omg

[Maridia]

for those of you who don't frequent offtopic but who might give a crap,

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=62899

I'm just throwing this around because it made me laugh really hard. <_<

[Hrith]

o rly?

[Polly]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uwe_Boll


Boll continues to secure investors for the rights to future videogame-to-movie adaptations, despite the controversy surrounding his products. His investors are mostly German. He carefully secures the rights for potential future adaptations, afterwards doing all of the actual production himself, and swiftly finishes the product.

Movies directed by Boll have not achieved the kind of box office returns one expects from a typical Hollywood film. The House of the Dead broke $5.73 million and Alone in the Dark made over $5.1 million. A Boll film is usually made on a relatively tight budget in places like Vancouver, Canada.

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."

Whereas most directors would no longer be able to acquire the funding to continue such projects after box office failures such as Alone in the Dark, Boll is able to acquire funding thanks to German tax laws that reward investments in film. The law allows investors in German-owned films to write off 100% of their investment as a tax deduction; it also allows them to invest borrowed money and write off any fees associated with the loan. The investor is then only required to pay taxes on the profits made by the movie; if the movie loses money, the investor gets a tax writeoff.

I'm sure he really tried his hardest to make the best movie possible.

Amended in December, but still in effect when he churned out his crummy House of the Dead and Alone in the Dark bullshit.

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Neiclaes on 2006-02-17 11:02 ]</font>

[Maridia]

No excuses. http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_frown.gif

[rena-ko]

gawd... i feel so ashamed of my country now. and i'm actually funding these movies with my taxmoney... -_-;

[EJ]

On 2006-02-17 12:01, rena-ko wrote:
gawd... i feel so ashamed of my country now. and i'm actually funding these movies with my taxmoney... -_-;


well you know what you must do now, tax evasion time. o;

[Maridia]

XD

[Mixfortune]

o (http://pso-world.com/searchbb.php?submit=1&term=o&search_username=Maridia&searchboth=title&start=0&num_results=20&sortby=date)
m (http://pso-world.com/searchbb.php?submit=1&term=m&search_username=Maridia&searchboth=title&start=0&num_results=20&sortby=date)
g (http://pso-world.com/searchbb.php?submit=1&term=g&search_username=Maridia&searchboth=title&start=0&num_results=20&sortby=date)

[Hrith]

how long, Mix?

[HAYABUSA-FMW-]

On 2006-02-17 14:05, Mixfortune wrote:
o (http://pso-world.com/searchbb.php?submit=1&term=o&search_username=Maridia&searchboth=title&start=0&num_results=20&sortby=date)
m (http://pso-world.com/searchbb.php?submit=1&term=m&search_username=Maridia&searchboth=title&start=0&num_results=20&sortby=date)
g (http://pso-world.com/searchbb.php?submit=1&term=g&search_username=Maridia&searchboth=title&start=0&num_results=20&sortby=date)


I got those nerd T-shirt ads from JINX on all three pages.

HAX

[DizzyDi]

Uwe Boll for president.

[Mixfortune]

On 2006-02-17 14:14, Kef wrote:
how long, Mix?


For what?