is bleach episode 298 filler?

At a meeting, Lieutenant Nanao Ise announces to the Shinigami that they are going to make a movie, and said that the "lost decade" of the 90's had come and gone, and various financial crises' occurred just as people thought that things were finally starting to look up. And as people stopped spending so much money, people sought low-cost entertainment and began going to movie theaters on long vacations.

She said that the Seireitei shouldn't get left behind by that trend. Ichigo Kurosaki then asks if the Gotei 13 were that short on funds.

Rukia Kuchiki explains that they need to repair the Soul Society due to repeated emergencies.