Uwe Boll came to prominence during the 2000s for his adaptations of video game franchises.
31 Facts About Uwe Boll
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Uwe Boll's films are financed through his production companies Boll KG and Event Film Productions.
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Uwe Boll was born in Wermelskirchen and studied at the University of Cologne.
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Uwe Boll holds a PhD in literature; in 1994, he published a dissertation at the University of Siegen.
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Uwe Boll first decided to go into the movie business at ten years old after seeing Marlon Brando's Mutiny on the Bounty.
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Uwe Boll achieved recognition for loosely adapting video games into movies, having directed and produced a number of such adaptations, including House of the Dead, Alone in the Dark, Alone in the Dark II, BloodRayne, BloodRayne 2: Deliverance, BloodRayne: The Third Reich, In the Name of the King, In the Name of the King 2: Two Worlds, In the Name of the King 3: The Last Mission, Postal, and Far Cry.
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Uwe Boll has promised to donate 2.5 percent of his net profits from Seed to PETA.
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In September 2010, a trailer for Uwe Boll's film, titled Auschwitz, about the concentration camp, was posted on YouTube.
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The trailer, in which Uwe Boll appears as an SS gas chamber guard, contains explicit scenes of the brutalization and killing of concentration camp inmates.
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In 2010 Uwe Boll was the subject of a documentary film titled Raging Uwe Boll, directed by Dan West, which premiered at the Austin Film Festival in October 2010.
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Uwe Boll planned a fourth entry in the BloodRayne franchise in a contemporary setting involving her trying to live a normal life.
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In October 2016, during an interview with the Toronto edition of Metro, Uwe Boll announced his retirement from filmmaking, chiefly citing the decline of DVD and Blu-ray sales, noting that he has had to use his own money to finance his work since 2005.
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In October 2020, Uwe Boll decided to return to making films and announced Germany in Winter as his next project in development.
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In February 2023, Variety reported that after a long break from feature films Uwe Boll is back to commence his newest undertaking, a crime drama that follows the journey of two contrasting NYPD officers on their initial day as colleagues.
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Uwe Boll's films have often performed poorly at the box office in the United States and around the world.
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Uwe Boll was criticized in 2005 regarding his funding method, attributed to a loophole in the German tax laws that was finally closed in 2006.
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Uwe Boll has blamed the poor theatrical performance of his early video game adaptations on his distribution company, Romar, and has filed a lawsuit against them.
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Uwe Boll received a rare "Worst Career Achievement" award at the 29th Golden Raspberry Awards on 21 February 2009 for In the Name of the King, 1968 Tunnel Rats, and Postal.
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Uwe Boll has been nominated for Razzies three times in total.
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Uwe Boll criticizes the game companies themselves for not providing support to the production following the selling of the film rights.
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Uwe Boll stated that this angry email was sparked not by the review, but because the Wired editor told Uwe Boll in person that they loved the movie and then published a negative review.
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Uwe Boll made headlines by challenging his critics to "put up or shut up".
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On 20 June 2006, Rich "Lowtax" Kyanka stated on Something Awful that he had been invited by Uwe Boll to be the first contestant, after Kyanka reviewed Alone in the Dark.
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Uwe Boll alleged that Boll had misled them by claiming that it was a PR stunt when he actually intended to fight them, and that Boll stated that the participants would get training before the match, which none did.
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Uwe Boll later noted that the comments were meant to paint a generic picture over Hollywood, and that he has nothing against the people mentioned.
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Uwe Boll jokingly stated that he believes that his upcoming adaptation of Postal could beat Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull at the box office.
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On 27 April 2008, Uwe Boll responded to Bay's "not caring about Uwe Boll" comment.
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On 20 October 2016, in an interview with the Toronto, Canada edition of Metro, Uwe Boll announced that Rampage: President Down, released a month earlier in September 2016, was his last film, citing market failures and funding difficulties.
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In 2015, Uwe Boll opened the Bauhaus Restaurant in Vancouver, after noting a lack of German cuisine in the city.
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Uwe Boll hired Stefan Hartmann as executive chef, who earned a Michelin star for his own Hartmanns Restaurant in Berlin.
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Uwe Boll married Canadian film producer Natalia Tudge in 2014.