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This was the gala Tokyo premiere last Thursday of the movie Pearl Harbor, which will open in theaters across Japan on July 14. Walt Disney Co. hopes the film will make close to $100 million in box-office receipts in Japan, which would help its bottom line after a relatively disappointing box office in the U.S., and explains why the company is spending a record $10 million to market it here...
...most popular theme park, with 17 million visitors last year. Moreover, Japan is the world's second largest market for Hollywood films, and its moviegoers love action-packed adventures with romantic leads. They have contributed more than $200 million of Titanic's $1.8 billion global box office. But in Pearl Harbor, the villain isn't an iceberg--it's Japan. So Disney's marketing has had to be creative. "It's obviously a subject that must be approached with cultural sensitivity," says Dick Sano, Japanese head of the Tokyo office of Buena Vista International, the Disney unit distributing the film...
...Being stuck in the Disney studio executive offices when the returns for "Pearl Harbor" roll in Can you say "bummer of epic proportions?" The $140 million Bruckheimer-Bay spectacular posted disappointing numbers at the box office. While Disney execs blame the movie?s long running time, we think the movie?s unsatisfactory performance may have had more to do with unbearable dialogue and a ridiculous subplot...
...course. Casualties around the country, including several serious brain injuries, have prompted safety advocates to urge national standards for amusement park rides. And some scientific studies have surfaced in recent months tracing subdural hematomas, or blood clots, to riding high-speed roller coasters. In June, 28-year-old Pearl Santos died of a ruptured brain aneurysm after riding the Goliath roller coaster at the Six Flags Magic Mountain park in Valencia, California...
...wave of books, films and remembrances of the "Good War" and those who fought in it. The European theater got its respect first, notably in Steven Spielberg's 1998 Saving Private Ryan, but the war in the Pacific and its aftermath is getting its own. In addition to Pearl Harbor, we have seen two recent Pulitzer prize-winning histories?Herbert P. Bix's biography of Hirohito and John W. Dower's magnificent analysis of Japan's postwar reconstruction. And in recent weeks, Ghost Soldiers, a reconstruction of a daring 1945 raid to free the last survivors of the Bataan death...