In late November, the new film "Maguire", which was two months in preparation, started shooting in Manhattan, New York.

This is the first film that Jerry Towne has carefully planned.

Before the official start of filming, the old director James personally went into battle and took a set of makeup photos for the film with the camera.

The crew of "Maguire" did not hold a press conference, but it was discovered by more than 30 reporters from more than a dozen media before the official shooting.

During the on-site interview, Director James Lao led several leading actors to introduce the general situation of the new film to media reporters, and then several leading actors accepted a brief interview with reporters.

The on-site press conference ended after only half an hour.

Jerry entered the set early, he did not show up for live interviews, and even his profile and photos were not released in advance.

Trickery is sometimes an effective kind of propaganda.

At the end of the '95 when colleges and universities across the U.S. were fully digitalized, it was a good gimmick to retain a sense of mystery.

This is Jerry's decision after discussion with James Sr. and Brian, rather than revealing that he is a newcomer starring in advance and letting the media sing down in advance, it is better to leave the suspense at the end, during the movie test screening, Jerry will lead the main creative staff to carry out publicity work simultaneously.

Only with the work can the work be eligible to be noticed by the media.

It's just getting started, and showing up in public is self-inflicted, so it's wise to stay silent.

In a live interview before the start of filming, James Sr. announced the basic information of the main actors and crew members of the new film.

[Title: Jerry Maguire; Genre: Inspirational Comedy/Drama; Color: Color, Production Cost: $25,000,000]

The film starring: Jerry Donn, Gwyneth Paltrow, Cooper Martin Jr., Milla Jovovich, Billy Wilder, Jonathan Lipnicki... Wait.

Crew:

Producers – James Brooks, Jerry Towne;

Director – James Brooks;

Screenwriter – Jerry Towne;

Photographer – Januz Kaminski;

Costume Design – Beth;

Set Decorator – Clay Aiken...... and other members.

Synopsis: A top agent at an international sports management company who is a leader in his field. Jerry is young, handsome, charismatic, and loyal to his fiancée, Avely, and is once rudely fired from the company. Deprived of his job, self-esteem, and status, Jerry is in a terrible situation, and he is forced to start from scratch and become his own boss......

After the on-site press conference, more than 30 entertainment reporters left one after another, not nostalgic, feeling that this is a small crew, and the feature film is obviously not worth their enthusiasm for too much, commercial films and popular superstars are their favorites.

However, when they returned to the newspaper and began to write the report, they suddenly found that the name of a heavyweight was also included in the new film information list distributed to them by the crew, and it was only because the big man did not appear on the scene that they missed a rare interview opportunity.

So in the entertainment newspaper the next day, Billy Wilder's name appeared in bold on the front page of the entertainment pages of major newspapers, causing an uproar for a while.

Subsequently, the entertainment channels of various television stations sent capable personnel to Manhattan to follow up on the report, while entertainment reporters went to wait outside Wilder Manor, trying to grab the first-hand news.

Things turned out to be exactly what Jerry and James Sr. had predicted.

The name of Jerry Towne, the leading actor, appeared in the newspapers, and the major newspapers and magazines unanimously chose to stop at the point, and then shifted the target to several other leading actors.

Because almost all entertainment newspapers and reporters have never heard of Jerry Towne's name and don't know anything about him, reporters will not admit that they are ignorant, so everyone unanimously chooses to avoid talking about him, ignore him, and wait until they find enough hot black material, and then give him big revelations, and blow him up as a whole.

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At the filming site, the entire crew was mobilized by Director James Sr.

Old James wore a peaked cap, a brown jacket, a white shirt with an unbuttoned button, a pair of black trousers, shiny brown leather shoes, and an elegant but serious dress, which set off his rigorous and serious work attitude.

While the crew was debugging the equipment, he called several character actors and prop masters to him, once again emphasizing that the props and lines must be performed simultaneously.

When the set designer raised his hand to indicate that the scenes were ready, the elder James returned to the monitor, and the assistant director of the set was responsible for coordinating the commissioning preparations of the various departments of the crew.

"Photography, lighting, recording, OK!"

"Act 1 of the ninth, Ikesh!"

With the "snap" of the assistant of the field reporter, the film "Jerry Maguire" officially started filming.

At this time, Jerry and Mira, Gwyneth, Cooper Martin Jr. and other leading actors are standing outside the court, quietly watching the performance of a veteran character actor in his thirties in front of the camera, she plays Maguire's client in the film, and her appearance time is less than ten seconds, and there is only one line, but it is memorable "Jerry can't stand loneliness, he can't stand it, he is afraid of being alone ......".

“Cut！Very good!”

The start went well, and after one pass, the set was changed and the shooting continued.

The ninth scene is a set of interspersed shots, and there are more than 20 character actors participating in the performance, except for one man, all the others are women with upper postures, on average, each person has one line, and the appearance time adds up to less than three minutes.

However, it took the crew three days to shoot this three-minute picture.

In the storyboard that Jerry Downe and James Sr. co-painted, the whole film needed to use a lot of interspersed shots, and there were a lot of location shots.

Therefore, at the beginning of filming, the old James personally directed and filmed some interspersed shots to run in with the crew, and after the crew formed a tacit understanding, the interspersed shots and location shooting tasks would be handed over to the three assistant directors to shoot in groups.

In terms of filming schedule, James Lao formulated a detailed shooting schedule plan according to the number of scenes.

There is only one month left until the end of the new year, and the Christmas and New Year holidays are official holidays, so the filming work will have to be stopped for a while and the shooting will continue after the New Year.

So James Sr. decided to concentrate on the group scenes that require a large number of extras and character actors, and try to finish the filming before Christmas next month.

Although the salary of role actors and group actors is not high, the longer the time drags on, the higher the cost, so focusing on the filming of group scenes can undoubtedly save the maximum amount of expenses.

There were a lot of Jerry's shots in these group scenes, so Jerry Towne had to be involved in the whole filming, and he would stay with the crew until the New Year's holiday.

In addition to his participation in the whole process, the other starring roles are scheduled to shoot several major scenes between Jerry Towne and Gwyneth and Cooper Martin Jr. in mid-January, which are also rival scenes.

At the same time, several scenes with the participation of children were filmed this month, especially the scenes in which Jonathan Lipnicki, a five-year-old boy who played Dorothy's son, participated.

It's coming to the New Year's holiday soon, and if the scenes of these young actors are not filmed, old James is worried that they will have too much fun during the holiday, and it will take a long time to adjust their state after the year, which will affect the filming progress of the film, so it is imperative to give priority to filming their scenes.

These trivial things seem to be insignificant, but in fact, properly handling the details is an important indicator to test the director's skills.

Because the movie itself is a product formed by editing and splicing trivial shots, and then carefully crafted in the later stage.

Obviously, director James Brooks is not in vain, he thinks about problems very carefully, and his ability to deal with details is beyond Jerry's imagination, and the director's salary of $2.8 million is definitely worth it.

………… (To be continued)