Mummy 3 lookin’ good

It has been about a month since we last heard from director Rob Cohen via his blog on the status of THE MUMMY: TOMB OF THE DRAGON EMPEROR (check out that last update HERE). Last thing we heard he was editing the flick together and still working out the kinks. Today we’ve learned that he’s pretty much done with the editing, and the feedback he’s received thus far has been great!

This is good news, of course, as we all want THE MUMMY 3 to rock our socks off… here’s what Cohen had to say regarding an early screening of the film…

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.

To me, asking Cohen if he needs more money to enhance his visual effects is basically a nice way of saying “the effects are weak and cheap looking, do you want more money to make them look better so we all don’t look like buffoons?”–but maybe that’s just me. Maybe I’m reading in-between the lines and I have no idea what I’m talking about–it wouldn’t be the first time!

To check out more of what Cohen had to say, including the process of editing the visual effects and Cohen’s new editions to his family, click HERE, and get ready for THE MUMMY: TOMB OF THE DRAGON EMPEROR in theaters everywhere this August.