Chapter 719: The Dilemma of Domestic Film Special Effects Companies

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This can be seen from the film industry, when the foreign film market began to shrink gradually, the Chinese film market was in a period of rapid improvement.

It can be said that this is an opportunity for Chinese films, but unfortunately, under the wanton attack of Hollywood blockbusters, domestic films are losing one after another.

Of course, it does not mean that there are no excellent films in Huaguo, but under the rampant Hollywood films, domestic films are weak in the foreign film market, and they can only guard the domestic market, but although the domestic market has increased significantly, domestic blockbusters are often stretched thin in the face of Hollywood blockbusters.

In fact, in the previous life, even in 2016, domestic films were still lackluster, and even many domestic blockbusters, in order to go abroad, did not hesitate to curry favor with foreign markets, but sacrificed China's own characteristics.

However, even so, it still cannot be recognized by overseas markets, so domestic films have fallen into a strange circle, often focusing on small and medium-sized costs, and there are almost no real big productions.

And Hollywood movies will also please Chinese audiences, but often just in the movie, take out one or two irrelevant characters and put on the faces of Chinese stars, and the result can be accepted by Chinese audiences, I have to say that this is a sadness.

Blockbusters are one is the market, the other is the cost, when it comes to big productions, it is difficult not to talk about special effects, but when it comes to special effects, it is often said that there must be well-known foreign special effects companies, special effects production companies of certain Hollywood blockbusters, etc., many domestic films use this to promote, but in fact, they are sent to the door to let Hollywood special effects companies slaughter them.

Often, the cost of the same special effects is much lower than that of Chinese films, and this is where the gap lies.

But to engage in a special effects company, it is really a money-burning thing, and the key is that a new special effects company, if there is no order, then it can only burn its own money.

For example, this time, "Ghost Blowing the Lantern: Looking for the Dragon" Dianjin Film and Television also had to find a Hollywood special effects company, and was slaughtered by the other party.

In fact, there are special effects companies in China, but because few people are willing to invest a lot of money, so many times, they can only do some special effects for TV dramas, but because of the length of TV series, it is impossible to spend too much money to do special effects, so they are often complained by the audience that they are five-cent special effects.

Some people say that the reason why there is no famous film special effects company in China is that capital and technology are no longer a problem, what is the problem is the environment and brains, but in fact? At least not in Ye Qiu's opinion.

Although the environment has a certain impact, in fact, the most important thing is the investment of capital and the accumulation of technology.

How did Hollywood special effects companies develop? Looking at Hollywood's special effects companies, there are often movie giants.

Hollywood's special effects companies, many times the research and development of new technologies, are directly used in orders, with the support of film giants, so that they can save a lot of money when making special effects, because these technology research and development are paid for by film companies. Special effects companies sometimes have orders that are not actually profitable, but they are still willing to accept them, because the accumulation of their own technology is a huge value.

But what about in China? And how many film companies are willing to spend a huge amount of money to hire special effects companies to do special effects?

Yes, there is, but the problem is again, film companies that are willing to spend money, they basically will not choose domestic special effects companies, but will rather send them to foreign special effects companies.

So a vicious circle has been formed, film companies that are willing to spend money, and they are unwilling to hire you, and those who are willing to invite you are just not so demanding on special effects, so how can they make great progress in technology?

The special effects of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern: Looking for the Dragon" are a little bit better, although it is said to be a big production, but in fact, it is only a big production in China, in fact, the total investment is equivalent to tens of millions of US dollars.

And "Ghost Blowing the Lantern: Looking for the Dragon" is not a film that is good at special effects, but a feature film with a good plot, so it is acceptable to be slaughtered, but next, "Transformers" is completely based on special effects, and it is polite to say that the investment in "Transformers" is at least more than 80% in terms of special effects.

The key is that in Ye Qiu's imagination, it is impossible to make only one "Transformers".

Coupled with the idea of the big movie "League of Legends" and the idea of some special effects movies, Ye Qiu is also considering setting up his own film special effects company.

But it's not enough to be a special effects company if you have money, and it's not so easy to spend money directly to build a special effects company.

As mentioned earlier, in fact, at the technical level, if you are willing to spend money regardless of the cost, you can still pile it up, but the key is that you have to have a foundation.

So the best way is to buy a movie special effects company, and then hand over the movie special effects of "Transformers" to this company to do, of course, for special effects companies, it is definitely impossible to make money by accepting orders for "Transformers", because it is necessary to develop new technologies, so it must cost a lot of money.

Fortunately, Ye Qiu is not short of money now, and there is no shortage of special effects movies to accumulate technology for special effects companies, so this is the best opportunity.

If Transformers is the expected success, then the special effects company will naturally make a name for itself.

It's just that this time is not short.

In fact, Ye Qiu has an idea, that is, it is best to bring together several domestic film and television giants to make this special effects company, once the film and television giants join, then the special effects of the films invested by their company will definitely give priority to their own special effects company.

In this way, the situation can be opened.

However, the first priority is to acquire a special effects company.

Ye Qiu asked his assistant to collect information from domestic film special effects companies, but the result was much beyond Ye Qiu's expectations.

It turns out that there is no shortage of special effects companies in China, but there are some uneven ones.

There are two companies that are more in line with Ye Qiu's plan, one is Tianying on Hong Kong Island, and the other is Hanshi in China.

These two special effects companies have produced many domestic movie special effects.

Among them, the cold stone special effects are known as the first special effects company in Asia, but the cold stone special effects have not been in a good situation recently.

The reason is the invasion of Hollywood special effects companies, and now several large Hollywood special effects companies are in Asia and have opened branches in China.

At the same price, the subsidiaries of these Hollywood special effects companies, because the parent company is well-known in the world film industry, are naturally more competitive.

As a result, under the competition of Hollywood's special effects companies, Hanshi special effects can only take on some outsourcing to barely survive.

It is also a kind of sadness, many Chinese film companies know that they hand over the special effects to Hollywood special effects companies to produce, but in fact, they are outsourced to domestic special effects such as cold stone special effects, but they are still unwilling to choose domestic special effects companies.