"Toho has invested heavily in the research and development of special effects technology this time, and there is also help from foreign teams. It seems that Matsui Naokami is very determined this time to make Toho keep up with the trend of international movies."

Maekawa Kiyonori was very envious of Toho for being able to spend such a large sum of money on special effects technology all at once.

But Songzhu can only watch it, let alone 200 million US dollars, they are reluctant to take out even 20 million US dollars.

It’s hard to give up if you have too much, and it’s useless if you have too little. There is a reason why Shochiku and Toei have been ranked lower than Toho in Neon for a long time, and they will be like this for a long time in the future.

"The research and development of special effects technology is indeed a very necessary thing, but the problem is that Toho does not have the soil."

Lin Daoqiu does not think that Matsui Naokami's investment of 200 million US dollars in the development of special effects technology is a good decision, because the movies produced by Neon Market basically cannot be sold elsewhere and can only be supplied locally.

The local movie box office will gradually be dominated by cartoons, and the special effects technology of live-action movies is unlikely to bring them a large amount of income.

However, special effects technology is the trend of future movies, so even if Toho does not make large-scale movies, it cannot do without this technology.

Even if Matsui Naokami is willing to spend a lot of money to make a blockbuster, just one movie will be enough for him, so Lin Daoqiu is not worried about what effect Toho's investment will have on them.

"You mean, Dongbao's money is going to be wasted?"

Maekawa Kiyonori asked with a puzzled look on his face.

In his opinion, as long as special effects technology is available, it will have a certain say in the future film market. After all, everyone has seen the success of "Godzilla" and "1992".

As Toho, who has participated in two special effects blockbusters, it is naturally impossible not to have this vision. It's just that Matsui Naokami did things that Matsuoka Isao didn't do before.

"How many blockbusters do you think Toho can afford to lose? You don't really think you can make money just by making blockbusters, do you?"

Lin Daoqiu looked at Maekawa Kiyonori and asked.

Maekawa Kiyonori nodded repeatedly. At present, Neon's domestic blockbuster is Dunhuang, which cost 4.5 billion to produce, but the box office results and investment are almost the same.

If Toho wants to spend around 10 billion to make a blockbuster movie, it will be very difficult to make back the money just relying on the neon market.

If things go wrong at that time, even Toho may not be able to bear such losses, so Lin Daoqiu is not optimistic about Matsui Naokami's investment move.

According to Lin Daoqiu, the most effective way for Dongbao is to cooperate with Hollywood to invest in their blockbusters. In this way, even if there is a loss, it will not lose too much, and the countries where the film will be targeted will be very wide.

But if it is a movie produced by Toho itself, it may only be limited to Neon domestic. This is a problem of vision and Neon movies themselves, and it is difficult for outsiders to understand it.

For Maekawa Kiyonori, the only way to make money is to follow Lin Daoqiu. He has no interest in participating in special effects technology or anything else. After all, this requires spending money, and a lot of money.

There is a big difference between Shochiku and Toho. The other party can spend 200 million US dollars at once, but Shochiku cannot afford such a big business. Small business is their way out.

Toei and Shochiku also have the same idea, so there won't be too many disagreements between the two of them when they join forces.

Because Lin Daoqiu was filming "Onmyoji", the atmosphere in Taiqin Film Village suddenly became very different from before.

The place where you could go freely in the past is now prohibited for ordinary people to enter and exit at will, and there are security guards guarding the door. It is no exaggeration to say that there are almost three steps and one post and five steps and one post.

But everyone can understand that after all, Lin Daoqiu's "Onmyoji" is being prepared here, and there are many secrets in it that he doesn't want outsiders to know.

A large number of reporters have already been stationed outside Taiqin Film Village, and it seems that they have made preparations to stay here permanently.

After all, when "Onmyoji" starts filming in the near future, there will be many celebrities coming and going here, and any photo taken by then can be used as news material.

At first, Lin Daoqiu thought that Taiqin Film Village should occupy a very large area. After all, it is a base specially used for film and television shooting.

But what Lin Daoqiu didn't expect was that Tai Qin Film Village only covers an area of ​​36,000 square feet, while Shaw Brothers' studio in Clear Water Bay covers an area of ​​more than 600,000 square feet, which is twenty times the size of Tai Qin Film Village.

, this is also called a film and television base?

But this can’t be blamed on Toei. After all, it took a lot of effort to set up this film and television base, and they originally only planned to use it to shoot period dramas, and never thought that it would host blockbusters here in the future.

Later, Neon once filmed a movie "Rurouni Kenshin", and the filming locations were at places of interest all over Neon, almost all over Neon.

Therefore, if Lin Daoqiu wants to finish filming "Onmyoji", he can't just stay in Taiqin Film Village and shoot everywhere.

However, at Taiqin Film Village, Lin Daoqiu still had to build some more scenes for filming, so he had people circle the area and not allow others to enter at will.

It takes two months to roughly build these things, but if they want to build them to be the same as the real thing, or to preserve the quality that lasts for hundreds of years, then it is obviously difficult for Lin Daoqiu.

He originally planned to dismantle these scenes after filming, so he was able to build these things in two months.

"Originally, I planned to finish filming "Onmyoji" here at Taiqin Film Village, but now it seems that this is almost impossible."

Taking Tomio Kuriyama and Shinji Soyomi to inspect the construction site of the studio, Lin Daoqiu felt that his previous expectations were a bit too optimistic.

If he was cooperating with Dongbao, he wouldn't need to worry about these things as there would already be someone dedicated to help him do it.

He only needed to tell the other party his thoughts, and Dongbao would naturally send people to implement all Lin Daoqiu's requirements.

It's just that this time when we switched to cooperating with Shochiku and Toei, the difficulties we faced were countless times greater than before. Just in terms of Neon's resources, there was a huge difference between the two sides.

Hearing what Lin Daoqiu said, Kuriyama Tomio and Soyomi Shinji didn't know what to say, because they didn't think that a blockbuster like "Onmyoji" could be filmed at Taiqin Film Village from the beginning.

"How are the costume preparations going?"

Lin Daoqiu assigned Prime Minister Shinji to be responsible for the costumes of "Onmyoji". In the past few days, he has been discussing with the designers how to perfectly present Lin Daoqiu's intention.

"I have been discussing with the designer these days. Their opinion is that if you want to make these costumes according to your intention, and if you have to prepare several sets for all the main characters, the budget will probably be..."

Before Prime Minister Shinji finished speaking, Lin Daoqiu raised his hand and interrupted what he was about to say.

"My request is very simple. Get what I want in good quality and quantity. Money is not an issue. Remember what I said."

"Yes, Mr. Lin..."
Chapter completed!