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Why Hollywood Has Never Made a Great 9/11 Movie
Confirmed
In Short: Hollywood has yet to produce a film that captures the cultural impact of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Hollywood has struggled to create a film that resonates with the cultural impact of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, according to reports. Despite numerous attempts, no movie has achieved lasting cultural significance in the wake of the tragedy.
Kathryn Bigelow, known for her war films, won an Oscar for The Hurt Locker but then made $80 million more with Zero Dark Thirty, a film that tracked the hunt for Osama Bin Laden. However, neither film has achieved the cultural impact of a 9/11 movie.
The Tony winner Lea Salonga, who made her singing debut at seven, will receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on September 22, becoming the first Filipina to receive the honor. Her work in musicals, including as Kim in Miss Saigon, has been celebrated, but she has not starred in a 9/11 film.
What's confirmed
- Hollywood has struggled to create a film that resonates with the cultural impact of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, according to reports. Despite numerous attempts, no movie has achieved lasting cultural significance in the wake of the tragedy.
- Kathryn Bigelow, known for her war films, won an Oscar for The Hurt Locker but then made $80 million more with Zero Dark Thirty, a film that tracked the hunt for Osama Bin Laden. However, neither film has achieved the cultural impact of a 9/11 movie.
- The Tony winner Lea Salonga, who made her singing debut at seven, will receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on September 22, becoming the first Filipina to receive the honor. Her work in musicals, including as Kim in Miss Saigon, has been celebrated, but she has not starred in a 9/11 film.
What's still developing
- For a long time, the most successful movie ever was about an iceberg that killed over a thousand people.
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- “Never mind that at this point the only songs I was learning were the ones sung by Kim. But I was like, ‘Whatever.’ I was pre-med in college. I had a life. So if you decide you’re going to put me in the ensemble, I’ll just be like, ‘Thank you, but no thank you.’” Salonga’s work as Kim earned her a Laurence Olivier Award and in 1991, she became the first Asian actress to win a Tony Award and the second-youngest actress to win for best performance by a leading actress in a musical.
- “Stage management and the powers that be were so kind in saying, ‘You’re we’re going to give you the night off because we want you to sound great for that recording session,’ which I really appreciated,” Salonga said.
- She was the singing voice for Princess Jasmine in “Aladdin” as well as Fa Mulan in “Mulan” and “Mulan 2.” Later this month, Salonga, who made her singing debut when she was just seven years old in her native Manila, appears in “Forgotten Island,” DreamWorks Animation’s Philippines-set fantasy adventure about childhood friends who get trapped in the mystical world of Nakali.
- ‘But it’s everything though, it’s all the people because a television programme isn’t made just by the people on camera at all, it’s a proper community,’ said Nigella as she beamed at her co-stars.
- A source told the Daily Mail: ‘Put it this way: imagine if you’re super-rich Nigella and you see your co-star turning up in a helicopter, presumably to avoid the traffic and have a little bit of a show-off, you’re going to think it’s all a bit ghastly.’ The Great British Bake Off 2026 line-up was announced today with an immaculate collection of bakers ranging from a drag king to a paediatric doctor.
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