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B-Roll – Exterior, Big Panda balloon, swing down to poster. CU of poster, CU title on poster, different angles of poster, pan across title, back to balloon, CU balloon face zoom out and in, Zoom out from balloon to show entrance of theatre. CU theatre signage, next to Chinese signage.

B-Roll – Exterior, Hollywood Blvd. shut down, people walking, booths in background. Display tower with posters of Panda. The Blvd, people walking, the red carpet. The dancers on stage, the “Chinese” signage zoom out to show balloon, tower pan to show balloon, food booth, CU of statue Panda, zoom out to show other statues from the movie,

B-Roll – The Red Carpet, with press, back to balloon, pan across to show press line.

B-Roll – Fashion Shot/Girl in pink dress
Mark Osborne – Director – Kung Fu Panda (Guy with glasses)
John: Well it’s fantastic and kind of surreal, I mean, never in your wildest dreams when you start something that’s long and you know really hard and often tedious as an animated movie, you think that it ends up with Hollywood Blvd. closed off and a massive balloon hanging over the Mann’s Chinese theatre, that you don’t, that’s never anything you even factor in to your thinking, so this is all a little bit odd.
Mark: I mean, all the work that we did early on was kind of crazy, you know, like we were trying to do something that was really different that no one had ever seen before, Kung Fu and animation, a comedy but also like a hard core Kung Fu film, like it was something people couldn’t but there heads around, so I think in the beginning we were just like, lets just get through tomorrow, lets not get to the premiere, lets just get through tomorrow, when eventually, we figured out how to shape it up in a way to express it to people, one of the earliest things we came up with early on was whatever Akira Kirouswa shot a Jerry Lewis movie and everyone started to go, ahhhh!,
John: To find the kind of film that we were going to make, that was big in scope and hopefully be beautifully shot, funny, but funny from character, not funny from you know, pop culture references or anything, so it sort of a very useful, kind of glib, but useful phrase to say this is how we’re different from the stuff other stuff out there.

Sound Bite: Jonathan Aibel – Screenwriter, Ethan Reiff (black asian shirt), Cyrus Voris(with dark gray jacket) – Story Writers – Kung Fu Panda
Cyrus: Uh, I don’t know, uh, a monkey, because the monkey in the movie does, the monkey does monkey style Kung Fun and its sort of a fun style Kung Fu, I like monkey.
Ethan: You know, I like the panda, he gets to eat all the time and I eat all the time, so.
Jonathan: I’ll go with a cat, they sleep a lot, but they can be very productive and they bath themselves often.

B-Roll – Jeffrey Katzenberg talking with reporters

Jeffrey Katzenburg – CEO – DreamWorks, SKG
Well one more, we got Madagascar coming too at the end of this year, so really 2009 is the beginning of the new age for all of us I think with 3D, but uh, we love, you know, this has been 5 years in the making, and I think that, you know, I think that Po is maybe the most huggable adorable animated character that we ever you know had at Dreamworks and uh, you know having Jack Black as the voice has been genuine movie magic, I don’t know if there has ever been a better marriage between an actor/comedian and a piece of animation, I mean, it’s right up there with Donkey and Eddie and Aladdin, you know, the genie from Aladdin and Robin Williams, I mean, he brings so much to this film, it’s just amazing.

Sound Bite: James Hong – “Mr. Ping” – Kung Fu Panda
I think I would like to be the mantis, you know, the mantis he strike very quick (he does moves) the mantis is known for speed and multi fractured, in other words I’m not going to crack your neck in one place but in several places, you notice how fast a mantis moves you can’t see him move, the other people the tiger, you know when he is going to strike to you, of course your dead by the time you know, but the mantis give you that multi jabs at the same time

B-Roll: Panda Character with Jack Black and Lucy Liu

John Stevenson – Director – Kung Fu Panda
Mark Osborne – Director – Kung Fu Panda (Guy with glasses)
John: Obliviously, it’s a message of self empowerment, a message we believe in, one that we like our kids, and hopefully other people’s kids and maybe, you know, other people in general the world would be better if they believe that.
Mark: I think the message is what makes you different is what makes you special so embrace that, let that be ok to be different, let it be ok to be flawed and make mistakes, you can be different you can aspire to be something that maybe no one’s ever done before, you can actually do those things.
John: It doesn’t matter what your shape is, or what your background is, any of those things that you put on yourself is a limiting factor, don’t do that, just trust that you have everything inside you to succeed if you trust that and commit to it.
Mark: It doesn’t matter if you’ve never made an animated feature film for a giant studio with a huge million dollar premiere, you can do it, you know, that’s the message.

B-Roll: Jack Black talking to reporter. CU

Sound Bite: Jack Black – “Po” – Kung Fu Panda
I would go with cheetah because it’s the fastest, it’s always been my favorite animal, cause he’s the fastest runner in all of the earth, the cheetah you know what I mean, what’s better than the cheetah, maybe an eagle, but I kind of played an eagle in Nacho Libre, so I lived out my eagle fantasies, the eagle powers.

Sound Bite: Q’orianka Kilcher – Actress
A duck, cause I’m called an Ugly Duckling at home because I can do a face and I’ll show you. So (she laughs)

Sound Bite: Michael Clarke Duncan – “Commander Vachir” – Kung Fu Panda
A rhino is a good one, but I think I would be a black panther, I like the black panther, man, it goes with my skin color, kind of sleek, you don’t see them that much, you don’t see them on the Animal Planet Channel, but you know he does his thing, black panther.

Sound Bite: Dustin Hoffman – “Shifu” – Kung Fu Panda
The animal that I am, because anybody that knows me says you’re an animal. There it is.