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This article contains Saltburn spoilers.

It’s strange times when the biggest streaming hit during the past holiday season was neither a family film nor a starry blockbuster filled with A-listers like Daniel Craig and Jennifer Lawrence. Instead the one experience this writer heard about time and again during the extended holiday break was of families gathering around and sharing a good old cringe as Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn played on.

Released briefly in theaters last November (where it barely grossed $20 million worldwide), this even pervier riff on The Talented Mr. Ripley didn’t truly come into its own until distributor MGM put Saltburn on Amazon Prime Video on Dec. 22. Right in time for Christmas. There’s of course plenty for the whole family to enjoy: Barry Keoghan dancing nude and free around a mansion like Gen Z’s own twisted version of Risky Business; the same actor getting intimate...

Sebastian Stan is set to portray a young Donald Trump in the film The Apprentice. The film will delve into Trump's relationship with attorney Roy Cohn and chart the origins of a major American dynasty, presenting a mentor-protege story. The screenplay for The Apprentice is written by Gabriel Sherman, known for his novel and TV series "The Loudest Voice in the Room."

Sebastian Stan is Donald Trump in the first set of images from the upcoming movie, The Apprentice. The Pam & Tommy star is set to portray the real estate mogul turned American President for Ali Abassi's The Apprentice.The film also stars Jeremy Strong as attorney and Trump mentor Roy Cohn and Maria Bakalova as Trump's first wife, Ivana Trump. According to Deadline, who first reported the casting news, Stan will star as a young Donald Trump as he endeavors to build his real estate business, and Page...

Director Gareth Edwards is open to the idea of making a sequel to "The Creator" but emphasizes that he originally intended the film to be a self-contained story. Edwards enjoys crafting endings and believes that the ending of a story is the most important part. While a direct follow-up may not be on the horizon, Edwards could explore different narratives within the same sci-fi world he has created.

Director Gareth Edwards has addressed whether he would be interested in making a sequel to this month’s sci-fi epic, The Creator. The filmmaker states that, while he has always envisioned The Creator to be standalone, he could be tempted to return to the complex world shared by humans and AI that he has created.

“We had a lot of material. We shot a lot. And okay, so look, I would love to go back to this world. There are so many...

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,...

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,...

Director Craig Gillespie’s last feature that premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, I, Tonya, garnered a few Academy Award nominations and even took one home. This year, the filmmaker returned to the festival for another highly anticipated movie, Dumb Money, starring Paul Dano and Seth Rogen. Following the screening, Collider’s Steve Weintraub spoke with Gillespie about helming this timely biopic and how he managed to condense it into an outrageous, digestible riot.

Director Craig Gillespie has been in the film business for decades, but only in recent years has he seemingly stumbled onto his calling: lively retellings of “stranger than fiction” real-world stories. The kind of tales that grabbed the front pages of tabloids and newspapers alike seem to be up his alley. For years, Gillespie was a journeyman filmmaker with some acclaimed titles under his belt (namely Lars and the Real Girl) but was largely most well-known for being a go-to director for Disney movies. Between Fright Night, Million Dollar Arm, The Finest Hours, and Cruella, he could deliver it all. However, I, Tonya in 2017 provided Gillespie with his most acclaimed enterprise to date, and he found a new calling. It was time to embrace stories about unbelievable human behavior, usually with a crime element in tow.

One of my favorite current directors is Craig Gillespie. He’s had an interesting career, with him directing the very underrated remake of Fright Night before taking a detour into big-budget fare with the Chris Pine vehicle Finest Hours. However, his career took off when he helmed I, Tonya in 2017. A darkly comic but empathetic look at the Tonya Harding scandal, the movie helped Margot Robbie breakthrough as a major star. Gillespie adopted the same technique he used for that movie to the Disney 101 Dalmatians spin-off, Cruella, which, despite coming out at the height of the pandemic, still made over $200 million at the box office.

Gillespie’s since juggled work on the big screen with the small screen, having recently directed Pam & Tommy and Mike for Hulu, which stuck pretty closely to the I, Tonya formula. Now, Gillespie’s back on the big screen with Dumb Money, a funny take on the GameStop saga,...

Exclusive: As his latest film Dumb Money heads into wider release Friday, Craig Gillespie has moved to CAA for representation in all areas. Following in the footsteps of his acclaimed film I, Tonya, about the controversial Olympic skater Tonya Harding, Dumb Money turns the GameStop stock saga into another underdog story with propulsive drama and comedic moments.

Gillespie, who had been at UTA, directed and produced Sony and Black Bear feature Dumb Money, which premiered this month at the Toronto Film Festival to great critical and audience acclaim, opened September 15 in limited release and is set to go wide September 29. The pic will continue screening throughout the global festival circuit at the San Sebastian International Film Festival and the Zurich Film Festival in the weeks ahead.

Scripted by Lauren Blum and Rebecca Angelo, Dumb money stars Paul Dano, Seth Rogen, Nick Offerman, Pete Davidson, Sebastian Stan, Shailene Woodley, America Ferrera,...

The film world is waiting with bated breath to hear details about Quentin Tarantino’s tenth and final film, The Movie Critic. It was reported earlier that just prior to the SAG-AFTRA strikes, Tarantino had offered the lead role to Paul Walter Hauser from such films as Richard Jewell and I, Tonya. It was also recently said that the Once Upon a Time in Hollywood director had secured a generous tax credit from the state of California with $20 million for his swan song.

Total Film is now reporting that Tarantino, who is keen on working with his past actors, will be reuniting with his Pulp Fiction star, John Travolta, on The Movie Critic. The Ankler’s Jeff Sneider broke the story on social media with a tweet that reads, “I hear Tarantino is saving a role in his final film The Movie Critic for two of his former leading men.

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,...

As has become standard in recent years, our annual fall and winter film preview comes with something of an asterisk: it’s (another!) unpredictable time for movies, right down to when we might even expect to see them. With both the WGA and SAG-afra strikes still winding on, everything from production to promotion has been disrupted for many new features, and the entire calendar remains in flux.

And yet, even with those very valid concerns in place, the next three months at the multiplex (and beyond) offer a bounty of exciting new films. We’re talking new films from Martin Scorsese, Pablo Larraín, Sofia Coppola, Todd Haynes, Emerald Fennell, David Fincher, Jonathan Glazer, Taika Waititi, Justine Triet, Wes Anderson, and Yorgos Lanthimos. Jeff Nichols is back, as is Godfrey Reggio and the juicy stars of “Chicken Run.” Festival faves like Christos Nikou, Kristoffer Borgli, and Chloe Domont make a play for further dominance.