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EXCLUSIVE: Rushi Kota (Never Have I Ever) has signed on for a role in Sony and Black Bear’s GameStop film Dumb Money, from director Craig Gillespie. He joins an ensemble that already includes Paul Dano, Seth Rogen, Sebastian Stan, Pete Davidson, Shailene Woodley, Anthony Ramos, Vincent D’Onofrio, Dane DeHaan, America Ferrera and Myha’la Herrold. 

Joe Otterson TV Reporter Elizabeth Banks and Jessica Biel are set to headline a series adaptation of the Alafair Burke novel “The Better Sister” at Amazon Prime Video, Variety has learned. “The Better Sister” is described as a thriller about “Chloe (Biel), who moves through the world with her handsome lawyer husband Adam and teenage son Ethan by her side while her estranged sister Nicky (Banks) hustles to make ends meet while trying to stay clean,” per the official description.

Jessica Biel (The Sinner) and Elizabeth Banks (Call Jane) will exec produce and star in The Better Sister, a thriller based on the novel by Alafair Burke. In a competitive situation, the project has landed at Prime Video with a series order. It hails from Tomorrow Studios, which will co-produce with Amazon MGM Studios.

EXCLUSIVE: Sandrine Holt (Daredevil: Born Again) and Corbin Bernsen (The Curse) have been tapped for recurring roles on Your Friends and Neighbors, Apple’s new drama series created by Jonathan Tropper, which is based on his original idea.

The new DC Universe by DC Studios is starting to take shape. Following Co-CEO James Gunn’s “Superman” film (formerly titled “Superman: Legacy”), due in 2025, plans for a “Supergirl” film were said to be next in line.

EXCLUSIVE: Cruella and I, Tonya filmmaker Craig Gillespie is in talks to direct Supergirl for Warner Bros’ DC Studios, we can tell you first.

Katcy Stephan “I, Tonya” director Craig Gillespie is in talks to direct “Supergirl” at Warner Bros. DC Studios.

EXCLUSIVE: Apple is expanding the ensemble cast of its upcoming series Your Friends and Neighbors with Isabel Gravitt (The Watcher, Little Fires Everywhere) and Donovan Colan (Theater Camp, Spirit Halloween, upcoming The Dogs).

EXCLUSIVE: Aimee Carrero (The Menu) has joined the Jon Hamm-led Apple series Your Friends And Neighbors in a series regular role, sources close to production tell Deadline. Details regarding her character are under wraps.

EXCLUSIVE: Mark Tallman (First Wives Club, Law & Order: SVU), Hoon Lee (Warrior, Banshee, See) and Tony winner and Grammy nominee Lena Hall (Snowpiercer, Hedwig and the Angry Inch) are set as series regulars opposite Jon Hamm in Your Friends and Neighbors, Apple TV+’s upcoming drama series from Warrior creator Jonathan Tropper and Apple Studios.

EXCLUSIVE: Amanda Peet (Dirty John) is set as a lead opposite Jon Hamm in Your Friends and Neighbors, Apple TV+’s upcoming drama series from Warrior creator Jonathan Tropper and Apple Studios. Craig Gillespie (Physical) is set to direct the first two episodes and executive produce.

Emma Stone has said that a sequel to the 2021 film Cruella is a “work in progress” in a new interview.While on the red carpet at the Palm Springs International Film Festival on Thursday (January 5), Stone spoke with Variety about the sequel to Cruella, a prequel to Disney’s animated 1961 film 101 Dalmatians in which Stone played the titular villain, Cruella de Vil. “You tell me,” Stone said, responding to a question about when the sequel will be released.

Emma Stone tells Variety that shooting for Disney’s “Cruella” sequel will begin “Hopefully sooner rather than later.” Stone, who plays the titular anti-hero Cruella de Vil in the 2021 live action prequel to “101 Dalmatians,” added that the follow up film is “a work in progress.” Stone continued to offer updates on the anticipated sequel on the red carpet for the Palm Springs International Film Festival on Thursday night. When asked about revisiting the iconic antagonist, she said, “It’s a blast. She’s a blast.

EXCLUSIVE: Following the acclaim of the comedy Dumb Money, director Craig Gillespie and Sony Pictures are reteaming on another film in where money plays a factor in the central story. In a competitive situation, Sony has acquired Daniel Casey’s untitled heist spec screenplay, with Gillespie set to direct and Plan B producing.

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.

EXCLUSIVE: It’s no secret that the independent film game is not for the faint-hearted, with the last decade seeing a number of companies and financiers collapse under the weight of the industry’s constant state of flux. But amidst the turmoil and unprecedented change, Teddy Schwarzman has been quietly building his Black Bear label into a full-fledged independent film studio. 

Dumb Money, a film that documents the GameStop big short that happened over the Covid period a few years ago. The film is due to be released on all of the home formats starting with the digital market in a couple of weeks.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.

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate has closed a U.S. deal for The Home, the James DeMonaco-directed thriller that stars Pete Davidson. The film was made be Miramax, and it screened for buyers outside competition at the 2023 Toronto Film Festival in the Industry Selects category that the festival started to highlight commercial films.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor SPOILER ALERT: This story contains major spoilers for ‘Dumb Money‘ Director Craig Gillespie knew he wanted Anthony Ramos to dance in “Dumb Money” but he wasn’t quite sure how it would work. He turned to screenwriters Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo, who came up with a sequence where Ramos’ Marcus, a GameStop cashier, would do a TikTok dance to Megan Thee Stallion’s 2020 hit “Savage,” sung by Yodie Summers. The film follows a group of amateur stock traders who take on the titans of Wall Street at the height of the pandemic in 2021.

Dumb Money has been released – check it out below.Directed by Craig Gillespie (I, Tonya, Cruella), the comedy drama is based on the true story of a group of investors on Reddit who caused the rapid rise of game retailer GameStop on the Wall Street stock markets in January 2021.The film is based on the book The Antisocial Network by Ben Mezrich, which covers the real events. Paul Dano and Pete Davidson lead Dumb Money’s ensemble cast, alongside Vincent D’Onofrio, America Ferrera, Nick Offerman, Anthony Ramos and Sebastian Stan.The film’s score is composed by Will Bates, whose previous credits include The Magicians, I Origins, Unbelievable and The Looming Tower.The official soundtrack album also features a number of tracks written for the film by other artists, including Mark Batson, Darko and Kay Ro$e.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor 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.

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). 

EXCLUSIVE: The GameStop short squeeze drama Dumb Money premiered in Toronto before hitting theaters tomorrow through Sony Pictures. I, Tonya & 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.

Michaela Zee A “Murder, She Wrote” movie is in the works at Universal Pictures, with “Dumb Money” writers Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo and producer Amy Pascal attached, Variety has confirmed. Blum and Angelo joined the project prior to the writers strike, and will not resume their work on the screenplay until the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers have reached a deal. The “Murder, She Wrote” film is among the writers’ next projects, Blum and Angelo’s representatives shared with Variety.

Air” and “BlackBerry” made the genesis of the Air Jordan sneaker and the world’s first smartphone seem weighty and epic — not to mention a lot of fun.The same cannot be said of the tedious “Dumb Money,” which premiered Friday at the Toronto International Film Festival. Running time: 104 minutes.

TORONTO – About three years ago, an underdog YouTube and Reddit personality recruited an army of retail investors that sent investment powerbrokers scrambling and changed how Wall Street viewed social media. It’s an inherently funny story because it seemed preposterous at the time (at least to the financial community), but it also occurred during a pivotal moment in global history.

Gregg Goldstein As a former child dancer, maybe it shouldn’t surprise anyone that 21-year-old Talia Ryder moved so gracefully into singing, directing and acting. But don’t make her choose just one. “I really like making things, whether that’s acting, directing, choreography or all of the above,” she says.

Dumb Money” drew parallels between the battle between Reddit investors and Wall Street tycoons over GameStop and the actors and writers strikes that are roiling Hollywood at the Toronto Film Festival premiere. “We just watched a film about the system being rigged.

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 Capraesque in the way it tells its David vs Golitath improbable 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 had its World Premiere tonight at the Toronto International Film Festival before its theatrical release later this month.

Sony’s Dumb Money fired off their TIFF world premiere tonight, and while the mega ensemble cast of Paul Dano, Seth Rogen, Pete Davidson, Shailene Woodley and more couldn’t be there due to actors strike, the pic’s director Craig Gillespie, producers Teddy Schwartzman and Aaron Ryder and scribes/EPs Rebecca Angelo and Lauren Shuker Blum were.

Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor Sony Pictures’ “Dumb Money” could be the most frightening horror movie this year, and the Oscars would be smart to embrace it. From the critically acclaimed director Craig Gillespie, his smart and at times tragic look at the GameStop stock story of 2021 entertained the audiences of the Toronto Film Festival on Friday night where it held its world premiere.

French filmmaker Claire Denis has been announced as the jury president for the Official Section of the 71st San Sebastian Film Festival, running from September 22-30.

UPDATED: Craig Gillespie’s Dumb Money, which is making its TIFF world premiere this weeekend at the fest, is still on course for a three-step platform on Sept 15 -LA & NYC, and Sept. 22, but will now widebreak on Sept. 29 instead of Oct. 6. The comedy also sidesteps Universal’s The Exorcist: The Believer.

EXCLUSIVE: Emmy-nominated actress Shailene Woodley has signed with CAA for representation.

Sony’s Craig Gillespie-directed comedy, Dumb Money, about the GameStop meme investors isn’t going wide anymore on Sept. 22. Rather, the Culver City lot has opted to go exclusive with the ensemble movie on Sept. 15 in LA and NYC, then a limited break on Sept. 22, followed by a moderate release on Sept. 29 and a final wide on Oct. 6. You’ll remember, Sony moved Kraven the Hunter off of that first weekend of October to Labor Day weekend 2024.

With the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) just a month away, the full lineup is beginning to take shape. Sure, we already know the majority of the films, but it appears the folks at the event still have one more surprise up their sleeves, as we get the announcement that “Sly” will be closing the festival.

The Toronto Film Festival is almost a month away and that means there are more films still to be announced as part of the 2023 slate. Today, TIFF revealed the 10 movies selected as part of the competition Platform program.