Pearl Harbor, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and produced and directed by Michael Bay, emerged as the number-one film worldwide for the summer, grossing approximately $450 million. With a domestic opening weekend of $75.2 million over the Memorial Day weekend, it enjoyed the largest opening in company history and the third-largest opening of all time. In 2001, Touchstone also released the teen drama crazy/beautiful with Kirsten Dunst and the comedy Corky Romano, featuring Saturday Night Live's Chris Kattan.

The 2001 holiday season ushered in The Royal Tenenbaums, directed and co-written by Wes Anderson. A comedic drama about a family of geniuses, the film features an all-star cast, including Academy Award® winners Gene Hackman, Angelica Huston and Gwyneth Paltrow, as well as Bill Murray, Ben Stiller, Danny Glover, Luke Wilson and Owen Wilson.

Among Touchstone's highlights for 2002 is Bad Company, a thriller in which Anthony Hopkins portrays a veteran CIA agent who must transform a streetwise punk (Chris Rock) into a savvy spy in nine days. The film is set for a July release.

July 2002 also brings Reign of Fire. Set in a post-apocalyptic future where Earth has been overrun by highly evolved dragons, the film follows the travails of Quinn (Christian Bale), a "fireman"set on keeping the few remaining humans alive, and Van Zan (Matthew McConaughey), the leader of a group of Americans who think they can kill the dragons.

Signs, by writer-director M. Night Shyamalan, is due out in August. Mel Gibson and Joaquin Phoenix star in this thriller set in rural Pennsylvania, in which a man's faith is tested when mysterious circles appear in his family's crops.

Coming in fall from Touchstone and Spyglass is The Farm. Starring Al Pacino and Colin Ferrell, it is the story of a young MIT student who is drafted into the CIA and sent to The Farm, the CIA's secret Virginia proving ground, for training.

In 2002, Touchstone will release Sweet Home Alabama, a romantic comedy starring Reese Witherspoon as a New York socialite who needs to secure a divorce from her husband before she can marry the man of her dreams.

Touchstone and ESPN will team up in May 2002 to release the sports network's first-ever feature film - Ultimate X - for large-
format theaters. Ultimate X features exciting footage from the 2001 Summer and Winter X Games and chronicles all the highlights of the extreme sports games.