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TAPE_NUMBER: EF01/0098 IN_TIME: 14:29:43 LENGTH: 02:29 SOURCES: APTN/SONY PICTURES RESTRICTIONS: No re-use/re-sale of film/video/tv clips without clearance FEED: VARIOUS (THE ABOVE TIME-CODE IS TIME-OF-DAY) SCRIPT: xfa STORY: THE WEDDING PLANNER PT 2 LOCATION: LOS ANGELES DATE: RECENT After chilling audiences with her performance in the hit thriller The Cell, amply-proportioned actress JENNIFER LOPEZ lightens up with her new role in the romantic comedy THE WEDDING PLANNER Lopez plays A-list San Francisco wedding planner Mary Fiore - a woman whose job is to arrange some of the most elaborate ceremonies in town While celebrating her newest and most lucrative account - the wedding of Internet tycoon Fran Donelly (BRIDGETTE WILSON-SAMPRAS, House on Haunted Hill) - Mary is rescued from a near-fatal collision with a runaway dumpster by handsome pediatrician Steve Edison, played by hunky heartthrob MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY ('Dazed and Confused', 'U-571', 'Ed TV') After spending the most enchanting evening of their lives together, Mary thinks she's finally found a reason to believe in love What she doesn't know is that cupid and her career are about to collide head-on Jennifer Lopez earned widespread acclaim for her work in the title role of Selena and was then showered with extensive praise for her role opposite George Clooney in Steven Soderbergh's Out of Sight The film is the directorial debut of choreographer and physical comedy consultant Adam Shankman For ED:TV star Matthew McConaughey the Wedding Planner marks a return to comedy after a spell underwater in the controversial submarine thriller U-571 McConaughey, who plays the appealing pediatrician Steve Edison, describes his character meeting with Lopez's as turning my world upside down He thinks people sometimes don't realise how powerful love can be, and how much they need it, until suddenly they are hit by it BRIDGETTE WILSON-SAMPRAS, Edison's fiance and the love rival of Lopez's character is at pains to point how likeable her character is, despite being in competition with the films hero Another star of the film, JUSTIN CHAMBERS, thinks the movie is on a par with the romantic comedies directed by BILLY WILDER, the man responsible for such classics as THE APARTMENT and SABRINA It's a nice, light romantic comedy, Chambers concludes 'The Wedding Planner' is released in North America on Friday (26 January 2001) For further information please contact Sony Pictures: 310 244 4000 SHOTLIST: 1 CLIP 'THE WEDDING PLANNER' 2 SOT MATTHEW McCONAUGHEY (on character's reaction to meeting Lopez's) 3 CLIP 'THE WEDDING PLANNER' 4 SOT BRIDGETTE WILSON-SAMPRAS (on her character being nice despite being Lopez' romantic rival) 5 CLIP 'THE WEDDING PLANNER' 6 SOT JUSTIN CHAMBERS (on feel of film) 7 CLIP 'THE WEDDING PLANNER'?