When it came to July, after the summer had passed, Levy's film crew also rushed back from abroad.

After several months of on-location shooting, the filming of his film is nearing completion.

The exterior of this movie is actually much less than the first one, at least, there is no such scene shot on the Panama Canal as in the first part. Therefore, in comparison, the shooting time is also saved a lot, and the shooting is completed quickly.

And after filming these scenes, the filming of the movie is basically completed. Of course, there are still some reshoots that need to be done - after all, a long time has passed, and some things have changed a lot. For example, the current Rumsfeld is really a former secretary of defense, and the portrayal of Taylor's character can be more liberal. And now between the United States and Mexico, the isolation zone has also begun to be built, and when filming the unity of the earthlings, it is better to have people directly remove this isolation belt.

However, these petty shoots can all be over in a month or two. So, after this shoot is over, all that's left is post-production.

Calculating the time, it took almost two years from the beginning of the planning to the complete completion - a film was shot for two years, and for Levy, it was the first time.

In my memory, in order to shoot Avatar, Cameron prepared for more than ten years, and the time devoted to it was more than three years. In order to shoot Youth Pi, Ang Lee invested five years, and the filming was just as time-consuming and laborious. A big-production, big-investment movie pays not only the cost of work, but also the time of work.

But fortunately, the film was still made at this time, if it went well. In the summer, it will be able to meet the audience.

Although two years is a long time, after the production is completed, this live-action 3D movie, at least in Hollywood, is still at the leading level. At least, this time, Levy's film did not lose an audience because of the long production time, which made the film's technology outdated.

Such things have not happened for nothing, and the most famous example is Final Fantasy: Children of the Second Coming. At the time of the production, this animation was still at the top of the technology at the time. It's a pity that in the production process, because of the excessive meticulousness and seriousness, even the trajectory of each fluttering hair of the heroine Tifa is different, such meticulousness, so that the animation was made alive for four years, and after it was produced, the technology has been completely outdated, and it doesn't look like it's up to the times. Resulting in the loss of money.

Fortunately, Levy's film also took two years, but it didn't produce that result.

"The schedule of the movie can basically be decided. The rest of the thing. It's to finish the post-editing, then finish the post-production, and then release it. ”

After the filming was successfully completed, the rest of the business. Naturally, it's post-production. Unlike previous small-investment literary films, large-investment films require a lot of post-production work. The time of this production cannot be saved.

Therefore, if it goes well, the production of the film can be considered completely completed in March and April of 07, and when it comes to release, it will be June.

This schedule can be determined, and the rest is to see what the actual result of the movie is.

"I think we've done everything else, and the rest is publicity. The investment in this film is huge, so we also need a lot of publicity. And this time, I think the publicity cost will be more than 100 million. ”

Watching his movie gradually finished, Levy was also very relieved. At this time, he also told Alexander that he was ready to notify the issuing company and let the issuing company step up its publicity efforts.

And the distribution company of this film is a joint venture between FOX and Warner.

When the first film was released, Levy chose to work with FOX. Since the cooperation company of the first part is FOX, then the second part of the natural Levy is still in cooperation with FOX.

But Fox is now facing a small problem: they are working with James. Cameron discussed investing in the filming of his film Avatar - after a long time of preparation, Avatar finally began to enter the stage of official shooting, and now FOX has transferred all the funds there, and there are some problems with the funds, so they also need to bring people in and release the movie with them.

However, just as Columbia did not want to issue the Three-Body Problem 1 at the beginning, other companies are still unwilling to take this risk. Disney, for example, once thought about working together, but they asked Levy to ensure that there would not be too many overshots in the film: Disney has played PG-13 at most so far, and if Levy makes an NC-17 movie, they will also have a headache. Disney is Disney after all, and they don't want their movies to have too many inappropriate elements for children.

To this, Levy could not agree. Although in his movies, there are not even many fight scenes, let alone more excessive scenes. But in his films, there are still a lot of military, politicians, different cultures and politics. These things are still very sensitive and easy to cross the line. Political films have always been highly rated, and although Levy's films are not political films, they also have a lot of overly cold political ideas, which even Levy himself does not think is the right thing to show to children.

Don't say anything else, it's just that in the plot, Taylor is looking for people everywhere to be human bombers, and Levy doesn't think the movie rating can be low.

There is simply no way to make this movie to PG-13 level. It is even very difficult to make it R-class.

In addition to these two companies, it is more difficult for other companies to issue. The Weinstein brothers were interested, but their company was too small to take the risk. Lionsgate simply didn't have interest, their company was originally taking a different path, distributing small-cost, small-production movies is their principle, and they don't play such a big deal.

And after looking around FOX, it was Warner that finally expressed its willingness to cooperate with the issuance.

Also as a large company, Universal is still willing to gamble on this issue. Although such a movie is a huge risk for their company, if they make money, the income will also make them happy.

Moreover, they also want to try to see if 3D movies can really make money.

Unlike Disney, Columbia and other companies, Warner has many series of themes such as Harry Potter and DC Comics, which can be turned into money. It's just that the 90-year Batman series can be said to have collapsed the DC Comics brand all at once, and until the new century, this series has not been able to save it well - they found Michael Bay to shoot Batman, but unfortunately, although Michael Bay played a good explosion, but Batman is not Demoman after all, lacking the gothic style and dark atmosphere of the characters, although the audience watched the excitement, but the evaluation was very low.

Holding a cash cow in his hand, but he can't get any money, watching Marvel's heroes make money, and his group of heroes are all losing money, which also gives Warner a headache. How to make a series of movies that can make money is also what Warner has been considering.

Levy's attempt at a 3D film has given them some hope - if it succeeds, it will be a major breakthrough for Warner.

Therefore, they chose to support Levy. Warners still has enough money to back it up, and they know that Levy's Mystery Company is not short of money. They don't have much business with Mystery, and unlike Colombia, they are worried about the deterioration of their relationship with Mystery, so they choose to cooperate.

For Warner's choice of this breakthrough, Levy is not very much in favor of - in fact, Warner's superhero movies are not bad at all compared to Marvel's, compared to Marvel's superheroes, the influence of Superman and Batman in the DC Universe is not much stronger, and the storyline is good, the depth of the content is good, it is stronger than Marvel.

It's just that their heroes were all born in the 40s, and they are inevitably not modern enough in terms of character image. The lack of characters that keep pace with the times, the lack of a sufficiently modern story, and the characters they create are all not grounded, which is the biggest problem of their films. If you don't realize this, no matter how much you change the 3D, it's useless.

However, Levy would not be stupid enough to inform them about this, thus affecting the release of his own film. Since they want to see what it looks like in 3D, it's better to let them see it yourself.

"Warner said that you don't have to worry about publicity. Their company will take care of everything. With hundreds of millions of yuan in publicity costs, the promotion of this movie will definitely not be bad. ”

Levi nodded at Warner's assurance, believing that Warner would definitely be able to do a good job - in terms of publicity, Warner's skill is definitely not inferior to anyone's, and Levy is of course very aware of this.

Warner has been working very the issue of publicity. From creating scandals about the actors of the same film, to creating popularity for the actors, to creating topics for the movie, to making the film unanimously praised in various ways before the release of the film, and using long-term investment to create the atmosphere of the movie, Warners is very skilled in all these aspects.

Although Levy remembers that they had made big mistakes in the release of some films, such as the bad publicity of the Pacific Rim, many people said that it was not good - but as long as they were willing to promote it seriously, it always made a big difference.

With FOX and Warner publicity, their own movies, with good publicity, what's so scary? (To be continued......)