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Pearl Harbor: It's a wrap
The production is a wrap, after 90 days of shooting and an expenditure of $135 million. Says producer Jerry Bruckheimer: “It’s coming in right on schedule and on budget.”
Pearl Harbor flash teaser
Click here to view the Japanese Pearl Harbor flash teaser. From what I can read, it says it will premiere in Japan on July 14, 2001. Can anyone translate the text in the flash teaser? If so, please send me an email at nelson@michaelbay.com
Bay confronts loser
Michael and crew should be heading to England towards the end of August. The UK scenes of Pearl Harbor, are to be filmed at an airfield outside the city of Bath, in the south west of England, possible at the RAF airbase in Colerne, which is the nearest airfield according to sources.
I also picked up this humorous piece of info involving Michael from E!:
“Michael Bay, director of The Rock, Armageddon and the upcoming Pearl Harbor, attended the Mission to Mars premiere at the El Capitan in Hollywood recently. And I must tell you that one movie fan on the sidelines acted as abysmally as the performers do in this most painful of Brian DePalma outings (save Jerry O’Connell, perhaps). “Michael Bay sucks!” screamed a rude person behind the ropes. So, Michael darling charged over to the mouther-offer and confronted the jerk, who suddenly backed down and apologized. I declare, more stars should adopt Bay’s butch ways.”
Bay in 'Coyote Ugly'
You can catch a glimpse of Michael Bay in the movie “Coyote Ugly.” He’s the photographer in the bar.
Corpus Chrisit filming
Wanna read a good article about the filming going on in Corpus Christi? Click here.
Pearl Harbor crew arrives in Corpus Christi
“Alec Baldwin and Ben Affleck, along with director Michael Bay, actor Josh Hartnett and the rest of the “Pearl Harbor” crew, are expected to arrive tonight and begin filming Thursday aboard the Lexington Museum on the Bay…” reads the Corpus Christi Caller. Click here to read the entire article.
'Pearl Harbor' crews begin transformation of Lex
“Director Michael Bay and his filming crew will come in from the Houston area, where they will film aboard the Battleship Texas, one of the few World War I vintage ships still left pretty much in tact…”
To read the complete article found in the Corpus Christi Caller, click here.
"Oh man, those planes were roaring…"
“Oh man, those planes were roaring,” said Rosalie Cook, a Westpark resident. “I asked myself, ‘Is there a war going on?’” These were the words from a resident who saw some of the filming for Pearl Harbor. Click here to read the article.
A Flash of Bay
You have to see this!! It is hilarious!!! I got this flash clip from macromedia.com. The clips is a cartoon spoof of the making of “Pearl Harbor.” Michael Bay gets interviewed (NOTE: this is a spoof). You must have Flash installed to view this clip.
Affleck Talks 'Pearl'
Got this from the Cinescape Insider:
Ben Affleck is talking about Pearl Harbor and how it won’t be like helmer Michael Bay’s previous films. While talking to Popculprit, Affleck gave his take on the ongoing production, saying, “This is a serious film, and the stuff we shot in Hawaii is just visually amazing. It’s not a mindless action thing.”
Affleck adds, “The only thing that is fictionalized in the movie are some of the characters, who are amalgams of real people. Michael is humanizing the event, and it’s richly evoking the time and feel. It’s a serious film in all the ways that big, serious Hollywood movies have historically been, but only bigger, more sophisticated, more realistic·[Bay and producer Jerry Bruckheimer are] intent on not making this a mindless movie, which makes the whole thing almost more genuine than it otherwise would be. This is not a safe film for Michael, there is tremendous pressure for it to be as honest as possible.
