A family affair: Studio explains `Kate & Leopold' delay, re-editing.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | Date: December 20, 2001| Author: Butler, Robert W. | Copyright information

Two weeks ago critics around the country got a look at "Kate & Leopold," the James Mangold-directed time-travel romance in which a professional woman from 2001 (Meg Ryan) falls for an English duke (Hugh Jackman) from 1876.

On Tuesday Miramax announced that the film, originally scheduled to open on Friday, was being pushed back to Christmas Day. And now, Miramax Films says the version critics reviewed won't be the same one audiences see when the film opens.

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