However, whether Rachel Weisz wants it or not, "A Bite of North Africa" is still being filmed under Charlotte's direction.

In fact, Rachel also knows that even if Charlotte shoots twenty or thirty scenes of her eating, there are probably very few that can be edited into the movie.

After all, as long as the director wants to tell a good story, then all the shots must give way to the narrative.

In Rachel's view, this is a matter of course.

- Of course, only in the eyes of a young woman like Rachel.

In fact, many commercial film directors have to be much less disciplined-

Regardless of the story, it is actually very good to attract the audience's attention with hot boat scenes, beautiful women's chest scenery, and exciting explosions and collision pictures.

- After all, this is for the directors to think about the watchability of the film.

What's even more terrifying is that while watching the story, the actor suddenly put down a bottle of nutrition in front of the camera, and the audience had to stare at the trademark of the nutrition product for several seconds;

Or after a thrilling escape, the actor suddenly sat on the roof of the building and drank XX milk, and the purpose was to suppress the shock......

- Product placement, if you are not careful, it will become the most blunt and speechless plot clip in the movie.

However, from the perspective of cost, movies are increasingly inseparable from all kinds of product placement.

After all, this is the only way to get the producer to recover a certain amount of costs before the film is released, in addition to the film incentive funds and tax rebate schemes in various countries, and it is naturally impossible for profit-seeking film companies to give up.

What's more, product placement is not without a good job.

Not to mention anything else, Charlotte's previous filming of "Detective Hell" made the sales of Zippo lighters increase significantly, and the audience did not feel stiff at all, but felt that Konstantin played by Keanu Reeves was really handsome when he fiddled with the lighter.

Zippo's parent company, as a result, paid a large sum of money for product placement to Ghost Party Studios.

Because of the use of a tiered bonus agreement, in the end, the advertising fees and bonuses paid by the other party directly covered half of the filming cost of "Hell Detective".

- How can the producers of commercial films refuse such benefits.

And this time, the project "Mummy" has also been sponsored by advertisers, and product placement needs to be added.

Charlotte didn't have much of an opinion on that.

In particular, the name of the advertiser, he is also very familiar with -

The famous Coca-Cola.

Although Charlotte himself prefers Kvass, he doesn't have much of an opinion about Coca-Cola.

You know, as a drink born in the late 19th century, Coca-Cola has been sold worldwide after World War I.

- Although, to a greater extent, Coca-Cola's dramatic expansion in the global market was made possible by the global deployment of American GIs during World War II.

- After all, regardless of the cost, at the price of 5 cents a bottle to the American GIs in unlimited quantities, Coca-Cola can be regarded as a true American conscience.

But in any case, the appearance of Coca-Cola in Egypt after the First World War is not a strange thing, and it does not contradict history.

- At the very least, it's much more reliable than the TV series where one-third of King Arthur's Knights of the Round Table are black, and even Queen Guan Nevia is also black.

In short, in order to implant the Coca-Cola commercial into the movie without any fireworks, Charlotte still thought of a lot of ways.

And because of the setting of "snack goods", Evelyn or its actor Rachel Weisz naturally can't help but taste this high-sugar carbonated drink.

This made Rachel a little worried about her figure......

Fortunately, there weren't too many scenes that needed to be filmed on location near Casablanca.

Before Rachel really gained weight, the crew of "The Mummy" finally finished filming the relevant scenes and returned to the UK.

In the London studio, the crew will shoot some episodes of pure indoor and underground adventures.

This part of the plot does not involve location, and it is easier to shoot in London than to go to Morocco.

After all, a lot of it requires green screen photography.

- The plot of the underground exploration part is also the part that requires the most computer special effects.

Even though Charlotte could use spell effects as a supplement, she still needed a lot of computer effects.

In this way, it is more advantageous to shoot in London -

Here you can start working on the special effects as soon as the shooting is completed, and compare them directly to see if they need to be modified.

This is not possible in Morocco.

However, after returning to the UK, before the "Mummy" crew started filming, Charlotte received a new message -

On the issue of the film and television adaptation rights of the "Harry Potter" series, Warner Pictures once again discussed the issue of film and television adaptation rights with Spectre Studios and J· K. Rowling opened negotiations.

This time, the conditions offered by Warner are much more reasonable.

Not only are they willing to pay Rowling a high royalty, but they also plan to pay a huge amount of money to buy the film rights of the first "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" from the Ghost Party studio.

At the same time, they also considered buying the various filming resources that the Ghost Party Studios had prepared for the "Harry Potter" series, including the "Hogwarts" castle.

- Obviously, after seeing the huge profits from the successful adaptation of the Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Warner's top management finally made up their minds.

And David Heyman, who followed the whole process of filmmaking, gave a practical plan.

Therefore, in addition to copyright, Warner is also eyeing various resources that Charlotte has long prepared.

Because if you master these things, you can really save a lot of money on the cost of film shooting.

- Hogwarts Castle, in particular, can be used over and over again. Even when you are not shooting, you can still charge admission as a tourist attraction.

How could Warner refuse such a hen that lays golden eggs?

Of course, David also considered more darkly, if the overall box office performance of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" was not particularly ideal, resulting in the "castle" and other materials prepared by the Ghost Party studio with a huge amount of money could not effectively recover the cost, then Warner would be able to take the opportunity to get these things from Charlotte at a lower price......

It's a pity that when the North American box office of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" reached $400 million, and the global box office is hitting $1.2 billion, it makes no sense to think about it.

- Ghost Party Studios has fully recouped its costs and enjoyed a generous dividend.

At this time, they are in an advantageous position in the process of negotiation.

Of course, Warner's side is not without its own advantages.

And one of their most important advantages is that they have money.

The power of money is almost invincible in pure business negotiations.

But even so, after seeing the strong global box office of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", as well as the more eye-catching peripheral revenue, Warner's top management couldn't sit still.

Especially after the ABC TV network "broadcast" a special game -