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Uwe Boll Claims 'There Is No Money in Movies,' Explains Plan to Save Hollywood

Sep 11, 2008 10:37am CST tags: Hollywood, Uwe Boll
Uwe Boll, the oft-reviled director behind such critically panned game-to-film adaptations as House of the Dead and Bloodrayne, has once again spoken out on the issues that afflict Hollywood.

Entitled "The Film market -- or THERE IS NO MONEY IN MOVIES," Boll's essay appears to blame the international film market for the poor performance of Bloodrayne, attacks reality television, claims that studio executives live in air balloons, and more.

"If I would run a studio I would do the same movies for half of the production costs in throwing the cokeheads out and cutting the bullshit of breakfast, lunch, and dinner meetings with idiots who never made a movie in their life," Boll claimed. "I can shoot a movie like Fantastic Four 2 in half of the time for half of the money shot by shot."

Portions of the essay, as republished by 1up, follow below:

Since 2004 the price for movies in the international film market went 85% down. With other words: a movie like my movie Bloodrayne got 2004 in Japan for example $1 million. MG and now $150,000. Mark Gill just wrote: "This time the sky is really falling!" Movies like CHE from Soderbergh or winning films from the Sundance Film festival stay ... Read more