funds his films:
"Maybe you know it but it's not so easy to finance movies in total. And the reason I am able to do these kind of movies is I have a tax shelter fund in Germany, and if you invest in a movie in Germany you get basically fifty percent back from the Government."
Boll is able to acquire funding thanks to German tax laws that reward investments in film. The law allows investors in German-owned films to write off 100% of their investment as a tax deduction; it also allows them to invest borrowed money and write off any fees associated with the loan. The investor is then only required to pay taxes on the profits made by the movie; if the movie loses money, the investor gets a tax writeoff.
"Maybe you know it but it's not so easy to finance movies in total. And the reason I am able to do these kind of movies is I have a tax shelter fund in Germany, and if you invest in a movie in Germany you get basically fifty percent back from the Government."
Boll is able to acquire funding thanks to German tax laws that reward investments in film. The law allows investors in German-owned films to write off 100% of their investment as a tax deduction; it also allows them to invest borrowed money and write off any fees associated with the loan. The investor is then only required to pay taxes on the profits made by the movie; if the movie loses money, the investor gets a tax writeoff.
10-05-06 | 03:48 AM
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It could be the law was only to stop the shell companies that were taking the money out of Germany. Could be if he keeps making the movies in Germany itself, he gets the benefits.
So now I wonder if Uwe Boll is purposely making these movies awful so they lose money. Maybe we should all go see his films 18 times so they start showing a profit and all those investors drop Boll.
So now I wonder if Uwe Boll is purposely making these movies awful so they lose money. Maybe we should all go see his films 18 times so they start showing a profit and all those investors drop Boll.
10-05-06 | 04:03 AM
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It's very sad to me that $25 million that could be given to a Wes Anderson or a Christopher Nolan or a George Clooney or a Joss Whedon to make wonderful, challenging, emotionally resonant films about interesting things is instead being given to a man to allow him to artistically sh*t himself. I hope Boll is purposely making bad films in order to kamikazi at the box office because the alternative is almost too depressing to fathom.
10-05-06 | 04:19 AM
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Originally Posted by abrg923
Except for the fact that Episode III wasn't even close to "embarassingly bad"...
Originally Posted by Suprmallet
So now I wonder if Uwe Boll is purposely making these movies awful so they lose money.
10-07-06 | 01:07 AM
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Come now, are you suggesting it's even worse?