may really respond to that sentence, movies are the spiritual sustenance to escape reality.

The economic crisis in the United States has intensified, and it has rained dumplings on the Golden Gate Bridge and Brooklyn Bridge, but the North American film market has ushered in a very successful summer file.

Not only Relativity Entertainment, but also blockbusters launched by other companies have also achieved good results.

Twentieth Century Fox is certainly not one of them.

Compared with other industries, although the film industry has also been impacted, Hollywood has had a good time, at least few people have committed suicide.

"Hurry up! Hurry up!" someone in the restaurant shouted, "Someone has jumped off the building again!"

This is the restaurant on the first floor of the Relativity Building, and many people go out to see the excitement, even Ronan and Jessica Felton, who are sitting by the window, also look over there one after another.

On the building opposite the Relativity Building, you can see someone standing outside the guardrail on the top floor, and a tie fluttering in the air in the wind, like the blessing of death.

Jessica Filton put down her knife and fork, looked over there and said, "I can't think about it." ”

Ronan picked up a tissue and wiped his hands, and said, "To live is to face huge debts, the house will be taken away, the car will be taken away, and even the wife will run away." is dead, but it can be a hundred. ”

Jessica Felton grew up in this country after all and doesn't have much sympathy, and the part that is driven to jump off the building is all ambitious speculators.

Unfortunately, the results of failed speculation are often tragic.

Ronan sighed softly, "How many are you this month?"

"I can't remember. Jessica Filton shook her head slightly and said, "I heard that in the building opposite, most of them are companies that play stocks and speculate in bonds. ”

Ronan understood: "Yes, so in the face of an economic crisis, this group of people can't hold on first." ”

Jessica Felton suddenly thought of something and said to Ronan, "...... your side"

Although he didn't finish saying this, Ronan understood what it meant and said, "Don't worry. Cherish life and stay away from financial drugs. ”

"You. Jessica Filton didn't know what to say when she saw a police car stop in front of the building with a flashing siren and said, "The police are coming." ”

Ronan glanced at the police car and couldn't help but shake his head slightly.

The police in the United States have no obligation to rescue, and the more widely circulated operation is to prevent suicide from committing suicide by directly shooting and killing suicide.

The tie fell to the ground, and then the leap of faith appeared......

Ronan grabbed Jessica Felton and told her to turn her back and said, "Let's go, let's go back, it's time to go to work." ”

Jessica Felton didn't want to see the miserable scene of falling to the ground, and followed Ronan directly through the side door of the restaurant and returned to the antechamber of the Relativity Building.

Maybe there are too many people who have committed suicide recently, and there are not too many chaotic sounds outside, maybe many people are used to it.

For onlookers, in the midst of this terrible economic crisis, they may be the next to launch a "leap of faith".

This is not the first time Ronan has seen a "suicide wave" appear, he experienced it once when the Internet bubble burst.

It can only be said that the ability of Americans or families to resist risks is generally low.

The economic crisis, triggered by the real estate market and the financial industry, has finally exploded like a powder keg.

Although the Washington authorities personally came to the rescue of the market, the help to ordinary people was limited, and the real benefits still fell into the hands of the Wall Street group.

However, Wall Street has also been hit hard, and the situation of major companies is generally not good.

No one on Wall Street is immune to this environment.

But some companies survive the toughest stages and, after a lot of blood, start to reap the benefits and end up as relative winners.

Where there are winners, there will naturally be losers.

There are some companies that have come to the end of their history.

Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy after the Federal Reserve refused to provide financial support, and on the same day Merrill Lynch announced that it had been acquired by Bank of America.

AIG, the world's largest insurer, is also struggling to survive, and while the U.S. government has chosen to take over AIG to stabilize the market, it has said that it "can't help" other financial institutions.

This was only part of the outbreak of the crisis, and the stock market began to fluctuate due to the influence of the financial markets.

By mid-September, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Morgan Stanley, the two remaining investment banks on Wall Street, had to apply to the US Federal Reserve to transform into bank holding companies to avoid risks.

With the transformation of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Morgan Stanley into commercial banks, the traditional term 'Wall Street investment bank' disappeared as a historical term.

The federal government and the Federal Reserve have proposed a series of bailout packages, but they have sparked public discontent.

Ordinary Americans strongly oppose the government's bailout package, arguing that the big banks first advocated capitalist laissez-faire expansion, and now they are demanding that the capitalists of the big banks be saved by the state treasury in a socialist way, and that the people are unemployed, bankrupt and lose their houses.

This also laid the groundwork for the subsequent Occupy movement.

Unfortunately, this is a country that belongs to capital, and the movement of Occupy Wall Street does not play much role.

The capitalists of Wall Street cannot be expected to find out in their conscience, and it is better to count on Ronan to help people all over the world.

In Hollywood, although the film market has performed well this year, it has been dragged down by the economic crisis, and the stock prices of major listed companies in Hollywood are like falling on a waterfall, constantly falling, and there is no end in sight, and the market value of the six major Hollywood companies has shrunk a lot, and it is continuing to shrink.

The impact of Relativity Entertainment, which has not been listed, is relatively small, and the good news continues.

For example, after nearly four months of screening, "Avatar" has grossed $731.2 million in North America and more than $2.5 billion worldwide.

The film's box office share has been received one after another, and the box office alone has not only recouped all the investment, but also made a profit of nearly $300 million.

Since the screening is not over yet, it is not impossible to achieve a box office profit of $500 million.

But with the big hit of "Avatar", the bad things that will inevitably happen to Hollywood hit movies have appeared again.

Briant Moore, a science fiction writer from Maryland, filed a lawsuit in Maryland District Court against Disney and James Cameron for plagiarizing two of his scripts on "Avatar", suing James Cameron and producer Shahai Entertainment for breach of contract, fraud and other crimes, and filing a claim for up to $300 million in damages.

This makes people speechless, behind every blockbuster movie, there are always countless "plagiarized people".

It can't be said that all these people are fake, after all, situations like "The Matrix" and "Inception" borrowed from other works also happen in Hollywood from time to time.

Not to mention the Hunger Games.

Relativity Entertainment responded with a consistent attitude, and James Cameron was very concerned, even giving a video interview on a research ship in the Pacific Ocean: "I've seen too many people like this since the success of Terminator 2. I have long said that Avatar is my most valuable asset, a project that I have cultivated with my own hands. It took me decades from the idea to actually come up with a concept and develop it into a film. ”

It doesn't matter if it's true or not, because whether it's true or not, Relativity Entertainment will take it as true.

James Cameron is not empty words, and released draft drawings from the nineties, one of which is a sketch of the period during the shooting of the big ship, and the big tree depicted on the picture is infinitely close to the prototype of the tree of life on the planet Pandora.

In fact, Hollywood movies have developed to the present, and in any movie, if you look carefully, you can always find the plausible shadow of other works.

On the third weekend of September, the second film of Relativity Entertainment's second cinematic universe, "Horror Universe", was officially released.

"The Conjuring", directed by James Win, was released in North America in 3,560 theaters.

Because of the association of "Latent", this film has a more solid audience base than the previous one, and after the release of "Latent", the Warrens have become star-level figures.

This is beneficial, a gimmick adapted from reality, which is conducive to the promotion of "The Conjuring".

There is also a downside, with the Warrens questioning the Warrens emerging endlessly.

Many people call the Warrens two liars, because few of the cases they investigate can stand, and many of the subjects of the investigation have sued the couple afterwards, saying that they have made up a bunch of stories about themselves to make money, and several of them who have not been prosecuted have a history of drug abuse after investigation, and the testimony of such "witnesses" is not credible at all.

There is also the house in the "Conjuring" promotion, the prototype is now inhabited, and there is nothing to do.

The so-called real adaptation, the truth is only 20%, and the remaining 80% depends on the editor.

In terms of publicity, it is natural to say how advantageous it is.

Compared to "Blair the Witch" and the like, the promotion of "The Conjuring" is definitely much higher than the line of conscience.

"The Conjuring" belongs to a typical haunted house horror film, haunted house and exorcism, as the two pillars of thriller films, can be called the immortal source of horror films, and haunted houses can logically transition to ghost possession or something, which is easier to attract audiences.

In order to create the effect of "real events" adaptation, echoing the easter eggs in "Latent", and the third work that led to the "horror universe", "The Conjuring" came up and spent a few minutes to tell the more real doll of "Annabelle".

What follows is a different story entirely, and Annabelle's few minutes of "real" doll stories are used to set the stage for the "unreal" stories that follow, making them seem more real.

"The Conjuring" implements director James Winn's concept of fusing Eastern and Western horror cultures, the whole film is full of retro flavor, no plasma, no reversal, no surprise, even the grimace is blurry, only dark and enclosed space and sound effects are used to create a sense of horror more realistic, completely 70s style.

This film also paved the way for the follow-up development of the horror universe, such as the "Annabelle" doll that has been screened several times, as well as the weird music box and so on.