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30 June 2008 8:33 PM, PDT | From bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news

Vivendi has officially announced the DVD release of Postal, which stars Zack Ward, Dave Foley, Larry Thomas, and Verne Troyer. DVD Active reports that the Uwe Boll directed film will be available to own on August 26th, and should retail at around $26.99. Extras will include a director commentary, deleted scenes, featurettes ("Raging Bull", "Verne Troyer as Indiana Jones"), and a free Postal 2 PC game. A Blu-ray release will also be available for $34.99 with identical features. Living on Social Security and unemployed, Dude desperately seeks employment, but instead finds a life of violent action and adventure when he teams up with his Uncle Dave, a financially strapped cult leader, in an effort to rip off an amusement park, only to find that the Taliban are trying the same heist simultaneously.

21 June 2008 5:56 PM, PDT | From DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news

A funny version of House of the Dead? Because Uwe Boll's original version of House of the Dead wasn't funny enough?

A few years ago I got an email from Uwe Boll out of the blue inviting me along with some other internet critics to join him up in Vancouver to help re-edit, re-write, re-film, etc. House of the Dead in order to create a brand new funny version of the film. Part of me was intrigued; the other part of me was concerned this might be his way to lure myself and some other web critics who had been highly critical of him into a Saw-esque trap. Fortunately, the latter was not the case. Unfortunately, for a wide variety of reasons, I was not able to take Dr. Boll up on his offer. My sole contribution to this noble endeavor being an idea for a potential sight gag

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25 May 2008 7:13 PM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

“You know, you don’t have to do this. I know it’s out of the way and playing at an inconvenient hour. We can always cover it next week or on DVD. I’m giving you an out,” my editor Keith offered sympathetically, mercy in his eyes. I was officially being offered a reprieve. I didn’t have to travel to the farthest reaches of Northwest Chicago to see Uwe Boll’s Postal at the Portage, a beautiful old-time movie palace/revival house that doesn’t even play new movies on a regular basis. But the die had been cast a long time ago. You know the role friends, family, love, community, religion and public service collectively play in your life? That’s kind of the role bad movies play in my life. I was born into this. For me, seeing and writing about ridiculous movies isn’t just

23 May 2008 6:55 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Uwe Boll remains on the critics' firing line with his latest film, Postal. Bill Stamets in the Chicago Sun-Times writes: "Accusing Postal of bad taste gives it too much credit. Shock calls for craft that Boll lacks." Writing in the New York Times, Nathan Lee calls the movie "infantile, irreverent and boorish to the max." In the Los Angeles Times, Mark Olsen comments that Boll "creates such a bizarre, garish spectacle that it is almost tempting to give him credit for being something of a misunderstood artist after all. Almost, but not quite. Postal is largely just a byproduct of Boll's self-promotion, rendering the film itself, in essence, beside the point." Michael Harris in the Toronto Globe and Mail can barely disguise his contempt for the film. "This reviewer is not easy to offend, but is very easy to bore," he remarks. "And I was bored out of my tree for most of Boll's lamely conceived, cliché-ridden debacle."

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23 May 2008 6:55 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

The only film producer challenging Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull with a new release this weekend is the critically despised German director Uwe Boll, who has managed to find 17 theaters across the country to show his R-rated Postal. It's based on a video game about a man who "goes postal" and begins shooting everything and everyone in sight. The movie includes scenes of the the 9/11 hijackers crashing into the World Trade Center while discussing the virgins they're sure to win when they arrive in paradise. Another scene shows Osama bin Laden and George Bush holding hands as they walk into a mushroom cloud. When virtually every major theater chain, including AMC and Regal, the nation's two largest, turned it down, Boll distributed it himself, sometimes even renting theaters, but even many of the theaters that have agreed to show it are only doing so at odd hours. "We're running in Austin only at midnight at the Alamo. How are you going to do box office if you're not going to play five times a day?" Boll asked in an interview with MTVNews.com. In the New York area, the movie is only playing in out-of-the-way Brooklyn.

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22 May 2008 4:51 AM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news

Uwe Boll blames "political correctness" on the part of Us distribution chains for the scaled-down release of his upcoming movie. The much-maligned director had hoped to see Postal, a political black comedy, released in 1,500 theatres, but the film will only screen at 13-15 locations across the Us. Boll told The Hollywood Reporter: "This is for me very disappointing, to be honest. They don't like the political content. This is my personal feeling after trying for four or five weeks to get the distributors to book it. It's a ruthless comedy and makes jokes about 9/11 and all kinds of stuff, but at the same time I feel like it's my best-received movie so far." All of Boll's films, (more)

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19 May 2008 2:51 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

By Neil Pedley

It's a battle of filmmaking titans this week, the kind of event that comes around once in a lifetime . Steven Spielberg and Uwe Boll will duke it out at the multiplexes. (Forgive us, but that might've been our only opportunity to ever get to put those two names in the same sentence.)

"The Children of Huang Shi"

Set during the Japanese occupation of China during the 1930s, this sweeping historical epic comes from Roger Spottiswoode, the director behind both "Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot" and the narrative remake of "Shake Hands with the Devil." The first official co-production between Australia and China, the film tells the true story of Australian nurse (Radha Mitchell), who with the aid of a British journalist (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), escorts 60 orphaned children 700 miles through the Liu Pan Shan Mountains to evade Japanese secret police. "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon" co-stars Michelle Yeoh

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12 May 2008 8:08 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

By Matt Singer and Alison Willmore

There are petitions just to stop him from making more films. Stride has offered to give away free gum if one million people sign. He's punched out the scrawnier of his critics in a boxing ring. He's the filmmaker the world loves to revile, and in honor of (or maybe just to warn you about) the upcoming "Postal," this week on the Ifc News podcast we discuss the career and films of Uwe Boll, and whether or not he's the contemporary Ed Wood.

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[Photo: Uwe Boll plays himself in "Postal," Freestyle Releasing, 2007]

Alison Willmore

8 articles from 2008