{"id":55016,"date":"2018-10-09T15:59:52","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T05:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/?p=55016"},"modified":"2018-10-09T15:59:52","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T05:29:52","slug":"vale-arnold-kopelson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/2018\/10\/09\/vale-arnold-kopelson\/","title":{"rendered":"Vale &#8211; Arnold Kopelson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55017\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Arnold-Kopelson-Obit-Logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Arnold-Kopelson-Obit-Logo.jpg 984w, https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Arnold-Kopelson-Obit-Logo-150x45.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Arnold-Kopelson-Obit-Logo-350x105.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Arnold-Kopelson-Obit-Logo-768x230.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Arnold-Kopelson-Obit-Logo-720x216.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 984px) 100vw, 984px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Long-time American film producer Arnold Kopelson, who produced films such as<em> Platoon<\/em> and <em>The Fugitive<\/em>, has passed away.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Mr Kopelson&#8217;s career began as in law, specialising in entertainment and banking law, which gave him a doorway into the film industry, setting up a production firm with his wife, Anne. Together they produced nearly thirty feature films, the most prominent being <em>Platoon<\/em> in 1986, which would win him an Oscar, Golden Globe, and numerous other industry plaudits.<\/p>\n<p>Popular notable films he had a hand in bringing to the screen include <em>The Fugitive<\/em> (with Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones), <em>Outbreak<\/em> (with Dustin Hoffman), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/2015\/10\/19\/movie-review-se7en\/\"><em>Se7en<\/em><\/a> (directed by David Fincher), Schwarzeneggar&#8217;s <em>Eraser<\/em>, the Al Pacino supernatural thriller <em>The Devil&#8217;s Advocate<\/em>, <em>Don&#8217;t Say A Word<\/em>, and most recently 2004&#8217;s <em>Twisted<\/em>, with Samuel L Jackson, Andy Garcia and Ashley Judd.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kopelson passed away on October 8th, aged 83.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long-time American film producer Arnold Kopelson, who produced films such as Platoon and The Fugitive,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48482,"featured_media":55018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituary"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/image.jpg",620,349,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/image-150x84.jpg",150,84,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/image-350x197.jpg",350,197,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/image.jpg",620,349,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/image.jpg",620,349,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/image.jpg",620,349,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/image.jpg",620,349,false],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/image.jpg",620,349,false],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/image.jpg",540,304,false],"profile_24":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/image-24x24.jpg",24,24,true],"profile_48":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/image-48x48.jpg",48,48,true],"profile_96":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/image-96x96.jpg",96,96,true],"profile_150":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/image.jpg",150,84,false],"profile_300":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/image.jpg",300,169,false],"sow-carousel-default":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/image-272x182.jpg",272,182,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Rodney Twelftree","author_link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/author\/rodney\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/category\/film-general\/obituary\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Obituary<\/a>","tag_info":"Obituary","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48482"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}