Filmmakers donate $2.6m to 9/11 charities

Filmmakers donate $2.6m to 9/11 charities

The producers of the film World Trade Center are donating $2.6m to a group of September 11 charities and the memorial being built to honour those killed in the attacks.

The figure represents 10% of the film’s opening weekend box office receipts in the US.

Half the money will go to the memorial at Ground Zero in New York, which is set to cost more than $650m.

The rest is being split between three charities.

The Oliver Stone film, made by Paramount, stars Nicolas Cage and Michael Pena as police officers trapped for hours in the rubble of the collapsed Twin Towers.


It has earned more than $50m since it opened on August 9.

Construction of the memorial, which is due to open in 2009, began this year.

The other charities getting donations are Tuesday’s Children, an organisation for children who lost parents on 9/11, the Tribute WTC Visitor Centre, which is set to open next week, and the New York Police and Fire Widows’ and Children’s Benefit Fund.