Perhaps the last person one would expect to be following in the activist-filmmaking footsteps of George Clooney and Don Cheadle is a filmmaker being
rabidly petitioned online to get out of making movies altogether. And yet Uwe Boll is hoping to exercise his social conscience by making a "very brutal" movie about the Sudanese genocide, "in the style of Mel Gibson's Apocalypto." For more, from FilmStew, click here.