Director Rob Cohen continues to keep the channels open with his latest official blog for The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. While letting us know he's the proud daddy of newborn triplets, the director revealed a few more details about the post production status of the upcoming third installment. It seems the early reviews are in from his most important screeners, his comrades over at Universal, and they're giving him a thumbs up for the film. Enough so that their offering more money for special effects. Also, the director revealed the current running time. We should also expect our first trailer very soon on the official blog linked above.
Here's what he had to say.
I have shown the film to the exec’s at Universal and they are through-the-roof ecstatic. We screened a few weeks ago for all the relevant department heads (home video, distribution, foreign, p.r., marketing, etc.) and the reaction was unanimous. It’s running around 1 hr. 53 minutes and, daily as we hone, it’s taking its final shape. The studio has been very collaborative and supportive. You know they love it when they ask you if you need any more money to enhance the visual effects budget!!! Are there more shots that I want to do but didn’t have the money to do?!!! Of course, the answer is yes; there is never enough to entertain the audience in any film. That kind of support from Chairmen Marc Shmuger and David Linde, President Donna Langley, and V.P.’s Jeff Kirschenbaum and Erik Baiers is rare in Hollywood so I am very pleased all the way around.
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