Entertainment Daily: Kate Leopold - Meg Ryan's latest romantic comedy premiere's in New York
TAPE: EF01/0868
IN_TIME: 16:47:35
DURATION: 4:34
SOURCES: APTN/Miramax
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DATELINE: New York 16/12/01
SHOTLIST
1. Exterior, Beekman Theatre
2. Poster movie
3. Filmclip 'Kate & Leopold'
4.. Set up shot, Craig Bierko, Cameo Role and starred in Broadway 'Music Man'
5. Soundbite: Craig Bierko - "Meg Ryan plays a focus group type of person and at the beginning of the movie she's focus grouping a movie and I am in the movie."
6. Set up shot, James Mangold, Director & Co-writer
7.Soundbites: James Mangold, Director & Co-writer - "It's not a movie to me about etiquette but it's a movie about courtesy or grace, or a return to grace in our lives."
8. Filmclip - 'Kate and Leopold'
9. Set up shot, Liev Schreiber, Stuart
10. Sot Liev Schreiber - "That's the trick with all characters, it's to find that thing that people are going to identify with and is going to make them laugh or going to make them feel something. I think it's the same drill for Iago (check) as it is for someone like Stuart in Kate & Leopold."
11. Set up Meg Ryan.
12. Sot Meg Ryan - "We had so many fantastic New York actors in the film, I think it makes the movie so much smarter and sassier than it might of been."
13 Film clip - 'Kate & Leopold'
14. Set up shots, Hugh Jackman, Leopold and wife Debra-Lee
15. Soundbite: Hugh Jackman - "Ultimately it's about true love, romance and maybe honouring relationships is the most important thing in our life, sincerity and all the those great things, and lets face it, having a great time. The movie is great entertainment and I loved it, I really did." Soundbite: Debra-Lee "And all my girlfriends too."
16. Soundbite: Breckin Meyer, 'Charlie,' on movie - "I play Meg's brother who is an out of work actor who lives under her roof and it was fantastic, It was really fun. I was the little brother, Hugh was my big brother and Meg was my big sister and we hung about in New York and had great time."
17. Soundbites: Natasha Lyonne, 'Darci' - "I really wanted to work with James Mangold the director of this because of all his other great movies and I also like the idea of playing a hopeless romantic type. It's a big movie, a New York Romantic comedy and I have done anything like it so I thought it was really exciting."
18. Filmclip.
MEG RYAN RETURNS TO ROM-COM IN 'KATE & LEOPOLD'
Meg Ryan's best work has been in fluffy romantic comedies and 'Kate & Leopold,' which premiered in New York this weekend (December16th), will add another notch in the bedpost of this genre for the star.
Ryan teams up with Hugh Jackman ('X-Men') in the story of two strangers in New York City, separated by a hundred years.
When they meet, a century's worth of differences come crashing together.
Ryan plays Kate McKay, a hard-bitten modern-day executive, a 21st century woman driven to succeed in the corporate world. In stark contrast, Jackman is Leopold, the Third Duke of Albany, a charming 19th century bachelor, dedicated to gracious living and gentlemanly pursuits.
Each has grown weary of waiting for love. But when a dramatic twist of fate lands Leopold in present-day New York, they must confront the prospect of a love affair 100 years in the making.
Jackman told APTN: "Ultimately it's about true love, romance and maybe honouring relationships is the most important thing in our life, sincerity and all the those great things, and let's face it, having a great time. The movie is great entertainment and I loved it, I really did."
Liev Schreiber (the 'Scream' trilogy, 'A Walk on the Moon') co-stars as Kate's genius ex-boyfriend Stuart, who discovers the portal that accidentally transports his great great grandfather Leopold from 1867 to the new millenium.
Also co-starring are Breckin Meyer ('Go,' 'Road Trip') as Kate's brother Charlie, Natasha Lyonne ('American Pie','Slums of Beverly Hills') as her loyal assistant Darci, and Bradley Whitford (television's 'The West Wing') as J.J., Kate's boss.
'Kate & Leopold' is directed by James Mangold, veeering into comedy after helming the dramas 'Girl, Interrupted' and 'Cop Land.'
FILM CLIP DETAILS
Kate & Leopold
Miramax
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