German Director Returns To Low Budget Films

By Matthew Williams
10:12, January 15th 2008
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German Director Returns To Low Budget Films

After the flop “In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale” had at the U.S. box office, German director, Uwe Boll will probably turn to making low-budget films.

The movie is a $70 million fantasy epic adaptation of a video game starring Burt Reynolds, Claire Forlani, Jason Statham and Ron Perlman.

The movie only gained $3 million in the weekend at the box office thus making the third movie of Boll a flop, after "Blood Rayne" and "Alone in the Dark."

Because of this flop Boll said that he won’t be able to continue to do productions with a big budget.

He said: "In the future, I will focus on small films such as (the video game adaptation) 'Postal' or (the Vietnam War drama) 'Tunnel Rats. These are films that represent my true passion, and they can be done with small budgets," Reuters reports.

Boll financed the movies with a big budget through German tax shelter funds.

Like all similar tax shelters, “In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale” was banned in Germany, this being the last of his films to be financed by his fund.

He will now have to do it like everyone else: to pre-sell distribution rights in every country. It could be a difficult task for Boll.

He is well known for the dispute he had with Internet critics.

Mychael Berg, head of distribution at Fox in Germany, said: "Because of the Boll reputation, it is not easy to get audiences into the cinemas." Berg’s company released “King” locally.

"We finally managed it, and we are quite satisfied with the abut 250,000 people who watched the movie (in Germany). We proved that you can make money with a Boll film," he added.

But this isn’t enough to make another $70 million movie.

“Seed” will be released at the end of the month, and two other movies are on the roll.

His next film is another adaptation of the video game “Shoot’em Up”, which will be named “Zombie Massacre.”



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