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| Movie "Pearl Harbor": Spectacular Release And Its Aftermath |
 $5 million premiere and US Navy's help for the studio
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Disney enjoyed substantial cooperation from the US Navy
Disney and the filmmakers, Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay, enjoyed substantial cooperation from the US Navy for the gala as well as the production itself. At the Navy's expense the 102,000-ton Stennis steamed halfway across the Pacific with a six-day trip from San Diego to serve as the world's largest and most expensive outdoor theater for the premiere. Although officially it was a training mission, everyone knew that the 2,500 sailors on board had not come to do drills. According to the New York Times article written by James Dao, the cost of keeping an aircraft carrier at sea runs about half a million dollars a day for the Navy. The Stennis has a capacity to carry 6,200 men and the Navy's top fighters like the F/A-18 Hornet but it left its 70-aircraft wing and the rest of its multiship battle group in California, otherwise the cost would have been significantly higher.
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"Pearl Harbor" enjoyed unprecedented support from the Pentagon.
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Navy officials explained in the Dao article that if the Stennis had not been sent to Hawaii for the premiere, it would have put to sea for training operations off the California coast anyway. And the cost of keeping a nuclear-powered carrier operating near San Diego is virtually the same as sending it more than 2,500 miles to Oahu. Disney will pay for most of the gala. Also they will reimburse the Navy for certain "extra" expenses, like the cost of the crane to load the screen and stadium seating on deck.
The Pentagon expects beneficial news coverage not only from the premiere but also from the film itself. "That kind of publicity is good for morale and recruiting," a Navy official insists in the New York Times article. The Pentagon has a long history of helping Hollywood make films and television programs they deem beneficial to its image.
"We were asking for unprecedented military cooperation," director Michael Bay is quoted in the AP article written by Anthony Breznican: "We literally needed to make war on Pearl Harbor's Ford Island for six weeks with planes flying and hundreds and hundreds of stunt men and bombs going off. They basically gave us full access ... and kept their base going around us." Disney reimburses the military for any costs incurred in the making of the movie.
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- The birth of "Pearl Harbor" with $135 million, the biggest budget approved in Hollywood history.
- $5 million premiere and US Navy's help for the studio
- Film reviews by major U.S. newspapers and magazines
- Feedback from Japanese Americans and Pearl Harbor veterans
- Box office in U.S. and foreign countries
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- Japanese media reacts to "Pearl Harbor"
- In US and Japan people are talking frankly about Pearl Harbor online
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