Re: Скажите, а кто Уве Боллу дает бабло?! И на такое?
[Re: izon] 26 июля 2011 в 16:14
Financing
Boll's movies have often performed poorly at the box office in the United States. House of the Dead, which was budgeted at $12 million, made $5.73 million in its opening weekend,[9] Alone in the Dark, which was budgeted at $20 million, made over $5.1 million,[10] and BloodRayne, which was made for $25 million, made $2.42 million.[11] The least profitable commercial performance of his career was In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale, which made barely $10 million worldwide at the box office on a $60 million budget.
Until the law was changed in 2005, Boll was able to acquire funding thanks to German tax laws that reward investments in film. The law allowed investors in German-owned films to write off 100% of their investment as a tax deduction; it also allowed them to invest borrowed money and write off any fees associated with the loan. The investor was then only required to pay taxes on the profits made by the movie; if the movie loses money, the investor got a tax writeoff.[citation needed]
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. 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."
While Boll has received a lot of negative publicity regarding this funding method,[12] he was actually one of the few directors to use the tax shelter as intended. His films were financed, produced, and directed by a German company, which was the initial intention behind the tax shelter: to provide incentive for investment in German entertainment properties.[improper synthesis?]
Re: Скажите, а кто Уве Боллу дает бабло?! И на такое?
[Re: izon] 26 июля 2011 в 23:58
Не слышала ничего раньше о дядечке. Посмеялась.
В ответ на: Открыта петиция к Уве Боллу с воззванием прекратить снимать кино «Stop Dr. Uwe Boll», собравшая свыше 350 тысяч подписей. Существует также петиция, противоположная по содержанию предыдущей «Long Live Uwe Boll» — Да здравствует Уве Болл: «„Шедевры“ Уве Болла дают нам полтора или два часа здорового, радостного и истерического смеха. А смех продлевает жизнь».
Неконформистский такой персонаж:
В ответ на: В 2006 году Уве Болл пригласил своих самых рьяных критиков среди журналистов побывать на съёмочной площадке фильма «Postal». После экскурсии он пригласил журналистов провести с ним несколько раундов на боксерском ринге, где поколотил их.
Вообще фильмов не видела, просмотр трейлера вызвал вопрос: а чем это хуже большинства тарантиновских сюжетов?