By CHARLES LYONS, January 27, 2000 After months and months of budget scrutiny and talent talks culminating in the tension of the last two weeks, Disney has greenlit – at a budget of $130 million-$135 million – the WWII epic “Pearl Harbor,” with Michael Bay directing and Jerry Bruckheimer producing from a script by Randall Wallace (“Braveheart”). A few legal issues were still being ironed out Wednesday evening, but the film is on track to begin production in April or May for release around Memorial Day, 2001. Disney will finance the film

The first is from Harry at AICN, and the other one is from the Hollywood Reporter.

Got this The Insider at Cinescape: The last the Insider heard there were negative rumblings about the fate of Michael Bay and Jerry Bruckheimer’s Pearl Harbor project.

Got this from Harry Knowles at AICN: “The truth is… Pearl Harbor (aka TENNESSEE) is still set to begin shooting in Hawaii on April 10th

Got this from the IMDB: Did Eisner Bomb Pearl Harbor? Joe Roth’s exit as Walt Disney Studios chief may have followed a clash with Michael Eisner over Roth’s decision last November to greenlight a $145-million budget for Pearl Harbor the Wall Street Journal indicated today (Thursday), citing people familiar with the matter