With the return of students and the start of the new semester, Hollywood's annual summer movie box office war has also come to an end, and despite the economic downturn, the 2007 North American summer movie box office still set a record ever.

The previous summer box office record holder was in 2004, under the bombardment of blockbusters such as "Spider-Man 3", "Pirates of the Caribbean 3", "Transformers" and "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", creating a box office record of 4.16 billion US dollars.

The position of the leader of "Spider-Man 3" is already very stable, and the next 9 players have no room to catch up, and only the summer champions of 01 ("Ha 1") and 03 ("Lord of the Rings 3") have not succeeded in topping the annual championship after the turn of the millennium, so if there is no strong opponent in the Christmas file, "Spider-Man 3" can basically determine the throne of the annual champion.

In addition to contributing two annual champions after the millennium, there are many people who can disrupt the war, not to mention the "Ha" series and the "Lord of the Rings" series, in the past six years, the Christmas file has also killed a number of powerful works such as "Monster Inc.", "Meet My Father-in-law 2", "The Incredibles", "The Legend of King Narnia", "King Kong" and "Night at the Museum", but judging from the situation in the second 4 months of this year, it seems that the films that can threaten the throne of "Spider-Man 3" cannot be picked out.

"Dark Materials: The Golden Compass" seems to be the most likely, but since it is the beginning of the magic series, it is to take "The Lord of the Rings 1" and "The Chronicles of Narnia" as a reference system, the final box office of the two is 310 million and 290 million respectively, even if an average is taken, the final harvest of "Dark Materials" may stop at about 300 million, which is difficult to pose a threat to "Spider-Man 3", "National Treasure" earns 170 million, and the sequel will not fluctuate too much, Will Smith's highest achievement is "Independence Day" of 300 million, but a few people will believe that "I Am Legend" can reach such heights, as for "Golden Age", "American Gangster", "Captain Rice", "The Hangover 2", "Charlie's War", ...... Unlikely.

From this point of view, even if the evaluation of "Spider-Man 3" is far less good than the second part, but with the strategy of controlling the enemy and the advantage of the long-suppressed viewing enthusiasm of the majority of audiences as soon as it opened, "Spider-Man 3" has ascended to the throne of this year's box office in one fell swoop, and it is a foregone conclusion that it is proud of the world.

The second part of the green monster "Shrek" series once trampled "Spider-Man 2" under its feet with an overwhelming advantage, and now the third part is only on the list with a gap of 30 million, but considering that it only uses 60% of the cost of "Spider-Man 3", "Shrek 3" can be described as a good record.

The competition between "Pirates of the Caribbean 3" and "Transformers" is extremely fierce, and the winner is only a millimeter. The unsatisfactory "Pirates of the Caribbean 3" is a bit unexpected, "Pirates of the Caribbean 2" was thunderous last year, and the jingle bell was still in front of us, and this year there is a danger of being squeezed out of the top three, not to mention the quality of the movie, many people think that Disney is a little anxious, it is really better to dry it for a year or two, and then talk about it, and now the schedule is set to divide an independent movie into two episodes. It's only been 4 years since Hackers 2/3 learned that the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise has fallen into this pit again.

"Transformers" is the darkest movie this summer, nostalgia, special effects or something is much better, only 14 million of the gap was defeated at the feet of the green monster, and now it has to compete with the Pirates of the Caribbean for the summer flowers.

The journey of "Harry Potter 5" is still continuing, and it is not yet known who will die in the box office PK with "Harry Potter 4", but the media thinks that the quality of "Harry Potter 4" is better than that of "Harry Potter 5". As the thickest movie in the original book, "Order of the Phoenix" was made, and the length of the film was only one minute longer than the shortest "Ha 3", and a large number of plot cuts and changes made it difficult to maximize the full picture of the original work, and some people even thought that the "Harry Potter" series might as well learn from "Band of Brothers" to make a TV series, so that the plot could be more displayed, and it is estimated that the effect will not be worse than now.

"Ratatouille" is about to cross the 200 million mark, but the Pixar average of 249 million is hopeless, but it is a pity that with such a high level of praise, can't a little mouse really be a chef? The phenomenon of "Simpson" is difficult to understand, technology cannot decide everything, "Sim" is a good example.

"Pro Secret Service 3" and "Die Hard 4" are both one-person movies, the difference is that the former is popular, while Bruce is trying his best to save his outdated trend, it is undeniable that both movies are good, they are both action movies that are closer to reality.

"One Night Big Belly" is a hero of small soldiers' great achievements, and a really good drama movie will be truly reflected in the box office value, "Wedding Guest" is a precedent, and this year it is the turn of "One Night Big Belly", and it is not a big problem to successfully enter the Top10.

Despite the failure of "Ratatouille", MM is still the biggest winner, two North Mi broke 300 million works, and this year North Mi is the first to have four North Mi break 300 million works, the best in film history, MM During the summer, six works hit the box office of 1.1 billion US dollars, occupying a quarter of the share, and entered the billion club ahead of schedule, and the overall championship of this year is stable.

This is 400 million away from Disney in second place, the new MM, has always shown that it is strong and strong, competing for the box office championship of global film companies, MM has become the company with the most film and television assets on the planet because of the integration of MGM and Columbia Pictures.

At the beginning, the competition for Martin's film and television assets was to compete for the largest film library and its related copyrights.

If it weren't for Mark colluding with Martin, its true value would be between 15 billion and 17 billion, such a huge transaction, it would be possible to repeatedly quote it for a few days and months, but Martin would have been sold cheaply quickly, there were no ghosts in it, and no one believed it.

However, even Martin's old club, the Morgan consortium, couldn't find out what benefits Martin had received, and instead of receiving any benefits, Martin gave away the yacht mansion when Mark got married, and even his lover gave it away, and it was Mark who got the benefits, and he didn't give Martin any substantial feedback.

Morgan came to the conclusion that Martin Davis really repaid the favor for saving his life.

In this operation, they made a profit of more than 5 billion, in line with expectations, even if they sold cheaply, they did not lose money, but made less money, Morgan was embarrassed to accuse a person who knew how to repay his kindness, not to mention that Martin won again and again in a series of subsequent investments, and everyone made a lot of money, and this little thing was not pressed.

But what has recently annoyed Morgan is that a subprime mortgage crisis is imminent, and the Davis Fund has made a lot of money, and at a time when many financial firms, consortia and banks on Wall Street are lining up to fail, he Davis Fund is struggling day by day and has a large number of futures contracts.

Martin shorted the subprime mortgage market silently and interestlessly, but he didn't know the parent company, and the subprime mortgage market is so hot, the Morgan consortium has always been the biggest promoter, to put it bluntly, this bubble is blown up by them.

Now that the market crash is imminent, they are facing huge losses, and with these futures contracts, the JPMorgan consortium will face huge losses and lose its position.

Morgan asked for guilt and called Martin: "I need an explanation. ”

Martin's voice came from the other end of the phone: "Four hundred percent returns, the highest rate of return in the world, I don't think there is anything to explain." ”

Morgan said angrily: "You actually short the subprime mortgage market?"

Martin said: "The last straw that broke the camel's back, but can a single straw break the camel's back?"

Morgan said: "As a senior executive of the company, how can you be so ignorant of the big picture? ”

"If you look at the data model and memo that I turned in in February, you'll see that it's a script, and everything happens like fate is irresistible," Martin said. ”

In fact, the company's subordinates upload a large number of data models every day every year, and there are a variety of investment plans, and an excellent investment plan is not conspicuous.

Morgan said: "We should talk, face-to-face, see you in the company in the afternoon." ”

Martin said: "I have no interest in these mundane things, as for the company's losses, it is not my fault, the root cause is greedy human nature, and the only way is to break the arm and stop the loss." ”

Morgan said: "You have been absent from the company's senior management meetings many times. ”

Martin said: "So no one will believe the truth, and only when bad luck strikes will they look for a lifeline." ”

Morgan said: "So we have a face-to-face conversation, which is very necessary to solve the gap between us. ”

"I delivered a perfect transcript and I didn't ask for a reward given the company's difficulties," Martin said. ”

"We want to hear your views on the current economy," Morgan said. ”

"I'm sorry, the financial crisis is inevitable and there's nothing I can do about it," Martin said. With that, he hung up the phone.

Morgan's face was gloomy, and he called his assistant and said, "Send someone to ask Mr. Davis to come over, don't be rude, and don't hurt our guests." ”

Schmidt, the grim-looking assistant, said, "Yes, sir." ”

If Martin is not allowed to hand over the money and futures contracts, the Morgan consortium will not be able to escape the difficulties, but I am afraid that it will end in bankruptcy, and all this financial system built by the Morgan consortium will collapse, which is unacceptable, and it is time to shear the sheep and abandon the pawn to protect the handsome.

Schmidt immediately made a phone call, a military transport plane was dispatched, and a team of heavily armed soldiers was on standby.

The military plane flew over Martin's mansion, and several soldiers jumped out in gliders and flew straight at Martin's mansion.