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Rare Wolverine Spotted On The Internet
2:53AM Richard | Tarantino goes to France (again), Wolverines are unleashed upon the world, Edward Furlong returns!, and Jeanne Tripplehorn get the lead in a movie, finally. More »
The Critics Speak: ‘Postal’ May Actually Be Better than ‘Sex and the City’
4:30AM Defamer Hollywood | We’ve been following the bouncing Uwe Boll for what seems like months now, but once the consummate self-promoter and sworn enemy of 279,452 filmgoers (and counting) wound up playing the victim in the Sunday New York Times, the shark was considered jumped. But an eagle-eyed tipster points out one of the more fascinating signs yet of the loathed filmmaker’s resurgence: On a week when his new film Postal has reportedly been banned from multiplexes, it’s also pulling a better Rotten Tomatoes score (33%) than “mainstream” offerings Made of Honor (12%), What Happens in Vegas (28%) and John Cusack’s bomb-to-be War, Inc. (23%). It’s also neck-and-neck with Sex and the City and a mere percentage point behind the tentpole Speed Racer, which is still stalled at the gate with 34% positive reviews. More »
Uwe Boll ‘Confirms’ Boxing Match with Michael Bay, Sues Billy Zane For Good Measure
9:20AM Defamer Hollywood | On one hand we’re sick to near-death of German provocateur Uwe Boll, whose perverse viral antics have amused us barely enough to keep us watching over the last month. But today the son of a bitch is making actual news: First by suing his Bloodrayne star Billy Zane for misleading him on the film’s failed distribution in 2006, and then by actually confirming his proposed boxing match with flaxen fauxteur Michael Bay. So topical! So… angry! Find out where he’s coming from (sort of) after the jump. More »
If ‘The Hobbit’ Must Be Made, We’d Rather See One of These Directors at the Helm
2:15AM Defamer Hollywood | Our dissatisfaction at Friday’s news that Guillermo del Toro would inherit the Hobbit reins from Peter Jackson met with a mix of scorn and curiosity over the weekend. “Pony up an alternative, Cochise,” wrote a commenter. “Destroy those two GENIUSES and all we will be left with is Lucas and Spielberg. And that is not a world I wish to live in.” Us neither! That said, if the Laws of Hollywood Franchises dictate that this goddamned movie must exist, we can think of at least five talented directors off the tops of our heads whom we’d prefer over del Toro, Jackson or any of the other usual fanboy fantasy suspects. Tell us your own ideal hires after the jump.
Please, God, Please, Let These Men Fight to the Death!
6:30AM Defamer Hollywood | Uwe Boll’s 15 minutes of hammy artistic self-defence are just about through, but we find ourselves increasingly won over with his thrashing, language-butchering viral efforts on his own behalf. And while we’re pleased to hear he’ll be judging that Uwe Boll Movie Challenge we noted here yesterday, we are total suckers for his latest — and ideally his last — publicity stunt before vanishing into fauxter oblivion. Or, in his words: “Boll against Bay“: More »
New Contest Entices Amateur Filmmakers to Out-Suck Uwe Boll
2:25AM Defamer Hollywood | Finally! Something constructive has emerged from film culture’s ongoing Uwe Boll Career Deathwatch, and it involves all of us. To wit: “The Uwe Boll Movie Challenge,” which encourages amateurs to make films using the infamously poor standards Boll has been railing about these last few weeks. Think of it like Be Kind Rewind, but with the guiding light of a German hack as opposed to a French aesthete. Check out the criteria after the jump, and get to work already: More »
At Last, Even Michael Bay Admits Michael Bay Is Full of Shit
7:50AM Defamer Hollywood | Further refining his sophisticated public persona from “egregiously self-aware Hollywood hack” to “egregiously self-aware Hollywood hack with a Web site,” Michael Bay teased his regular readers Monday with the suggestion that he’s making up Transformers 2 news as he goes along. “Sorry everyone, everything you are reading (other then we are shooting in Philly) is false,” he wrote in a message-board forum after an open audition call yielded rampant story and script speculation. “We are going to give so much disinformation on this film to confuse everyone.”
Uwe Boll: ‘How Can I Be The Worst Director Alive When Michael Bay Walks Among Us?’
9:00AM Seth | The Stop Dr. Uwe Boll online petition ticks ever upward, a sort of virtual career death clock whose every added signature brings us one tantalising step closer to the million required to ensure the director never unleashes another atrociously realised video game adaptation on a public who strongly feel all the loose threads of BloodRaynes 1 thru 2 still don’t quite justify a third. Not surprisingly, the feisty and outspoken cinematic visionary has opted to fight back, via verbal take-downs of some of his better regarded peers. From the MTV Movies Blog: More »
Philosophical Uwe Boll Suddenly Knows Why You Hate Him
7:35AM Defamer Hollywood | If it weren’t for the petition featuring nearly 168,000 signers calling for his head, we’d probably leave well-enough alone when it comes to genre-hack whipping-boy Uwe Boll. But not even his own targets can resist his thickly accented self-defence, with similarly skill-challenged fauxters Eli Roth and Michael Bay — whom Boll labelled a “fucking retard” in a video released on Wednesday — publicly deflecting Boll’s attacks over the last 24 hours. Naturally, with tens of thousands of dollars worth of free publicity at stake, Boll came back against all his haters in yet another stream-of-consciousness slam: More »
