Dungeon Siege Bombs at US Box Office

Infamous film director Uwe Boll has done it again: produce another flop film. His latest endeavor, In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale, a film adaptation of the classic action-RPG series, has bombed both critically and commercially.

According to Gamespot, the film opened this week to take in only $3.3 million in US theaters, averaging approximately $2000 across 1600 screens. It wasn’t enough to enter the film in the top 10 even, making it clear that Boll’s latest impassioned plea to avoid First Sunday, which stars Ice Cube. The chart was topped by Morgan Freeman-Jack Nicholson comedy The Bucket List.

What makes this worse for Boll is that the film cost $60 million to make and is unlikely to break even due to its extremely weak opening, unlike his other projects which he insists made a profit in international sales and video. Secondly, as Gamespot rightly points out, the film stars the biggest ensemble cast in the director’s filming history, starring Jason Statham, Burt Reynolds, Ron Perlman, Matthew Lillard and Kristanna Loken, just to name a few.

Hopefully all this means people will stop giving money to Boll to make films. Please God, let it be.