Writings īoll has written two books, Wie man in Deutschland einen Film drehen muss ( How one must make a movie in Germany) and Die Gattung Serie und ihre Genres ( Genus Series and its Genres), on themes of serial television.īoll receiving the 2009 Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Career AchievementĪs of April 2015, House of the Dead (for which VideoHound's "Golden Movie Retriever" described Boll as a "cinematic train wreck") and Alone in the Dark appear on IMDb's "Bottom 100" film list. 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."īoll has received significant negative publicity regarding this funding method, attributed to a loophole in the German tax laws that was finally closed in 2006. In the DVD commentary of Alone in the Dark, Boll explains how he funds his films: "Maybe you know it but it's not so easy to finance movies in total. The least profitable commercial performance of his career was In the Name of the King, which grossed a little over $10 million worldwide on a $60 million budget. House of the Dead, which was budgeted at $12 million, made $5.73 million in its opening weekend, Alone in the Dark, which was budgeted at $20 million, made $5.1 million, and BloodRayne, which was made for $25 million, made $2.42 million. Financing īoll's films have often performed poorly at the box office in the United States and around the world. In October 2020, Boll decided to return to making films and announced Rampage IV: The New Blood and Germany in Winter as his next projects in development. In November 2018, Boll was the subject of a second documentary film titled Fuck You All: The Uwe Boll Story, directed by Sean Patrick Shaul and produced by Prairie Coast Films, which premiered at the 2018 Whistler Film Festival. However, he no longer wants to finance his projects. In February 2018, he revealed in his vlog that he intends to return to film and has sent proposals to Netflix. Īs of 2017, he still works as a film producer. In October 2016, during an interview with the Toronto edition of Metro, Boll announced his retirement from filmmaking, chiefly citing the decline of DVD and Blu-ray sales, noting that he has had to use his own money to finance his work since 2005. The campaign was however cancelled on 5 October 2013.īoll at a 2016 presentation of his film Rampage: President Down In August 2013, Boll announced plans to produce a sequel to Postal based on achieving $500,000 from a Kickstarter campaign. Natassia Malthe was expected to return, and was expected to be loosely based on the video game BloodRayne 2. īoll planned a fourth entry in the BloodRayne franchise in a contemporary setting involving her trying to live a normal life.
The story, inspired by Josef Fritzl, focuses on parents with a daughter locked in a room, where they can partake in immoral acts against her. In March 2012, it was announced he had finished directing a short horror story for the anthology film The Profane Exhibit. In 2010 Boll was the subject of a documentary film titled Raging Boll, directed by Dan West, which premiered at the Austin Film Festival in October 2010. Boll has been quoted as saying that films such as Schindler's List "no longer had the ability to reach young people and that it was his duty as a German to make the film as a way of confronting the past." The trailer, in which Boll appears as an SS gas chamber guard, contains explicit scenes of the brutalization and killing of concentration camp inmates. In September 2010, a trailer for Boll's film, titled Auschwitz, about the concentration camp, was posted on YouTube. He has also promised to donate 2.5 percent of his net profits from Seed to PETA. In the opening credits to Seed (2007), Boll used footage of animal abuse and torture he acquired from PETA to underscore the film's nihilism. He achieved recognition for loosely adapting video games into movies, having directed and produced a number of such adaptations, including House of the Dead, Alone in the Dark, Alone in the Dark II, BloodRayne, BloodRayne 2: Deliverance, BloodRayne: The Third Reich, In the Name of the King, In the Name of the King 2: Two Worlds, In the Name of the King 3: The Last Mission, Postal, and Far Cry. Boll on the set of In the Name of the King, at the studios in Vancouver, 2006īoll's first two major releases were the horror movie Blackwoods and the drama Heart of America, both of which he directed and co-wrote.
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