Chapter 454: History Changes

This past weekend, DreamWorks Animation's new film "Shrek 3" set a new record for the opening weekend box office revenue of an animated film in the North North region, becoming the third highest-grossing film in the North North region in the opening weekend, and the box office performance greatly exceeded expectations.

According to the forecast figures released by the North Mi box office statistics agency on the 20th, the film's box office revenue in the three days of the weekend was about 122 million US dollars, exceeding the 108 million US dollars in the opening weekend of "Shrek 2" in 2004, second only to the opening weekend box office results of "Spider-Man 3" and "Pirates of the Caribbean 2".

"Shrek 2" is the highest-grossing animated film to date, with a total box office revenue of $437 million in North America alone, becoming one of only three 400 million club titles (the current Pirates of the Caribbean 2 North has not broken $400 million).

Critics have criticized "Shrek 3" for its lack of creativity, its focus on subverting traditional fairy tale characters to please audiences, and its loss of innocence in traditional animated films, but these criticisms do not seem to have dampened the enthusiasm of audiences, and analysts point out that the film's box office success is also due to the lack of other major films released in the North American film market this weekend.

In the film, Shrek, Donkey, and the Puss in Boots set off to find Attie, a relative of Shrek's wife, Princess Fiona, and the heir to the throne of the "Far Away". The evil Godmother of Magic instigates Prince Charming to stage a coup d'Γ©tat for the throne, and famous fairy tale characters such as Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and Cinderella battle their wits with the Godmother of Magic and Prince Charming under the leadership of Princess Fiona.

"Spider-Man 3" dropped to second place after winning the box office twice, grossing $28.5 million over the weekend, bringing the total box office revenue of $282 million in the three weeks of the film's release in North America and a cumulative global box office revenue of $747 million.

The sci-fi film "28 Weeks of Shock", the thriller "Murder Next Door" and the comedy "Georgia's Law" ranked third, fourth and fifth respectively at the box office, grossing $5.15 million, $3.7 million and $3.5 million, respectively.

Over the past weekend, the 12 highest-grossing films in North Mi Cinemas grossed about $173 million, up 12% from the same period last year.

In the summer of 2007, the six major blockbusters dominated, the first three blockbusters are MM "Spider-Man 3", Paramount Dreamworks' "Shrek 3", Disney's "Pirates of the Caribbean 3"; they will be released in May, and at the end of June, "Transformers", "Ratatouille" and "Harry Potter 5 Order of the Phoenix" are known as the last three blockbusters, and the six blockbusters completely dominate the summer.

The summer vacation has always been the world of super blockbusters, and small-budget works have to take the lead, only looking forward to super blockbusters hitting the streets, such as the super blockbuster in 2005, and in 2006, there was the sexual impotence of "Poseidon", the impotence of "Superman Returns", and the premature ejaculation of "X-Men 3", which gave other works hope to take the lead.

But looking at this year, it's a lot of pressure, among the six main blockbusters, four are sequels to super-best-selling works, and it's impossible for Ji Tai to pounce on that, and it's "Transformers" and "Monster House" that are a little bit like hitting the streets, but their test screening of the beer is excellent, and there is no meaning to pounce, which means that those small and medium-sized adult works have no hope at all, they can only share some leftovers, and they want to make great contributions with small soldiers like last year and the year before last, and it is impossible for Ji Tai.

Nowadays, the audience's tastes are getting more and more tricky, without market verification, no one knows which movie will be a big seller, which one will not sell well, the best way is to make a sequel whenever there is a big selling movie, shoot until the audience vomits, and shoot until the audience doesn't want to watch it.

In the current movie box office market, the number of people in the cinema is growing year by year, and the income of film companies is not as good as before, like MM and Disney, which are as strong as Warner, there was no "Harry Potter" released last year, and the reboot of the masterpiece Superman hit the street again, and the box office revenue actually fell to fourth, which fully explains the uncertainty of this industry.

And the brilliance of MM depends on Mark's golden finger, once this advantage is no longer there, I don't know who will die.

Now Mark's scenery is very beautiful, and his small-cost works are still selling periods, and the billions of futures contracts he has in his hands are the key to his scenery.

Sophia resigned from the bank and became the chairman of the family foundation, and immediately the impact was not as good as before, and many people did not buy her account, but as the economic situation deteriorated, the futures contracts in their hands became a hot commodity, and her popularity suddenly rose and became the object of competition from all parties.

Many people are hoping to redeem the contract in advance, the US government and the US Federal Reserve are also beginning to bail out the market, some effective policies are being introduced one after another, in the eyes of the majority of civil affairs, the government is still effective, and the situation is beginning to improve.

But a discerning person can see that this is impossible, there are too many bubbles in the subprime mortgage market, the market of about 100 billion yuan has been speculated into 5 trillion yuan, and the government's rescue plan is so powerless in the face of this huge loss, even if the rescue is successful, there will be a large number of companies and groups unemployed, once this bubble is punctured, all kinds of lies and illusions will be destroyed, and things will inevitably get out of control.

Among the waiting bankruptcies is a "fellow" of Mark's "old acquaintances", a well-known real estate tycoon and entertainment celebrity Trump, who makes a lot of money through the entertainment show "Disciple" and packages himself as a top elite.

This real estate bear market, but all the real estate touches, have made a lot of money, this Trump Group is no exception, their market value rose to a record high, the purse has increased several times, who knows that the spring breeze changes dramatically, the stock market fell across the board, and the Trump Group also shrank to a record low, in fact, this market is all the same, why is only Trump particularly miserable? It is because they were taken by hedge funds to short, so they fell particularly badly, Trump checked, it was actually done by Mark, the guy who killed this god, he almost exploded his chest.

I have no grudges with you, Mark, why do you do this to me?

Mark's assistant told the mouth cannon king: "You're going to cut Mark's head open and study his ingredients, what's wrong with Mark doing something?"

This is because Trump said in a public conversation: "Mark may be an alien or a time-traveling person, and if his head is sliced and studied, there will definitely be evidence of this." ”

This is actually a side compliment on Mark's great achievements, and he wants to take the opportunity to take this line, but for Mark, he properly poked the scars and sore spots, so in his speculative list, he added the name of the Trump Group and slapped him hard, but this time it was a bit ruthless, and the Trump Group has reached the point of great injury, as for whether he can recover, so that he can produce Yaxing, enter the White House, and lead the people of the United States, Mark neither cares nor is afraid, and now he has a way to clean up this mouthpiece.

Because he was by Mark, the mouth cannon king said a lot of harsh things in an interview with reporters, violently accusing Mark, and wildly criticizing him as a profiteer, a vampire, and a sinister villain.

MM Group, on the other hand, is even simpler, publicly announcing with Time Warner that it will refuse to cooperate with any person or company related to the Mouth Cannon King, and the joint statement of the two major media groups has made the Mouth Cannon King's company even worse.

After the packaging of "Disciple", Trump gives people a sense of eloquence and rhetoric, but it is worth mentioning that his opponents are weak chickens who have no power to fight back, and now they meet heavyweight opponents, which is mistreated, and in the face of his only big words on TV and newspapers, Mark never responds with a word, but he has a few extremely sharp combination punches, but he beat this mouth cannon king back to before liberation.

The tycoon, who likes to put his name on his buildings, planes, and private yachts, has now quietly removed this name, and the habit of not being used to living in a house of less than 3,000 square meters and not squatting on a 24K toilet is about to be changed.

And this mouth cannon king, who is famous for his mouth work, has also tasted the taste of misfortune coming out of his mouth, and it also makes people know another characteristic of democratic society.

The king of the mouth cannon said angrily to reporters: "I have become a victim of authoritarianism, and the princes of the DPRK and the central government and the broad masses of the people dare not speak out in anger, and the right to freedom of our country has disappeared under the power of the media empire." ”

Mark still didn't bother to respond to him, I don't play with words, I just do it with real knives and guns.

Mark was really angry, the mouth cannon king was joking, but he uncovered his scars, this kind of person doesn't clean him up, it's really unknowing.

He doesn't care if he will change history, he has no obligations and responsibilities for history, as for saying that without the mouth of the cannon king, the people of the United States will lose the great leader, this is even more of a joke, every time the general election, so many people break the dog's brain to fight to the death, and strive to break through, the United States will not lack a president if it lacks anything, the mouth cannon king is still at ease to be his real estate tycoon, and it is the right thing to pay off the debt as soon as possible, don't toss around blindly.

Mark resigned as chairman of the family fund and was replaced by Sophia, at first Sophia and David took it for granted, but now it is extremely embarrassing, Mark left with near-perfect performance, not the mess they imagined, and the three billion futures contract became one of the most important assets of their foundation, which Sophia expected to achieve in ten years.

They simply sold off Citibank's portion of the futures contract and paid off the debt owed to Citibank (guaranteed by the Ronaldson family).

Now, the Wang Family Brother and Sister Foundation has paid off its debts, and part of the debts owed by the MM Group are believed to be repaid by the Ellison family first, then the Egger family, and the Wang family, which should be ten years.

Mark paid off more than 7 billion debts in two and a half years, and got back the equity pledged in the bank, which is now completely owned by their family, and they are no longer afraid of others playing tricks and collecting debts.

Mark, who has achieved brilliant results, is more low-key and modest: "The debt I owe should be paid by me, and this responsibility should not be transferred to the grafter." ”

This kind of noble mind made Sophia very impressed, and when Mark wanted to make a mouth cannon king, she did not hesitate to carry it out, in order to satisfy Mark.