Since the introduction of digital games, all major retailers have struggled to survive with fewer sales of physical games. But there is a particular part of the stock market that is trying to save GameStop from losing more value. Roaring Kitty, a well-known user in this community, successfully boosted GameStop’s stock share in 2021.
Three years later, he has risen once more, propelling the company’s shares to a 74% increase. This phenomenon is called meme stock, and other companies have also gone up with this trend.
Roaring Kitty Saves GameStop Again GameStop stocks went up again after three years.
The once-giant retailer has been going through a rough patch for a couple of years now. GameStop has closed down several stores to avoid more losses. However, in recent years, they have proven to be more profitable with certain business moves, but the market value has not increased until now. This...
Three years later, he has risen once more, propelling the company’s shares to a 74% increase. This phenomenon is called meme stock, and other companies have also gone up with this trend.
Roaring Kitty Saves GameStop Again GameStop stocks went up again after three years.
The once-giant retailer has been going through a rough patch for a couple of years now. GameStop has closed down several stores to avoid more losses. However, in recent years, they have proven to be more profitable with certain business moves, but the market value has not increased until now. This...
- 5/15/2024
- by Lucas Lapetina
- FandomWire
Why wait for history to repeat itself if you can force it to yourself?
Former financial analyst Keith Gill, known as Roaring Kitty on YouTube and X and u/DeepFuckingValue on Reddit, helped to usher in the “meme stock” craze in early 2021, sending the value of shares in GameStop and AMC Theatres soaring while squeezing hedge funds that had shorted the beleaguered companies out of billions. On Sunday, he emerged from a social media retirement of almost three years to trigger another bull run on GameStop shares — but unlike the first time,...
Former financial analyst Keith Gill, known as Roaring Kitty on YouTube and X and u/DeepFuckingValue on Reddit, helped to usher in the “meme stock” craze in early 2021, sending the value of shares in GameStop and AMC Theatres soaring while squeezing hedge funds that had shorted the beleaguered companies out of billions. On Sunday, he emerged from a social media retirement of almost three years to trigger another bull run on GameStop shares — but unlike the first time,...
- 5/14/2024
- by Miles Klee
- Rollingstone.com
Earlier today, May 13, 2024, Gamestop's stock ticker symbol Gme made a crazy gain. Actually, it did a gap up in the overnight hours from Friday's close of $17.40 per share to open up at $26.34. From there, it proceeded to rally all the way up to $38.20 before the big boy shorts were able to knock the price back down to as low as 24.77. Then, the buyers were able to rally it back up into a trading range of between $32 and $29 dollars per share, and it closed at $30.45. According to a couple of sources, it was due to Roaring Kitty aka Keith Gill serving up a post on X formerly known as Twitter for the first time since June 2021. His post was a meme of a video gamer leaning forward and appearing to take the game quite seriously. Roaring Kitty was one of the major people who promoted the crazy rally of the Gme stock during the pandemic.
- 5/14/2024
- by Andre Braddox
- OnTheFlix
Shares in AMC Theatres surged 80 percent on Monday after meme stock investor Roaring Kitty resurfaced online.
Stock in parent company AMC Entertainment Holdings, led by CEO Adam Aron, ended the day up $2.28, to close at $5.19. That’s a big jump after shares in AMC tumbled in value since the cinema giant during the pandemic used its meme stock mania to raise fresh cash to stay afloat.
The latest speculative buying of AMC shares followed Roaring Kitty, also known as Keith Gill, returning online after a 3-year absence and rekindling interest in the the cinema chain’s shares. His post on X, formerly Twitter, received over 18 million views and sent shares in GameStop up $12.99, or 74 percent on Monday to close at $30.45.
The return of meme stock mania for the video game retailer effectively helped AMC ride the latest wave of retail investor interest on Wall Street. Representatives for AMC Theatres offered...
Stock in parent company AMC Entertainment Holdings, led by CEO Adam Aron, ended the day up $2.28, to close at $5.19. That’s a big jump after shares in AMC tumbled in value since the cinema giant during the pandemic used its meme stock mania to raise fresh cash to stay afloat.
The latest speculative buying of AMC shares followed Roaring Kitty, also known as Keith Gill, returning online after a 3-year absence and rekindling interest in the the cinema chain’s shares. His post on X, formerly Twitter, received over 18 million views and sent shares in GameStop up $12.99, or 74 percent on Monday to close at $30.45.
The return of meme stock mania for the video game retailer effectively helped AMC ride the latest wave of retail investor interest on Wall Street. Representatives for AMC Theatres offered...
- 5/13/2024
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Shares of GameStop and AMC Entertainment exploded Monday, up close to 80% and 50%, respectively, as Roaring Kitty, aka Keith Gill, the trader and Reddit celebrity who sparked the so-called meme stock revolution on Wall Street starting in early 2021, posted on X (formerly Twitter) for the first time in almost three years.
Gill, a former marketer for Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance, got the big screen treatment in Dumb Money, where he was played by Paul Dano. An investment advisor working at home during Covid, he researched video game retailer GameStop and saw solid fundamentals he thought weren’t reflected in the share price, and were being overlooked by the Street. Big firms in fact were shorting the stock, betting it would fall.
The film by Craig Gillespie, released in Sept. of 2023, was based on the book The Antisocial Network by Ben Mezrich.
Gill had a strong online following on Reddit chatroom WallStreetBets...
Gill, a former marketer for Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance, got the big screen treatment in Dumb Money, where he was played by Paul Dano. An investment advisor working at home during Covid, he researched video game retailer GameStop and saw solid fundamentals he thought weren’t reflected in the share price, and were being overlooked by the Street. Big firms in fact were shorting the stock, betting it would fall.
The film by Craig Gillespie, released in Sept. of 2023, was based on the book The Antisocial Network by Ben Mezrich.
Gill had a strong online following on Reddit chatroom WallStreetBets...
- 5/13/2024
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
Picture: Sony Pictures Releasing
Hollywood jumped on the GameStop saga that dominated headlines in the 2020s, with one of the biggest projects, Dumb Money, being released in theaters on September 15, 2023. Will it come to Netflix? The answer is yes, and soon for those in the United States and India who will be able to stream from late January. Others, however, will have to wait a year or longer.
Directed by Craig Gillespie, the movie tells the true story of one of the central figures behind the GameStop phenomenon that rocked the stock market and headlines for months on end. It pits Keith Gill against the rich fat cats of Wall Street and institutional investors.
Led by Paul Dano, the movie also features the talents of Pete Davidson, Vincent D’Onofrio, America Ferrera, Nick Offerman, Anthony Ramos, Sebastian Stan, Shailene Woodley and Seth Rogen.
The movie had two rollouts at theaters in the US,...
Hollywood jumped on the GameStop saga that dominated headlines in the 2020s, with one of the biggest projects, Dumb Money, being released in theaters on September 15, 2023. Will it come to Netflix? The answer is yes, and soon for those in the United States and India who will be able to stream from late January. Others, however, will have to wait a year or longer.
Directed by Craig Gillespie, the movie tells the true story of one of the central figures behind the GameStop phenomenon that rocked the stock market and headlines for months on end. It pits Keith Gill against the rich fat cats of Wall Street and institutional investors.
Led by Paul Dano, the movie also features the talents of Pete Davidson, Vincent D’Onofrio, America Ferrera, Nick Offerman, Anthony Ramos, Sebastian Stan, Shailene Woodley and Seth Rogen.
The movie had two rollouts at theaters in the US,...
- 1/7/2024
- by Kasey Moore
- Whats-on-Netflix
To celebrate the release of Dumb Money on Blu-Ray, DVD and On-Demand from 11th December, we’re giving away Dumb Money Merch Bundles including a T-Shirt, Book and Blu-Ray to 2 lucky winners!
Black Bear announces UK and Irish Home Entertainment release dates for Dumb Money, the story of fortunes won and lost overnight in the David vs. Goliath GameStop short squeeze that changed Wall Street forever. The film will be released on Est on Monday 27th November and on Tvod and DVD/ Blu-Ray on Monday 11th December.
Dumb Money is based on the insane true story of the YouTuber who brought Wall Street to its knees and got rich by turning the video-game retailer GameStop into the world’s hottest company. In the middle of everything is regular guy Keith Gill (Paul Dano), who starts it all by sinking his life savings into the stock and posting about it. When...
Black Bear announces UK and Irish Home Entertainment release dates for Dumb Money, the story of fortunes won and lost overnight in the David vs. Goliath GameStop short squeeze that changed Wall Street forever. The film will be released on Est on Monday 27th November and on Tvod and DVD/ Blu-Ray on Monday 11th December.
Dumb Money is based on the insane true story of the YouTuber who brought Wall Street to its knees and got rich by turning the video-game retailer GameStop into the world’s hottest company. In the middle of everything is regular guy Keith Gill (Paul Dano), who starts it all by sinking his life savings into the stock and posting about it. When...
- 12/3/2023
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most talked-about scripts continues with Dumb Money, directed by Craig Gillespie and penned by financial journalists-turned-screenwriters Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo based on Ben Mezrich’s bestseller The Antisocial Network.
The goal for the Columbia Pictures/Stage 6/Black Bear Pictures production was to make accessible its topic: the short-squeeze tale of GameStop stock, which in 2021 was flailing and destined to become another short-sell win for hedge funds.
That’s where Keith Gill comes in. Played by Paul Dano, he centers the movie’s Pov as he sinks his life savings into GameStop and posts about it on Reddit. HIs tips become a movement, GameStop became the first meme stock, and the hedge-funders lost billions.
Pete Davidson, Vincent D’Onofrio, America Ferrera, Nick Offerman, Anthony Ramos, Sebastian Stan, Shailene Woodley and Seth Rogen also star in the pic, which had its...
The goal for the Columbia Pictures/Stage 6/Black Bear Pictures production was to make accessible its topic: the short-squeeze tale of GameStop stock, which in 2021 was flailing and destined to become another short-sell win for hedge funds.
That’s where Keith Gill comes in. Played by Paul Dano, he centers the movie’s Pov as he sinks his life savings into GameStop and posts about it on Reddit. HIs tips become a movement, GameStop became the first meme stock, and the hedge-funders lost billions.
Pete Davidson, Vincent D’Onofrio, America Ferrera, Nick Offerman, Anthony Ramos, Sebastian Stan, Shailene Woodley and Seth Rogen also star in the pic, which had its...
- 11/24/2023
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Dumb Money producer Aaron Ryder talked Saturday about why he wanted to bring to screen the story of GameStop’s short squeeze of 2021, a financial fluke that has gone down in history as a triumph for the little guy against the behemoths of Wall Street.
Speaking at Deadline’s Contenders Film Los Angeles event, Ryder revealed he had been inspired to make the film after tirelessly following the story in real time during lockdown.
“I went deep on it, trying to understand what the short was and to educate myself,” he told moderator Anthony D’Alessandro. “I got a call from MGM [where he has a production deal], who said, ‘We think there’s a movie here.’
“What we needed was a piece of IP. There was a lot of competition. I knew we had to be first [to option Ben Mezrich’s book The Antisocial Network]. Luckily, we were, and our next task was finding the right people...
Speaking at Deadline’s Contenders Film Los Angeles event, Ryder revealed he had been inspired to make the film after tirelessly following the story in real time during lockdown.
“I went deep on it, trying to understand what the short was and to educate myself,” he told moderator Anthony D’Alessandro. “I got a call from MGM [where he has a production deal], who said, ‘We think there’s a movie here.’
“What we needed was a piece of IP. There was a lot of competition. I knew we had to be first [to option Ben Mezrich’s book The Antisocial Network]. Luckily, we were, and our next task was finding the right people...
- 11/18/2023
- by Caroline Frost
- Deadline Film + TV
The Craig Gillespie directorial venture Dumb Money is a prime example of how a movie about characters involved in technical stuff should be made. Based on the book The Antisocial Network by Ben Mezrich, the 2023 film is the story of a few retail investors who began to buy stocks of a video game store called GameStop and how that impacted the billion-dollar hedge fund managers who made their money primarily through ‘short selling’. The performances are great, and the pacing, the cinematography, and the overall setting surely remind one of David Fincher’s The Social Network. Funny that this film is based on a book with almost the same name! The casting is spot on, and with a great background score, the movie creates an atmosphere where this big fish vs. little fish fight really becomes palpable, even though the jargon might go over our heads.
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- 11/9/2023
- by Ayush Awasthi
- Film Fugitives
Shailene Woodley and Paul Dano star in Dumb Money. Dumb Money is a new film that tackles a relatively recent news story: The GameStop trading scandal of 2021. Paul Dano stars as Keith Gill, the Reddit writer and YouTuber whose online activity helped to initiate and push the scandal along. After Gill was outed as the social media catalyst for the scandal, he pretty much shut himself off when it came to interviews and such. And that, Dano says that made things a little more difficult for him when it came to preparing for the role. (Click on the media bar below to hear Paul Dano) https://www.hollywoodoutbreak.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Paul_Dano_Dumb_Money_.mp3 Dumb Money is now playing in selected theaters.
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- 9/29/2023
- by Hollywood Outbreak
- HollywoodOutbreak.com
There's nothing dumb about the latest film from Craig Gillespie, which is smart enough to know how much of the machinations of Wall Street to explain in order to grease the wheels of this true tale of the little guys taking on the big guys without gumming up the works in the progress. Also, unusually, for a Hollywood film, it is set against the backdrop of the Covid pandemic, which lends its emotional elements an extra, relatable poignancy. This coupled with a punk energy, humour at the expense of the right people and a pace that makes you want to cling on to the story, make for an entertaining gallop through a slice of modern financial history.
Keith Gill is a young dad from Massachusetts who has been gradually gaining followers for his YouTube videos about investing, not least because he...
Keith Gill is a young dad from Massachusetts who has been gradually gaining followers for his YouTube videos about investing, not least because he...
- 9/29/2023
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
In January 2021, Dumb Money producer Aaron Ryder was in the midst of a mandatory two-week quarantine in Montreal, and to pass the time, he began to track the ever-evolving situation with GameStop’s stock. The struggling video game retailer became the apple of the internet’s eye, as Redditors on the WallStreetBets subreddit and YouTube investors like Keith Gill’s Roaring Kitty (portrayed by Paul Dano in Dumb Money) were leading the Gme stock short squeeze in an effort to give hedge fund short sellers a taste of their own medicine.
Around the same time, Ryder’s company, Ryder Picture Company, had just launched and entered into a first-look deal with MGM, and as all this drama was still unfolding with GameStop’s soaring stock, the Oscar nominee became a part of the deal for author Ben Mezrich’s GameStop-related book proposal that would later become The Antisocial Network. Mezrich...
Around the same time, Ryder’s company, Ryder Picture Company, had just launched and entered into a first-look deal with MGM, and as all this drama was still unfolding with GameStop’s soaring stock, the Oscar nominee became a part of the deal for author Ben Mezrich’s GameStop-related book proposal that would later become The Antisocial Network. Mezrich...
- 9/29/2023
- by Brian Davids
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Chicago – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Scott Thompson on Wbgr-fm on September 21st, 2023, reviewing “Dumb Money,” featuring Paul Dano as Keith Gill, a rogue stock trader. Opening in theaters everywhere September 29th.
Rating: 3.5/5.0
Dano is Gill, who is a “retail stock trader” online, who hosts a live stream on the subject. The one percenters who control the stock market call these folks “dumb money.” Gill notes during the pandemic in 2020-21 that the stock of GameStop is being “shorted” by Wall Street hustlers. He buys and holds, and encourages his followers to do the same, including nurse Jennifer (America Ferrera), college student Harmony (Talia Ryder) and even GameStop clear Marcos (Anthony Ramos). When multi-millionaire Gabe Plotkin (Seth Rogen) notices this weird activity, it may cost him billions. Meanwhile, Gill, his wife Caroline (Shailene Woodley) and brother Kevin (Pete Davidson) may be getting rich.
”Dumb Money...
Rating: 3.5/5.0
Dano is Gill, who is a “retail stock trader” online, who hosts a live stream on the subject. The one percenters who control the stock market call these folks “dumb money.” Gill notes during the pandemic in 2020-21 that the stock of GameStop is being “shorted” by Wall Street hustlers. He buys and holds, and encourages his followers to do the same, including nurse Jennifer (America Ferrera), college student Harmony (Talia Ryder) and even GameStop clear Marcos (Anthony Ramos). When multi-millionaire Gabe Plotkin (Seth Rogen) notices this weird activity, it may cost him billions. Meanwhile, Gill, his wife Caroline (Shailene Woodley) and brother Kevin (Pete Davidson) may be getting rich.
”Dumb Money...
- 9/28/2023
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Dumb Money just opened in theaters but is not projected to be a big box office hit, so when will it become available to stream at home?
The biographic comedy has one of the biggest casts of 2023, including Paul Dano, Pete Davidson, Vincent D'Onofrio, America Ferrera, Nick Offerman, Anthony Ramos, Sebastian Stan, Shailene Woodley, and Seth Rogen.
The film follows a man named Keith Gill (Dano) who noticed GameStop's stock decline due to the Covid-19 pandemic and started a YouTube livestream to share his views.
Read full article on The Direct.
The biographic comedy has one of the biggest casts of 2023, including Paul Dano, Pete Davidson, Vincent D'Onofrio, America Ferrera, Nick Offerman, Anthony Ramos, Sebastian Stan, Shailene Woodley, and Seth Rogen.
The film follows a man named Keith Gill (Dano) who noticed GameStop's stock decline due to the Covid-19 pandemic and started a YouTube livestream to share his views.
Read full article on The Direct.
- 9/26/2023
- by David Thompson
- The Direct
During the pandemic, a few key events were truly collective experiences as there was little else to do but observe what was happening. One of the biggest examples was the GameStop stock situation, which sent Wall Street into a frenzy and received global news coverage for weeks on end. The whole thing has now been documented in the upcoming film "Dumb Money," which hails from director Craig Gillespie ("Pam & Tommy"). It turns out, Gillespie had an intense, first-hand experience with the whole "meme stock" saga.
The filmmaker recently spoke with People about the film, which is currently in limited release before expanding wide over the next couple of weeks. During the conversation, Gillespie explained that one of his sons actually got involved in the whole GameStop stock situation after a YouTuber named Roaring Kitty and a Reddit page called WallStreetBets got a bunch of average Joes to drive the company's stock through the roof.
The filmmaker recently spoke with People about the film, which is currently in limited release before expanding wide over the next couple of weeks. During the conversation, Gillespie explained that one of his sons actually got involved in the whole GameStop stock situation after a YouTuber named Roaring Kitty and a Reddit page called WallStreetBets got a bunch of average Joes to drive the company's stock through the roof.
- 9/24/2023
- by Ryan Scott
- Slash Film
Dano is a perfect fit as the YouTuber who took on Wall Street in I, Tonya director Craig Gillespie’s spirited underdog drama
In late 2020 and January 2021, a motley collection of small-time investors, loosely led by a nerdy YouTuber and Reddit poster who went by the name of Roaring Kitty, delivered an emphatic poke in the eye to the Wall Street elite. A flood of money and a feeding frenzy on the stock of GameStop (a struggling chain of US video game stores) inflated the share value, with brutal consequences for several multibillion-dollar hedge funds. It was billed as a bite back against the cynical practice of short-selling (essentially when a trader bets on the decline of a business) and as an event that heralded the democratisation of the stock market, hitherto a heavily fortified industry controlled by the ultra-wealthy and ultra-privileged.
Now, director Craig Gillespie tackles the subject with a vigorous,...
In late 2020 and January 2021, a motley collection of small-time investors, loosely led by a nerdy YouTuber and Reddit poster who went by the name of Roaring Kitty, delivered an emphatic poke in the eye to the Wall Street elite. A flood of money and a feeding frenzy on the stock of GameStop (a struggling chain of US video game stores) inflated the share value, with brutal consequences for several multibillion-dollar hedge funds. It was billed as a bite back against the cynical practice of short-selling (essentially when a trader bets on the decline of a business) and as an event that heralded the democratisation of the stock market, hitherto a heavily fortified industry controlled by the ultra-wealthy and ultra-privileged.
Now, director Craig Gillespie tackles the subject with a vigorous,...
- 9/24/2023
- by Wendy Ide
- The Guardian - Film News
Nick Offerman and Seth Rogan star in Dumb Money.
‘Dumb money” is what hedge fund managers call ordinary people investing in the stock market, as in “the smart money is on…” Dumb Money is highly entertaining movie based on a real thing, when those little guys turned the tables on the big investors and kept a little company called GameStop afloat – which burned some hedge fund guys who had “shorted” the stock, essentially betting it would fail.
You probably heard this story, since it was all over the news because it was so crazy, about stock in GameStop, the mall stores that sell video games, suddenly becoming hot and soaring high, to the moon, even.
Wealthy hedge fund managers calling individual “retail” investors the “dumb money” is mean but it is also kind of true. Due to their vast resources, hedge fund mangers have an enormous advantage over any small investors,...
‘Dumb money” is what hedge fund managers call ordinary people investing in the stock market, as in “the smart money is on…” Dumb Money is highly entertaining movie based on a real thing, when those little guys turned the tables on the big investors and kept a little company called GameStop afloat – which burned some hedge fund guys who had “shorted” the stock, essentially betting it would fail.
You probably heard this story, since it was all over the news because it was so crazy, about stock in GameStop, the mall stores that sell video games, suddenly becoming hot and soaring high, to the moon, even.
Wealthy hedge fund managers calling individual “retail” investors the “dumb money” is mean but it is also kind of true. Due to their vast resources, hedge fund mangers have an enormous advantage over any small investors,...
- 9/22/2023
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The song most important to Craig Gillespie’s storytelling in “Dumb Money” is Cardi B’s 2020 hit, “Wap.”
Set in 2021, the film follows a group of common-man stock traders who take on the titans of Wall Street. Music supervisor Susan Jacobs says, “We had a very particular time period where it was really important to the writers because that was the moment of GameStop.”
Paul Dano plays Keith Gill a.k.a Roaring Kitty, the family man who follows stock for a hobby and gains a huge following. Seth Rogen is hedge fund manager Gabe Plotkin, who hears about the inexplicable sudden rise in GameStop shares and aims to get to the bottom of it. Jacobs knew she wanted at least three recognizable songs. She says, “I wanted something that would set us back in Covid and that time.” Her challenge was how to design a soundtrack with a limited budget.
Set in 2021, the film follows a group of common-man stock traders who take on the titans of Wall Street. Music supervisor Susan Jacobs says, “We had a very particular time period where it was really important to the writers because that was the moment of GameStop.”
Paul Dano plays Keith Gill a.k.a Roaring Kitty, the family man who follows stock for a hobby and gains a huge following. Seth Rogen is hedge fund manager Gabe Plotkin, who hears about the inexplicable sudden rise in GameStop shares and aims to get to the bottom of it. Jacobs knew she wanted at least three recognizable songs. She says, “I wanted something that would set us back in Covid and that time.” Her challenge was how to design a soundtrack with a limited budget.
- 9/22/2023
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
If you weren’t one of the 8 million regular folks who invested in Gamestop stock two years ago as Covid raged, and you’d had enough of watching Wall Street bigwigs get richer, “Dumb Money” will explain a lot.
If you were one of those people, well, this film is all about you.
Written and directed at a breakneck pace by two former Wall Street journal reporters (writers Rebecca Angelo and Lauren Schuker Blum) and director Craig Gillespie (“I Tonya”), “Dumb Money” is one of those films that manages to tell a small, specific story of… ok, a stock price being driven sky-high for no intrinsic reason, while also drawing a vivid picture of wealth disparity in our polarized society.
“For me, it’s much larger than the stock market,” said Gillespie in a conversation just after the film’s premiere at the Toronto Film Festival. “We are living it...
If you were one of those people, well, this film is all about you.
Written and directed at a breakneck pace by two former Wall Street journal reporters (writers Rebecca Angelo and Lauren Schuker Blum) and director Craig Gillespie (“I Tonya”), “Dumb Money” is one of those films that manages to tell a small, specific story of… ok, a stock price being driven sky-high for no intrinsic reason, while also drawing a vivid picture of wealth disparity in our polarized society.
“For me, it’s much larger than the stock market,” said Gillespie in a conversation just after the film’s premiere at the Toronto Film Festival. “We are living it...
- 9/21/2023
- by Sharon Waxman
- The Wrap
Wamg is offering a second advance screening of Dumb Money on Tuesday, September 19th at 7pm at Alamo Drafthouse City Foundry 10.
Note: We suggest a 5:30Pm – 6Pm arrival to secure seats. Seats will not be guaranteed.
Enter at the link
https://events.sonypictures.com/screenings/unsecured/main/screeningInfo.jsf?code=WAMGDM912
Dumb Money is the ultimate David vs. Goliath tale, based on the insane true story of everyday people who flipped the script on Wall Street and got rich by turning GameStop into the world’s hottest company. In the middle of everything is regular guy Keith Gill (Paul Dano), who starts it all by sinking his life savings into the stock and posting about it. When his social posts start blowing up, so does his life and the lives of everyone following him. As a stock tip becomes a movement, everyone gets rich – until the billionaires fight back,...
Note: We suggest a 5:30Pm – 6Pm arrival to secure seats. Seats will not be guaranteed.
Enter at the link
https://events.sonypictures.com/screenings/unsecured/main/screeningInfo.jsf?code=WAMGDM912
Dumb Money is the ultimate David vs. Goliath tale, based on the insane true story of everyday people who flipped the script on Wall Street and got rich by turning GameStop into the world’s hottest company. In the middle of everything is regular guy Keith Gill (Paul Dano), who starts it all by sinking his life savings into the stock and posting about it. When his social posts start blowing up, so does his life and the lives of everyone following him. As a stock tip becomes a movement, everyone gets rich – until the billionaires fight back,...
- 9/17/2023
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
What happens when a group of small-time investors take on a privileged clique of Wall Street billionaires? Absolute chaos. The new movie Dumb Money, which hits theaters on Sept. 15, is a fictionalized take on the infamous GameStop saga, when the beleaguered video game chain became a meme stock thanks to a Reddit user known as RoaringKitty (played by Paul Dano).
‘Dumb Money’ is a fictionalized take on the GameStop saga
In early 2021, RoaringKitty – real name, Keith Gill – and his online compatriots banded together to execute a short squeeze of GameStop stock. The move sent share prices skyrocketing and ended up costing the hedge fund owners who’d bet on GameStop’s failure a ton of money. It also made the little guys rich (at least on paper).
The wild trading was possible in part due to Robinhood, a retail investing platform that many investors were using to buy and sell stock.
‘Dumb Money’ is a fictionalized take on the GameStop saga
In early 2021, RoaringKitty – real name, Keith Gill – and his online compatriots banded together to execute a short squeeze of GameStop stock. The move sent share prices skyrocketing and ended up costing the hedge fund owners who’d bet on GameStop’s failure a ton of money. It also made the little guys rich (at least on paper).
The wild trading was possible in part due to Robinhood, a retail investing platform that many investors were using to buy and sell stock.
- 9/16/2023
- by Megan Elliott
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Craig Gillespie’s comedy-drama Dumb Money starts its three-step platform release this weekend courtesy of Sony, opening in eight theaters in LA, NY, Chicago, DC, Boston and San Francisco ahead of an expansion next week and a Sept. 29 wide release. Gillespie (I, Tonya, Lars and the Real Girl) saw lots of love in Toronto for the premiere of his tale of meme stocks, retail traders, riches and battles won and lost. Opening week cinemas include AMC Century City and The Grove (LA); AMC Lincoln Square, Regal Union Square (NY); AMC River East (Chicago); AMC Georgetown; AMC Boston Commons; and AMC Metreon (San Francisco).
The David and Goliath story is that of a phenomenon that exploded in 2021 where ordinary people surged into the market backing specific stocks, pounded them on social media and flipped the script on Wall Street as other piled in. They turned GameStop into the world’s hottest stock for a period,...
The David and Goliath story is that of a phenomenon that exploded in 2021 where ordinary people surged into the market backing specific stocks, pounded them on social media and flipped the script on Wall Street as other piled in. They turned GameStop into the world’s hottest stock for a period,...
- 9/15/2023
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
Pete Davidson, Paul Dano in Dumb MoneyImage: Sony
If there’s one thing HBO’s Industry and the Oscar-winning The Big Short have taught me, it’s that no matter how many times characters explain the ins and outs of the stock market, I will forever remain immune to its intricacies.
If there’s one thing HBO’s Industry and the Oscar-winning The Big Short have taught me, it’s that no matter how many times characters explain the ins and outs of the stock market, I will forever remain immune to its intricacies.
- 9/15/2023
- by Manuel Betancourt
- avclub.com
Exclusive: The GameStop short squeeze drama Dumb Money premiered at the Toronto Film Festival before hitting theaters tomorrow through Sony Pictures. I, Tonya and Lars and the Real Girl helmer Craig Gillespie directed with Paul Dano playing Keith Gill, whose impassioned YouTube stock tip on the retail store for hardcore gamers drew a rabid following during the pandemic, and would up making a multimillionaire of Gill and bankrupting a major hedge fund. Shailene Woodley, Pete Davidson, Seth Rogen, Vincent D’Onofrio, Nick Offerman, Sebastian Stan and America Ferrera round out the cast of the Black Bear-funded film that Lauren Schuker Blum & Rebecca Angelo adapted from Ben Mezrich’s book The Anti-Social Network.
The Aussie Gillespie takes us through his second fact-based underdog story, which he’s mixed with Cruella, and a sequel that will start after the strike ends.
Deadline: I remember last time you had a film in Toronto, I,...
The Aussie Gillespie takes us through his second fact-based underdog story, which he’s mixed with Cruella, and a sequel that will start after the strike ends.
Deadline: I remember last time you had a film in Toronto, I,...
- 9/14/2023
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
[Editor’s note: In solidarity with the WGA strike, Rebecca Angelo and Lauren Schuker Blum are only participating in interviews arranged through personal connections like this one.]
You could say that Craig Gillespie got in on the ground floor. Sort of. During the early days of the Covid lockdown — i.e., the early days of what would become the GameStop stock phenomenon that his new feature “Dumb Money” chronicles — one of the filmmaker’s sons returned home to live with Gillespie and his wife.
“He started dabbling in the stock exchange. He was looking for opportunities everywhere,” Gillespie said in a recent interview with IndieWire. “He found WallStreetBets and started following, and he was on there for months prior to the GameStop thing. He was in it, as it was happening in real-time. He’d be around the house, like, ‘Hey, Elon Musk just tweeted GameStonk, people are freaking out. Mark Cuban just commented on it.’ So you started...
You could say that Craig Gillespie got in on the ground floor. Sort of. During the early days of the Covid lockdown — i.e., the early days of what would become the GameStop stock phenomenon that his new feature “Dumb Money” chronicles — one of the filmmaker’s sons returned home to live with Gillespie and his wife.
“He started dabbling in the stock exchange. He was looking for opportunities everywhere,” Gillespie said in a recent interview with IndieWire. “He found WallStreetBets and started following, and he was on there for months prior to the GameStop thing. He was in it, as it was happening in real-time. He’d be around the house, like, ‘Hey, Elon Musk just tweeted GameStonk, people are freaking out. Mark Cuban just commented on it.’ So you started...
- 9/14/2023
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
“A Haunting in Venice,” Kenneth Branagh’s latest cinematic take on Agatha Christie’s library of murder mystery novels, is expected to spook the box office competition.
It’s targeting a soft $13 million to $15 million in its North American debut. Those ticket sales will likely be enough to claim the No. 1 spot — unless last weekend’s champion “The Nun” ($32.6 million) enjoys a surprisingly strong second outing. “A Haunting in Venice” also opens this weekend at the international box office, where it’s tracking to earn $23 million to $28 million.
Branagh, returning as Detective Hercule Poirot, leads the cast of Disney and 20th Century’s supernatural whodunit, along with Jamie Dornan, Tina Fey and Michelle Yeoh. It’s the kind of star-studded film that could use a boost from promotional efforts by actors, who aren’t allowed to talk about their work during the current SAG strike. Sony’s GameStop stock frenzy-inspired “Dumb Money,...
It’s targeting a soft $13 million to $15 million in its North American debut. Those ticket sales will likely be enough to claim the No. 1 spot — unless last weekend’s champion “The Nun” ($32.6 million) enjoys a surprisingly strong second outing. “A Haunting in Venice” also opens this weekend at the international box office, where it’s tracking to earn $23 million to $28 million.
Branagh, returning as Detective Hercule Poirot, leads the cast of Disney and 20th Century’s supernatural whodunit, along with Jamie Dornan, Tina Fey and Michelle Yeoh. It’s the kind of star-studded film that could use a boost from promotional efforts by actors, who aren’t allowed to talk about their work during the current SAG strike. Sony’s GameStop stock frenzy-inspired “Dumb Money,...
- 9/13/2023
- by Rebecca Rubin
- Variety Film + TV
The Toronto International Film Festival is in full swing with a bevy of titles competing both for global distribution and awards prestige. The festival has had its share of lumps in the last month, losing their 28-year-sponsor, Bell Telephone, back in August, as well as being enmeshed in the on-going SAG-AFTRA/WGA duel strike. It is that strike that is the most insurmountable goal for the event, as actors and writers are unable to attend and promote their films, though some have with a SAG-AFTRA interim agreement.
And while the movie landscape is looking different, with movies switching release dates (in the wake of both the strike and Taylor Swift’s Eras tour), this year’s TIFF is showcasing what amazing movies are still being made. Here are 25 of the hottest titles to be excited for at this year’s TIFF.
Courtesy of TIFF
“Dumb Money” (Sony)
Craig Gillespie’s...
And while the movie landscape is looking different, with movies switching release dates (in the wake of both the strike and Taylor Swift’s Eras tour), this year’s TIFF is showcasing what amazing movies are still being made. Here are 25 of the hottest titles to be excited for at this year’s TIFF.
Courtesy of TIFF
“Dumb Money” (Sony)
Craig Gillespie’s...
- 9/9/2023
- by Kristen Lopez
- The Wrap
“I like the stock!”
In terms of revolutionary rallying cries, it’s no “Liberté, égalité, fraternité!” or “We will fight them on the beaches …” or “They will never take our freedom!” But by the time that Keith Gill, a.k.a. Roaring Kitty — Reddit and YouTube poster, red headband model, reluctant messiah — told a congressional committee that he’d inspired dozens of online traders to buy stock in GameStop partially because he felt it was undervalued, yet mostly because he liked it, something close to a movement had already taken place.
In terms of revolutionary rallying cries, it’s no “Liberté, égalité, fraternité!” or “We will fight them on the beaches …” or “They will never take our freedom!” But by the time that Keith Gill, a.k.a. Roaring Kitty — Reddit and YouTube poster, red headband model, reluctant messiah — told a congressional committee that he’d inspired dozens of online traders to buy stock in GameStop partially because he felt it was undervalued, yet mostly because he liked it, something close to a movement had already taken place.
- 9/9/2023
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
Six years after directing Allison Janney to an Oscar-winning performance in “I, Tonya,” Craig Gillespie returns with “Dumb Money,” another serio-comic tale based on a true story that is certain to be another major awards contender. His new Sony Pictures release, which debuted to a raucous reception at TIFF on September 8, recounts the ups and downs of the 2021 short squeeze of Game Stop stock that rattled the financial industry.
Ben Mezrich chronicled this unlikely story in his bestseller “The Antisocial Network,” and Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo have deftly adapted it for the screen. They focus on Keith Gill, the marketing professional who sank his life savings into the stock and then posted about it on Reddit. After his stock tip ignited a movement, Wall Street bankers balked and fought back.
Paul Dano, who came so close to an Oscar bid last year for “The Fabelmans,” is getting even...
Ben Mezrich chronicled this unlikely story in his bestseller “The Antisocial Network,” and Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo have deftly adapted it for the screen. They focus on Keith Gill, the marketing professional who sank his life savings into the stock and then posted about it on Reddit. After his stock tip ignited a movement, Wall Street bankers balked and fought back.
Paul Dano, who came so close to an Oscar bid last year for “The Fabelmans,” is getting even...
- 9/9/2023
- by Paul Sheehan
- Gold Derby
Dumb Money is the ultimate David vs. Goliath tale, based on the insane true story of everyday people who flipped the script on Wall Street and got rich by turning GameStop into the world’s hottest company. In the middle of everything is regular guy Keith Gill (Paul Dano), who starts it all by sinking his life savings into the stock and posting about it. When his social posts start blowing up, so does his life and the lives of everyone following him. As a stock tip becomes a movement, everyone gets rich – until the billionaires fight back, and both sides find their worlds turned upside down.
Dumb Money also stars Pete Davidson, Vincent D’Onofrio, America Ferrera, Nick Offerman, Anthony Ramos, Sebastian Stan, Shailene Woodley and Seth Rogen. Directed by Craig Gillespie, written by Lauren Schuker Blum & Rebecca Angelo, based on the book “The Antisocial Network” by Ben Mezrich.
Rebecca Angelo,...
Dumb Money also stars Pete Davidson, Vincent D’Onofrio, America Ferrera, Nick Offerman, Anthony Ramos, Sebastian Stan, Shailene Woodley and Seth Rogen. Directed by Craig Gillespie, written by Lauren Schuker Blum & Rebecca Angelo, based on the book “The Antisocial Network” by Ben Mezrich.
Rebecca Angelo,...
- 9/9/2023
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The GameStop short is one of the most fascinating events in recent history, a real-life David vs. Goliath battle that cost billions upon billions of dollars. It's a true testament to the power and effect of social media, and how one man can lead an army of willing participants all the way to the freaking moon. Naturally, such a unique and exciting story is ripe for the Hollywood treatment, so to the surprise of quite literally nobody, that movie is here. "Dumb Money," directed by Craig Gillespie and written by Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo, takes us into the world of GameStop stock through Keith Gill (Paul Dano) aka Reddit user Roaring Kitty.
Gill noticed something that nobody else did through intense research -- that GameStop as a stock was undervalued. That went against the belief of all-powerful hedge fund managers, who bet on GameStop to fail by shorting the stock.
Gill noticed something that nobody else did through intense research -- that GameStop as a stock was undervalued. That went against the belief of all-powerful hedge fund managers, who bet on GameStop to fail by shorting the stock.
- 9/9/2023
- by Barry Levitt
- Slash Film
The GameStop short squeeze of 2021, in which a new generation of online-savvy retail traders found a way to massively disrupt and break into an American stock market dominated by large hedge funds, has been recognized as a revolutionary moment for the financial industry. It’s hard to square that, though, with the cinematic treatment it gets in Craig Gillespie’s blithely conventional Dumb Money. For a story about the ability of new technology to upend traditional modes of power, the film itself is a dispiritingly outmoded affair.
The title of the film refers to the derisive moniker that retail traders are given by hedge funds—that is, that they have no real knowledge of or impact on the financial world. Chief among the retail traders involved in the GameStop saga is Brockton, Massachusetts, native Keith Gill (Paul Dano). In the real world, he’s a middle-class financial analyst and devoted family man,...
The title of the film refers to the derisive moniker that retail traders are given by hedge funds—that is, that they have no real knowledge of or impact on the financial world. Chief among the retail traders involved in the GameStop saga is Brockton, Massachusetts, native Keith Gill (Paul Dano). In the real world, he’s a middle-class financial analyst and devoted family man,...
- 9/9/2023
- by Mark Hanson
- Slant Magazine
Plot: An amateur investor who regularly posts on YouTube and Reddit bets heavily on GameStop, only to kick off a mini-revolution where many of his followers invest in the stock, bringing it to an incredible high that costs the hedge funds who shorted the stock billions.
Review: Craig Gillespie’s Dumb Money is one of those movies like The Big Short that, while entertaining, will likely leave audiences fuming at the inequality of today’s financial markets. It’s a rigged game where the little guy has very little chance against multi-billion dollar behemoths. Yet, the GameStop saga is unique in that it was a mini-market revolution that worked (for a while) and brought some power players to their knees despite using every tactic they could to rig the game.
This makes a good companion piece to Netflix’s more comprehensive documentary on the same case, Eat the Rich: The GameStop Saga,...
Review: Craig Gillespie’s Dumb Money is one of those movies like The Big Short that, while entertaining, will likely leave audiences fuming at the inequality of today’s financial markets. It’s a rigged game where the little guy has very little chance against multi-billion dollar behemoths. Yet, the GameStop saga is unique in that it was a mini-market revolution that worked (for a while) and brought some power players to their knees despite using every tactic they could to rig the game.
This makes a good companion piece to Netflix’s more comprehensive documentary on the same case, Eat the Rich: The GameStop Saga,...
- 9/9/2023
- by Chris Bumbray
- JoBlo.com
After helming a series of based-on-a-true-story projects including “Million Dollar Arm,” “The Finest Hours,” “I, Tonya” and “Pam & Tommy,” Craig Gillespie was the natural candidate to direct “Dumb Money,” Rebecca Angelo and Lauren Schuker Blum’s chronicle of the January 2021 GameStop stock short squeeze and its reverberations throughout Wall Street. But Gillespie tells Variety it wasn’t his developing pedigree in this eclectic subgenre but an experience closer to home that prompted him to take on the story of Keith Gill, aka Roaring Kitty, and the scrappy bunch of investors who rattled two hedge funds and changed investment culture forever.
“I was living it with my son, who was going through Covid with us, and he was on [the subreddit] r/WallStreetBets from early on,” Gillespie reveals. “He went through this whole drama — the highs, the lows, everything about it — so I was emotionally connected to it.”
In particular, Gillespie says...
“I was living it with my son, who was going through Covid with us, and he was on [the subreddit] r/WallStreetBets from early on,” Gillespie reveals. “He went through this whole drama — the highs, the lows, everything about it — so I was emotionally connected to it.”
In particular, Gillespie says...
- 9/9/2023
- by Todd Gilchrist
- Variety Film + TV
In January 2021, retail investors posting on the r/WallStreetBets subreddit rallied behind the nearly bankrupt GameStop video game retail chain, blindsiding professional and institutional brokers who had wagered against it. Their efforts would cost Melvin Capital – which first put GameStop in the short position – $6.8 billion and would culminate in House Financial Services Committee hearings in Washington. It’s the stuff of legend.
The saga has already spawned multiple documentaries and docuseries, including one each at Netflix, Max and Hulu. “Dumb Money,” the first dramatic take that had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on Friday, came together in an impressively short time, arriving while national headlines are still fresh in our collective memory. It also carries a level of pedigree, with “I, Tonya” director Craig Gillespie at helm of an adaptation of nonfiction work by Ben Mezrich, whose books also served as basis for “The Social Network...
The saga has already spawned multiple documentaries and docuseries, including one each at Netflix, Max and Hulu. “Dumb Money,” the first dramatic take that had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on Friday, came together in an impressively short time, arriving while national headlines are still fresh in our collective memory. It also carries a level of pedigree, with “I, Tonya” director Craig Gillespie at helm of an adaptation of nonfiction work by Ben Mezrich, whose books also served as basis for “The Social Network...
- 9/9/2023
- by Martin Aubert Tsai
- The Wrap
A lot of the young men who became stock traders in the 1980s saw themselves as rebels: the new swingers of greed. Of course, they weren’t really rebels. But it felt good to them to think of themselves that way. Keith Gill (Paul Dano), the central figure in Craig Gillespie’s smart, light-fingered, brashly entertaining finance-world docudrama “Dumb Money,” is an amateur stock trader who also sees himself as a rebel. Keith, unlike the Wall Street players, actually is trying to fight the system. But he may be nearly as caught up in illusions as they are.
The Wall Street badasses of the ’80s wanted to be cool. Keith, by contrast, is a long-haired Middle American nerd who lives in Brockton, Ma, with his wife (Shailene Woodley) and infant daughter and works for the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company. In his spare time, he posts freewheeling video rambles on wallstreetbets,...
The Wall Street badasses of the ’80s wanted to be cool. Keith, by contrast, is a long-haired Middle American nerd who lives in Brockton, Ma, with his wife (Shailene Woodley) and infant daughter and works for the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company. In his spare time, he posts freewheeling video rambles on wallstreetbets,...
- 9/9/2023
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Aaron Ryder was in a hurry. He knew other producers were chasing the GameStop story that was flooding headlines in 2021, as day traders ran up the stock for the brick-mortar store that had been shorted by several hedge funds. One single investor, Keith Gill (Paul Dano) believed the stock was undervalued and plowed his life savings into it. “You don’t even own a house!” a frustrated friend tells him in “Dumb Money” the movie adapted by former investigative reporters Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo from Ben Mezrich’s book “The Antisocial Network: The GameStop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Amateur Traders That Brought Wall Street to Its Knees,” with Craig Gillespie at the helm.
It all started during the pandemic in January 2021 when Ryder, who had built the film production division of FilmNation before new MGM chief Mike DeLuca offered him a first-look deal, was under...
It all started during the pandemic in January 2021 when Ryder, who had built the film production division of FilmNation before new MGM chief Mike DeLuca offered him a first-look deal, was under...
- 9/9/2023
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
At once a rowdy comedy and a weirdly affecting tale of working class solidarity, “Dumb Money” is perhaps the best period piece ever made about a period that just happened. The movie, directed by Craig Gillespie in full-on comedy mode, takes us all the way back to the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, when a cast of individual investors took on Wall Street with nothing but a few dollars and an unwavering sense of team spirit.
It feels almost silly to recount the broad strokes of the narrative, given how recently we all lived through it. The time was 2020. The stock was GameStop. The hero was a cat person live-streaming out of his basement. It’s difficult to imagine a viewer going into this story entirely blind. But unlike many ripped-from-the-headlines movies, “Dumb Money,” which plays like “The Big Short” for underdogs, has no trouble justifying its existence, even...
It feels almost silly to recount the broad strokes of the narrative, given how recently we all lived through it. The time was 2020. The stock was GameStop. The hero was a cat person live-streaming out of his basement. It’s difficult to imagine a viewer going into this story entirely blind. But unlike many ripped-from-the-headlines movies, “Dumb Money,” which plays like “The Big Short” for underdogs, has no trouble justifying its existence, even...
- 9/9/2023
- by Natalia Winkelman
- Indiewire
Movies about the financial markets inevitably have the same problem. It simply isn’t that visually compelling watching people stare at their computers or phones and muttering expletives. Adam McKay’s The Big Short managed to avoid the pitfall thanks to its truly memorable characters and such stylistic flourishes as having Margot Robbie explain complicated financial concepts directly to the camera while lounging in a bathtub.
Craig Gillespie’s Dumb Money, about the 2021 GameStop stock phenomenon fueled by individual investors driven by social media, doesn’t prove quite as successful. Nonetheless, the film receiving its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival proves entertaining enough, thanks to its canny screenplay relating the story as a Frank Capra-style battle between the little people and the rich bigwigs hoisted by their own petards, and the fun performances by a terrific ensemble.
Based on Ben Mezrich’s book The Antisocial Network...
Craig Gillespie’s Dumb Money, about the 2021 GameStop stock phenomenon fueled by individual investors driven by social media, doesn’t prove quite as successful. Nonetheless, the film receiving its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival proves entertaining enough, thanks to its canny screenplay relating the story as a Frank Capra-style battle between the little people and the rich bigwigs hoisted by their own petards, and the fun performances by a terrific ensemble.
Based on Ben Mezrich’s book The Antisocial Network...
- 9/9/2023
- by Frank Scheck
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The creative team behind Sony’s David-and-Goliath comedy “Dumb Money” drew parallels between the battle between Reddit investors and Wall Street tycoons over the GameStop stock and the actors and writers strikes that are roiling Hollywood.
“We just watched a film about the system being rigged. It’s rigged on Wall Street, and it’s rigged in Hollywood,” said Lauren Schuker Blum, who co-wrote the screenplay to “Dumb Money” with Rebecca Angelo, at the Toronto Film Festival premiere on Friday night. “We’re proud to be part of a union that’s fighting for transparency.”
Craig Gillespie directed “Dumb Money,” which chronicles the stranger-than-fiction frenzy between amateur investors and hedge fund billionaires that turned into the infamous GameStop stock saga in January 2021. As the story goes, a group of fiercely loyal ragtag investors on Reddit managed to band together to put a squeeze on Wall Street traders who bet that...
“We just watched a film about the system being rigged. It’s rigged on Wall Street, and it’s rigged in Hollywood,” said Lauren Schuker Blum, who co-wrote the screenplay to “Dumb Money” with Rebecca Angelo, at the Toronto Film Festival premiere on Friday night. “We’re proud to be part of a union that’s fighting for transparency.”
Craig Gillespie directed “Dumb Money,” which chronicles the stranger-than-fiction frenzy between amateur investors and hedge fund billionaires that turned into the infamous GameStop stock saga in January 2021. As the story goes, a group of fiercely loyal ragtag investors on Reddit managed to band together to put a squeeze on Wall Street traders who bet that...
- 9/9/2023
- by Rebecca Rubin and Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
It is only appropriate that Sony’s terrific new comedy Dumb Money starts with the Columbia Pictures logo. That was the studio that Frank Capra famously helped build with his movies where the little guy triumphs over the corporate bad guys. Dumb Money is positively Capra-esque in the way it tells its improbable David vs. Goliath story about how an internet geek started a movement that blew up the heretofore loser stock of shopping mall game store GameStop and became the toast of Wall Street, while bankrupting a couple of billionaire hedge funds in the process. It movie had its world premiere tonight at the Toronto Film Festival before its theatrical release later this month.
On its most basic level, Dumb Money hits on the financial frustrations of everyday Americans fed up with the billionaire class, and dreaming of a fantasy to get rich quick themselves. This phenomenon that took...
On its most basic level, Dumb Money hits on the financial frustrations of everyday Americans fed up with the billionaire class, and dreaming of a fantasy to get rich quick themselves. This phenomenon that took...
- 9/9/2023
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
Sony’s Dumb Money fired off its Toronto Film Festival world premiere Friday night, and while the mega ensemble cast of Paul Dano, Seth Rogen, Pete Davidson, Shailene Woodley and more couldn’t be there due to the actors strike, the pic’s director Craig Gillespie, producers Teddy Schwarzman and Aaron Ryder and writers/executive producers Rebecca Angelo and Lauren Schuker Blum were.
Angelo and Schuker Blum specified that despite the WGA strike they were present onstage tonight at Roy Thomson Hall in their capacity as EPs.
The movie, about the common-folk meme investors who profited off the GameStop stock surge much to the chagrin of bigwig investors, is based on Ben Mezrich’s book The Antisocial Network. “We’re just watched a film about the system being rigged. It’s rigged on Wall Street, it’s rigged in Hollywood,” Schuker Blum said in a post-premiere Q&a. “So, we...
Angelo and Schuker Blum specified that despite the WGA strike they were present onstage tonight at Roy Thomson Hall in their capacity as EPs.
The movie, about the common-folk meme investors who profited off the GameStop stock surge much to the chagrin of bigwig investors, is based on Ben Mezrich’s book The Antisocial Network. “We’re just watched a film about the system being rigged. It’s rigged on Wall Street, it’s rigged in Hollywood,” Schuker Blum said in a post-premiere Q&a. “So, we...
- 9/9/2023
- by Anthony D'Alessandro and Natalie Sitek
- Deadline Film + TV
There’s nothing stupid about the Toronto Film Festival response to Dumb Money.
The audience at Toronto’s Roy Thompson Hall laughed loud and clapped louder at the world premiere of I, Tonya and Cruella director Craig Gillespie’s new comedy about the 2021 GameStop stock squeeze.
Paul Dano stars as Keith Gill, the real-life YouTuber who took on billionaire hedge fund managers and won. Alongside Dano, Pete Davidson stars as Keith’s brother and Shailene Woodley as his wife. Seth Rogen plays Melvin Capital founder Gabe Plotkin, one of the biggest losers in the GameStop squeeze. America Ferrera, Nick Offerman, Anthony Ramos and Sebastian Stan also star.
The actors, of course, could not attend the premiere, due to the strike (Sony, a struck company, is releasing Dumb Money in the U.S.). However, director Gillespie took the TIFF stage with his fellow Dumb Money producers Aaron Ryder from Ryder Pictures...
The audience at Toronto’s Roy Thompson Hall laughed loud and clapped louder at the world premiere of I, Tonya and Cruella director Craig Gillespie’s new comedy about the 2021 GameStop stock squeeze.
Paul Dano stars as Keith Gill, the real-life YouTuber who took on billionaire hedge fund managers and won. Alongside Dano, Pete Davidson stars as Keith’s brother and Shailene Woodley as his wife. Seth Rogen plays Melvin Capital founder Gabe Plotkin, one of the biggest losers in the GameStop squeeze. America Ferrera, Nick Offerman, Anthony Ramos and Sebastian Stan also star.
The actors, of course, could not attend the premiere, due to the strike (Sony, a struck company, is releasing Dumb Money in the U.S.). However, director Gillespie took the TIFF stage with his fellow Dumb Money producers Aaron Ryder from Ryder Pictures...
- 9/9/2023
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Hollywood Reporter arts and culture critic Lovia Gyarkye shares her list of the 10 must-see films at this month’s Toronto Film Festival.
The Boy and the Heron The Boy and the Heron
How lucky for us that Hayao Miyazaki, the animation master with a gift for enchanting world-building, didn’t stay retired? The prolific Japanese filmmaker makes an exciting return with The Boy and the Heron, which opened in Japan earlier this summer. Inspired by Genzaburo Yoshino’s novel How Do You Live?, The Boy and the Heron chronicles the adventures of a young, bereft boy who discovers an abandoned tower and a persistent grey heron while exploring his new town.
Dicks: The Musical
A24’s first musical feature is a ride that, for better or worse, I’m ready to get on. Comedians Aaron Jackson and Josh Sharp play two businessmen who find out they are twins and try to reunite their parents.
The Boy and the Heron The Boy and the Heron
How lucky for us that Hayao Miyazaki, the animation master with a gift for enchanting world-building, didn’t stay retired? The prolific Japanese filmmaker makes an exciting return with The Boy and the Heron, which opened in Japan earlier this summer. Inspired by Genzaburo Yoshino’s novel How Do You Live?, The Boy and the Heron chronicles the adventures of a young, bereft boy who discovers an abandoned tower and a persistent grey heron while exploring his new town.
Dicks: The Musical
A24’s first musical feature is a ride that, for better or worse, I’m ready to get on. Comedians Aaron Jackson and Josh Sharp play two businessmen who find out they are twins and try to reunite their parents.
- 9/7/2023
- by Lovia Gyarkye
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
GameStop meme stock comedy drama to premiere in TIFF on September 8.
Sony Pictures has set a three-step September release for Dumb Money, the GameStop meme stock comedy drama and TIFF world premiere, in order to expand as early as possible before the October 13 release of Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour.
Craig Gillespie’s comedy drama starring Paul Dano, Shailene Woodley, and Seth Rogen will go on release on September 15 exclusively in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Washington DC, Boston, and San Francisco. It was previously scheduled to open exclusively in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, and DC.
A week later...
Sony Pictures has set a three-step September release for Dumb Money, the GameStop meme stock comedy drama and TIFF world premiere, in order to expand as early as possible before the October 13 release of Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour.
Craig Gillespie’s comedy drama starring Paul Dano, Shailene Woodley, and Seth Rogen will go on release on September 15 exclusively in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Washington DC, Boston, and San Francisco. It was previously scheduled to open exclusively in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, and DC.
A week later...
- 9/6/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
GameStop meme stock comedy drama to premiere in TIFF on September 8.
Sony Pictures has set a three-step September release for Dumb Money, the GameStop meme stock comedy drama and TIFF world premiere starring Paul Dano, Shailene Woodley, and Seth Rogen.
Craig Gillespie’s comedy drama premieres in Toronto on September 8 and will go on release on September 15 exclusively in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Washington DC, Boston, and San Francisco. It was previously scheduled to open exclusively in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, and DC.
A week later on September 22 the film will go into a moderate release pattern prior...
Sony Pictures has set a three-step September release for Dumb Money, the GameStop meme stock comedy drama and TIFF world premiere starring Paul Dano, Shailene Woodley, and Seth Rogen.
Craig Gillespie’s comedy drama premieres in Toronto on September 8 and will go on release on September 15 exclusively in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Washington DC, Boston, and San Francisco. It was previously scheduled to open exclusively in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, and DC.
A week later on September 22 the film will go into a moderate release pattern prior...
- 9/6/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
The time has come again for the Toronto International Film Festival. I’ve been attending the festival for fourteen years straight (although I attended remotely during the 2020 Covid-19 edition), and I’m psyched to be heading to TIFF this week to send back reviews of all the great movies I’ll be seeing. Of course, this year’s TIFF is happening under the shadow of the dual SAG-AFTRA/ WGA strikes, meaning very few stars will be walking the red carpet, and some big movies will be waiting to make their debuts until the strike is (eventually) settled.
Nevertheless, tons of big movies are still playing at the festival this year. Here are ten of my most anticipated films:
Boy Kills World:
This one wasn’t on my radar until a sales trailer leaked onto the net a few weeks ago and offered us a glimpse at director Mortiz Mohr’s dystopian action epic,...
Nevertheless, tons of big movies are still playing at the festival this year. Here are ten of my most anticipated films:
Boy Kills World:
This one wasn’t on my radar until a sales trailer leaked onto the net a few weeks ago and offered us a glimpse at director Mortiz Mohr’s dystopian action epic,...
- 9/6/2023
- by Chris Bumbray
- JoBlo.com
On the evening of 21 September at a central London location, we are screening Craig Gillespie’s Dumb Money exclusively for Empire readers.
A true-life triumph-of-the-underdog tale, Dumb Money stars the ever-brilliant Paul Dano as YouTuber Keith Gill, who whips up private investors and internet trolls to take down one of the biggest hedge funds on Wall Street. Co-starring Pete Davidson, Sebastian Stan, Shailene Woodley and Seth Rogen, it promises to be a sharp, fast, funny treat.
Not only will you be among the first to see the film (out in cinemas from September 22), there will also be a Q&a with director Craig Gillespie, the man behind the Oscar-winning I, Tonya and Cruella.
For the chance to come along, email dumbmoneyempire@ddapr.com now with your full name, and stating whether you'd like to bring a +1. It’s what the smart money would do.
(If you receive a bounce back to your email RSVP,...
A true-life triumph-of-the-underdog tale, Dumb Money stars the ever-brilliant Paul Dano as YouTuber Keith Gill, who whips up private investors and internet trolls to take down one of the biggest hedge funds on Wall Street. Co-starring Pete Davidson, Sebastian Stan, Shailene Woodley and Seth Rogen, it promises to be a sharp, fast, funny treat.
Not only will you be among the first to see the film (out in cinemas from September 22), there will also be a Q&a with director Craig Gillespie, the man behind the Oscar-winning I, Tonya and Cruella.
For the chance to come along, email dumbmoneyempire@ddapr.com now with your full name, and stating whether you'd like to bring a +1. It’s what the smart money would do.
(If you receive a bounce back to your email RSVP,...
- 9/5/2023
- by Ian Freer
- Empire - Movies
Dumb Money is the ultimate David vs. Goliath tale, based on the insane true story of everyday people who flipped the script on Wall Street and got rich by turning GameStop into the world’s hottest company.
In the middle of everything is regular guy Keith Gill (Paul Dano), who starts it all by sinking his life savings into the stock and posting about it. When his social posts start blowing up, so does his life and the lives of everyone following him. As a stock tip becomes a movement, everyone gets rich – until the billionaires fight back, and both sides find their worlds turned upside down.
Dumb Money also stars Pete Davidson, Vincent D’Onofrio, America Ferrera, Nick Offerman, Anthony Ramos, Sebastian Stan, Shailene Woodley and Seth Rogen. Directed by Craig Gillespie, written by Lauren Schuker Blum & Rebecca Angelo, based on the book ‘The Antisocial Network’ by Ben Mezrich.
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In the middle of everything is regular guy Keith Gill (Paul Dano), who starts it all by sinking his life savings into the stock and posting about it. When his social posts start blowing up, so does his life and the lives of everyone following him. As a stock tip becomes a movement, everyone gets rich – until the billionaires fight back, and both sides find their worlds turned upside down.
Dumb Money also stars Pete Davidson, Vincent D’Onofrio, America Ferrera, Nick Offerman, Anthony Ramos, Sebastian Stan, Shailene Woodley and Seth Rogen. Directed by Craig Gillespie, written by Lauren Schuker Blum & Rebecca Angelo, based on the book ‘The Antisocial Network’ by Ben Mezrich.
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- 6/27/2023
- by Editorial Desk
- GlamSham
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