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Got this article of the LA Times. Great article. It gives you a glimpse into the coming director’s commentary for Pearl Harbor.

New web site and stuff

So you ask: where is the new f*cking website!?

And I say: “it’s on it’s way!” I’ve decided to keep this one until the new one is totally ready. One day you’ll wake up and you’ll see the new one.

We have a lot of good stuff that’s going to be happening around here. Among them:

-Michael will be joining us for chats. He will also be posting on the messageboards.

-We will be auction autographed Pearl Harbor DVDs before 12-04-01. Proceeds will go to charity.

So keep your eyes open. Here are some news I got about Michael’s “Platinum Dunes.”

Field backs Bay to go Platinum on low budgets

Filmmaker Michael Bay has branched out to create a low-budget genre film division titled Platinum Dunes, which will be financed by Ted Field’s Radar Pictures. The company, named after Bay’s first student film, will be run by producers Brad Fuller and Andrew Form. It aims to produce films in the $5 million-$12 million range and is eyeing projects with plans to be in production on its inaugural feature within the next six months. Platinum’s offices are housed temporarily at Radar’s offices in Westwood. Bay said that his company met with numerous potential investors during the past six months before narrowing it down to a small group of candidates. “Ted was insistent on us doing a deal,” Bay told The Hollywood Reporter. “I met him through dinner parties, and I like the way his mind works. He’s smart, he’s politically active, he works very hard — and I respect that. I also consider him a friend, and I love doing business with friends.” Fuller and Form also are longtime friends of Bay. Platinum marks a change of pace for Bay, who built a name for himself as a big-budget film director on such projects as “Bad Boys,” “The Rock,” “Armageddon” and the recent “Pearl Harbor.” “Since ‘Pearl Harbor,’ I’ve decided to change things up,” Bay said. “I’ve started a commercial division this past summer called — and we’re making fun of ourselves with the name — the Institute for Development of the Advanced Perceptual Awareness. I’m 37 years old, and it’s time to not just be the guy who does huge movies. I want to branch out, expand, and with this low-budget division, be instrumental in the careers of younger directors.”

Today

Our prayers are with all those families that lost their loved ones today in New York City, Washington D.C., and Pennsylvania.

-Nelson E. Argueta
Designer & maintainer

Pearl Harbor DVDs

*Sigh*

Take a look at “Pearl Harbor” DVD packaging. I think I will be buying all three sets. [ Thanks to AJ on the message boards. ]

Pearl Harbor Top-Grossing Film Worldwide

By having taken in a total of $430 million in ticket sales worldwide, Pearl Harbor has now become the top-grossing film of the year, Disney announced Tuesday. (The studio’s effort to push the film past the $200-million mark domestically by widening its release last weekend brought another $867,300 into the coffers, pushing the gross-to-date to $196.7 million.)