The day after the premiere of "The Mystery of the Shadow", Lehman returned to the set.

Because I only delayed a day, I continued to start the scenes I had not finished filming before, and the actors were in good condition.

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

The daily box office of the film is still very stable, neither making a big hit nor falling seriously. The daily box office champion is tightly held in his hand, and followed by DreamWorks animated film "Madagascar". This film 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 "The Mystery of the Heroes", it is not false at all.

Of course, their mass audience is different and there is no big competition with live-action movies.

Michigan.

A nearby highway.

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

A large amount of shooting equipment was unloaded from the truck, and some residents also came to watch, while the venue and crew were communicating, hoping that they would not take photos.

However, it is impossible not to take pictures.

Especially when the starring actors appear, they can't stop them. Even director Lehman can arouse people's curiosity.

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

"Are all the extras in place?" Lehman asked casually next to a police car prop provided by the state government as Thomas led the cameras to install cameras into the police car.

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

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

"Okay." Thomas responded and said, "The community police station requires that the filming and blockade be stopped from around 11 o'clock to 1 o'clock in the afternoon, because the traffic flow will be relatively large and cannot hinder traffic."

"Fuke, I won't do anything after I collect the money." Lehman cursed and rubbed his brows in distress.

This is not the only road next to it, so it’s not a big deal to go around it, but the crew also occupies public social resources after all, so there is no reason to negotiate too much with government agencies, so they can only continue to modify the shooting plan.

Fortunately, there are not many scenes left, and delaying it will not have much impact.

Moreover, with the box office of "Batman: Mystery of the Shadow" steadily rising, in recent days, the crew has been very motivated, or several actors are very proactive, wishing to finish the filming early, release early, and then sell early, and the breakfast pay skyrocketed.

There is no way, who made "The Mystery of the Shadow" invested by Firefly Pictures? It is not surprising that there is such a good role model.

After all, Christian Bale, one of the starring actors, really paid more than double the salary, and he vaguely touched the threshold of a first-line male star. He has dared to raise the box office share to increase the basic salary and acted with the performance conditions.

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

Moreover, if the box office of "The Mystery of the Shadow" accumulates in the next week, it will have exceeded 100 million in North America.

It only exceeded 100 million in 8 days.

Such results are much worse than "Star Wars 3" in the early part of the summer season. Even five or six years later, the first day of the 1st day is not called a superhero movie that can be sold for more than 100 million yuan.

But today in 2005, especially when it is refrigerated and restarted, the requirements cannot be too high.

You know, "Mystery of the Shadow" can enter the top ten in the North American box office annual list with results like "Mystery of the Shadow".

After all, in 2004, North America's landing point will be 200 million, with a global achievement of at least 300 million, which is not too bad.

These days, North America has exceeded 100 million yuan in less than 20 movies every year. "The Mystery of the Shadow" has defeated 99% of its opponents, but it is not the top one.

Of course, this can also be said that "Star Wars 3" is too exaggerated. There are too many fans in the Star Wars series. It has only been screened for more than a month, and the world has exceeded 500 million, and it is almost time to go for 600 million.

After more than half an hour, Lehman walked behind the director's monitor, looked at the feedback screen, confirmed the camera position, and after confirming the light, he confirmed to the venue: "Will the onlookers scramble into the shooting area, right?"

"Don't worry, everyone is watching."

Lehman has to be so cautious. If a face without a contract appears on the screen after the movie is released in the future, even if it is just a background board with the camera scanned, it will be very troublesome.

The American people don’t feel excited about showing their faces in movies. On the contrary, they still think this is a portrait violation and will win a lawsuit.

Therefore, once a passerby deliberately sneaks in and has the idea of ​​blackmailing, if you really pursue it, the crew will definitely take money to eliminate disasters, and the amount will never be less than one or one.8 million, which is more expensive than a second-tier actor participating in the lead role.

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

Therefore, American extras are actually doing better. If there are many job opportunities, they will not make a lot of money.

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

Either they forcefully get money, or they just hire a hundred more people, shooting teams one by one, and then they will be made into tens of thousands or tens of thousands of troops during the post-production editing.

If you take a little more tricky, you can also use CG technology to render it, but the details of the latter character are not easy to do, so you can't give them close-ups. You can get rid of them as soon as you give them.

The staff transferred a helicopter and after getting familiar with the flight route, they sent a cameraman to indent it. The task of shooting street scenes in the morning officially began.

In the afternoon, I quickly filmed the scene of the government blocking the lake shore and surrounding the water monster.

Lehman couldn't remember how many times he had done this day. Anyway, every time he dispatched, he might have started over because of someone's mistake.

But thanks to the meticulous shooting planning, all this was completed smoothly.

This was until a week later on June 29th.

The crew returned to the Burbank Warner Studios at 10 a.m.

The last shot was in the quiet waiting of the crew, and Leman nodded with satisfaction and made an OK gesture to everyone.

"I announce that "The Monster in the Lake" - the filming is completed. Everyone will come to the crew party tonight."

Lehman said loudly, holding the loudspeaker.

The preparations were made in mid-April, shooting started in May, and the shooting was not completed until the end of June. This busyness of nearly two months has finally ended.
Chapter completed!