Hollywood legendary director

The day after the premiere of "The Mystery of the Shadow", Lyman went back to the set.

Because it was only a day's delay, the scenes that were not finished before were continued, and the status of several actors remained fairly good.

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

The film’s daily box office is still very stable. It will neither explode nor have a serious decline. The daily box office champion is tightly held in his hand, and the animated film "Madagascar" by DreamWorks is closely followed. It has been screened for three weeks, but the trend is very stable. Whether it is facing the middle and late stages of "Star Wars 3", or facing the only powerful "Mystery of Xia Ying", they are all true.

Of course, their mass base audience is different, and there is not much competition with live-action movies.

Michigan.

A nearby highway.

Early in the morning, a section of nearly 500 meters was blocked to cooperate with the crew.

A large amount of shooting equipment was unloaded from the truck, and some residents also ran over to watch. The scene and the crew were communicating with them, hoping that they would not take pictures.

However, it is impossible not to take pictures.

Especially when the protagonists appear on the stage, they can't stop them. Even the director Lyman can arouse people's curiosity.

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

"Are all the extras in place?" Lehman asked casually watching Thomas led the camera crew installing cameras in the police car beside a police car props provided by the state government.

"Well, 35 people have already come here and are rehearsing the scenes over there."

"Now we need to change the shooting plan. The group scene should be moved to the afternoon to shoot, and the road and street scenes and the scenes around the lake shore should be shot in the morning."

"Okay." Thomas replied, and then said: "The community police station is asking to stop filming and blockade from 11 am to 1 pm. The reason is that the traffic volume will be relatively large and the traffic cannot be hindered."

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

This is not the only road next to it. It doesn't take much effort to go around it, but after all, the crew is also occupying public social resources. There is no reason to negotiate with government agencies too much. They can only continue to modify the shooting plan.

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

Moreover, as the box office of "Batman: The Mystery of the Shadow" has steadily risen, the crew has been very motivated in recent days, or that several actors have been very active. I can’t wait to finish filming soon, release it early, and then sell it early. Earlier the pay has skyrocketed.

No way, who made "The Mystery of Xia Ying" also be 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 vaguely touched the threshold of a first-line actor, and has already dared to raise the box office to increase the basic salary.

This makes the starring Matthew McConaughey not take the initiative in another project invested by Firefly Pictures?

Moreover, if the box office of "The Mystery of Xia Ying" is all accumulated in the next week, it has already exceeded 100 million in North America.

It was over 100 million in 8 days.

This kind of performance is much worse than that of "Star Wars 3" in the early part of the summer file. Even five or six years later, the first day is less than 100 million superhero movies.

But today in 2005, especially in the case of restarting after refrigeration, the requirements cannot be too high.

You know, "The Mystery of Chivalrous Shadow" can make it into the top ten in the North American box office annual list with good results.

After all, in the past 2004, North America will have 200 million points and at least 300 million points in the world, which is not too bad.

In this year, North America has broken 100 million and less than 20 each year. "The Mystery of Xia Ying" has defeated ninety-nine 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 has been screened for more than a month. The world has broken 500 million, and it is rushing to 600 million.

After more than half an hour, Lehman walked behind the director's monitor and looked at the feedback screen. After confirming that the camera position and lighting were fine, he confirmed to the scene: "Onlookers will not get into the shooting. Area?"

"Don't worry, everyone is staring."

Lehman had to be so cautious. It would be very troublesome if an unsigned face appeared on the screen after the movie was released in the future, even if it was just the background board where the camera was scanned.

The American people don't have the excitement of showing their faces in movies. On the contrary, they still feel that this is a kind of portrait violation and a lawsuit must be won.

Therefore, once passers-by deliberately get in and have the idea of ​​extorting a sum of money, they are really held accountable. The crew must take the money to eliminate the disaster, and the amount will never be less than 1.8 million, which is better than a second-line actor. The lead role is more expensive.

If you encounter a rogue, the amount will be raised. If you don't give it, the movie won't even be released, and that is the real loss.

Therefore, group performances in the United States are actually better for mixing, and if there are more job opportunities, you can make a lot of money.

So, this is why when American directors shoot epic themes, they basically collapse when they encounter war scenes.

Either it is forcibly taking money, or it is to hire more than a hundred people, team by team to shoot, and make an army of tens of thousands of tens of thousands in post-editing.

A little trickier, you can also use cg technology to render, but the latter's character details are not easy to deal with, and you can't give close-ups.Wear it as soon as you give it.

The staff mobilized a helicopter and became familiar with the flight route, then sent a cameraman to retract, and the task of taking street scene shots in the morning officially began.

In the afternoon, I hurried to film the scene where the government blocked the lakeshore and contained water monsters.

Lehman also couldn't remember how many times he had been ng this day, anyway, every time he was scheduled, he might have to start again because of someone's mistake.

But due to the meticulous shooting planning, all this was successfully completed.

This continues until June 29, a week later.

The crew returned to Burbank Warner Studios at 10 am.

In the last shot, as the crew waited quietly, Lehman nodded in satisfaction and made an OK gesture to everyone.

"I announce, "The Water Monster in the Lake"-finalized. Everyone will come to the crew party tonight."

Lehman said loudly while holding the megaphone.

From mid-April to preparations, the filming started in May, and the filming work was not completed until the end of June. The busy schedule of nearly two months was finally over.

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