Entertainment Germany Collateral - Berlin premiere of Tom Cruise's latest film
NAME: GER COLLATERAL 010904E
TAPE: EF04/0871
IN_TIME: 10:38:34:07
DURATION: 00:07:48:11
SOURCES: APTN/Dreamworks
DATELINE: Berlin - 1 September 2004
RESTRICTIONS: No re-use/re-sale of film clips without clearance-No Internet
SHOTLIST
APTN
Berlin - 1 September 2004
1. Ext. Berlin town hall
2. Tom Cruise and Berlin mayor Klaus Wowereit greeting people
3. Medium shot of Tom Cruise
4. Wide shot Tom Cruise and Klaus Wowereit outside the town hall
5. Tom Cruise and Klaus Wowereit entering room
6. Pan hands of Tom Cruise signing Golden book of Berlin to his face
7. Zoom out Berlin baer to Tom Cruise and klaus Wowereit
8. Close up face of Tom Cruise
9. Pan Tom Cruise holding Berlin bear
10. Close up Tom Cruise kissing Berlin bear
11. Medium shot of media and Tom Cruise
12. Pan Tom Cruise and Berlin mayor Klaus Wowereit posing and leaving
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13. Film clip: 'Collateral'
APTN
Berlin - 1 September 2004
14. Tom Cruise entering press conference at "Meistersaal" in Berlin
15. Wide shot of press conference with Tom Cruise Jada Pinkett Smith and Michael Mann
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Jada Pinkett Smith:
"That was one of my favourite aspects of the movie is that Michael was able to capture that kind of authentic connection between two strangers. I've seen someone across a room and there's that connection with the eyes. You may never get over to that person to say "hi" or "what's your name?" or "who are you?" but it's that exchange that you have. And I think those are the gems of our humanity that we have the opportunity to express every day, and in every exchange that I have I look for that. I look for that spark, I look for that gem, whether it's meeting a new friend or what have you. So, yeah that has definitely happened to me. Now I don't always get my number out. Can't do that anymore."
17. C/A press
18. Medium shot of Jada Pinkett Smith, Michael Mann and Tom Cruise
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Cruise:
"'War Of The Worlds' we're going to start shooting in November, Steven and I. It's a picture that, when we finished 'Minority Report' we came up with the idea. And the story, David Koepp wrote it, and I'm very excited about it. "
20. 'Collateral' sign
21. Medium shot press conference
22. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Mann:
"Tony Yerkovich who created 'Miami Vice' he wrote the screenplay and he has the creative credit on it. Somehow in my spare time I wrote the feature film version of it. I'm going to produce it, I don't know whether I'm going to direct it or not. It will be out some time in 2006."
23. Pan background poster to stage
24. C/A cameramen
25. Wide shot of presser, zoom in
26. Pan Tom Cruise to background banner
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25. Film clip: 'Collateral'
APTN
Berlin - 1 September 2004
26. Pan Potsdamer Platz to movie theatre
27. Tom Cruise signing autographs
28. Jada Pinkett Smith arriving
29. Jada Pinkett Smith signing autographs
30. Pan Jada Pinkett's hands to her face
31. Medium shot Jada Pinkett
32. Medium shot Tom Cruise signing autographs
33. Jada Pinkett Smith giving interview
34. SOUNDBITE (English) Jada Pinkett Smith: (about music career)
"Both. I love my music and the great thing about my music is that I do it how I want to do it, when I want to do it. I'm really in a great place in my career right now because I can pretty much do what I want to do. So, I can wait for those great scripts to come along that I can participate in, and when they don't I work on my music. So, it's a great life. It's just creating a different outlet for my creativity, that's all."
35. Medium shot Tom Cruise
36. Medium shot Tom Cruise giving interview
37. SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Cruise: (about Mission Impossible III being filmed in Berlin next year)
"It's a city that I haven't seen it shot the way I want to shoot it. It's a modern city, especially when you look at the kind of technology that Michael Mann developed in 'Collateral' - what you can accomplish at night in this city. The locations that I had I thought were very visual and worked specifically for the story that we are working on. I like being here."
38. Fans
39. Tom Cruise walking away, pan to banner
CRUISE THE TOAST OF BERLIN
US-actor Tom Cruise came to Germany's capital Berlin Wednesday to introduce his new film 'Collateral.'
Early in the day he was welcomed by the Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit and signed the Golden book of Berlin. He also received a white porcelain Berlin bear as a gift.
After a press conference held with co-star Jada Pinkett Smith and 'Collateral' director Michael Mann, the 42-year-old Hollywood hunk took time to sign autographs for his army of fans before the Potsdamer Platz premiere.
Speaking to APTN Cruise said how much he enjoyed Berlin - a city he returns to next year when filming of 'Mission Impossible 3' gets underway.
'Collateral' tells the story of a cab driver played by Jamie Foxx and a contract killer (cruise) in a gritty, stylised downtown Los Angeles over the course of just one night.
When an offshore drugs cartel learns they are about to be indicted by a federal grand jury, they mount an operation to identify and kill all the key witnesses. Cruise's character, Vincent has little time to take care of a lot of deadly business.
While Cruise has explored the dark side of human nature before in films such as 'Magnolia' and 'Interview With the Vampire' critics are touting this dark role as a breakthrough for the actor who once personified the all-American boy.
Cruise's character Vincent is charming and at times sympathetic, but he's a bonafide sociopath.
'Collateral' is released in Germany 23 September 2004.