Benghazi film flops at the box office

The movie recounts the 2012 clash between six Central Intelligence Agency military contractors and armed Islamic militants at a U. Four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, died in the twin attacks.

CHANG: Mark Geist known as Oz, Kris Paronto, known as Tonto and John “Tig” Teigen were three of six elite former commandos who volunteered to mount a rescue operation when terrorists attacked the diplomatic residence a mile away from their secret Central Intelligence Agency base. That’s who attacked them. But not for long.

Michael Bay says his action-packed film “13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi” has nothing to do with politics. The following is an edited transcript of our talk. Are we a place a lot of military contractors retire to? According to The Washington Post, Paramount insists the film is “not political”, but the Post argues that it is political – even though former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is not mentioned by name and Barack Obama is mentioned only in passing.

Although the film’s producers say it is non-political, the launch strategy targets conservatives, military personnel and people who are religious. Why didn’t we send support? John Krasinski. Nothing against the “Office” alumnus, who buffed up admirably to star in the movie, but he’s not the first guy (or 51st) you’d think of to play the lead in a combat film, and he’s never played the male lead in a movie that opened higher than $14 million or grossed more than $43 million over its theatrical run in North America.

“I’m not going to deny it’s a big change – it’s a big change for me”.

THE FACTS: Protesters angry about an anti-Muslim video had stormed the U.S. Embassy in Cairo earlier that day, clambering over the walls and setting flags on fire, attracting global attention.

Tanto: And if he were to have been injured at the consulate then insurance may not even cover it because that was outside of the scope that the insurance covers us for. The cinematography does an excellent job capturing the security contractors’ sense of hypervigilance and distrust for the local Libyans in scenes that will resonate with many veterans, regardless of their feelings about the rest of the movie.

Presumably to avoid being Zero Dark Thirtied, the parent studio of “13 Hours”, Paramount Pictures, declined to show the film in advance to journalists and policymakers, eschewing the usual program of “influencers” screenings in Washington, which can garner valuable buzz for hot-button films. That’s on a grand scale – support could have come, but it didn’t.

The book titled “13 Hours” was written by Mitchell Zuckoff, a professor of journalism at Boston University.

“We were just saying the facts”, Bay replied, defending the film from critics who called it politically divisive.

Sadly, the answer is no. Libya will likely go down as nothing more than a footnote of this presidency. It was good to know what everybody else was doing (the night of the attack) because it was a huge compound; we’re on two different compounds and we got split up because that’s what we needed to do.

Gawker seems to think that the controversy over whether the movie is factually accurate is what accounts for its dismal performance. We’re turning Benghazi into political fodder, it’s a political football. “And they are probably going to be a little confused”. And that’s the story I’m telling: the guys who were on the ground.