"... or Dig Dug with Will Ferrell."
There's another nightmare for the pile...
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Subject : Re: [scifinoir2] Re: In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale
Date : Tue, 7 Jul 2009 19:22:29 -0400
From : <wlro...@aol.com>
To : <scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com>
Well, it could be worst. A live version of Pac-Man. Or Dig Dug with Will
Farrell (sp).
--Lavender
From: Daryle Lockhart
Sent: Monday, July 06, 2009 12:49 PM
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale
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 ridin g 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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