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Article: Jordan hotel blast kills producer- director Akkad.(Moustapha Akkad)
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- Daily Variety
- Article date:
- November 14, 2005
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Moustapha Akkad, the exec producer of all eight "Halloween" films, died Friday from injuries he suffered in the Jordan hotel bomb blasts.
Akkad directed three pies, including $17 million film "The Message" (aka "Muhammad, Messenger of God"), about the birth of Islam. Creation of the English-language film, starring Anthony Quinn as the prophet's uncle Hamza, was complicated by its adherence to Islam's ban on showing images of Muhammad.
Irwin Yablans, Akkad's partner in Compass Intl. Pictures, which distributed "Message" in the U.S., said, "The irony is that he made a movie about Islam's universality of brotherhood and he was martyred by a so-called ...