9/11 Charities Get Money From 'WTC' Movie

Film Will Donate Part Of It's Opening Box Office Earnings

(AP) NEW YORK "World Trade Center," Oliver Stone's movie about the rescue of two police officers from the towers on 9-11, will donate 10 percent of its opening weekend box office receipts to a ground zero memorial and three other related charities. The Paramount Pictures film, starring Nicolas Cage and Michael Pena as two Port Authority police officers trapped in the rubble, opens on August 9th. Five percent of the box office proceeds from the movie's first week will be donated to the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation. An additional 5 percent will be split equally between three other 9-11 charities. The charities are Tuesday's Children, a service organization for children who lost a parent on 9-11; the Tribute WTC Visitor Center, created by a Sept. 11 family group and set to open this summer across the street from ground zero, a family-run memorial museum and the New York Police and Fire Widows' and Children's Benefit Fund.