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Seth Rogen and Pete Davidson’s underrated comedy film Dumb Money is making its Hulu debut this weekend. A film, though critically acclaimed and well-received, did not go to the moon but has created its place in the sphere. The film resonates with the viewers due to its humorous and insightful take on the GameStop short squeeze of 2021.

Directed by Craig Gillespie, Dumb Money is a unique story inspired by real life about an ordinary man who starts it all by sinking his life savings into the stock market. But when his social media posts start blowing up, so does his life and the lives of everyone following him. The film explored the themes of finances, class warfare, and the standardization of information in the digital age.

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Dumb Money does not have a post-credits scene, as the movie tells a complete story by the time the credits begin. Despite the lack of a post-credits scene, viewers should still honor the writers, actors, and crew members by sitting through the credits. While it's fun to imagine what a post-credits scene could have looked like, ultimately, it was the right call for Dumb Money not to include one.

The GameStop stock phenomenon is at the heart of Dumb Money, but does the movie have a post-credits scene worth waiting for? The 2023 biographical drama is not the type of movie that would typically offer audiences an additional scene after the credits that would tease a potential sequel. Dumb Money tells the true story of Keith Gill (Paul Dano) and other retail investors who started a short squeeze on GameStop's stock, causing hedge funds to lose billions. The movie unsurprisingly wraps...

Dumb Money tells the true story of the GameStop stock crisis, highlighting the rise of GameStop stock and the role of Reddit and the internet in making hedge funds lose billions. The movie features a star-studded cast, including Paul Dano as Keith Gill, Seth Rogen as Gabe Plotkin, America Ferrera as Jenny Campbell, and Anthony Ramos as Marcus Barcia. The cast also includes Vincent D'Onofrio as Steve Cohen, Nick Offerman as Ken Griffin, Pete Davidson as Kevin Gill, Sebastian Stan as Vlad Tenev, and Shailene Woodley as Caroline Gill, among others.

Dumb Money tells the true story of the GameStop stock crisis that faced Wall Street, and there is a great collection of actors assembled as part of its cast to play real-life characters. Directed by Craig Gillespie, Dumb Money follows the rise in popularity of GameStop stock that occurred in late 2020 and early 2021. The movie is centered around Keith Gill,...

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.

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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.

“You can’t make this $hit up,” declares the first trailer for the upcoming true story comedy drama, Dumb Money. Released courtesy of Sony Pictures Entertainment, and starring the likes of Paul Dano, Sebastian Stan, Seth Rogen, and Pete Davidson, Dumb Money chronicles the GameStop short squeeze from back in January 2021, which saw a ragtag collection of amateur traders bring Wall Street to its knees. Check out the first trailer for Dumb Money below.

Directed by Craig Gillespie, from a script by Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo, and based on the book The Antisocial Network: The GameStop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Amateur Traders That Brought Wall Street to Its Knees by Ben Mezrich, Dumb Money is based on the wild true story of a group of enthusiastic, fledgling investors from the Reddit page called Wall Street Bets, who banded together to put the squeeze on at...

Exclusive: As Wall Street developments unfold in real time in the David V Goliath battle between hedge funds and social media-fueled day traders that sent shares of GameStop soaring 135% on a single day, a bull market is developing for projects chronicling this unprecedented episode and its greater implications.

Deadline hears Netflix is in talks to make an untitled film that Mark Boal is in negotiations to write. He’s the Oscar winning screenwriter of The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty. Noah Centineo will be attached to play a major role — Centineo starred in the Netflix film To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before, completed the Jackie Chan-directed The Diary and will play Atom Smasher opposite Dwayne Johnson in the Jaume Collet-Serra-directed Black Adam. Scott Galloway, the activist/journalist and NYU prof and an expert on tech issues who teams on the the popular Pivot podcast, is in...