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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...