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Stone Plans Second 9/11 Movie By WENN Sep 7, 2006 Director Oliver Stone wants to make another movie about the 9/11 terrorist attacks, because the subject matter is too "huge" to cover in one film. The Natural Born Killers director's new film World Trade Center has been acclaimed for its touching portrayal of the real-life fire fighters who risked their lives to save others in the rubble of New York's Twin Towers in 2001. His film, which stars Nicolas Cage as real-life 9/11 hero John McLaughlin, has been well received in America, despite some criticism that the movie comes too...

I’m hearing all kinds of disturbing, though predictable, stories about a Clintonista offensive against “The Path to 9/11,� an ABC documentary written and produced by Cyrus Nowrasteh ("Into the West"), and directed by David Cunningham ("To End All Wars").  I haven’t seen it yet (although I hope to this weekend), but it is already drawing rave reviews from people who have (the piece is reviewed at FrontPage, here).   Apparently, the documentary recounts the bureaucratic bungling and lack of action against al Qaeda that was pervasive prior to the September 11 atrocities.  It is by no means, I understand, pro-Bush.  It...

Director Oliver Stone has done something I thought was impossible. He made a great movie about September 11, 2001 and managed to stay off the "Grassy Knoll" in the process. I, along with my wife and father-in-law (visiting from the East Coast) went to see World Trade Center this past Saturday night. If you need a reminder of why we are at war today, I recommend (as I did with United 93, coming out on DVD in about three weeks) seeing this movie. True, it is not an all encompassing tale of what happened that day, yet you get the...

'World Trade Center' Opened Starring Nicolas Cage as Port Authority Cop You don't expect an inspiring story to come from the terrorist horror of Sept. 11. Nor would you expect filmmaker Oliver Stone to tell it almost exactly as it was, without surreal embellishments, moral ambiguities or political arguments. "World Trade Center" isn't about opinions or conspiracies. It's a straight-up dramatization, set during the most devastating 24 hours in recent American history. As the fifth anniversary of that agonizing day approaches, the film reminds us not only of the despair and destruction, but also of that brief moment when the...

Oliver Stone's new film, "World Trade Center," got off to a promising start at the box office on Wednesday, grossing better-than-expected receipts of $4.4 million in its first day, Paramount Pictures executives said on Thursday. They added that if the pace continued, the film about the battle to save two policemen trapped under tons of rubble in the September 11 attacks could bring in more than $20 million through its opening weekend -- a figure that would exceed expectations. The $65 million movie, which received several strong reviews, is the first big-budget feature to be made about the suicide hijackings,...

Last night I saw the premiere of Paramount’s new movie “World Trade Center”. I have some comments to make. Before the showing of the movie, a representative from Paramount walked to the front of the audience and gave a short “pep talk” to promote the success of the movie. This included encouraging interaction with the audience, such as “How many folks here tonight are fans of director Oliver Stone?” (many clap from the audience), and “How many folks here tonight are fans of actor Nicolas Cage?” (again, many clap from the audience). Then the movie began, preceded by a promotional...

WHEN I FIRST heard that Oliver Stone would be directing "World Trade Center," my stomach did a flip. Stone's long career includes a few films that might be described as flawed. Less charitably they might be described as "propaganda." I'm thinking of his "JFK," which surrendered to witless assassination conspiracy theories, and "Born on the Fourth of July," which was passionately anti-war, as was the brilliant "Platoon."

ATLANTA - "World Trade Center" is about the last movie you might expect Oliver Stone to make. Not because of the subject matter. What makes Stone's intimate story of what happened to two Port Authority cops and their families on Sept. 11, 2001, different is that it's not at all political. No conspiracy theories. No jabs at the Bush administration. Instead, "World Trade Center" is heartwarming and reassuring, both a tear-jerker and a crowd-pleaser. A movie that won't make Americans feel better about 9/11 but at least feel good about how the country responded. Stone, who admits many people think...

America's most controversial filmmaker is mulling over the state of the nation, and he isn't quite sure if he's feeling hopeful or hopeless about America these days. "I feel hopeful and I feel like we're in deep sh--," says director Oliver Stone. "I guess I feel like most people do. There is an America that I grew up in that I love. I think to some degree that it's been stolen. But there are enough of us to get it back." This brings him to his new movie, "World Trade Center," opening Wednesday. Based on the lives of two real...

IT IS DIFFICULT, maybe even impossible, to render critical judgment on a movie such as World Trade Center. The normal aspects of appraisal are meaningless. It would be absurd to measure the film by its pacing or its cinematography. Ultimately, the only thing that matters is whether or not it feels right, and even that nebulous criterion probably has more to do with the viewer than the movie. All of that said, Oliver Stone's World Trade Center is a solid piece of filmmaking. WTC is an important movie. There were three stories from 9/11 which needed to be told. The...

A year ago, August 2005, I reported Par amount was doing a movie about 9/11. I reported then it's a no-win. We're talking sacred ground. The massacre heard 'round the world. Each month still brings new grief and lawsuits. Over the building. Over the plans. Over the illnesses. Over the proposed memorial site. Over the human remains at Staten Island's Fresh Kills dumpsite.

Hollyweird’s Wake-Up Call? By Rachel Marsden FrontPageMagazine.com July 24, 2006 Hollywood director Oliver Stone dropped by Toronto’s Varsity Cinemas this week to premiere his new movie, World Trade Center, about two of the last police officers who were pulled alive from the World Trade Center rubble, post-9/11. With him was Scott Strauss, one of the real-life police rescuers. Stone says Strauss and the other 9/11 families kept him in check. That’s quite the feat, given that Stone has called the Cold War “irritating”, says nationalism and patriotism are “evil forces”, considers Fidel Castro a personal friend, and mused that...

CANNES, France - Oliver Stone presented a 25-minute preview at the Cannes Film Festival of his upcoming “World Trade Center,” promising an agonizing portrait of courage, camaraderie and perseverance. Stone, who introduced the footage that was shown Sunday night before a 20th anniversary screening of his Vietnam saga “Platoon,” said that war film and his Sept. 11 drama both deal with working-class heroes, not superhuman deeds. “It seems like the Vietnam War, Watergate, Iraq, all these things get built up, 9/11, into mythologies,” Stone told The Associated Press. “This is about what it was like at ground zero.” “World Trade...

May 18, 2006 -- Here is a sneak peek at Oliver Stone's new movie "World Trade Center" - the first big-budget Hollywood film depicting the New York 9/11 attacks - and its harrowing, real-life portrayal of the last two Port Authority cops pulled from the rubble. The movie - the opening 26 minutes of which were screened for police officers last night - focuses on the horror and ensuing bravery of that day. "It's very emotional to watch, but I think most New Yorkers are ready to see it," said retired NYPD cop Scott Strauss, who worked as a consultant...

Trailer for Oliver Stone's World Trade Center is up now. Thoughts?

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RUSH: Yesterday afternoon at the conclusion of yesterday's program, I went over to a local theater to watch a private screening of United 93. I invited some people to go with me, and a number of them didn't want to go because they were just afraid it would knock 'em out, and you've heard some of the complaints from the theaters that have shown the trailer to this movie, the Upper West Side of New York and other places around the country. "No, no! It's too soon! It's too soon! I can't bear it!" It's not "too soon." If anything,...

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Director Oliver Stone says he doesn't know if America is ready for his upcoming film about the September 11 terror attacks, but stresses the movie is a human rather than political account of the tragedy. The often controversial three-times Oscar-winner said "World Trade Center", to be released this year around the fifth anniversary of the attacks, documented a day in the life of two men trapped at the scene, their rescuers and families. Speaking to an audience during a question and answer session late Monday at the Bangkok International Film Festival, Stone was asked if Americans were ready for the...

Oliver Stone has lately formed a tight bond with the cops and firefighters who consulted on his forthcoming 9/11 film, "World Trade Center." But he wasn't always as eager to embrace the Ground Zero heroes. The director, who called the Sept. 11 attacks "a revolt" provoked by America's corporations, said at Brown University in 2001 that there'd been a coverup involving "limbs getting cut off bodies for jewelry [and] a man walking off with $132 million." Several people, who weren't rescuers, were arrested for small-time looting in the days after 9/1l. One man was sentenced to 10 years in prison....

In the aftermath of the World Trade Center disaster, hope is still alive. Refusing to bow down to terrorism, rescuers and family of the victims press forward. Their mission of rescue and recovery is driven by the faith that under each piece of rubble, a co-worker, a friend a family member may be found. This is the true story of John McLoughlin and William J. Jimeno, the last two survivors extracted from Ground Zero and the rescuers who never gave up. It's a story of the true heroes of that fateful time in the history of the United States when...

Scores of extras loiter, their faces covered in soot. A man sprays gray insulation foam - in lieu of concrete dust - at what looks much like the corner of Church and Vesey Streets in Lower Manhattan. Another tosses reams of paper in the air. Nearby, others are debating precisely how to crush a fire truck and an ambulance. And just over there, across a dirt road in this isolated industrial tract not far from Marina del Rey, the twisted facade and mangled girders of the wreckage of the World Trade Center are taking shape into a meticulously rendered mockup...

The towers won't fall again. Downtown Manhattan streets won't be coated with ash and debris. Producers of the first Hollywood film about Sept. 11 since the 2001 attacks have begun shooting scenes in the city, but have promised to tread carefully on sensitive ground. The film's director, Oliver Stone, won't film thousands of New Yorkers running terrified through debris-filled streets. Most of the action in the movie will be shot on a Los Angeles sound stage. And although news footage of the attack may be shown in the background, none will show the towers' collapse. "We're not doing the `Towering...

The Oliver Stone-directed World Trade Center-themed film will hit theaters one month before the fifth anniversary of Sept. 11. Paramount Pictures has selected August 11, one month before the fifth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, as the release date for its upcoming Oliver Stone 9/11 pic...currently referred to as Untitled World Trade Center, according to Daily Variety. The studio chose the date so that it did not look like it was trying to commercially exploit the disaster. Starring Nicolas Cage and Michael Pena, the film centers on the last two people pulled from the rubble of the World...

A second major Hollywood film is to be made about the September 11 terrorist attacks, it emerged today. Flight 93 will be made British director Paul Greengrass and cover the flight in real time, beginning with takeoff and ending when passengers bought it down in Pennsylvania, Variety magazine reports. It will follow Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone`s film based on the true story of two police officers trapped in the rubble of the Twin Towers. The yet-untitled picture will star Nicholas Cage and is currently in pre-production. Flight 93 will depict how the United Airlines flight was hijacked by terrorists...

Patriotic Americans Against Anti American Hollywood (http://www.pabaah.com/) sent out an action email telling people to contact Paramount and voice your opposition to left wing Bush Bashing Oliver Stone having anything to do with making a film out of 9/11. Let the Hollywood elites know that Oliver Stone is the LAST person on earth who should have ANYTHING to do with that tragic day when America lost over 3000 innocents. Oliver Stone is very likely going to spin his propaganda film to make it look like America DESERVED to be attacked. We don't need that. We as Americans cannot let the...

Gyllenhaal & Bello in Oliver Stone's 9/11 Film Source: Variety July 29, 2005 Maggie Gyllenhaal and Maria Bello will portray the wives of Port Authority officers rescued from the World Trade Center in the Paramount's untitled Oliver Stone project, reports Variety. Nicolas Cage and Michael Pena had been previously announced as filling the respective roles of Sgt. John McLoughlin and Officer William J. Jimeno. The trade says Stone is expected to start shooting the film, based on Andrea Berloff's script, this fall in New York. Jimeno and McLoughlin were among the many rescuers who risked their lives Sept. 11, 2001,...

Every so often Hollywood gets it right. There are those movies, many recent ones, that have managed to capture a major moment in U.S. history with the proper amount of accuracy, emotional impact and -- dare we say -- patriotism. Movies in this caliber that come immediately to mind are Steven Spielberg's "Saving Private Ryan," Randall Wallace's "We Were Soldiers" and Ridley Scott's "Blackhawk Down." Even Michael Bay's mediocre and overwrought "Pearl Harbor" was imbued with patriotism. It's also no small hint to Hollywood that all were blockbusters. Despite Mr. Spielberg's occasional lapses into left-wing sophistry, any one of these...

Contact Paramount, let them know your extreme displeasure with the anti-American Oliver Stone having any involvement with a story about 9/11! Paramount Studios 5555 Melrose Avenue Hollywood, CA 90038 1-323-956-5000 Email: vpbusinessaffairs@pde.paramount.com Termsofuse@pde.paramount.com "Paramount Pictures is taking heat due to its announcing of the new Oliver Stone-9/11 project"

Hilary Swank and Kevin Costner will narrate the upcoming film "On Native Soil: The Documentary of the 9/11 Commission Report." The actors will share voice-over duties for the feature-length film on the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, directed by former NBC News producer Linda Ellman. "I was in lower Manhattan that horrible day" when the World Trade Center collapsed, Swank said in a statement Friday. "I was drawn to the project by the amazing stories of the 9/11 families and survivors featured in the film, and I am proud that by contributing my voice to the project, I can help...

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Three-time Oscar winner Oliver Stone will direct superstar Nicholas Cage in the first major Hollywood movie about the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, producers announced. The as-yet untitled film, which will be made for Paramount Pictures, will tell the true stories of the last two men to be rescued alive from the ruins of the collapsed World Trade Center in New York. "It's an exploration of heroism in our country -- but is international at the same time in its humanity," said Stone, who won best director Academy Awards for his war epics "Born On the...

Oliver Stone Set to Direct a Movie About the Events of 9/11 Nicolas Cage to Star in 9/11 Film Paramount Pictures has tapped Oliver Stone to direct an as of yet untitled movie about the events of 9/11 in New York, which will focus on the true story of two Port Authority police officers. Nicolas Cage will play one of the two officers who, along with hundreds of other police officers, risked their lives to help rescue people from the burning buildings. The two Port Authority officers were trapped when one of the Towers fell, and were two of...

Nicolas Cage to star in upcoming 9/11 movie Fri Jul 8, 2005 7:50 PM ET By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor Nicolas Cage will star as a real-life policeman who survived the collapse of the World Trade Center in what would be one of Hollywood's first films to dramatize the Sept. 11 attacks on America, Paramount Pictures said on Friday. Oscar-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone is on board to direct the untitled movie, which centers on the story of the last two men -- a pair of Port Authority police officers -- rescued from the rubble of the twin...