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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...

Trapped beneath the rubble of 1 World Trade Center, his legs crushed from hip to foot on the morning of Sept. 11, Lt. John McLoughlin accepted that this was his last shift with the Port Authority police. "I assumed I was going to die where I was buried," McLoughlin said Wednesday at his retirement party, an event that seemed as improbable as his miracle rescue 33 months ago from the carnage at ground zero. Rescuers pulled McLoughlin from the burning wreckage of lower Manhattan about 22 hours after the twin towers collapsed, making him the last person rescued from the...