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Big Apple on Cruise Control For Premier of 'Minority Report'

Aired June 21, 2002 - 10:37   ET

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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: The Big Apple was on cruise control earlier this week for the premier of the thriller "Minority Report." Tom Cruise, with real-life love Penelope Cruz, walked the red carpet, along with director Steven Spielberg. The much-anticipated flick may help push the box office over the roof. So far this year, revenues have crossed the $4 billion mark. That's up 20 percent over this time last year.

But it is the year 2054 that has futurist flipping on the big screen with the release of Tom Cruise's new thriller "Minority Report."

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TOM CRUISE, ACTOR: They set me up. They set me up.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Who is the victim?

CRUISE: Somebody.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Who?

CRUISE: Somebody. Leo Crow (ph).

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Who is he?

CRUISE: I have no idea. I've never heard of him, but I'm supposed to kill him in less than 36 hours.

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COSTELLO: CNN Entertainment reporter Paul Clinton joins us now. Paul, this movie is like deep, dark and disturbing. What did you think about it?

PAUL CLINTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: You can forget the bill of rights. and you can forget about innocent until proven guilty, according to "Minority Report." It takes place in 2054, and the idea is that they have precogs who are psychics, who can tell when a murder is going to happen before it happens.

So Tom Cruise plays a pre-crime cop who goes out and arrests the people before they can commit the murders, and basically it's a program that's been going on for six years. It's a pilot program in Washington D.C. They're getting to ready to make it go national. And the Justice Department sends Colin Farrell, the Irish actor, in to check it out. And suddenly Cruise becomes the hunted rather than the hunter. There is a report comes in on him, saying that he will commit a murder. He doesn't even know who this person is, and suddenly he's on the run from his own coworkers.

And it's a really good movie. It's very dark, very great futuristic stuff. And only 50 years in the future. And Spielberg has came up with some great futuristic little ideas, like commercials on cereal boxes will now be animated, and the card is great, which we did yesterday, and it's really, really good movie.

COSTELLO: I can't wait to see it myself. Let's talk about "Lilo & Stitch" and go clear on the other end of the spectrum.

CLINTON: That is totally on the other end, and it's a family film. This year is really good with family films. This year is really good with family films. It's a good year, period. But this is a great family film, especially for little girls. Lilo is a little Hawaiian girl, and she discovers this alien that lands in Hawaii. She thinks it's a dog, but it's an alien being from another planet who is programed to be completely vicious, and through this little girl, he learns the importance of family and how family can be created out of anything. It can just be a group of friends or it can be blood related, but family is all important. And it's a very sweet film, very powerful, old-fashioned animation. And I think Disney is back on track with this one.

COSTELLO: Good for any aged kid, huh?

CLINTON: Yes.

COSTELLO: OK, let me ask you about "Juwana Man," because that's going to open soon, and I just want to ask you this, what is so funny about a man dressing up as a woman? What's so funny about that?

CLINTON: I have no idea. Look, it goes way back to when Milton Berle did it. It seems to be a funny thing that's been happening since the beginning of time, and this is "Tootsie" on a basketball court. This man, played by Nunez, is dressed up like a woman because he is such a jerk in the Major Leagues, and he can't get a job anywhere, so her has to pretend to be a woman's to get into the woman's league, and then he falls for Vivica A. Fox, and then this guy falls for him, and the yuks follows from there, I assume.

COSTELLO: I'm sure there are many, many yuks. I don't know, I just don't get it.

Paul Clinton, thank you.

CLINTON: Thank you.

COSTELLO: OK, we'll catch up with you later.

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