[MipRippoomamn]

Official poster, as seen on CanMag:



Last week, USA Today examined the poster:

The poster art for Paramount Pictures' 9/11 drama World Trade Center arrives in theaters this weekend, and the studio hopes the image reflects that filmmakers are trying to approach America's greatest modern tragedy with respect.

"This impacted every living human being who witnessed it. It's daunting, and you can't approach this like just another film," says Paramount marketing chief Gerry Rich.

The studio decided to emphasize mood, while the stars' and director's names are downplayed. There's an abstract reminder of the twin towers instead of an actual photograph of the buildings intact, or in ruins. The red, white and blue colors imply it's an American story — not a tale of terrorists or politics. More photos from CanMag:

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Treading on shaky ground here........

[Antelpebabe]

If anyone can screw up an important subject on the screen,it's Oliver Stone.He peaked with "Born on The 4th of July".His take on another American Tragedy--The JFK assassination--was one of the worst pieces of mass-market disinformation since Leni Refinstahl photographed Nazis and made them look nice.He pandered to every conspiracy theory in existence,and the result was a waste of Tommy Lee Jonses' time and a whole generation who learned LESS about the assassination from the movie.
"Platoon" was OK,but who knows from Viet Nam?
Spielberg should do this movie.

I'm just now starting to hear some things about the movie,mostly that it focuses on fire and police personnel while they were inside the buildings.

He needs to do this right...

[Crilosajsamq]

Agreed on both counts.

I know one of the guys being portrayed in the movie and they are using input from the real life people they are portraying, so it seems they are doing this the right way.

[jadabaad]

We need this movie like we need a hole in the head. Maybe in twenty years -

[dodsCooggipsehome]

one of the worst pieces of mass-market disinformation since Leni Refinstahl photographed Nazis and made them look nice.

Too funny - not everyday you come across a Leni Riefenstahl joke.

[UriyVlasov]

I hope it isn't ruined by Nicholas Cage attempting (and failing at) a firefighter-worthy New York accent. That always bugs me.

[HedoShoodovex]

I might be wrong, but I think this flick is coming out way too soon.

Ten to one, I'll still go see it, though...

[BoomBully]

Those that are afraid of "too soon" live in the dark. It didn't matter if it was a week after or five years after. It wouldn't make it any easier on victim's families. It just 'is' what it is.

And it's a film. You don't have to go. Jews didn't have to see PASSION OF THE CHRIST. Idiots like Jerry Fallwell don't have to watch adult movies. Be a human. Make a decision. Choice is freedom. I don't agree with a lot of things I see or know about but the choice is the beauty of this life.

And whomever thought Spielberg should make a WTC film lives in a candy-coated world where McDonald's would do a WTC Happy Meal Tie in. "Collect all 3,400+ victims" (Towers Sold Separately! tm)

I used to live in the US and am still proudly American but the Country is losing it's grip and getting so conservative and risk-averse we'll all have to wear condoms when we drive a f****g car in five years.

[Alina20100]

How do you know BigGreen didn't mean it was too soon to get a proper historical perspective on the event?

[traithJah]

Because each day gives a different perspective. I hold up a book in front of my face with the spine on the left and ask you what you see? You see the back of the book.

I see the front.

We see the same thing at the same time.

But the perspective is different. Always will be.

We may have more information tomorrow or next year---but the time to make this film is the time to make this film. If Spielberg makes one next year and someone makes an animated comedy about it in 20 years it's just that person's view at that time.

I realize I'm not a victim's family member--but I am a former New Yorker.

And I want people to benefit from the experience. There is an equal light to the darkness of the deaths and disasters. I don't know what it is---but I do know it exists.

[zU8KbeIU]

A couple of weeks back I saw the trailer for that other 9/11 movie about Flight 93. The audience reaction was a mixture of gasps, hisses, and boos. These movies, especially ones that have no basis in fact, are TASTELESS.

[Ekzamenov]

Because each day gives a different perspective.

Non sequitur.

[kiosokkn]

Flight 93 is an entertainment. It's meant to inform and make money at the same time--it's the writer/director's philosophy on the event. He wants you to buy into his philosophy--simple. Like a painter or speaker or anyone else or a reviewer in the NY Times.

Is he right, wrong, misinformed, an idiot, too early, too late, a pagan, a Jew, a Catholic, an Islamic ****damentalist?

Who knows? Who cares?

How do you know it's tasteless if you haven't seen it?

I mean this respectfully, without challenging.

[Ltftujkg]

Flight 93 is an entertainment. It's meant to inform and make money at the same time--it's the writer/director's philosophy on the event. He wants you to buy into his philosophy--simple. Like a painter or speaker or anyone else or a reviewer in the NY Times.

Is he right, wrong, misinformed, an idiot, too early, too late, a pagan, a Jew, a Catholic, an Islamic ****damentalist?

Who knows? Who cares?

How do you know it's tasteless if you haven't seen it?

I mean this respectfully, without challenging.

So this movie about 9-11 is going to be free?

I mean, if it was not made for entertainment, it would have to be for some other reason. It is not as if Ollie or Nick really need the money or anything...

Cin, we know where you are coming from, just don't try to sound like the people opposing the flik coming out now are robbing you of your right to see a movie.

Not everything is truly free, and if enough people think it is not proper to put something out right now, it does not mean that it SHOULDN'T be made or released, but that this is probably not the best time to do it.

[wizardasa]

A couple of weeks back I saw the trailer for that other 9/11 movie about Flight 93.

A Dark Day Revisited

Five years later, Hollywood is betting that America is ready for films about what happened on 9/11. Are we?



By Sean Smith and Jac Chebatoris
Newsweek

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12112802/site/newsweek

April 10, 2006 issue - If movie trailers are supposed to cause a reaction, the preview for "United 93" more than succeeds. Featuring no voice-over and no famous actors, it begins with images of a beautiful morning and passengers boarding an airplane. It takes you a minute to realize what the movie's even about. That's when a plane hits the World Trade Center. The effect is visceral. When the trailer played before "Inside Man" last week at the famed Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, audience members began calling out, "Too soon!" In New York City, where 9/11 remains an open wound, the response was even more dramatic. The AMC Loews theater on Manhattan's Upper West Side took the rare step of pulling the trailer from its screens after several complaints. "One lady was crying," says one of the theater's managers, Kevin Adjodha. "She was saying we shouldn't have [played the trailer]. That this was wrong ... I don't think people are ready for this."

We're about to find out. "United 93" is the first feature film to deal explicitly with the events of September 11, 2001, and is certain to ignite an emotional debate before and after it opens on April 28. Is it too soon? Should the film have been made at all? More to the point, will anyone want to see it? Other 9/11 projects are on the way as the fifth anniversary of the attacks approaches, most notably Oliver Stone's "World Trade Center," starring Nicolas Cage, opening Aug. 9. But as the harbinger, "United 93" will take most of the heat, whether it deserves it or not.

The real United 93 crashed in a Pennsylvania field after 40 passengers and crew fought back against the terrorists who had hijacked the plane. Writer-director Paul Greengrass ("The Bourne Supremacy") has gone to great lengths to be respectful in his depiction of what occurred, proceeding with the film only after securing the approval of every victim's family. "Was I surprised at the unanimity? Yes. Very. Usually there are one or two families who are more reluctant," Greengrass writes in an e-mail. "I was surprised and humbled at the extraordinary way the United 93 families have welcomed us into their lives and shared their experiences with us." His team's research was meticulous. "They even went so far as to ask what my mother had been wearing on the plane," says Carole O'Hare, whose 79-year-old mother, Hilda Marcin, died on the flight. "They were very open and honest with us, and they made us a part of this whole project." Universal, which is releasing the film, plans to donate 10 percent of its opening weekend gross to the Flight 93 National Memorial Fund. That hasn't stopped criticism that the studio is exploiting a national tragedy. O'Hare thinks that's unfair. "This story has to be told to honor the passengers and crew for what they did," she says. "But more than that, it raises awareness. Our ports aren't secure. Our borders aren't secure. Our airlines still aren't secure, and this is what happens when you're not secure. That's the message I want people to hear."

It's unclear whether Americans will pay $9.50 to hear it. The A&E cable movie "Flight 93" drew 5.9 million viewers in January, the highest-rated show in the channel's history. But movies are different. "I don't want anyone to go who doesn't want to have this experience," says Adam Fogelson, Universal's president of marketing. "But when I see what's on screen, I feel comfortable that a lot of people will." Audiences seem to be split on the issue. "I don't think that's a movie I really want to see," says Jackie Alvarez, 73, of San Ramon, Calif., after seeing the trailer. "It gave me the creeps. It's way too soon." But 17-year-old Antoine Richardson of Memphis, Tenn., is looking forward to it. "I don't think it's exploitative or too soon," he says. "It helps us remember." As if any of us could forget.

With Nadine Joseph in San Francisco and Donnie Snow in Memphis

© 2006 Newsweek, Inc.

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Universal, which is releasing the film, plans to donate 10 percent of its opening weekend gross Um, how nice of them.

10% of the gross from one weekend.

[Sheefeadalfuh]

Um, how nice of them.

10% of the gross from one weekend.

Yeah, but it's the biggest weekend.

[toreesi]

Its better than nothing.

[SawbasyWrab]

You can't ever say that something is better than nothing. Dignity and privacy are priceless.