RIP: Uwe Boll's big budget turkeys!
It would seem that everyone's favourite German director, the lovable Uwe Boll has directed his last big budget disaster. Never again will he be able to convince the likes of Jason Statham and Ray Liotta to appear in lame fantasy epics because he won't have the cash to do so. I mean after all, they weren't doing it for artistic merit or for the benefit of furthering their career's.
The Hollywood Reporter say that Boll has lost his financing cash-cow of the German tax-shelter funds which is how he kept getting large amounts of money to make films.... though he never was able to make a profit. His latest venture, DUNGEON SIEGE: IN THE NAME OF THE KING was the last straw as it grossed just over $3 million last weekend with a large theatrical release and a budget of $70 million! Here's Boll, sounding ubeat as usual..."In the future, I will focus on small films such as (the video game adaptation) 'Postal' or (the Vietnam war drama) 'Tunnel Rats,' " he said. "These are films that represent my true passion, and they can be done with small budgets."Now Boll will have to do it the old fashioned way like everyone else, and raise money through pitching great projects and money making visions to studio execs. With Boll's track record of an average FINAL gross of $5 million per film, that's just not gonna happen for $70 million epics.