Monday, April 7

• Petitioners seek to end Uwe Boll's filmmaking career

  Signers of an online petition are attempting to accomplish what a slew of critically-assailed box office bombs have heretofore failed to: Stop German director Uwe Boll from making any more movies. When the folks at FEARnet.com asked Boll about the petition, which has thus far garnered an impressive 63,000-plus signatures, the schlockmeister responsible for such masterworks as Alone in the Dark, Bloodrayne and most recently In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale -- movies that have all garnered single-digit ratings on the RottenTomatoes.com Tomatometer -- declared that it would take one million signatures to convince him to quit the business.

  1,000,000 is an ambitious number, yes, but an achievable one. If you'd like to see the Teutonic menace end his assault on cinema, head over to petitiononline.com and add your name to the list.

  Sources: FEARnet.com, Slashfilm

  
  

  Posted 04/07/2008 by Thomas

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Wednesday, January 16

• Success! Germans shutting Uwe Boll down

  Even the Germans are sick of Uwe Boll, it seems. Yesterday The Hollywood Reporter relayed the cheerful news that the hacktastic director of such epic box office bombs as Alone in the Dark and Bloodrayne may finally be done with big-budget filmmaking, thanks to a new German law closing the tax loophole that allowed Boll to finance his projects.

  The final nail in the coffin of Boll's career came last weekend when his latest debacle, the $70 million In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale, featuring Ray Liotta and Burt Reynolds, flopped badly at the box office, taking in just over $3 million.

  Not to pat myself on the back, but I suggested the very idea to German politicians last week, and I'm thrilled to hear that our Teutonic brethren headed my passionate plea. Now, if we can just deal with the Hasselhoff issue...

  
  

  Posted 01/16/2008 by Thomas

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