kitetsu wrote:Uwe Boll is still a rich schweinhund precisely because of DVD sales of his "movies".
Actually, as a producer, Boll is a miserable failure. Not a single one of his movies has ever turned a profit.
Not that he cares. Most of his investors are just looking for tax write-offs. As for Boll himself, he loses money as a producer every time, but he also pays himself a humongous director's salary, which is how Boll himself makes his money.
Boll the producer keeps getting money to make his crap movies because of stupid rich people being willing to spend $50,000 a piece on him just to avoid having to pay $10,000 in taxes to the government, and Boll the director keeps getting hired because Boll the producer is his biggest fan.
The same is more or less true of Hilton and Friedberg / Seltzer. Their schemes aren't quite as intricate as Boll's, but both of them work at the proverbial discount, which will guarantee them future work on future crap projects.
Vampires Suck was an utter P.O.S., but because they were so bloody cheap with the production, they were able to make twice as much as it cost to make the film on their opening weekend alone. The strategy behind
The Howling, I believe, will be the same: Keep the movie cheap and crappy so it can pay for itself in the first week and who gives a damn if it pitters out completely the week later.