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...recent star-studded premiere was the final, pre-opening salvo of the Walt Disney Co.'s months-long campaign to sell Japan on the idea that Pearl Harbor is merely a love story and not a fateful chapter in a misguided war effort. Japanese ads for the movie insist, "the world awaits with bated breath." The world probably doesn't much care, but Disney is using its formidable marketing resources to convince Japanese moviegoers they should. After a critical drubbing and a disappointing box office in the U.S., Disney is hoping to rake in close to $100 million...
...horrific defeat? Unlike the Germans, who as a nation have never stopped agonizing over their role in the war, the Japanese have spent the past half-century repressing the memories and trying to make the world forget their aggression as well. "Many Japanese are deeply troubled that Disney would choose to make this movie," says Akimasa Miyake, a professor of modern Japanese history at Chiba University, who has not yet seen the film. "I'm not saying we were right or wrong. I'm saying we fear it could reinforce the image of us as low-down, dirty Japs...
...Linguist-hero accompanies suspicious expedition to legendary hidden shrine; hero kills rogue male villain, vindicates visionary dead male ancestor. (Can't an action hero ever have a mother fixation?) Atlantis adroitly mixes 2-D and 3-D animation but is short on emotional heft and depth. It would be Disney's rotten luck this summer if its big-budget cartoon loses the tween market to an inferior live-action film with a boy-pleasing secret ingredient. Tomb Raider is Atlantis...
...Stockwell, who was midway through directing the movie last year when Senators John McCain and Joseph Lieberman launched their congressional assault on the entertainment industry for marketing adult product to children. Filmmakers around Hollywood who had been courting teen ticket buyers soon felt a chill. "The whole mood at Disney changed," says Stockwell, who was ordered by the studio to tame Crazy/Beautiful's R-rated script and deliver a PG-13 movie. In the final version of Crazy/Beautiful, opening this week, the heroine will no longer smoke pot onscreen, the F word will be used only once (the limit...
...roles. At age 12, she appeared as the creepy little girl in 1994's Interview with the Vampire; she spent her adolescence learning her craft in diverse movies like Jumanji, Wag the Dog and The Virgin Suicides. After seeing footage of Dunst's strung-out scenes in Crazy/Beautiful, Disney executives called Stockwell to make sure their star wasn't actually partaking at work. "Before I would say, 'Action,' she'd be Kiki--perky and bright-eyed," recalls Stockwell. "Then cameras would roll, her eyes would glaze over, and her voice would change. She became this moody, depressed, dysfunctional girl...