Rebirth of Hong Kong - 1978

Chapter 2172 Movie Emperor
Xiangmi Shenji's previous filming budget was heavily deducted, and he would be worried about spending a little more money, for fear that it would affect the filming of the final film.

Therefore, his mentality at this time still maintains his previous cautious thinking, spending less if he can, and saving a little if he can.

But for Lin Daoqiu, in order to improve the quality of the film, it is not a problem for him to spend more money.

"What is the clothing budget given by Shochiku?"

Lin Daoqiu didn't have time to look at those things before, so he asked casually.

Xiangmi Shenji quickly took out the budget sheet, and then found the pre-compiled clothing budget.

"The suggestion given by Shochiku is 500 million yen."

When Lin Daoqiu heard this, he turned his head and looked at Xiang Mi Shen Er with a surprised face.

"500 million yen includes a full set of costumes for all the characters in the crew? What kind of good clothes can this make, and increase the budget to [-] million yen for me."

"One...one...one hundred million yen?"

Xiangmi Shenji stared at Lin Daoqiu dumbfounded. He never thought that the costume budget for a movie would be [-] million yen, which is too extravagant.

[-] million yen is enough for him to make a movie, and it is still a well-made movie.

But Lin Daoqiu is only using it to make clothes. Can the money be spent like this?

"Mr. Lin, is the clothing budget of [-] million yen too much? What do you think if you don't reduce it a little?"

Xiang Mi Shen Er has never been so bold. He is worried that if too much budget is compiled in the clothing budget, it will shrink in other places.

"Just do what I tell you. Remember that there is only more and less. I want to use the best clothes to present the top visual enjoyment. Money is not a problem, the problem is how to spend it well."

Naturally, Lin Daoqiu would not make concessions in this regard, he was used to Gan Gang's arbitrariness, so it was naturally impossible for Lin Daoqiu to listen to Xiang Mi Shen'er's suggestion.

The surprise of Tomoo Kuriyama next to him was not much different from that of Shinji Saomi. After all, film directors here at Neon have always had a hard time making films. Even a big director like Akira Kurosawa had no money to make films in his later years. .

Akira Kurosawa's adaptation of Shakespeare's classic "King Lear" "Ran" was only possible because of the help of George Lucas and Francis Coppola to raise the funds needed for shooting.

The film cost more than 1000 million U.S. dollars at the time of Neon, which can be said to be the film with the largest investment.

In order to achieve a magnificent effect, more than 3 cast members and 15000 horses were used in the film, and three castles built for filming were burned down.

Moreover, in order to visually achieve the effect of raging fire when burning the castle, the wood for building the castle was carefully selected and imported from abroad by Akira Kurosawa, but even so, it only cost more than 1000 million U.S. dollars. The Japanese yen is about 24 billion, and 1 US dollar is exchanged for 240 yen.

And Lin Daoqiu's "Onmyoji" is said to be an investment of tens of billions of yen.

At this time, the exchange rate of yen to dollar has reached 1 dollar to 125 yen, which has almost doubled in value, and the total investment has reached 8000 million US dollars.

However, Lin Daoqiu plans to make "Onmyoji" into three parts, one part will cost more than 2000 million U.S. dollars, so it will not be too exaggerated.

"Mr. Lin is right, just follow Mr. Lin's instructions."

Tomio Kuriyama saw what Shinji wanted to say, so he quickly stopped the other party from continuing.

After all, Lin Daoqiu is the one who spends the money, not his counterpart, Mi Shener. People can spend as much as they want, do they need him to take care of it?
I don't even look at how much Lin Daoqiu invested in making "Godzilla" and "1992", which can be said to be several times worse than those "Onmyoji".

And in the end, all those movies made a lot of money. Naturally, Tomio Kuriyama would not doubt whether Lin Daoqiu's movie would be a hit. He felt that what he wanted to watch was how much money he could make in the end.

After all, compared to them, Lin Daoqiu is a world-renowned movie tycoon. His movies are aimed at the whole world, which is very different from them who can only make movies on the Neon side.

As soon as Ami Shinji heard what Kuriyama said, he couldn't continue to persevere. After all, he was only an assistant director, but Lin Daoqiu was not only a director but also a producer and supervisor.

Basically, how to shoot "Onmyoji" is entirely up to him alone, and the others can only assist.

If he made Lin Daoqiu unhappy, Xiangmi Shenji worried that it might be difficult for him to learn the knowledge of filming from the other party.

Soon Xiang Mi Shen Er went down to ask people to re-arrange the budget of the clothing, and he had to go to those designers to talk about how to do the clothing.

I don't know which guy with a broken mouth told about the [-] million yen costume budget for "Onmyoji".

All of a sudden, media reporters reported this matter one after another, and even the TV programs began to discuss this matter.

A certain TV program invited several directors and film practitioners to discuss the topic of "Onmyoji", and the host threw this topic out at the very beginning of the program.

"Sure enough, it's still Mr. Lin. The costume budget for a play is [-] million yen, which is really amazing."

"Who says it's not? Those of us used to be able to make a movie with [-] million yen, and even with [-] million yen now, we can still make a movie with good quality."

When the host heard what the directors said, he looked at each other in shock, as if he didn't know that the production cost of the movie was so low.

"I also heard that the crew of "Onmyoji" plans to build a safe city in Taiqin Film Village, and it is said that construction has already started."

Their nonsense is quite good, and these things are just conjectures. After all, everyone thinks that Lin Daoqiu surrounded a part of Taiqin Yinghua Village for construction, and it must be for the purpose of building a safe city.

"If it was someone else, I wouldn't believe this kind of thing, but this movie is Mr. Lin's movie, I don't think it's a big deal to build a safe city, it's normal."

In the neon movie circle, Lin Daoqiu can be said to be a god-like figure. No matter what he does, he is right. There is no such thing as a mistake that will happen to Lin Daoqiu.

And these news slowly gathered together, which also pushed Lin Daoqiu's influence in Neon to a peak, and even a TV station directly crowned Lin Daoqiu with the title of film emperor.

And when Lin Daoqiu heard that the other party gave him this title, he just laughed it off and didn't express any opinions.

(End of this chapter)