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On the evening of February 24, 2008, the 80th Academy Awards was still held at the Kodak Theater, with comedy comedy and talk show host Jon Stewart as the host.

The atmosphere is like fire, igniting passion.

On the red carpet are well-dressed actresses, and on both sides of the red carpet are fanatical fans and journalists waiting for work.

This year is no different from previous ones. The judges voted for each award in accordance with the "heart".

On the Firefly side, "Juneo" won the best original screenplay, "The Edge of Society" won the best editing and best photography, and "She" won the best sound effects.

During the ceremony, the best film was silent for two years, and "The Blood Is Coming" produced by Miramax, who got rid of the shackles, was in the bag. Harvey once again accurately captured the judges' needs.

Of course, this is nothing. The only pity is that "The Dark Knight" only won the best visual technology award in the end, and even the male role of the original time and space was lost.

But at least, the fate of Heath Ledger has really been changed, hasn't it.

If he hadn't died, Oscar wouldn't really give a gold-rich award to a film that was the number one box office of the year, let alone a super-British work, adapted from a comic.

You know, comics have always been a very young culture that the youth market will love and recognize. Are there any Oscar judges under 30?Most of them are antiques living in the glory of the last century.

You count on them to praise "The Dark Knight", isn't that against their pride?

The excitement dissipated, and the Oscar organizing committee continued to pretend to be dead amidst the suspicions of the people.

At this time, Lyman got together with Liam, Francis Coppola, and Sofia Coppola.

It's nothing, it's just a relationship, and the Oscar's reputation continues to expand the copyright value of "Social Edge".

Entering March.

"Invincible Hulk" came to an end, transferred to the later stage, Zha Dao took over the directorship of "Watchmen", the film budget rose to 150 million, presumably Firefly's "trial" is still effective.

March 13th.

The Imperial Cinema in Los Angeles, midnight.

Munir Salas walked into the theater expectantly, sat in his seat, and waited for the screening of "Death Penalty".

He is a horror fan and prefers exciting movies. In recent years, Wen Ziren has been very popular among audiences for shooting such subjects.

The "Chain Saw" series and "Dead Silence" are all applauded by audiences who like horror movies. Therefore, when he shoots another horror genre film "Death Penalty", he will naturally attract fans' support.

The cost of this work is also very low, including the initial publicity, which only cost less than 20 million. The entire crew is the main creator, the director is the most popular, and the publicity stunt is mainly based on mild horror.

No way, the market for horror movies is so big, there is almost no demand for highly popular actors. Finding it will increase the risk and it is not worth it.

Munir Salas quietly waited for the feature film, and was also not interested in the cast.

Few people who watch horror movies care about actors.

After the opening of the movie, it was a fairly warm family scene. A pair of children were playing in the room while the mother was preparing lunch.

Of course, the tactics of horror movies are how beautiful they are ahead and how cruel they are when disaster strikes.

Sure enough, the scene shifted to a gold shop. A group of thugs robbed with guns, but after harvesting the money, they shot and killed the clerk and counter manager. Then they continued to search for the target to kill, and happened to break into the home of the child at the beginning of the film. After a burst of fire, under a pool of blood, these people committed their murders because they were deeply deceived by the cult.

This indiscriminate murder case quickly attracted the attention of the police, and then the perverted murderers were arrested, and newspapers reported that they were all sentenced to more than 20 years in prison.

One month later, another piece of news attracted the attention of the public, and the content was rather bizarre, that is, all the prisoners in the indiscriminate homicide case died overnight in a miserable state.

Afterwards, the protagonist of the story appeared, who had turned into a ghost's mother and a child with no grievances under her protection, and the prisoners who died were naturally her hand.

But these are just appetizers. After the murder house turns into a murder house and moves into a new owner, the frightening and inexplicable ghosts hidden in the dark night, combined with the soundtrack with appropriate benefits to set off the atmosphere, and Wen Ziren is very imaginative The powerful and scary shots made the audience who bought tickets feel the heartbeat.

The scary index of watching movies almost as rich as "Dead Silence" and the newly added exorcism system are extremely attractive to audiences who like similar themes.

In the auditorium, there are several screams from time to time. This is a compliment to the horror movie...

"Has the box office results come out?"

"Well, not bad."

In the second week of March, after midnight, "Death Penalty" quickly reaped the box office. With its incomparable schedule, it won 11.87 million US dollars in the first weekend and ranked first.

In second place is the horror film "Shutter" produced by Fox, with an account of 5.29 million.

Under such circumstances, it is certain that "Death Penalty" can return to its original form. Horror films have always served a specific audience. As long as the quality is decent, it is easy to make a profit, but it is difficult to make a lot of money. It can be regarded as a low-risk theme.

However, 2008 is far from the time to focus on a few low-cost movies. In addition to the entertainment section, the media reported a little bit. There is some enthusiasm on the Internet, and everyone is still paying attention to the financial market.

In March, Bear Stearns was hit by volatility in the subprime mortgage market.

This company is one of the five largest investment banks on Wall Street. Although it is the smallest, it has a fierce behavior. It often uses extremely high leverage to enter and exit amidst large fluctuations in the market to earn assets.

In addition, Bear Stearns only recognizes money but not people, and works independently. During the reorganization of the Long-Term Capital Management Company (LTCM) in 1998, Bear Stearns withstood the pressure and rejected the LTCM's proportional fund purchase plan alone. Therefore, it is hostile to Wall Street.

It is difficult to know whether there are any "peers" behind it at this time, because Bear Stearns has focused on the development of mortgage-related businesses as a strategic direction since the year before last.

Therefore, although Bear Stearns ranks last among the top five investment banks, the undertaking volume of mortgage-backed securities is always among the top three.Correspondingly, this business has contributed half of the company's profits in previous years.

It is a pity that in times of crisis, the high proportion of mortgage business has become Bear Stearns' weakness.

At this time, Bear Stearns' debt ratio was as high as 97.24%. In other words, only a small drop in the value of the mortgage securities it held could consume all of his net assets.

Then, internal news came. Many media began to report that Bear Stearns had liquidity problems. Panic spread quickly along with rumors.

Originally, Bear Stearns would never collapse like this, but it spread like this. Even if Bear Stearns still holds 18 billion in cash and highly liquid securities, it is still quickly sunk by the storm, because The market has lost trust in it.

Immediately afterwards, Bear Stearns appealed to the Fed for help while clarifying to the market to boost confidence.But the market was unmoved, and a large number of businesses were run on. What's more, Goldman Sachs immediately rejected a normal transaction from Bear Stearns, and the rumors immediately became well-founded.

On Wednesday, the 12th, the repo market was closed to Bear Stearns.

By Thursday night, Bear Stearns had only two billion dollars left in his hands.

Then, Bear Stearns was taken over by ****, and part of the debt was borne by the Federal Reserve...