The only film producer challenging Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the
Crystal Skull with a new release this weekend is the critically despised
German director Uwe Boll, who has managed to find 17 theaters across the
country to show his R-rated Postal. It's based on a video game about a
man who "goes postal" and begins shooting everything and everyone in sight. The
movie includes scenes of the the 9/11 hijackers crashing into the World Trade
Center while discussing the virgins they're sure to win when they arrive in
paradise. Another scene shows Osama bin Laden and George Bush holding hands as
they walk into a mushroom cloud. When virtually every major theater chain,
including AMC and Regal, the nation's two largest, turned it down, Boll
distributed it himself, sometimes even renting theaters, but even many of the
theaters that have agreed to show it are only doing so at odd hours. "We're
running in Austin only at midnight at the Alamo. How are you going to do box
office if you're not going to play five times a day?" Boll asked in an
interview with MTVNews.com. In the New York area, the movie is only playing in
out-of-the-way Brooklyn.
23/05/2008
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