Film Maker Boll: Over?

German film-maker, Uwe Boll, has seen his latest film - the $70-million In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale tank at the box office. When we say 'tank', we don't mean fish-tank, we mean bloody huge, industrial sewage tank: it took $3.3m at the box-office on the critical first weekend.

What does this mean for the man who brought us Alone in the Dark, House of the Dead and the forthcoming Far Cry video game to movie tie-ins?

According to The Hollywood Reporter it means the man will return to low-budget movies. Speaking to Boll, the industry mag was told, "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."

Thus far Boll was able to use a German tax shelter funds in order to, as the Reporter puts it, 'bankroll' his bigger-budget flicks. Now, however, that scheme has been banned.

This means that Uwe will leave the likes of Ray Liotta, Burt Reynolds, Jason Statham and Ron Perlman - all of whom starred in In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale for less well-know Thespians as he heads for day one of his shoot on Zombie Massacre.

Head over to the aptly-named Boll-kg site for more info on, " DER MEISTER DES TRASH".

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^{The Hollywood Reporter}