Oliver Stone’s “WTC” to Share Box Office With 9/11 Charities
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"World Trade Center," Oliver Stone's movie about the rescue of two police officers from the WTC towers on Sept. 11, 2001, will donate 10% of its opening weekend box office receipts to a ground zero memorial and three other Sept. 11-related charities, The Associated Press reports. The Paramount Pictures film, starring Nicolas Cage and Michael Pena as two Port Authority of New York and New Jersey police officers trapped for hours in the rubble, opens at more than 2,000 theaters in the U.S. on Aug. 9.
Five percent of the box office proceeds from Aug. 9 through Aug. 13 will be donated to the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation, which is raising money to build a $510 million memorial to the 2001 terrorist attacks at the trade center site. An additional 5 percent will be split equally between three charities. They are Tuesday's Children, a services organization for children who lost a parent on Sept. 11; The Tribute WTC Visitor Center, a family-run memorial museum scheduled to open this summer; and the New York Police and Fire Widows' and Children's Benefit Fund.
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Charity News Online
"World Trade Center," Oliver Stone's movie about the rescue of two police officers from the WTC towers on Sept. 11, 2001, will donate 10% of its opening weekend box office receipts to a ground zero memorial and three other Sept. 11-related charities, The Associated Press reports. The Paramount Pictures film, starring Nicolas Cage and Michael Pena as two Port Authority of New York and New Jersey police officers trapped for hours in the rubble, opens at more than 2,000 theaters in the U.S. on Aug. 9.
Five percent of the box office proceeds from Aug. 9 through Aug. 13 will be donated to the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation, which is raising money to build a $510 million memorial to the 2001 terrorist attacks at the trade center site. An additional 5 percent will be split equally between three charities. They are Tuesday's Children, a services organization for children who lost a parent on Sept. 11; The Tribute WTC Visitor Center, a family-run memorial museum scheduled to open this summer; and the New York Police and Fire Widows' and Children's Benefit Fund.
September 11 attacks, World Trade Center , Oliver Stone, World Trade Center Memorial Foundation, Tuesday's Children, Nicholas Cage, Michael Pena
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