{"id":25065,"date":"2022-08-17T11:51:07","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T16:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=25065"},"modified":"2022-08-17T11:51:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T16:51:07","slug":"obit-watch-august-17-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=25065","title":{"rendered":"Obit watch: August 17, 2022."},"content":{"rendered":"

Wolfgang Petersen<\/a>. THR<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In America, Petersen was all about action. He made eight films in the U.S. and enjoyed a string of five straight box office hits: the political thriller In the Line of Fire (1993), starring Clint Eastwood as a Secret Service agent; Outbreak; Air Force One (1997), starring Harrison Ford as the U.S. president; The Perfect Storm (2000), with George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg as ill-fated seamen; and the epic Troy (2004), starring Brad Pitt as Achilles.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Was “Troy” really a “hit”? Wikipedia says:<\/p>\n

Troy grossed $133.4 million in the United States and Canada, and $364 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $497.4 million, making the film one of the highest grossing films of 2004, alongside The Passion of the Christ, Spider-Man 2 and Shrek 2.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But<\/strong> it cost $185 million to make. If you use the rule of thumb of three times budget to make a profit, “Troy” falls short. Using the 2.5X rule<\/a>, it may have made a relatively small profit. And do you hear anybody talking about “Troy” these days?<\/p>\n

I don’t have a dog in this fight: I haven’t seen “Troy”, but would not mind seeing it. The only Peterson film I have seen is “Das Boot”, but I’d actually like to see almost all of his others…<\/p>\n

…except “Poseidon”, which I think everyone agrees was a bad idea that pretty much killed his career. (He has one credit in IMDB<\/a> as a director and producer after that, and that was a German film in 2016. Which, to be honest, does sound good<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wolfgang Petersen. THR. In America, Petersen was all about action. He made eight films in the U.S. and enjoyed a string of five straight box office hits: the political thriller In the Line of Fire (1993), starring Clint Eastwood as a Secret Service agent; Outbreak; Air Force One (1997), starring Harrison Ford as the U.S. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-obits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25066,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25065\/revisions\/25066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}