I have a weak spot for any kind of Sci-Fi or fantasy genre flick. It’s the geek in me. Now, having said that, even I hated Bloodrayne, and surprise surprise, it looks like everyone else on the planet did too!
Get this, the Uwe Boll directed flick cost just $25 million to make (no mention on how much was spent on marketing… but it was at least $10 million), and made only $2.4 million domestically. Worldwde the picture gets even more grim only adding $1.2 million to the total, which ends up being around $3.6 million worldwide! OUCH! That hurts the old anus doesn’t it!
So who is to blame? Well… if you ask Uwe Boll it’s certainly not him! It must be someone else’s fault! I know! It’s Billy Zane’s fault! Yup, Uwe Boll is suing Billy Zane and his Romanr Entertainment company. The good folks at Cinematical give us this:
Uwe, you see, was hell-bent on getting BloodRayne released in over 2,000 theaters, which shows just how much the guy knows about American movie audiences. But Romar had some print problems and the flick only made it into about 980 movie houses. The grand tally for BloodRayne’s domestic release was just under $2.5 million. (Now, call me nuts, but if they’d struck another 1,020 prints … they would have lost even more money, so perhaps Billy Zane should be suing Dr. Uwe Boll!)
What a joke! now, on the one hand, if Boll did indeed have a contract that stated Romar Entertainment would make sure the film showed on 2000 screens, then perhaps there is a basis for the lawsuit. But realistically, when you average out the amount of money the film made per screen… then releasing it to 1000 more screen would have just lost them more money.
Plus, in court you have to prove how much the contract getting broken actually cost you. In this case Boll is going to have a had time proving the broken contract cost him anything. It’ll be interesting to see how this one plays out.
