BloodRayne

Estimated budget: $25,000,000

They should rename this movie to Blood Bath at the Box Office. Though is has one hell of a cast, sadly, the entire budget was spent on it. I think they paid about five bucks for the script. Must have, maybe even three bucks. That's just the way Uwe Boll operates.

His last two flicks, House of the Dead, and Alone in the Dark, had a combined budget of $22 million. They made a combined $20.2 million in the theaters. That's probably closer to $10 million when you discount the theaters take. Man, that stinks. That's beyond bad. That's world-wide gross people, Alone in the Dark only made $1.2 million outside the US. Pathetic. And those movies had real casts, shockingly as it may seem.

Kristanna Loken, Ben Kingsley, Michael Madsen, sorry people. You can't save this movie. Don't you people have agents? I can be an agent..

DON'T EVER DO MOVIES LIKE THIS.

Man, that was easy. I demand my 10 percent.

What's Working

• Very well known cast which probably ate the entire budget.

What's Not

• Uwe Boll made it. That should scare you more than this film.
• An actress who thinks she's a writer (script? we don't need no stinking script!)
• This budget would be a plus for someone else. Anyone else. Just not this guy. Uwe Boll could make a $50 movie flop.
  
• It's based on a video game. Number of movies based successfully on a video game: 1.
• Again with the scary/horror/gore movies right after Christmas. You people are just dumb, do you know that?

Guinevere Turner wrote the script. She's written 7 films, including two adaptations. She has however acted in 19 different projects. Stick with what you're good at.

Result

Flop. Uwe Boll makes flops on purpose, it's some German tax loop-hole. They invest and fund production, he makes really bad movies, somehow they profit. Go figure. It won't even come close to making back it's buck.


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