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Uwe Boll invites critics to fight him.
by Karl Schneider (Tue 06-13-2006)

This is to classic not to mention. Uwe Boll is inviting his critics (and a few IMDB users) to fight him, literaly, in a boxing match.Here is the press release:Uwe Boll Invites His Top 5 Most Outspoken Critics of 2005 To Appear In His Feature Film "Postal...

I Hate Uwe Boll
by Pat Ferrara (Mon 12-03-2007)

Now I know this is a little off topic and Uwe Boll is an extremely easy target, but this weekend I saw a trailer for the upcoming IN THE NAME OF THE KING and I’ve gotta vent. It almost seems trendy now to hate the craptacular German director / produ...

Uwe Boll goes boxing
by Karl Schneider (Wed 09-27-2006)

You may remember a while ago I posted a story about Uwe Boll challenging his numerous critics to boxing matches. Well, fate has shined on us ... in a way.Joblo recently linked to the video of Boll boxing four of his challengers and I couldn't resist shar...


Uwe Boll Responds to DUNGEON SIEGE Bombing
by Jarrod Sarafin, News Editor (Tue 01-15-2008)

Director Uwe Boll has been finding ways to finance bigger budget films through the German tax shelter funds but he can do that no longer now that it's been banned, says the Hollywood Reporter. After his latest In the Name of the King: A Dungeon ...

Uwe Boll has sued Romar Entertainment
by Karl Schneider (Tue 06-06-2006)

Uwe Boll and his companies are suing Romar Entertainment on the grounds that they failed to properly promote and distribute the action horror film BLOODRAYNE.The lawsuit contends that Romar Entertainment failed to ensure the movie opened in at least 2,000...

Boll plays another video game (movie, that is)
by Patrick Sauriol (Wed 11-05-2003)

Director Uwe Boll sure likes his video games, so much that after helming two movies based on games (HOUSE OF THE DEAD and the forthcoming ALONE IN THE DARK) and announcing he's attached to direct another game-into-movie property (BLOODRAYNE), his producti...

Boll is Going POSTAL
by News Editor (Tue 10-25-2005)

Producer-director Uwe Boll will bring the video game POSTAL to the big screen. He has optioned the film rights to the game from Running With Scissors, the developer.Boll hopes to have the $10 to $15 million film in theaters by late 2006 or early 2007.The...


Boll Divided by SIEGE
by News Editor (Thu 10-27-2005)

Uwe Boll has formed a new distribution company the upcoming IN THE NAME OF THE KING: A DUNGEON SIEGE TALE in two separate parts. The first part would hit theaters on Nov. 3, 2006, while the second part would arrive approximately a month later on Dec. 1, 2...

Boll Puts Liotta in DUNGEON
by News Editor (Wed 07-20-2005)

Uwe Boll has cast Ray Liotta in his sword and sorcery film DUNGEON SIEGE. Liotta will play the movie's villain, Gallian.He joins a cast which already includes Leelee Sobieski, Will Sanderson, Jason Statham, Brian J. White, and German supermodel Eva Padber...

Final Poster & Trailer for Uwe Boll's POSTAL
by Jarrod Sarafin (Sat 04-26-2008)

The final poster for Uwe Boll's next film, Postal, has popped up courtesy of Freestyle Releasing. You can check the full size by clicking on the photo to the left. The film stars Zack Ward, Dave Foley, Chris Coppola, Erick Avari and Verne Troyer. Director...

Alone in the Dark
by Corona's Coming Attractions (Mon 01-17-2005)

...Making It:Uwe Boll (Director); Michael Roesch, Peter Scheerer, Elan Mastai (Screenwriters); Wolfgang Herold, Shawn Williamson (Producers); Mathias Neumann (Director of Photography); tink (Production Designer); Toybox (Special Visual Effects); based on ...


House of the Dead, The
by Coming Attractions (Thu 07-31-2003)

...aking It: Uwe Boll (Director); Dave Parker, Mark A. Altman (Screenwriters); Mark A. Altman, Dan Bates (Story); Shawn Williamson (Producer); Dan Bates, Mark A. Altman, Mark Gottwald, Daniel Kletzky (Executive Producers); Wolfgang Herrold (Co-Executive P...

HOUSE OF THE DEAD
by Patrick Sauriol (Mon 02-02-2004)

...y, that's Uwe Boll's HOUSE OF THE DEAD.Call me strange, but I need more from my horror movies than nudity and lots of guns. When HOUSE had its theatrical release last October it took a critical pummeling from horror fans and movie critics, and rightly ...

Legends of horror
by Brian Thomas (Tue 10-03-2006)

Critical whipping boy Uwe Boll recently gave us yet another reason to dislike him: He's a bully. He recently made good his offer to let his critics get in the boxing ring with him. Boll selected four young men who have been extremely critical of his work ...

Lions Gate unlocks ALONE IN THE DARK
by Patrick Sauriol (Fri 11-05-2004)

Lions Gate Films has purchased the rights to distribute ALONE IN THE DARK to North American theaters. Directed by HOUSE OF THE DEAD helmer Uwe Boll, and starring Christian Slater, Tara Reid and Stephen Dorff, the movie studio has now slotted a January 28,...


HOUSE OF THE DEAD helmer eyes more video game movies
by Patrick Sauriol (Thu 01-22-2004)

What is it about director Uwe Boll and video games? After making HOUSE OF THE DEAD (which was skewered by movie critics and audiences alike) and now in post-production on ALONE IN THE DARK, Boll has announced that his production company has optioned the m...

BLOODRAYNE Trailer
by News Editor (Wed 12-21-2005)

...rected by Uwe Boll from a script by Guinevere Turner.WINDOWSMEDIA HI Streaming URL: bloodrayne/video/trailer_93s/theatricaltrailer_300.asx  LOW Streaming URL: bloodrayne/video/trailer_93s/theatricaltrailer_56.asx  Real Streaming URL: bloodray...

Videogame Movies: The Good, The Bad and The Worse.
by Jessica Chobot (Mon 04-16-2007)

This is it people! It is only going to go downhill from here. This current “nerds who rule the world” trend is at its zenith. Right now.  My recommendation? Enjoy it while you still can.  One only has to look at the videogame ...

He Wasn't Faster Than That Speeding Bullet
by David Michael Wharton (Mon 02-07-2005)

...o prevent Uwe Boll from finding anymore source material. STARSHIP TROOPERS 2: HERO OF THE FEDERATION (9:45 PM CST, Starz) Phil Tippet picks up where Paul Verhoeven left off, sans any returning cast or any more resemblance to the novel than the first ou...


HITMAN Trailer Fires Online
by Jarrod Sarafin, News Editor (Tue 06-26-2007)

...o movies (Uwe Boll filming Far Cry? Ugh) and I'm a major fan of the Hitman games. To see the trailer for HITMAN, click on this link.

Something's teasing us from the DARK
by Patrick Sauriol (Sat 04-24-2004)

After the release of HOUSE OF THE DEAD, director Uwe Boll took a lot of barbs from horror fans left unsatisfied by that particular zombie picture. So can the German doctor-turned-director redeem himself with his latest scary movie, ALONE IN THE DARK? The ...

WB Grabs a BUCKET of Cash
by Jarrod Sarafin, News Editor (Sun 01-13-2008)

It seems that earlier press releases about Uwe Boll’s In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale were a bit misleading. Sure, the film got 3,000+ theaters but only 1,605 of those theaters were in here in the states in its opening debut. As such, ...

Madsen injected into BLOODRAYNE
by Patrick Sauriol (Tue 08-17-2004)

Michael Madsen (KILL BILL, RESERVOIR DOGS) has been added to the cast of BLOODRAYNE. So too have Michelle Rodriguez (THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS) and Matt Davis (LEGALLY BLONDE), joining Ben Kingsley and Kristanna Loken in the Uwe Boll feature, about to star...


Your first look at BLOODRAYNE
by Patrick Sauriol (Wed 09-01-2004)

...ne in the Uwe Boll movie that's now filming in Romania. From a script by Guinevere Turner (AMERICAN PSYCHO), BLOODRAYNE sees Loken face against her evil father Kagan (played by Ben Kingsley). Michelle Rodriguez, Michael Madsen and Matt Davis also co-st...

NEXT
by Robert T. Trate (Tue 09-25-2007)

... Director Uwe Boll, Deleted Scenes, and Video Game.   Black Roses     Broken (Unrated)   Bug (Special Edition) Feature Commentary with Director William Friedkin.   CUJO - STEPHEN KING'S - 25th Anniversary Edition ...

ALONE IN THE DARK on the internet
by Patrick Sauriol (Thu 12-23-2004)

IGN FilmForce has unleashed the trailer for ALONE IN THE DARK upon the internet. This is the second video game-to-movie adaptation from German director Uwe Boll (HOUSE OF THE DEAD being his first) and it stars Christian Slater as supernatural investigator...

And Now for an Important Message...
by David Michael Wharton (Mon 03-21-2005)

...rvel that Uwe Boll is still allowed to make movies. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23 THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (7 PM CST, TCM) During an experiment involving teleportation, a U.S. Naval vessel is catapulted through time. No, wait, that was the Philadelphia Experiment....


The Undersea World of Bill Murray
by BRIAN THOMAS (Tue 05-10-2005)

...wler from Uwe Boll. That's right, I said genius. Oh, like Reid has to be a genius to play one. Includes commentrak, annotation track, ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 © Universal featurettes, music videos and more. (O) ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 (Univer...

Ben Kingsley sucks in his next job
by Patrick Sauriol (Wed 08-11-2004)

... director Uwe Boll confirmed the casting of Kingsley on Insomniac Mania as well as said that Michelle Rodriguez (THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS, RESIDENT EVIL) is also in the cast. A longtime friend and regular cast member in Boll's films, actor Will Sanders...

T3 beauty becomes BLOODRAYNE
by Patrick Sauriol (Wed 08-04-2004)

...rected by Uwe Boll (HOUSE OF THE DEAD, ALONE IN THE DARK) and produced by his longtime business partner, Shawn Williamson. The film's script is by AMERICAN PSYCHO screenwriter Guinevere Turner.Got a scoop? Know something that you need to tell us about...

Shopping Bag: The Italian Hitchcock?
by Robert T. Trate (Tue 06-10-2008)

... is, then Uwe Boll has to be the German Spielberg.    ACTION / ADVENTURE / KUNG FU/ THRILLERS / WESTERNS Broken Trail [Blu-ray]   Fade   Finish Line Grindhouse Experience: American Gangstas (3pc) Invisible Target &n...


HOUSE OF THE DEAD heading before cameras
by Christopher Allan Smith (Tue 02-26-2002)

... director Uwe Boll, starts shooting in May. Altman is happy it will veer away from the PG-13 horror films of late and go for the blood and guts mavens of the genre have been missing."We want our film to be smart, scary and gory. No PG cop-out here," Al...

HITMAN
by Tim Janson (Sun 03-23-2008)

Films based upon video games haven’t exactly enjoyed the greatest success. From the terrifically bad Uwe Boll films, to Doom and Street Fighter, video game adaptations have been some of the worst films in recent years. This brings us to th...

Reviewing when you're ALONE IN THE DARK
by Patrick Sauriol (Mon 11-03-2003)

The first script review for ALONE IN THE DARK has sprouted on the Web. The movie, which wrapped production not too long ago, is being directed by Uwe Boll (HOUSE OF THE DEAD) and stars Christian Slater and Tara Reid as paranormal investigators Edward Carn...

Finally, some ALONE IN THE DARK photos
by Patrick Sauriol (Wed 11-05-2003)

...rected by Uwe Boll (HOUSE OF THE DEAD) and starring Christian Slater as paranormal investigator Edward Carnby, the horror/action movie is based on the popular series of computer video games released by Atari. Tara Reid (AMERICAN PIE) also stars in the ...


Look Ahead: Part 2
by Brian Thomas (Tue 01-09-2007)

...; Another Uwe Boll video game movie.  Power and Glory (New Line) Based on the Howard Chaykin comic about a superhero dependent on the guidance of a CIA agent. Premonition (Sony) Sandra Bullock foresees her husband’s death and tries to pre...

HOUSE OF THE DEAD gets under way
by Christopher Allan Smith (Fri 05-10-2002)

Video director Uwe Boll has finally begun shooting the long awaited big screen translation of the hit Sega zombie video game HOUSE OF THE DEAD. The film, like all promising horror flicks, centers on a group of college students who find more than they barg...

Burning with Hellboy's Ron Perlman
by Josh Gordon (Thu 07-10-2008)

...ked with: Uwe Boll and Guillermo del Toro.   RP: Well, their both foreigners. Uwe Boll is a kind of P.T. Barnum. He’s a guy that makes the show possible in a very good way and he loves movies…I like the guy a lot; He’s a reall...

Three Clips from DUNGEON SIEGE
by Jarrod Sarafin, News Editor (Mon 01-07-2008)

Three clips have appeared online for In The Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale, courtesy of Youtube. The Uwe Boll-directed film, based on the best selling game, stars Jason Statham, Leelee Sobieski, John Rhys-Davies, Ray Liotta, Matthew Lillard, Burt ...


Toybox left ALONE IN THE DARK
by Patrick Sauriol (Fri 08-08-2003)

...rector is Uwe Boll (HOUSE OF THE DEAD).Got a scoop? Know something that you need to tell us about? Send it to us!

READER REVIEW: Will anyone be ALONE IN THE DARK this weekend?
by Patrick Sauriol (Fri 01-28-2005)

... director Uwe Boll's latest horror film? Read on and find out (unless you're Mr. Boll -- in which case, you might want to skip reading this story and move on to the next one.)"Congratulations to Michael Roesch and Elan Mastai!!! These two fellows have ...

Boll'd Over by Reaction to His Films
by News Editor (Sat 02-18-2006)

This week Eurogamer posted an interview with director Uwe Boll regarding the more recent reception of his films by critics and audiences. Boll tells interviewer Ellie Gibson, "The dangerous thing right now is that a lot of people bash me without thinking ...

BLOODRAYNE 2 Trailer
by Jarrod Sarafin, News Editor (Thu 08-09-2007)

Knowing you Maniacs are in such a hurry to see the latest from Uwe Boll, it's my duty to tell you the new BLOODRAYNE 2: DELIVERANCE trailer is now online. Natassia Malthe has replaced original heroine Kristanna Loken in the starring role. T...


Director gives ETA for DUNGEON SIEGE flick
by Patrick Sauriol (Mon 11-10-2003)

Following up on the story we first reported last week, The Hollywood Reporter spoke with HOUSE OF THE DEAD director Uwe Boll and found out when he planned on filming and releasing his latest project that he's attached himself to, DUNGEON SIEGE. Boll told ...

Claire Caught in SEIGE
by News Editor (Fri 07-29-2005)

Director Uwe Boll has cast actress Claire Forlani in DUNGEON SIEGE. Forlani will play Solana, wife of the film's hero, Farmer, played by Jason Statham.Shawn Williamson is producing, Boll is the executive producer.

Now it's two who are ALONE IN THE DARK
by Patrick Sauriol (Mon 07-14-2003)

...rected by Uwe Boll (HOUSE OF THE DEAD), ALONE IN THE DARK will be released by Artisan Entertainment sometime next year.Got a scoop? Know something that you need to tell us about? Send it to us!

Disney Continues With TREASURE Hunt
by Jarrod Sarafin, News Editor (Sun 01-06-2008)

...s. Can an Uwe Boll film like his Dungeon Siege Tale get respectable numbers if said film is hitting 2,500 theaters? We have a Veggie Tales film hitting theaters, a limited-publicized crime-comedy and a Boll film slated for next week.   We may j...


ALONE IN THE DARK
by Abbie Bernstein (Mon 01-31-2005)

... director Uwe Boll seldom manages to generate much fear even when big monsters enter the action, though admittedly visual effects supervisors Doug Oddy and Geoff D.E. Scott have crafted some cool-looking creatures. Boll stages perhaps two decent jump s...

Writers become HUNTERs
by Patrick Sauriol (Fri 10-22-2004)

...rected by Uwe Boll, the German-born director of HOUSE OF THE DEAD, ALONE IN THE DARK and BLOODRAYNE and Canadian producer Shawn Williamson. This will be the fourth video game movie adaptation that Boll and Williamson have collaborated on. Filming is sl...

Movie Screenshot Trivia: Rd 1
by Jarrod Sarafin, News Editor (Mon 02-04-2008)

...t connect Uwe Boll while watching the Dungeon Siege trailer and they probably wouldn’t care because they’d have no clue who exactly Mr. Boll is. But hardcore fans do know that man’s resume of films and would probably warn those &ldquo...

Book Buzz: A New Skin for the God Emperor of Dune
by Pat Ferrara (Mon 06-23-2008)

...that when Uwe Boll approached the RTS and MMO game behemoth earlier this year Blizzard’s Paul Sams flat-out rejected the craptacular German director: “I got in contact with Paul Sams of Blizzard, and he said, ‘We will not sell the mov...


It's a FAR CRY for HOUSE OF THE DEAD helmer
by Patrick Sauriol (Fri 02-20-2004)

Director Uwe Boll has another video game movie project -- his fifth so far in development. His company's latest acquisition is Crytek's upcoming horror genre first-person shooter FAR CRY, slated for release next month. Boll wants to make a $25 million dol...

In the Name of the King
by Tim Janson (Thu 04-17-2008)

A review of this DVD can be summed up in two words: Uwe Boll.  The director, who gave us House of the Dead, Bloodrayne, and Alone in the Dark, returns with yet another video game adaptation, In the Name of the King.  It just goes to prove that e...

Writer revealed for DUNGEON SIEGE
by Patrick Sauriol (Wed 02-04-2004)

Video game website Gamespot spoke with film director Uwe Boll (HOUSE OF THE DEAD) about his plans to bring the Microsoft fantasy role-playing game DUNGEON SIEGE to the silver screen. Boll's film production company, Boll KG, has just finished closing the d...

Bolle busted
by Brian Thomas (Tue 09-12-2006)

... director Uwe Bolle. When the discs failed to arrive right away, I picked a couple winners and sent out some copies I'd acquired myself, but of course I wasn't about to go chasing after the autographed poster, and by August I'd written it off and forg...


Til Schweiger Joining BASTARDS
by Jarrod Sarafin (Tue 09-02-2008)

...Carver in Uwe Boll's adaptation of Far Cry, is joining fellow cast members Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Christoph Waltz, Daniel Bruhl, Eli Roth, Mike Myers, Michael Fassbender, B.J. Novak, Samm Levine and Paul Rust.Previous roles from Schweiger include Kin...

FANTASY ART NOW
by Tim Janson (Mon 11-05-2007)

I have been a huge fan of fantasy art ever since I saw my first Frank Frazetta cover on one of those old Ace paperbacks Conan books. Today, fantasy art is as diverse as its ever been. What used to be a lot of warriors, wizards, faeries and drago...

SIEGFRIED & ROY: THE MAGIC BOX in Imax 3D
by Steve Biodrowski (Mon 11-01-1999)

IMAX has always been a spectacular format for overwhelming audiences with images blown up to the size of a football field, but the films themselves have not always been as impressive as the technology. Sometimes it seems as if the format itself is the sol...

Someone Get Mr. Bauer Some Caffiene, Stat!
by David Michael Wharton (Mon 01-03-2005)

After a wait of seven months, Jack Bauer and 24 return to television with a two-hour fourth season premiere this Sunday, followed by two more hours in its new regular Monday-night slot. I've seen the first three hours, and the premiere starts off with a l...


And The Razzies Nominees Are...
by News Editor (Wed 02-01-2006)

... (2005) - Uwe Boll Bewitched (2005) - Nora Ephron Dirty Love (2005) - John Asher Dukes of Hazzard, The (2005) - Jay Chandrasekhar Son of the Mask (2005) - Lawrence Guterman   Worst Screenplay   Bewitched (2005) - Nora Ephron; Delia Ephron; Ad...

HOUSE OF THE DEAD II
by BRIAN THOMAS (Sun 04-02-2006)

... In 2003, Uwe Bolle directed HOUSE OF THE DEAD as the first of a series of video game adaptations allegedly financed for tax reasons by a consortium of wealthy German businessmen. Bolle, who has confessed to having little interest in horror, neverthele...

DUNE
by Steve Fritz (Mon 12-11-2000)

In the advent of the Sci-Fi Channel`s Dune mini-series, there is only one question that`s now been left begging. To wit: Why did this TV version work—with notably one fifth the total budget—when the Dino De Laurentiis production fell flat on its face? For...

DUNE: Remaking the Classic Novel
by Steve Fritz (Mon 12-04-2000)

When it comes to reinterpreting sci-fi novels from print to screen, it would be hard to find a project more difficult to do than Frank Herbert’s Dune. And when producer Dino De Laurentiis released his theatrical film version of the sci-fi classic 15 years...


FRANK HERBERT'S DUNE (2000)
by Scott Collura (Sun 08-19-2001)

There’s more to the world of science fiction than STAR TREK and STAR WARS. In fact, some might say that those two ultra-popular properties don’t even count as real sci-fi; not when the likes of the FOUNDATION TRILOGY are out there, or the works of Philip ...

Fathers' Day DVD
by BRIAN THOMAS (Tue 05-23-2006)

... favorite Uwe Bolle! I know, I can almost hear you chanting, "Uwwwwwe!" just thinking about it! To enter, send an email containing your name and address to psycho@psychotronic.info with (of course) "UWE" in the subject line. We also have THE BUGALOOS ...

Slater is ALONE IN THE DARK
by Patrick Sauriol (Tue 07-01-2003)

...producer, Uwe Boll.Carnby was the primary character in the ALONE IN THE DARK video game series, an explorer of haunted houses who faced many ghouls and beasties. The ALONE IN THE DARK movie is expected in theaters sometime in 2004 along with a new vide...

Looking at KILL BILL VOL. 2 later today
by Patrick Sauriol (Tue 04-06-2004)

The new trailer for KILL BOLL VOLUME 2 will first be broadcast on tonight's edition of Entertainment Tonight, then available for download on the web immediately following the broadcast. Four sites will host the trailer: America On-Line, MSN.com, Quicktime...


Sobieski and Statham Head into Boll's DUNGEON
by News Editor (Fri 07-01-2005)

Jason Statham and Leelee Sobieski have signed to star in DUNGEON SIEGE for director Uwe Boll.The $60 million film will begin filming Sunday in Vancouver, British Columbia. It is an adaptation of the sword-and-sorcery video game Dungeon Siege. Statham will...

BLOODRAYNE Set for January 6th
by News Editor (Sun 09-18-2005)

...rected by Uwe Boll.BLOODRAYNE is set in 1723 where evil rules Eastern Europe. Evil Lord Kagan has so much power that no one stands boldly against him. No one dares try. And as great as his power is, Kagan has an opportunity to become utterly invincible...