I was thinking "Pitfall" personally. Or am I too late for that?
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Subject : Re: [scifinoir2] Re: In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale
Date : Mon, 6 Jul 2009 12:49:39 -0400
From : Daryle Lockhart <dar...@darylelockhart.com>
To : scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
That might explain why Universal insists on greenlighting these
Hasbro game movies, and are now moving on to Atari, having just
greenlit "Asteroids".
Anybody wanna go in with me on a treatment for "Bezerk" or
"Defender"? "Tempest"? Anyone?
On Jul 6, 2009, at 12:41 PM, ravenadal wrote:
>
>
> It has been my humble opinion that Hollywood has long operated as a
> washing machine to clean mob money. One of the biggest sausage
> factories of the last millenium, Universal Pictures, was long run
> by Lew Wasserman who began by booking talent into mob operated
> night clubs and had more than a few mob connections. Today, actors
> often scoff when they hear what they were allegedly paid to star in
> a movie because they likely received half of that amount. The rest
> is the money being laundered.
>
> ~rave!
>
> --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "Mr. Worf"
> wrote:
> >
> > There may be something like that already going on in Hollywood.
> There are a
> > number of films that they know as soon as they are green lit that
> they will
> > fail. Frankenhood and Soulplane come to mind. There are also
> others with
> > white casts that also are made to loose money too. I suspect that
> they are
> > being used as a write off. At least I hope that they are. There
> are way too
> > many really bad films making it to the scifi channel that have
> moderate
> > sized budgets that should have never been made. Like HG Wells War
> of the
> > Worlds 1 and 2! (Yes. You read that right. They made two!)
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 4:23 AM, Daryle Lockhart
> > wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > "Obsessed" is a Black film, actually.
> > > This loophole in finance Uwe has been riding is something Black
> > > filmmakers could/should use to make larger budget films in
> other countries.
> > > There are so many horror scripts that don' t get made in
> Hollywood that
> > > could be getting done in Europe!
> > >
> > > On Jul 5, 2009, at 11:05 AM, ravenadal wrote:
> > >
> > > I am watching something called "In the Name of the King: A
> Dungeon Siege
> > > Tale" on Showtime. The movie stars Jason Statham and the cast
> includes such
> > > stellar actors as Ron ("Hellboy") Perlman, Ray ("Goodfellas")
> Liotta -
> > > shamelessly chewing up scenery as Gallion, the prolific John
> Rhys-Davies,
> > > Burt "Smokey and the Bandit" Reynolds, Claire "Meet Joe Black"
> Forlani,
> > > Leelee ("Deep Impact") Sobieski and Brian J. White ("The Shield,"
> > > "Moonlight") wearing a nasty looking scar as Commander Tarish.
> > >
> > > The movie is directed by German born schlockmiester Uwe Boll,
> best known
> > > for his "BloodRayne" movies.
> > >
> > > I had never heard of this movie so I went to IMDB, Box Office
> Mojo and
> > > Wikipedia and discovered "In the Name of the King" cost $60
> million and
> > > grossed a robust $13 million worldwide. Then I discoverd the first
> > > "BloodRayne" cost $25 million and grossed a whopping $2.42
> million. WTF!!!!!
> > >
> > >
> > > Then I discovered that Boll is very successfully manipulating a
> lucrative
> > > loophole in German tax laws. 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.
> > >
> > > Imagine, thought I, if black filmmakers were able to exploit
> such a
> > > loophole? Everybody KNOWS black films don't make money. What an
> excellent
> > > opportunity to make all the black epics everyone dreams of but
> nobody dares
> > > risk the money to make.
> > >
> > > What a bonanza! You could hire all the known but under utilized
> black
> > > actors and actresses - pay them top dollar - WTF? We are TRYING
> to lose
> > > money after all!
> > >
> > > Let Vin Diesel make his "Hannibal." Let Spike Lee make his
> "Tuskegee
> > > Airmen." Let the Hughes Brothers make whatever they want. Hell,
> let me film
> > > "The World Ebon." Shoot, I could burn through a coupla hundred
> million
> > > dollars real quick!
> > >
> > > Imagine the mishmash of casts you could come up with! What
> would be your
> > > dream project?
> > >
> > > ~rave!
> > >
> > > http://twitter.com/ravenadal
> > > http://theworldebon.blogspot.com
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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