'Dumb Money' writers discuss their GameStop movie premiering at TIFF

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While the meme stock saga has already been put to film in several documentaries, the Toronto International Film Festival is premiering 'Dumb Money,' the first live-action, scripted dramatization of the story, starring Paul Dano, Seth Rogen, Pete Davidson and America Ferrera.

amateur investors bought mass shares of video game retailer GameStop

At their January 2021 peak, GameStop shares sold for more than US$81, compared to about $5 at the start of the month. the Toronto International Film Festival is premiering “Dumb Money,” “This movie takes you on a wild ride,” Rebecca Angelo, one of the writers and executive producers of the movie, told BNN Bloomberg in a television interview. “You can walk out of the theatre realizing – as we all do – that there are big problems, terrible economic inequality all around us, but there is hope.”

“We were baffled by what was happening, alarmed by it, intrigued and we immediately started researching it and saw it was much bigger than just about GameStop, it was actually about a movement happening,” Schuker Blum said in the interview.

 

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