Though Disney chairman Michael Eisner prevented Pearl Harbor from having a hefty, oversized, dinosaur-big budget, there's nothing to stop the World War II epic from breaking The Lost World: Jurassic Park's opening weekend box office record.
The Jurassic Park sequel holds the record for an opening weekend, earning $90.2 million upon its 1997 release.
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Pearl Harbor
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.
In an apparent effort to exploit the Labor Day weekend to make good on its forecast that Pearl Harbor would earn $200 million domestically, Disney plans to expand the number of theater screens showing it to "well above 500" beginning Friday