{"id":53117,"date":"2019-01-21T12:05:34","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T12:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=53117"},"modified":"2019-01-21T12:05:34","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T12:05:34","slug":"rambo-producer-andy-vajna-passes-away-at-74","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/rambo-producer-andy-vajna-passes-away-at-74\/","title":{"rendered":"Rambo producer Andy Vajna passes away at 74"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US-Hungarian film producer Andy Vajna, who backed blockbusters such as &#8220;Rambo&#8221;, &#8220;Die Hard&#8221;, and &#8220;Terminator&#8221;, has died at his home in Budapest, the Hungarian National Film Fund said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew G Vajna, born in the Hungarian capital on August 1, 1944, died after a long illness, a Fund statement said. He was 74. Vajna&#8217;s family fled Hungary after a national insurrection was crushed by Soviet troops in 1956.<\/p>\n<p>He lived in Hong Kong and Canada before arriving in the United States, where he thrived in the film industry, founding the production company Carolco with partner Mario Kassar.<\/p>\n<p>With around 40 productions under his belt, Vajna returned to Hungary early this century and became a close ally of conservative Prime Minister Viktor Orban.Vajna owned the pro-government broadcaster TV2, and was named state film commissioner in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Dubbed &#8220;Mister Cinema&#8221;, the magnate boosted Budapest&#8217;s reputation as a film capital, notably by co-financing the state-of-the-art Korda Studios on a former communist military base.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US-Hungarian film producer Andy Vajna, who backed blockbusters such as &#8220;Rambo&#8221;, &#8220;Die Hard&#8221;, and &#8220;Terminator&#8221;, has died at his home in Budapest, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53118,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53119,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53117\/revisions\/53119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}