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The movie "Space Camp," about a group of school kids accidentally launched into space, was waiting for its premiere when the Challenger space shuttle disaster happened on Jan 26, 1986.
"Marooned" was the 1969 film about a moon mission which goes wrong and strands astronauts. Released Nov 10, 1969, it was running in some theaters in April of 1970 when Apollo 13 was jeopardized by the explosion of oxygen tanks. The incident gave birth to the phrase "Houston, we have a problem."
In 2012 the trailer for "Gangster Squad" was pulled from theaters after the Aurora Batman massacre. The trailer depicts men with machine guns behind the movie screen and then shooting the audience.
"Neighborhood Watch" (2012) with Ben Stiller and Jonah Hill. Plot: a group of suburban dads form a neighborhood-watch group to get time away from their families. The trailer featured the fictitious neighborhood-watch members making gun motions with their hands at groups of teens from a surveillance minivan. Promotion for the film's release was set to begin during the time of the Trayvon Martin murder.
Hereafter (2011) - Clint Eastwood's film opened with a recreation of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami. It was due to open in Japan when Japan experienced a 9.0 earthquake and tsunami.
Phone Booth (2003) Colin Farrel plays a publicist who is forced by sniper Kiefferr Sutherland to submit to mind games. Scheduled to open Nov 15, 2002, the film ran into the DC Snipers terrorist attacks in October of 2002. It's opening was then delayed to April 2003.
"The China Syndrome" about the melt down of a nuclear reactor was released to theaters March 16, 1979. Twelve days later the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island occurred.
Many more here:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/03/15/clint-eastwoods-hereafter-pulled-after-tsunami-more-ill-timed-films.html
SoCalDem
(103,856 posts)That movie helped shine a light on just how dangerous nuclear energy is..
Warpy
(111,275 posts)so people up there sort of knew how dangerous nuclear power plants were.
Fukushima finally nailed it all down for a lot of fence sitters and that one hasn't even fully unfolded yet.
csziggy
(34,136 posts)What I found odd was that not only did "The China Syndrome" come out just before Three Mile Island, National Geographic's April 1979 issue had a special article "The Promise and Peril of Nuclear Energy" which explained some of the real dangers in ways average people could understand. That article had to have been written before TMI - though maybe it was written to help people understand what was going on in "The China Syndrome."
GreatGazoo
(3,937 posts)makes it seem as if the film is trying to make light of, or make money off of, tragedies.
But China Syndrome, as a serious film with a serious warning, was timely and not callous, if awkwardly so.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)nt
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)Anti-Nuclear is Pro-Coal.
lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)joeybee12
(56,177 posts)A classic, but released too close to JFK's assisnation...Angela Lansbury would have won an Oscar, IMHO, if it had been released at a different time.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)Originally Major Kong said that a fella could have a pretty good weekend in DALLAS with all that stuff, but this came out just after JFK was slain there and they overdubbed it to have him say "Vegas" instead.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)thanks
bluesbassman
(19,374 posts)They tried everything to get around that, but like the movie itself they failed.
Rstrstx
(1,399 posts)Dealt with terrorism and had lots of disturbing graphic deaths and violence. Released a couple of months before 9/11. It was also just a bad movie.