Entertainment Daily: Harry Potter Premiere - Comprehensive coverage of Harry Potter film world premiere
TAPE: EF01/0778
IN_TIME: 14:15:58
DURATION: 12:29
SOURCES: APTN/Warner Bros
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DATELINE: London, 4 Nov 2001
SHOTLIST:
APTN Material
1. GVs Exterior Odeon Cinema, Leicester Square
2. Arrival Rupert Grint (plays Ron Weasley)
3. Arrival Emma Watson (plays Hermione Granger)
4. Mid shot Sting with daughter
5. Arrival Daniel Radcliffe (plays Harry Potter)
6. Tilt down to Daniel Radcliffe
7. Cutaway Radcliffe's parents
8. Mid shot Oliver and James Phelps (The Weasley Twins, George and Fred)
9. Cutaway of press
10. Mid shot Richard Harris (plays 'Dumbledore')
11. Mid shot Claire from Steps with children
12. Wide shot Robbie Coltrane kissing woman in crowd
13. Mid shot Cher signing autographs
14. Mid shot Chris Columbus (Director of film)
15. Close up Cher talking to cameras
16. Wide shot Jerry Hall arriving with children
17. Wide shot Sir Cliff Richard
18. Close up Robbie Coltrane talking to cameras
19. Mid shot Natalie Appleton with daughter
20. Cutaway Harry Potter look-a-like in crowd
Warner Bros Material
21. Film clip 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' (aka 'Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone' in some territories)
APTN Material
22. Mid Shot Saffron Burrows (actress)
23. Mid Shot Patsy Kensit (actress)
24. Wide Shot Chris Rankin (plays Percy Weasley)
25. SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Rankin: "It's mind-blowing. As a book, it's fantastic and as a film it's just as fantastic and hopefully it will be really really successful."
26. Wide Shot Sting
27. SOUNDBITE (English) Sting: (Reporter: "If you could cast a spell, what would it be and why?") "I've been casting a spell for years and you've all been under it. I think it's important in modern life that magic and reality aren't necessarily different things. I really believe that."
28. SOUNDBITE (English) Stephen Fry: (Reporter: "What do you think is so special about the story?") "It's so hard to say, isn't it? There's so many things. I think part of it is just the ability she has to create an absolutely believable world and so many wonderful details from the kind of sweets that they eat to the sports they play and everything else and the fact that she manages to make it both quite scary and quite funny and it's just got every kind of human emotion you ever have, love, friendship, fear, honesty, bravery, and humour."
29. Mid Shot Richard E Grant with daughter
30 MS Cate Blanchett
31. Wide Shot Sarah Ferguson with Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie
32. SOUNDBITE (English) Sarah Ferguson: "I love the imagination. I love the fact that in this day and age where there's so much bad news going on that there is a place where children can go and get lost in the world of make believe. That's what's great."
33. Mid Shot J.K.Rowling (author of Harry Potter books)
34. Wide Shot Cliff Richard
35. SOUNDBITE (English) J.K.Rowling, Author of Harry Potter books (on whether the film is a good adaptation): "Well, reading is obviously a very different experience. It's so internal, everyone has their own personal vision which to me is why books are such wonderful things. I do feel this is a good film and I'm very happy about that."
36. Wide Shot (l-r), Rupert Grint (Ron), J.K.Rowling (author), Daniel Radcliffe (Harry), and Emma Watson (Hermione)
37. SOUNDBITE (English) Rupert Grint, Actor "It's just amazing. Ron has always been my favourite character so it's wicked playing him. I'm so nervous, it's scary."
38. Wide Shot Emma Watson twirling for the cameras
39. SOUNDBITE (English) Emma Watson, Actress "It wasn't that difficult but she's got a great charisma and she's just fantastic. I just love her character. She makes me laugh." (Reporter: "Are you worried about what's going to happen now when you're walking down the street?") "Oh, it's nerve-wracking."
Warner Bros material
40. Film clip 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' (aka 'Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone' in some territories)
APTN Material
41. Wide Shot Richard Griffiths (plays 'Vernon Dursley')
42. Close Up Griffiths
43. Mid Shot John Hurt
44. Mid Shot Zoe Wanamaker
45. Mid Shot Kenneth Branagh
46. Wide Shot man arriving with baby
47. Mid Shot Fiona Shaw (plays 'Petunia Dursley')
48. Mid Shot Ben Stiller signing autographs
49. GV Exterior cinema
50. Wide Shot Cher
51. Tilt up Cher
52. Wide Shot Richard Harris with children
53. SOUNDBITE (English) Richard Harris (on hype of film): "It's amazing. If anyone can find an answer to it, they're geniuses. Nobody knows. I don't know, it's just extraordinary."
54. Close Up Andrew Lloyd-Webber and Kenneth Branagh
55. SOUNDBITE (English) Andrew Lloyd-Webber: (Reporter: "What is it about Harry Potter that makes it so special?") A: "Because it's about Jennings".
56. Wide Shot photocall with cast and crew
57. Mid Shot Daniel Radcliffe signing autograph
58. SOUNDBITE (English) Daniel Radcliffe: "It's amazing, it's fantastic. I've been given two fantastic opportunities, one to play someone with such an interesting life, fantastic life, and the other is to... when I got the part I was watching loads of films like 'Dead Poets Society' and I was always really inspired so by getting this I have a fantastic opportunity to hopefully inspire people."
Warner Bros material
59. Film clip 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' (aka 'Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone' in some territories)
APTN Material
60. Wide Shot small actor being interviewed
61. SOUNDBITE (English) Cher: "I think it's great, it's so exciting, I saw fabulous Harry Potter Lego and the other day when I was shopping I saw all of these Harry Potter dolls and I think that it's a good thing and he's a good role model and I think magic is something that is good for children."
62. Mid Shot arrival Robbie Coltrane
63. Wide Shot New York Fire Officers
64. Close Up emblem of fire department
65. SOUNDBITE (English) Robbie Coltrane, Actor "There's very little difference. The difference between the book and the film really is that the film is obliged to realise visually the things that you would imagine when you're reading the book. I spoke to Jo Rowling yesterday and she said the Quidditch game is more exciting than the one she imagined, so....."
Warner Bros material
66. Film clip 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' (aka 'Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone' in some territories)
APTN Material
67. Wide shot people leaving Odeon cinema
68. SOUNDBITE (English) voxpop (Q: What did you think of the film?) - "I thought it was great, it was really like the book, it was much better than the film." voxpop - "Some of the bits were cut out but it was still really good." voxpop - "I thought the graphics were great. I thought it was really exciting."
69. SOUNDBITE (English) voxpop - "I thought it was amazing, I loved it. I was on the edge of my seat, it was really exciting. Really great. At scary bits I was holding her hand."
70. SOUNDBITE (English) voxpop (Q: Did you find it very scary?) - "He did, no he did, he did .." (Was there anything that you didn't like?) voxpop - "No"
71. SOUNDBITE (English) Saffron Burrows: "I haven't read it and so I had a completely open mind and I thought it was fantastic. Alann Rickman stole it for me."
Warner Bros material
72. Film trailer 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' (aka 'Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone' in some territories)
STORYLINE:
HARRY POTTER CASTS A SPELL AT STAR-STUDDED PREMIERE
A huge crowd of celebrities, including Jerry Hall, Sting, Sarah Ferguson, Cliff Richard, Cher, Cate Blanchett, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, Ben Stiller, and Richard E Grant flocked to London's Leicester Square to join the cast and crew of the highly anticipated 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'. (N.B. In some territories, such as the USA the title is 'Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone')
The cast, including Robbie Coltrane, veteran actor Richard Harris, John Hurt, as well as the novel's author J.K.Rowling attended the premiere and met some lucky fans among the thousands that welcomed the stars with high-pitched screams.
The event was one of the largest ever premieres to be seen in Central London. The Odeon Cinema was decorated with props from the film and at the end of the arrivals the sky was filled with fireworks.
The story is based on the hugely popular first book of the series by J.K. Rowling and is directed by Chris Columbus ('Home Alone').
The plot centres around a little boy, Harry Potter, played by Daniel Radcliffe, who discovers that although he has been begrudgingly raised as an orphan by his aunt and uncle, his real parents were wizards.
They were killed by the evil wizard, Voldemort, and Harry was brought up in the normal human world - the world of 'Muggles'.
When a mysterious letter is delivered by the friendly giant Hagrid, Harry is wrenched from his dreary, Muggle-ridden existence.
It is an acceptance letter to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and soon enough, Harry finds himself at Hogwarts with his owl Hedwig and in the world of wizards where he is famous as a survivor of the wizard who tried to kill him.
His best friends and cohorts, Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint) and Hermione Granger (Emma Watson) accompany Harry on his adventures as he learns how to make his own magic.
The all star cast also includes Richard Harris (Headmaster Dumbledore), Alan Rickman (Professor Snape), Robbie Coltrane (Hagrid), Maggie Smith (Professor McGonagall), John Cleese (Nearly Headless Nick), Warwick Davis (Professor Flitwick), Zoe Wanamaker (Madame Hooch) and Julie Walters (Mrs Weasley).
'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' gets released in North America, UK, and Taiwan on November 16th and the rest of the world after November 22nd.
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