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class="breadcrumbs clearfix"><li property="itemListElement" typeof="ListItem"><a property="item" typeof="WebPage" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161028131129/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment"><span property="name">Culture</span></a></li><li property="itemListElement" typeof="ListItem"><a property="item" typeof="WebPage" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161028131129/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films"><span property="name">Film</span></a></li><li property="itemListElement" typeof="ListItem"><a property="item" typeof="WebPage" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161028131129/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news"><span property="name">News</span></a></li></ol> <h1 itemprop="headline" class=" ">Notoriously terrible director Uwe Boll has retired from film</h1> <div class="intro"> <p>His career saw petitions for him to stop and boxing bouts with critics</p> </div> <ul class="caption meta inline-pipes-list"> <li class="author" 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worldwide has dropped 80 per cent in the last three years,” Boll told <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161028131129/http://www.metronews.ca/entertainment/2016/10/20/director-uwe-boll-rampage-of-terrible-films-is-finished.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">MetroNews</a>.</p> <figure class="mediaembed"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20161028131129if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/rIncll153Dw" width="100%"></iframe></figure><div class="inline-block inline-block-related-single inline-block-right" data-nid="/arts-entertainment/films/news/best-friends-trailer-the-room-s-tommy-wiseau-and-greg-sestero-reunite-for-hopefully-terrible-a7358711.html"><a href="/web/20161028131129/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/best-friends-trailer-the-room-s-tommy-wiseau-and-greg-sestero-reunite-for-hopefully-terrible-a7358711.html"><img 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I can’t go back to student filmmaking because I have made so many movies in my life, and I can’t make cheaper and cheaper movies at my age. It’s a shame. I would be happy to make movies but it is just not financially profitable.”</p> <p><em>Rampage: President Down</em> will be the last movie from Boll, who was previously the subject of a petition calling for him to retire.</p> <p>He ended up responding to the petition in 2008, saying that “18,000 [signatures] is not enough to convince me [to stop].”</p> <p>Asked how many it would take, he said: “One million”.</p> <meta itemprop="datePublished" content="2016-10-27T09:11:20+01:00"/> <ul class="inline-pipes-list"> <li> More about: </li> <li><a itemprop="keywords" href="/web/20161028131129/http://www.independent.co.uk/topic/uwe-boll">Uwe Boll</a></li> </ul> <div id="gigya-share-btns-2"></div> <a href="/web/20161028131129/http://www.independent.co.uk/syndication/reuse-permision-form?url=http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/uwe-boll-retires-director-finally-fives-up-film-due-to-lack-of-money-a7382521.html" target="_blank" class="syndication-btn"><img 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