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Uwe Boll on moon Nazis

July 30th, 2010 by Jarmo Puskala

Timo just got back from the Grossmann Film & Wine Festival held in Ljutomer, Slovenia. There he ran into the notoriuous Uwe Boll so he had to ask his opinion on Moon Nazis.

I posted the video to our Facebook page and the comments keep rolling in. It’s amazing how everyone seems to have an opinion about Uwe Boll. Hell hath no fury like a gamer scorned, even though it’s actually been quite a while since Uwe has made a truly bad film.

What, you don’t believe that previous sentence? Check the reviews for “Rampage” on iMDB and prepare to shit bricks.

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Need some pics? Most of our photos are under a by-nc-sa license

July 9th, 2010 by Jarmo Puskala

Most of the pictures on our Flickr account are now under a Creative Commons NonCommercial-Attribution-ShareAlike license. That means that from copyright viewpoint you can copy, remix & re-distribute the photos as long as it’s not for commercial purposes. They can for example used to illustrate blog posts ~~or Wikipedia articles~~. Just remember that if pictures have recognisable people you should respect their privacy.

Why? Why not. If Peter from Northampton needs a picture of a Koala for his school presentation of animals that fail in natural selection then why not let him use the one Janos took? It’s not like we’re loosing anything. But maybe koalas win if Peter’s presentation is a bit more convincing and gets Mary to study to be a vet whose research saves those cute, fuzzy bears from extiction. Probably not though.

Have fun.

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The Teaser – One Week Later

May 21st, 2010 by Jarmo Puskala

Jussi's concept art for the first Iron Sky teaser.

The second teaser for Iron Sky> was released a week ago – and we couldn’t be happier! Since then it has traveled all around the world in the internets, gathering nearly half a million views in the first week!

We’ve been reading your comments, on blogs, forums and even the feared YouTube comments. let me tell you, they make us very, very happy!

“I can’t wait to see this friggin’ movie! It’s Nazis in space!”
-David from Geek, Actually.

“Now THAT is awesome!”
-Comment on Quiet Earth

“if its possible to have an orgasm in your eyes, i would? have had one right now.”
-Comment on YouTube

“Yes the Iron Sky is finally about to fall on our heads and I couldn’t be happier.”
-Mark Kermode

The count likes to count…

While the teaser has gotten most of it’s views on YouTube, it’s spread across the world and different video sharing sites. Thats how the internet works, so that’s why we try to track all copies, so we’ve got a true view count. And it’s pretty damn awesome! At the time I’m writing this the overall amount of views is 492,000! That’s missing the views on hs.fi, wich should push past half a million!

On YouTube the teaser has been the second most watched movie trailer, right after Christopher Nolan’s Inception, being the 5th most watched video in the “Film/Animation” category.

To put this into perspective, Variety releases a top list of film trailers every friday – on it we’d be number 10! Sadly, we don’t qualify with Iron Sky not coming out until next year.

We also owe you guys a huge thanks, because you’ve been marvelous helping us spread the word! Thank you!

Panda by Jeff Kubina

Big in China

To our surprise the teaser has been watched over 100,000 times on Chinese video sites. it seems to be rather popular in the land of the panda bear. There was even a article on Yahoo China. Google’s machine translation tells us that:

…the film is clearly not singing for the Nazi elegy, at the end of Nazhi head of the Nazi eagle statues beckons pigeons shit is a great irony that a black comedy.

They also seem to like Timo:

Directed by Yulia Vuorensola the age of 28, is a sci-fi movie fanatic fans, but also a computer genius

What I’d like to know at what stage did “Timo” turn into “Yulia”, is it Google or?

Lego Pirates by pasukaru76

Piracy on the high seas

However, it hasn’t all been fun and games. Early in the week it appears someone tried to steal our teaser from us on YouTube. And I do mean “steal” as in “we take it and you no longer have it“. This is made possible by YouTube’s “content ID” service. Partners have the possibility to identify and take control of duplicates of their videos.

Long story short, this company claimed the original Iron Sky teaser was their property. First we thought it had to be a bug, after hearing from other producers it seems the company might be deliberately hijacking movie trailers.

In our case the dispute was resolved in our favour. However, we’re a bit worried they might try the same on the teaser remixes you’ve uploaded. If you’ve received suspicious content ID matches – please let us know.

We’ll keep you up to date if there’s need for further action.

Posted in Awesome, Films, Iron Sky, Piracy | 2 Comments »

Opera By You – World’s First Collaborative Opera on Wreckamovie

May 6th, 2010 by Timo Vuorensola

I know not too many of you go to see opera – at least not on regular basis – but have you ever wondered *what* would be an opera you’d like to go and watch? I mean opera has it all, kick-ass music, hot chicks & guys, drama, huge sets, massive costumes… Everything one could ask from any good film. Ok, they sing. A lot. But who the hell cares – once you’re there, the whole thing weaves together and delivers an atomic bomb of an experience, and you leave the hall with your ears ringing, hands shaking and knees all rubbery. It’s like the best film, theater play and heavy metal concert, all slammed together.

At least that’s how *I* think it would be. Yet, I never go to opera. Why? Because there’s usually nothing I could give two shits about – Figaros, Don Giovannis and Magic f*ckin’ Flutes… Who cares?

But what would be an opera you’d *really* want to see? Ever thought of it? Well – now you should. Savonlinnan Oopperajuhlat – a world-famous Opera festival in Finland – just set up an opera project on Wreckamovie, and it kicks some serious ass. The guys decided that instead of shuffling the old operas over and over, let’s try a different approach this time: let’s make opera together with the Internet. Here’s a pretty cool promo they put out there, check it out:

Right now, they start from the very beginning. They’re asking you, we, us, everyone to create the story for the opera. Already there’s some damn cool concepts out there. How does a real Space Opera Opera sound? How about Time Travel? I’m thinking about posting my own idea about an Opera set around Internet Memes – hell, could be even called l’Opera De 4chan.

I know you freaks can come up with crazy, great ideas – just go out there and start Wrecking!

- Timo out.

Posted in Awesome, General, Videos, Wreck A Movie | 3 Comments »

Airplane Wreck Diving – Junkers Ju 52

May 5th, 2010 by Janos Honkonen

And now for something completely different. Some 40 km out of the town of Narvik in Norway there is a lake called Hartvigvattnet which the Nazis used as a landing strip in the wintertime. One of their planes, a Junkers Ju 52, now lies in the bottom of the lake. The history of the plane is a bit unclear, but here’s a nice article about it in DYK magazine.

When I and my fiance went for a diving trip to Narvik, there was no way in hell we would miss this – especially when it turned out that the most fun way to reach the wreck is by jumping into a crystal clear river leading to the lake, and drifting down.