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Back in 2015, just as Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson was cementing his status as one of the world's biggest movie stars, the wrestler-turned-actor starred in the highly successful disaster flick "San Andreas." This was actually one of the movies that proved Johnson could help open a big blockbuster outside of a major franchise. He had earned the reputation of being "franchise Viagra" given what he was able to do for "Fast & Furious," "G.I. Joe," and other established properties.

"San Andreas" sees the infamous San Andreas Fault finally give, which triggers a massive magnitude 9 earthquake in California. Rescue helicopter pilot Raymond Gaines (Johnson) and his estranged wife must then make their way from Los Angeles to San Francisco to save their daughter. It was a huge success, taking in $474 million worldwide against a $110 million budget. That being the case, Warner Bros. was very quick to announce a squeal back in early 2016. But all these years later,...

In general, it’s good to be Dwayne Johnson. For the second year in a row, he topped Forbes’ list of the highest-paid actors and a major component to his wealth, of course, is his box office success. Over the last several years, he’s certainly had a good run and he’s now looking to continue that streak as three of his films are reportedly getting sequels.

According to sources close to Wgtc – the same ones who told us National Treasure 3 and a new Exorcist movie are in development, both of which were correct – Journey 3 and Rampage 2 are both happening and are currently coming together behind the scenes, while Netflix is already working on mapping out a sequel to upcoming action flick Red Notice.

Of course, it’s no surprise to hear that a Dwayne Johnson movie is getting a sequel. Well, except for maybe Baywatch. Journey...

Known for adapting video games for film, Uwe Boll isn’t too happy with Warner Bros. and New Line’s upcoming action pic Rampage starring Dwayne Johnson. The German director released a Rampage trilogy of his own starting in 2009 and in a statement released on his website, it is said he is pursuing legal action against the studio for “using his brand.”

Boll released his first Rampage movie in 2009 which was followed by 2014’s Rampage: Capital Punishment and 2016’s Rampage: President Down. The movies do not share the storyline of Warner Bros’ adaptation of the monster sci-fi video game, but Boll says that the new movie will “shrink” his brand and the money he can make with his future Rampage movies. He also adds, “It also confuses the audience!”

He is very aware that the Johnson-fronted action pic has nothing to with his trilogy, but he is still demanding that Warner Bros.

Schlock filmmaker Uwe Boll has called on Warner Bros. to rename Dwayne Johnson’s Rampage, claiming the movie infringes on the brand he established with his own film of the same title. Released in 2009, Boll’s Rampage concerns a man building a suit of armor and going on a bloody revenge spree. The director would create two sequels, 2014’s Rampage: Capital Punishment and 2016’s Rampage: President Down. Though Boll has a reputation as the worst director in the world, critics actually gave him some love on Rampage, calling it maybe his only good film.

Director Uwe Boll retired as a filmmaker in 2016, turning his attention to his restaurant business in Vancouver, but now he's making headlines again, threatening to sue Warner Bros. for their upcoming Rampage movie, starring Dwayne Johnson. Despite Warner Bros.' Rampage movie being based on an arcade video game that debuted in 1985, Boll revealed first on Twitter, and then on his official website, that he is exploring his options about filing a lawsuit against Warner Bros. for, "using his brand Rampage as the title for the upcoming motion picture starring Dwayne Johnson, also known as the Rock." Here's the full statement from Uwe Boll's website below.

"We are living now in a world where Independent Movies are dead and the big players only are making all the money. That they then use developed brands and ideas from established series such as my Rampage films in order to make even more money is unfair but typical.

Luca Guadagnino is quickly becoming one of our most prolific filmmakers. With “Call Me by Your Name” currently in theaters and his “Suspiria” remake on the way, the Italian auteur will next direct Jennifer Lawrence in “Burial Rites.” The news comes from Variety, who note that the true-crime drama is in the works at TriStar Pictures.

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The film is to be based on Hannah Kent’s novel of the same name, which tells of Agnes Magnúsdóttir — the last woman to be publicly executed in Iceland. That event took place in 1830 and was the result of her conviction for killing two men and setting their home on fire, suggesting that “Burial Rites” will be a light, airy affair that definitely won’t anger viewers for killing off J-Law’s character.

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The Japanese auteur’s striking film centres on a murder trial, and turns convention on its head to create a captivating and unknowable puzzle

Here’s an intriguing and cerebral quasi-genre picture from the Japanese auteur Hirokazu Koreeda. It’s a complex courtroom drama that can be read at least partly as a piercing – if not precisely passionate – rebuke to the death sentence. Capital punishment is still on the statute book in Japan, amid growing calls for its removal. A more obviously campaigning movie might concentrate on the possibility of hanging the wrong person, or on the squalor of state-sanctioned killing. Instead, The Third Murder is more elusive and relativist. It is about fighting a losing battle to establish the facts, and to grasp a truth that appears to change shape and disappear over the horizon. In the past, Koreeda has been celebrated for his movies in the classic Japanese “family drama” style,...

This classy Fox production was considered the epitome of sick film subject matter in the pre- Psycho year of 1959, the true story of jazz-age thrill killers Leopold & Loeb. Dean Stockwell and Bradford Dillman are the nihilistic child murderers; Orson Welles stops the show with his portrayal of Clarence Darrow, going under a different name.

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Kl Studio Classics

1959 / B&W / 2:35 widescreen / 103 min. / Street Date March 7, 2017 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95

Starring: Orson Welles, Dean Stockwell, Diane Varsi, Bradford Dillman, E.G. Marshall, Richard Anderson, Robert F. Simon, Edward Binns, Gavid McLeod, Russ Bender, Peter Brocco.

Cinematography: William C. Mellor

Film Editor: William Reynolds

Original Music: Lionel Newman

Written by Richard Murphy from a novel by Meyer Levin

Produced by Richard D. Zanuck

Directed by Richard Fleischer

Movies about serial killers and psychos with exotic agendas were much different before Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, which hit America in 1960 like a thrown brick.

Tagline: "This Bill will not be Vetoed." This film fan was a little surprised to see that director Uwe Boll has completed another film. His latest and possibly last film is called Rampage: President Down. This film, is of course, the final in a trilogy, which began with Rampage (2009). A sequel to this first film was released in 2014 as Rampage: Capital Punishment. In a recent interview, Boll has stated that this will be his last film, with Boll transitioning from directing into distribution (Influx Mag'). A preview for Rampage: President Down is hosted here. This third film again focuses on Bill Williamson (Brendan Fletcher). After successfully stealing thousands of dollars from a bank in his hometown, Bill has made his agenda known, through a news station. Now, he is set on killing the President of the United States! Can the Secret Service and other governmental forces stop this violent man?...

Another presidential candidate just means more fresh meat for Jon Stewart, who has been having a field day with so many interesting personalities joining the race for the White House. And with 17 major candidates currently in the running, “there is already a whiff of desperation,” Stewart said. The “Daily Show” host’s latest target was New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who officially declared as a candidate this week. “Why, why, why?” the Comedy Central star asked on Wednesday night’s episode as he aired Christie’s laughable announcement speech. Also Read: Jon Stewart Congratulates Conservatives on Capital Punishment Victory: 'What The F-k?...

German director Uwe Boll is famous for various things, mostly churning out terrible movies. Ten years ago his films somehow went theatrical - "Alone in the Dark," "House of the Dead," "Bloodrayne," etc.

Since then he's been mostly doing direct to video fare from "the "In the Name of the King" sequels to the revenge piece "Rampage" and its sequel "Rampage: Capital Punishment". Recently Boll took to crowdfunding to try and score $55,000 in additional funding to produce "Rampage 3".

With only a few days left to go though, he hasn't reached half his goal and he's upset about it - to the point that he's delivered a video diatribe slamming crowdfunding in general as well as other targets like Marvel movies before declaring "f--- you all" and saying "I have enough money to play golf for 'til I'm dead".

Naturally there's been a lot of attention garnered by the video...

With Noah Baumbach's "While We're Young" rolling into cinemas today, telling the story of a middle-aged couple trying to reclaim their youth, there is probably no better moment for this news to drop. Star Ben Stiller had a punk band in the 1980s, they recorded an album, and over 30 years later, it's getting an official release. You can't make this stuff up. Pitchfork has the news the today and it goes something like this: indie label Captured Tracks stumbled across Roadkill by Capital Punishment — recorded on the cheap, and given an initial run of a couple hundred copies — contacted Stiller to ask if they could re-release it, and the rest is history. While most people would be mortified to see their high school band's recordings put back out into the wild, it's kinda great Stiller is eager to roll with it, and he seems pretty amazed anyone cares. "What...

Directed by Julian Barratt, Alexandre Bustillo, Larry Fessenden, Julian Gilbey, E.L. Katz, Aharon Keshales, Steven Kostanski, Julien Maury, Vincenzo Natali, Bill Plympton, Jen & Sylvia Soska and many more…

It’s a second go around the alphabet of fear with The ABCs of Death 2. 2012′s first installment – an anthology of 26 stories, each representing a letter of the alphabet – was the very definition of a mixed bag, with (sadly) the bad often outweighing the good. However, given that the good was Very good I still held out hope that this sequel would live up to the expectations and potential that the format has.

Thankfully this time round the good outweighs the bad, although surprisingly there are some disappointing segments from directors whose work I’ve enjoyed; and whose feature work has been hailed as some of the best in the genre – not that there’s any evidence of that here – including...

Directed by Julian Barratt, Alexandre Bustillo, Larry Fessenden, Julian Gilbey, E.L. Katz, Aharon Keshales, Steven Kostanski, Julien Maury, Vincenzo Natali, Bill Plympton, Jen & Sylvia Soska and many more…

It’s a second go around the alphabet of fear with the debut of The ABCs of Death 2 as part of this years Celluloid Screams film festival. 2012′s first installment – an anthology of 26 stories, each representing a letter of the alphabet – was the very definition of a mixed bag, with (sadly) the bad often outweighing the good. However, given that the good was Very good I still held out hope that this sequel would live up to the expectations and potential that the format has.

Thankfully this time round the good outweighs the bad, although surprisingly there are some disappointing segments from directors whose work I’ve enjoyed; and whose feature work has been hailed as some of the best in...

At the heart of the ABCs of Death series is something I absolutely cherish about horror cinema; the ability to take a short story and convey an idea that terrifies (or if we’re lucky grosses out). It strips out the bullshit ie all those love plots and pieces of character development that are wholly unnecessary to a good horror story. Horror shorts, anthology films and portmanteaus truly are my favorite way to watch horror fiction. From Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark to Stephen King’s Night Shift. From Dead of Night to Creepshow. Bite size stories to tell around a campfire or underneath the covers or to read on the beach, that’s the way to consume horror in small portions.

ABCs of Death was comprised of 26 filmmakers creating horror fiction based on a letter of the alphabet and the sequel follows suit. No wrap story just right on into the sequence,...

Are we done hating director Uwe Boll yet? Despite a spat of truly awful genre fare back in the early 2000s, the notorious German filmmaker has been on quite a role lately, delivering some of the best movies of his career. He's finally making what he really wants to make, and some of those films, like Rampage and Assault on Wall Street are truly inspired personal works that highlight his strengths as a visionary and storyteller. He has a distinct voice, and when the material fits, he's quite adept at bringing a powerful message to the screen.

This good work has leaked into his latest offering, despite it being a franchise sequel to one of his earlier groaners. 2009's In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale might not have registered very high with critics, but it truly capture the imagination of video game fans everywhere, and proved...

The critic-boxing director Uwe Boll is back with another “In the Name of the King” movie.

This time around, the film stars Dominic Purcell (“Prison Break”) as a modern day hit man in Bulgaria who travels back in time to save a kingdom from an evil warlord.

It also stars Ralitsa Paskaleva and Bashar Rahal.

Boll talks exclusively with Latino-Review on why he returned to this franchise that was once based off the Dungeon Siege video game series. And he also explained his passion for making political movies now, and how he kept attracting certain stars towards his projects.

“In the Name of the King 3: The Last Mission” is available On Demand, Blu-Ray and DVD today.

Read the transcript of the interview below.

Latino-Review: Could you tell me what attracted you to this script? Especially since this is one of the few movies you didn’t write.

Uwe Boll: Yeah.

A few weeks back we told you that Dr. Uwe Boll was already hard at work on a sequel to his - honestly - great film Rampage, and now, just in time for the European Film Market, we have the exclusive premiere of the film's teaser artwork along with a first look trailer.

Rampage 2 stars Rogue's Brendan Fletcher. The sequel to the original 2009 mass murder thriller was shot over six days in Maple Ridge, British Columbia. Rampage 2 has Fletcher returning as a man who takes over a TV station and holds a number of hostages as a political platform to awaken humanity, instead of for money.

The feature from the prolific German director, who shoots most of his movies in Vancouver, also stars Lochlyn Munro (Tomorrowland), Mike Dopud, and Michaela Ross. Rampage 2 is produced by Natalia Tudge.

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A few years back infamous director Uwe Boll did the unthinkable... he released a really, and we mean really, good movie in Rampage starring Brendan Fletcher. Seriously, you wouldn't even think Boll was behind this one. Can lightning strike twice?

According to THR, Boll has started rolling the cameras on his latest project, Rampage 2, with Rogue's Brendan Fletcher starring once again. The sequel to the original 2009 mass murder thriller is shooting over six days in Maple Ridge, British Columbia.

Rampage 2 has Fletcher returning as a man who takes over a TV station and holds a number of hostages as a political platform to awaken humanity, instead of for money.

The feature from the prolific German director, who shoots most of his movies in Vancouver, also stars Lochlyn Munro (Tomorrowland), Mike Dopud, and Michaela Ross. Rampage 2 is produced by Natalia Tudge.

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Toronto -- Movie schlockmeister Uwe Boll has started the cameras rolling on his latest project, Rampage 2, with Rogue's Brendan Fletcher starring. The sequel to the original 2009 mass murder thriller that also starred Fletcher is shooting over six days in Maple Ridge, British Columbia. Rampage 2 has Fletcher return as a man who takes over a TV station and holds a number of hostages as a political platform to awaken humanity, instead of money. Story: Hollywood, Fix the 2014 Movie Calendar The feature from the prolific German director, who shoots most of his movies in Vancouver, also stars Lochlyn Munro

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