Set photo for THE MUMMY: TOMB OF THE EMPEROR DRAGON(2008).
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Cohen Updates MUMMY 3

Director Rob Cohen has provided readers with another update for his upcoming sequel, THE MUMMY: TOMB OF THE EMPEROR DRAGON. In the update, he lets us know he's near the halfway point of filming, describes the final battle sequence (without spoilers) and refers to the amount of visual effects needed for this third installment in the Mummy franchise. He also provides a few videos from the set over at his blog.

Tomorrow begins the big ten-day count-down to finishing the first half of the shoot, our sojourn here in Montreal. We then move to the desert north of Beijing to shoot the epic ending battle where the Terracotta Army takes the field once more. There are over 700 visual effects shots in the film and a good percentage of them will take place in the last twenty minutes of the movie.

I am still on schedule which is as much a miracle to me as to the studio brass. There have been many days of elation and many moments of pain but, overall, it has been a shoot of smooth flow and meticulous detail. I've been editing behind myself because in a large VFX movie like this, I have to turn over sequences to Digital Domain and Rhythm & Hues, our two VFX houses, before the whole film is cut, or shot for that matter, just to make the delivery date in early July.

THE MUMMY: TOMB OF THE EMPEROR DRAGON hits theaters everywhere August 1, 2008.