Legendary Hollywood Director

The day after Mystery of the Shadow premiered, Lyman returned to the set.

Because it was only delayed for a day, the scenes that were not finished before the start were continued, and the state of several actors remained fairly good.

In the next period of time, the filming work was busy again, and the screening of Mystery of Xia Ying also entered the second week.

The film's daily box office is still very stable, neither a big explosion nor a serious decline. It holds the daily box office champion tightly, followed by DreamWorks' animated film Madagascar. It has been shown for three weeks, but the trend is very stable. Whether it is facing the Star Wars 3 in the middle and late stages, or the Mystery of Xia Ying, which is only working hard, it is not false at all.

Of course, other people's mass base audience is different, and there is not much competition with live-action movies.

Michigan.

a nearby highway.

Early in the morning, the road section of more than 500 meters was blocked to cooperate with the crew for filming.

A large number of filming equipment was unloaded from the truck, and some residents also came to watch, while the field staff and crew were communicating with them, hoping that they would not take pictures.

However, it is impossible not to take pictures.

Especially when the main actors appear, they can't even stop them. Even director Lehmann can arouse people's curiosity.

After a while, paparazzi with cameras suddenly appeared on a large scale in the crowd near the highway. It seemed that the whereabouts of the crew had been completely leaked.

Are the extras in place? Next to a police car props provided by the state government, Lehmann asked casually as Thomas led the camera crew to install cameras in the police car.

Well, 35 people have already come over and are rehearsing the scene over there.

Now we need to change the shooting plan. The group scenes will be moved to the afternoon, and the road and street scenes and the shots around the lakeshore will be shot first in the morning.

Okay. Thomas responded and said again: At the community police station, it is required to stop filming and blockade from 11:00 to 1:00 p.m. The reason is that the traffic flow will be relatively large and cannot hinder traffic.

Fuke, don't do anything with the money. Lyman cursed, rubbing his brows in distress.

It's not the only road next to it, and it won't take much effort to go around it, but after all, the crew also occupies public social resources, and there is no reason to negotiate too much with government agencies, so they can only continue to revise the shooting plan.

Fortunately, there are not many scenes left, and a delay will not have much impact.

Moreover, with the steady rise of the box office of Batman: Mystery of the Shadow, in recent days, the crew has been very motivated, or a few actors are very active, wishing that the filming was completed earlier, released earlier, and then sold out earlier, Early pay rises.

No way, who made Mystery of Xia Ying also invested by Firefly Pictures, it is not surprising that there is such a good example.

After all, Christian Bale, one of the leading actors, has more than doubled his salary. He has vaguely reached the threshold of a first-line male star, and has dared to raise the box office share to increase the basic salary.

This made Matthew McConaughey, the star of another Firefly Films project, not take the initiative?

Moreover, if the box office of Mystery of the Shadow is all accumulated in the next week,

It has exceeded one billion in North America.

Over 100 million in 8 days.

Compared with the Star Wars 3 in the early part of the summer season, this kind of performance is much worse. Even five or six years later, it is not a superhero movie that can't sell if it is over 100 million on the first day.

But in today's 2005, especially in the case of restarting after being refrigerated, the requirements cannot be too high.

You must know that the annual North American box office list such as The Mystery of Xia Ying can enter the top ten.

After all, it was only 2004, when North America would land at 200 million, and the global achievement would be at least 300 million, which is not too bad.

This year, there are less than 20 films in North America breaking 100 million every year. Mystery of the Shadow has defeated 99% of its opponents, but it is not the top one.

Of course, it can also be said that Star Wars 3 is too exaggerated, there are too many fans of the Star Wars series, and it was only shown for more than a month.

After another half an hour, Lehman walked behind the director's monitor, looked at the screen footage of the feedback, and after confirming that the camera position and lighting were all right, he confirmed to the on-set manager: The onlookers will not sneak into the shooting. area?

Don't worry, everyone is watching.

Lyman had to be so cautious. If a face without a contract appeared on the screen after the movie was released in the future, even if it was just a background board that was swept by the camera, it would be very troublesome.

The American people don't have the excitement of showing their faces in the movies. On the contrary, they still feel that this is a kind of portrait violation, and it is a sure-fire case.

Therefore, once a passerby deliberately sneaks in and has the idea of ​​extorting a sum of money, if it is really investigated, the crew will properly take money to eliminate the disaster, and the amount will never be less than 1.8 million, which is more than a second-tier actor. Participating in the lead role is even more expensive.

If you encounter a rogue, the amount will be raised up. If you don’t give it, the movie won’t even be released, and that’s really a serious loss.

Therefore, American group performances are actually better mixed, and if there are more job opportunities, they will make a lot of money.

So, that's why when American directors shoot epic themes, when they encounter war scenes, they basically collapse.

Either they were forced to take the money piles, or they had to hire more than 100 people, one team after another, to make an army of tens of thousands or tens of thousands in the later editing.

To be more clever, you can also use cg technology to render, but the details of the characters in the latter are not easy to do, so you can't give close-ups. Wear as soon as you give it.

The staff transferred a helicopter, and after familiarizing themselves with the flight route, they sent a cameraman to indent, and the task of shooting street view footage in the morning officially began.

In the afternoon, I hurriedly filmed the scene where the government blocked the lakeshore and contained the water monster.

Lehman can't remember how many times he ng it on this day. Anyway, every schedule may be restarted because of someone's mistake.

But thanks to careful shooting planning, it all went smoothly.

And so on until June 29, a week later.

The crew was back at the Warners Studios in Burbank at 10 a.m.

In the last scene, while everyone in the crew was waiting quietly, Lyman nodded in satisfaction and made an OK gesture to everyone.

I'm announcing, The Monster in the Lake - it's finished. Tonight's crew party, everyone will come.

Lehmann said loudly with a loudspeaker held up.

Preparations started in mid-April, filming started in May, and the filming was not completed until the end of June. It was nearly two months of busy work, and it was finally over.

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