A movie like House of the Dead with around $7 million budget or Alone in the Dark with around $16 million budget are much easier to make profit than the typical $50 million major motion picture.
Actors don't have real value.
Agents are still asking for millions of dollars for actors that don't sell one ticket.
Alone in the Dark was filmed for three weeks on stages and five weeks on location.
Alone is a much better film than House of the Dead and better than most horror movies out today.
For some movies the actors needs training etc., so this a problem, but I try to solve it if I hire action proven people. Like Kristanna Loken, Michelle Rodriguez, etc.
Heart of America is a movie I'm very proud of. The young actors are great and the story has impact.
Homer is the nice side of Al Bundy with the same intellect. I really like him and Al Bundy.
House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
I boxed 15 years in a club.
I do think Hostel will be a good movie.
I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present.
I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.
I think Alone in the Dark was too much an action creature movie than a horror creature movie.
I think the Matrix effect is over-used and I don't do it anymore.
I think video games are a great kind of entertainment. They have replaced a lot of games people normally play with their friends and neighbours, like Monopoly.
I will spend the first few months finishing my scripts for Seed and Postal. Finally, after 6 years I'm writing again.
I'm proud of all my movies for various reasons, but Heart, Bloodrayne, and In The Name of the King are by far better than the others.
I'm sure, after Alone in the Dark, it will be easier to get a very good deal and very wide release for BloodRayne.
If I'm home, I will play a little Silent Hill to get a creepy mood for the editing.
If people hate me they hate me.
If they invest in film funds they have zero on their account, so every movie must recoup money otherwise the investment didn't made sense.
If you have a cheesy guy, like in Van Helsing playing the Dracula guy, or you have Ben Kingsley, it's different. It has a different impact on screen.
In The Name of the King is the right title. To be honest, I don't know who had the final idea for the title but I liked it and it has a strong connection to the movie's story.
In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead.
Interview with a Vampire was lots of sex, so I'm not sure.
It's interesting to see how wrong Hollywood thinks in regards to German tax funds.
My favourite game is Postal because it is so politically incorrect.
My funds have grown every year and this is because my movies got the investors most of their money back, more than all the other funds.
Nobody gets a ticket sold anymore except maybe Tom Cruise (but he looks more like an idiot in the last few years).
Now while the German money is over for Hollywood, I still have $80 million to make movies, and we will have two things coming up: less major movies and the price for actors will go down.
Only BOLL KG gets money without a distribution company directly from Japan, France, and all the other countries.
Slater's a big star and he's been in the business a long time. He's always in a good mood and easygoing but he takes his character very seriously.
So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
So if you want to have a great video game-based movie you have to keep the mood of the game, use the normal character setup - but you have to flesh out the story and provide more background for the characters.
Take the hardcore gamers. The characters are way more real in the world of hardcore gamers who have played the game for hundreds of hours. They have the movie in their heads, they've built it on their own. These guys are always very disappointed in the movies.
The other German funds are not even producing movies. They give their money to US producers and get screwed over.
Today, I looked out at the word of mouth on Alone in the Dark and there seems to be a lot of medium, okay and good reviews coming out.
We thought about it, what we want to tell, and I didn't want to move it directly into the Nazi times. I thought it's much more interesting to see how BloodRayne became BloodRayne.
We work very cost effective and I sell my movies in 100 territories on my own.
We're working on Dungeon Siege right now, and we have a great script for Far Cry done already and we're hoping to go into production next year.
Yes, Tron is an interesting choice because it created a universe that sucks you in - like if you were playing a video game while watching the film.
You must bring more character and story into the script as you go from game to film.
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