Tale of the flop: BloodRayne at the box office

Not did this movie look unprofessional but who else noticed how bad the trailers looked.:-P

Just under 50 mil to make and produce? Are you serious... lol

I heard this film was financed as a sort of real life "Producers" scheme where somehow the foreign financiers would actually make money if this flopped(due to some tax code enabling them to write the thing off and get a big multi-million dollar refund or something).

Who exactly is still giving this man money to make these flops?

Hopefully this will teach uwe's moneyshooters a lesson, so they'll stop giving him any fucking money he'll be forced to stop making game-raping movies. But then again uwe's moneyshooters didnt seem to have any common sense in the first place at all.

The poor sods lol, and to think that that dungeon siege movie thing is still coming to and probably cost even more money to make (and will probably make even less money then this one lol)

Wait, the movie COST $50 million dollars to make? The idiot at the movie studio who approved this needs to be shot, then cut into little bits. Those little bits can then be mailed out to everyone who was unfortunate enough to see the movie as the deepest form of an apology.

From what I've seen of the previews, the sets were on par with the stuff you'd see in Star Trek, and the actors looked like they were pulled from the nearest 'special education' acting schools. There is no way this movie cost more than $5 million dollars to make. I'm sure the rest of the budget went into Mr. Boll's checking account.

The man has to be stopped. He's a plight on gaming. Sure, half the world knows about Bloodrayne and Alone in the Dark, but not in a good way. My overall consensus is that games should not be made into movies...not literal translations anyway...I can understand films inspired by games...but not based off of them...what was the last good video game movie? Were there any?

Eventually this moron (Uwe Boll) is going to get his hands on a beloved franchise and just ruin it. When the time comes, I wonder if the gaming community can set aside its party lines and lay down the law on Uwe...hope it never comes to that.

At least it is not a 5 billion dollars loss... oh well.

Why are the news so slow today? Even X360 news would suffice!

It needed a better babe. I mean, c'mon...

This movie sucked something awful because Bloodrayne had a pudgy belly. Also Uwe is abusing licenses that millions of fans hold dear. This man apparently hates his audience.

I feel bad for Ben Kingsley. He's a great actor and should never have gotten involved.

I also like Jason Statham who's in Dungeon Siege. Poor suckers.

"...the actors looked like they were pulled from the nearest 'special education' acting schools. There is no way this movie cost more than $5 million dollars to make."

'Special education' includes Academy Award winner Sir Ben Kingsley? Are Kristanna Loken, Michelle Rodriguez and Michael Madsen fresh from acting school as well?

The cast along probably cost more than $5 million, so your argument doesn't make any sense.

This guy really bugs me. Yeah I know everyone has a soft spot for bad movies, what ever your genre of choice, and Boll is just catering to that but really he's just a crappy director. He's no Roger Corman or Ed Woods who loved the movies they made, Uwe Boll just seems kind of, well, evil.
Here's some reading material for people if they want to know about the scam he may be running.
http://www.cinemablend.com/feature.php?id=209
& his Wiki bio, check out the Financing section
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uwe_boll

Here is how he finances these movies. He owns his own production company in germany. this is a quote directly from Boll in one of his DVD commentaries.

"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."

German investors are paying to make these films, not hollywood studios. He just gets Hollywood to distribute the finished product.

Little more info:

Whereas most directors would no longer be able to acquire the funding to continue such projects after box office failures such as Alone in the Dark, 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.

Hate to break it to you but it's old old news that the tax write off you speak of no longer exists. That hole in the german tax laws was recently closed so this is no longer true.

One last time. The tax loop hole NO LONGER EXISTS.

Get it through your heads.

Thanks.

I lol'd. 50 million to produce? Wow... Blair Witch only cost $1000 and made x times that? I never saw the movie because I was utterly disappointed with the previews I saw. For 50 million, they should have hired people who actually knew how to do their job, instead of throwing money around.

They are suppose to be closing that loophole this year so if we are lucky we'll only have to tolerate just a couple more of these horrendous movies before people will stop giving him money.

http://www.petitiononline.com/RRH53888/

I think its because Meatloaf was in it and you know that guy wont do anything for.....well less than 20mil ;-)

Plus some other big names were in there as well (although I cant believe they agreed to this crap) like Ben Kingsley, Michelle Rodriguez, Billy Zane (another 20 mil there), and the Famous Udo Kier (who we all remember from Blade as the "Elder Vampire") so its an amazement it didnt cost more!

#14 - It's not like it's been closed that long. Last I looked it was "closed" in early Novemeber, but still needed confirmation by legislation.

I think it was suppose to be somewhat retroactive, but any deals made before that went in place are still valid so any future movies that have contracts under the old law will sadly still be made.

Sadly, I saw the movie. It's every bit as bad as you might think it is. The plot was erratic and the dialogue seemed to have been written by a 4-year old.

The saddest part is that the game's story is actually more interesting. When a director can't outdo the shallow story from a videogame, it's time to throw in the towel.

Yes, the tax loophole has been closed in Germany. However, Boll was able to secure funding for his future films before the ink dried. I don't remeber the exact wording of the article I read, but I think he got 2 more projects funded. So, we'll at least be stuck with him for 2 more bad movies.

As far as Uwe snatching top tier actors for his bottom rung movies:

Remember Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo? Big stars, right? But who says that they really needed to play the Mario Mario and Luigi Mario Bros?

#14 Theres also the possibility that we just might not care about Germany's tax laws. It is a high possiblity u know.
All we care about is that Uwe does not get to do another bad movie. I mean bad. Really bad.

damn he's smart as well. Only having to pay taxes on the PROFIT of the movie and %100 write off...let me move to germany so I can produce and direct

Here's a thought, has anyone seen Jack Thomson and Uwe Boll in the same room? Destroy video games via the cinema, it almost seems too obvious...

That's OK. He saved money by hiring hookers instead of actors! Only 150 Euros each, and they do nude scenes!

Someone STOP him, already!

"They were better than actors. We looked for local Romanian actresses, but there they are all from the theater and act very broadly. For 150 euros a piece the whores would be naked and do as they were told. It was better.” - Uwe Boll (In a Interview for Bloodrayne: The Movie talking about why he chose to use prostitutes instead of actual actresses).

Can someone confirm it? It's from Wikipedia, if true, that's completely insane and the man should be shot, I'm serious.

The fact that BR was based on a game that sucked has little to do with why the movie sucked. Most games would simply make stupid movies if you based them on their game plots. Yes, even Halo 1&2, where the amount of creativity can be summed up with the painfully unoriginal name of Master Chief (heresy, I know!). In movie making terms, Bloodrayne actually sounds better than a Halo movie - you've got a hot scantily clad lead, vampires, femme fatale - like a Blade movie only with a hot, bloodthirsty nearly naked heroine.... Anyways, the Halo pitch - bunch of space soldiers fighting nondescript aliens and nondescript soldiers in nondescript environments (great for multiplayer though). Whether a movie does well or not depends on the script, not the game's fan base (or lack thereof). Heavy marketing (like a Playboy video vixen spread) won't help a crap movie. Hey, it's just like in The Movies game (awesome game by the way).

When will they stop letting him make movies? Who pays him and thinks it's a good idea?

"a game that's greatest moment (...)"

Ahem, ahem. Did you ever come across the word ´whose´?

Breaks my heart to see Kristana Loken bomb like this though. She was the best part of Terminator 3. Somehow she just doesn't look good in the Bloodrayne costume and hair.

"Also Uwe is abusing licenses that millions of fans hold dear."

Who the hell holds Bloodrayne dearly in their hearts?

The tax shelter has been closed, but the law can still be used. They've basically changed the law to where it can't be abused and made punishments for those they find abusing it(i.e. no longer a tax shelter), but the refund is still there, for people making legitimate use of it.

Boll's films are a legitimate use, since he is actually German, and his production company and employees are German, fulfilling the actual intent of the law, to get more film jobs for Germans.

The "closing of the tax shelter" as you put it only prevents things like a movie studio selling a movie to a german investor in then paying a cheap leasing fee so that it can all be written off since the German technically owns the picture.

Actually, his movies aren't exactly using top tier actors, they are more like has-beens. What exactly has Ben Kingsley been in recently that would classify as a good performance? House of Sand and Fog wasn't very good and the last thing on his list was 13 years ago by the name of Schindler's List.

Kristanna Loken - Most notable work was Terminator 3 and Sliders

Michelle Rodriguez - Never been in anything good (hated Girlfight, was retarded)

Billy Zane - Last notable movie was Titanic, a mega-hit that everyone hates

Jason Statham - You're going to ruin a burgeoning career by being in Dungeon Siege, idiot. Highest ranking star of any of Boll's movies

John Rhys-Davies - This guy is probably dead broke and will do anything for money. Chupacabra Terror? Some A-list actor...

Ray Liotta - Best work was in Grand Theft Auto. Any actor that has 8 movies slated to be released by the end of 2006 isn't worth his salt

Matthew Lillard - ...too easy...

Burt Reynolds - Lets see...lots of crap recently...last decent work...Duckman. Your career was dead in by the mid-80's

Everyone else is in the "who the hell is that" category. Looks like Hollywood really is treating Boll's movies like they should be, as a place to get rid of past their prime actors.

think about how many innocent starving children in africa would have been saved with $50 million.

PWNED!!!

Here's the reason why !UWE BOLL is still being funded...
http://www.cinemablend.com/feature.php?id=209