Many illustrated Pearl Harbor hardcovers currently docking at bookstores are similar in their high production values-glossy paper, quality photographic reproductions, and maps-and bring about a few interesting collaborations in the industry.
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"Pearl Harbor: The Movie and the Moment is repromoted in our fall catalogue, because we anticipate terrific sales for the book during the holiday season," she added. "That's my kind of synergy." Like other publishers, she's hoping that the books will sell through the summer and right through Christmas. "Hopefully the movie will be number one, and the book will be number one," said Archer. Arizona, which still remains underwater in the harbor as a memorial to those who died. military disasters, hosted by Mike Wallace on May 1, 2001, and has others scheduled, including one on the U.S.S. For instance, May is dedicated to Pearl Harbor on the History Channel, which has already aired a program on U.S. Stations in the Disney empire are also doing their part.
A teaser movie trailer was shown in theaters as early as six months ago and a new trailer was released last month. Given the amount of pre-publicity generated by the film, it looks like all systems are go for a successful film launch.
So far the details of that operation are top secret. But, nonetheless, Hyperion publisher Ellen Archer said its promotion staff is not sitting on its hands waiting for movie reviews: "We have planned a massive marketing attack in May," she told PW. Obviously, movie tie-ins live or die based on whether or not the film is a box-office success. Late last month Hyperion shipped 2,500 book displays in conjunction with Wallace's book. Both books have hefty first printings the hardcover will launch with 120,000 copies, while the mass market will begin with 425,000. Given that Touchstone is part of the Disney empire, it's not surprising that Hyperion snagged both movie tie-in titles: Pearl Harbor: The Movie and the Moment, a $35 hardcover with movie stills, storyboards and maps, and screenwriter Randall Wallace's novel Pearl Harbor, a mass market original. Army Air Corps, respectively, who fall in love with the same woman (Kate Beckinsale).
Set during the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the film tells the story of two friends (played by Ben Affleck and Josh Harnett) in the British Royal Air Force and the U.S. Although Titanic also cost a lot to produce, $200 million, Jerry Bruckheimer's Pearl Harbor, directed by Michael Bay, with a budget of $140 million, has the distinction of being the most expensive film ever made. The sheer number of Pearl Harbor-specific titles, which have either just been published or are about to be this month, owe as much to the interest in World War II generated by the two Toms-Tom Hanks, star of Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan, and NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw, author of the bestseller The Greatest Generation- as they do to the book appeal of another historic movie, Titanic. The day that FDR said would "live in infamy" has most certainly survived.
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