John DuPont Film, Heath Ledger, Paul Walker, Robin Williams
and the Law of Probability
By Virginia May Hemm for CPW News Service
With critics
panning the new film about John DuPont’s sad life as a petro-chemical heir
turned wrestling promoter, Foxcatcher, and
the chemical release that killed four DuPont employees over the same weekend the movie was released, finds many wondering about the timing of Hollywood film releases like Heath Ledger’s Batman
movie, Paul Walker’s racing films and Robin William’s final film, A Night At
the Museum 3. "There is rising concern that there may be a connection between apparent bad luck incidents, suicides, unintended drug overdoses and other apparent accidents and box office ticket sales," said
“It’s
hard to say exactly what the impact is on ticket sales following the death of a
leading actor.
John DuPont’s character, Steve Carrell, is still living so the likelihood that there
was foul play is not easily correlated.
On the other hand, said Ivy Driwalls, of the Society for the Study of
the Correlation of Death and Film Commerce, “it cannot be totally ruled out
that there may be some contrived correlation between the two. Our statisticians believe that the
correlation between these recent deaths depending are highly
suggestive of foul play….about like the statistical correlation between natural
death and what the insurance companies experienced in the 1950’s Murder
Incorporated case,” said Driwalls
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