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Rare Wolverine Spotted On the Internet
Tarantino goes to France (again), Wolverines are unleashed upon the world, Edward Furlong returns!, and Jeanne Tripplehorn get the lead in a movie, finally. More »
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Comment by Bellyboop: Much word on "Breaking Bad". Hadn't watched it when Cranston won the GG and Emmy. Caught it a... 2 Responses | Other threads
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The Critics Speak: 'Postal' May Actually Be Better than 'Sex and the City'
We've been following the bouncing Uwe Boll for what seems like months now, but once the consummate self-promoter and sworn enemy of 279,452 filmgoers (and counting) wound up playing the victim in the Sunday New York Times, the shark was considered jumped. But an eagle-eyed tipster points out one of the more fascinating signs yet of the loathed filmmaker's resurgence: On a week when his new film Postal has reportedly been banned from multiplexes, it's also pulling a better Rotten Tomatoes score (33%) than "mainstream" offerings Made of Honor (12%), What Happens in Vegas (28%) and John Cusack's bomb-to-be War, Inc. (23%). It's also neck-and-neck with Sex and the City and a mere percentage point behind the tentpole Speed Racer, which is still stalled at the gate with 34% positive reviews. More »
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By STVComment by marmidukestank: This guy won't go away and I look forward to watching his filmography grow and grow. more » | Other threads
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Uwe Boll 'Confirms' Boxing Match with Michael Bay, Sues Billy Zane For Good Measure
On one hand we're sick to near-death of German provocateur Uwe Boll, whose perverse viral antics have amused us barely enough to keep us watching over the last month. But today the son of a bitch is making actual news: First by suing his Bloodrayne star Billy Zane for misleading him on the film's failed distribution in 2006, and then by actually confirming his proposed boxing match with flaxen fauxteur Michael Bay. So topical! So... angry! Find out where he's coming from (sort of) after the jump. More »
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By STVComment by Bogart Shwadchuck: Figured this was bullshit, decided to check it out. From a stickied thread in Michael Bay's forum: "Just spoke to Mike,... more » | Other threads
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If 'The Hobbit' Must Be Made, We'd Rather See One of These Directors at the Helm
Our dissatisfaction at Friday's news that Guillermo del Toro would inherit the Hobbit reins from Peter Jackson met with a mix of scorn and curiosity over the weekend. "Pony up an alternative, Cochise," wrote a commenter. "Destroy those two GENIUSES and all we will be left with is Lucas and Spielberg. And that is not a world I wish to live in." Us neither! That said, if the Laws of Hollywood Franchises dictate that this goddamned movie must exist, we can think of at least five talented directors off the tops of our heads whom we'd prefer over del Toro, Jackson or any of the other usual fanboy fantasy suspects. Tell us your own ideal hires after the jump. More » -
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Please, God, Please, Let These Men Fight to the Death!
Uwe Boll's 15 minutes of hammy artistic self-defense are just about through, but we find ourselves increasingly won over with his thrashing, language-butchering viral efforts on his own behalf. And while we're pleased to hear he'll be judging that Uwe Boll Movie Challenge we noted here yesterday, we are total suckers for his latest — and ideally his last — publicity stunt before vanishing into fauxter oblivion. Or, in his words: "Boll against Bay": More » -
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New Contest Entices Amateur Filmmakers to Out-Suck Uwe Boll
Finally! Something constructive has emerged from film culture's ongoing Uwe Boll Career Deathwatch, and it involves all of us. To wit: "The Uwe Boll Movie Challenge," which encourages amateurs to make films using the infamously poor standards Boll has been railing about these last few weeks. Think of it like Be Kind Rewind, but with the guiding light of a German hack as opposed to a French aesthete. Check out the criteria after the jump, and get to work already: More » -
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At Last, Even Michael Bay Admits Michael Bay Is Full of Shit
Further refining his sophisticated public persona from "egregiously self-aware Hollywood hack" to "egregiously self-aware Hollywood hack with a Web site," Michael Bay teased his regular readers Monday with the suggestion that he's making up Transformers 2 news as he goes along. "Sorry everyone, everything you are reading (other then we are shooting in Philly) is false," he wrote in a message-board forum after an open audition call yielded rampant story and script speculation. "We are going to give so much disinformation on this film to confuse everyone." More »
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By STVComment by WGARefugee: @MCU: I pity the poor fool who doesn't fear the rasp of Michael Bay's parrot tongue! more » | Other threads
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Uwe Boll: 'How Can I Be The Worst Director Alive When Michael Bay Walks Among Us?'
The Stop Dr. Uwe Boll online petition ticks ever upward, a sort of virtual career death clock whose every added signature brings us one tantalizing step closer to the million required to ensure the director never unleashes another atrociously realized video game adaptation on a public who strongly feel all the loose threads of BloodRaynes 1 thru 2 still don't quite justify a third. Not surprisingly, the feisty and outspoken cinematic visionary has opted to fight back, via verbal take-downs of some of his better regarded peers. From the MTV Movies Blog: More » -
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A Week Of False Terribles
As we put this week to bed, it's time to reflect, project, deflect and genuflect on the week that was... More »
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By Mark GrahamComment by avocats: What exactly is wrong (shady) with Rob Lowe's anticipating and undercutting what certainly seems to be an opportunistic attempt to... more » | Other threads
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Philosophical Uwe Boll Suddenly Knows Why You Hate Him
If it weren't for the petition featuring nearly 168,000 signers calling for his head, we'd probably leave well-enough alone when it comes to genre-hack whipping-boy Uwe Boll. But not even his own targets can resist his thickly accented self-defense, with similarly skill-challenged fauxters Eli Roth and Michael Bay — whom Boll labeled a "fucking retard" in a video released on Wednesday — publicly deflecting Boll's attacks over the last 24 hours. Naturally, with tens of thousands of dollars worth of free publicity at stake, Boll came back against all his haters in yet another stream-of-consciousness slam: More » -
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'Genius' With $20 Million Seeks Producer; Must Like Hermits, Work Cheap
A browse through Defamer's Craigslist Hall of Fame suggests a near-future when all of Hollywood's hopes, dreams and ambitions will be funneled directly through the classifieds. We've never been more certain than we were this afternoon, when an eagle-eyed tipster spotted a real genius — not one of these half-assed Uwe Boll types, but a guy who can actually spell "nanotechnology" — on the prowl for a very generous producer: More » -
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Reviled Uwe Boll Makes His Case As "The Only Genius In The Whole Fucking Business"
The breathtaking display ofvindictive fanboy ragepopulist aesthetic taste that is the Stop Uwe Boll Petition has more than doubled its support since we last viewed it, edging the reviled German filmmaker within a mere 860,000 signatures of his million-hater promise to never direct again. While we're optimistic that democracy can take the day by, like, 2012, we're equally devastated by Boll's aggrieved video rebuke/promotional vehicle that appeared online Tuesday: More »
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By STVComment by HollowBrain: Boll is to Hollywood as Trolls are to The Internet, they make things fun again. more » | Other threads
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Be the Lucky Millionth Petitioner Who Ends Uwe Boll's Career
Behind the facade of those vacant eyes and the kind of resume that would have had most filmmakers changing careers years ago, we knew there was a reasonable man hiding somewhere inside Uwe Boll. In a recent interview with the horror Web site FEARnet, the critic-boxing director of such celluloid atrocities as BloodRayne, In the Name of the King and Postal made a modest proposal for an early retirement we can all get behind: More »
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By STVComment by wundergirl: 196,814...err, wait...forgot to sign. Now at 196,815 and counting. more » | Other threads
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Comment by HonestObserver: I like it how everyone's being an apologist for Boll. There can't possibly be a greater 180-degree turnaround in 2008... more » | Other threads
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Uwe Boll Now Pummeling Critics With Nasty E-Mail Instead Of Fists
Uwe Boll, Hollywood's go-to director when a studio absolutely, positively needs a video game adapted into a terrible movie that may one day show a profit in the home video market, is among the last of a dying breed of macho filmmakers who are utterly unafraid to fucking fight you if you write a review that displeases them. (Taking out a retaliatory full-page ad in Variety is, as you might guess, the pussified last refuge of the coward.) Upon reading Wired's negative assessment of Postal, Boll's latest contribution to the cinematic canon, he dashed off this love note to Chris Kohler, the piece's author: More »
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By MarkComment by deusdiabolus: The good news is, he's not doing the sequel to Alone In The Dark. The bad news is, there's a sequel... more » | Other threads
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By MarkComment by Nyarlathotep: It's a pity that Lucia Rijker doesn't have anything bad to say about his movies last year. Uwe getting pummelled... more » | Other threads
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Uwe Boll Challenges Critics To Beat His Lack Of Talent Out Of Him
In a gesture that would indicate a final and complete severing of whatever tenuous bonds with the real world he had left, hack videogame-movie director Uwe Boll has come up with a novel way to answer his many detractors. According to Ain't It Cool News, Boll is inviting his critics to apply to win the opportunity to beat the living shit out of him, footage of which will end up in Postal, his shooting-rampage movie based on (you guessed it) the videogame of the same name: More » -
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Utterly Obvious Headline Of The Day
You don't say? Because we thought the legendary director of such video game adaptation masterworks as House of the Dead, Alone in the Dark (featuring Tara Reid as a genius anthropologist), and BloodRayne was about to blow us all away by trying his hand at a lighthearted romantic comedy. More »
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