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CREDIT: Alessia Pierdomenico/Bloomberg via Getty Images A Hollywood movie depicting the events of the recent GameStop stocks saga appears to be in the works, with film company MGM reportedly acquiring a book proposal from New York Times best-selling author Ben Mezrich. As Deadline reports, Mezrich’s book proposal, currently titled The Antisocial Network, was placed on the market at the end of last week and had been acquired by Friday night (January 29) by MGM. Nothing has been revealed spe...

1 February 2021, 3:41 am EST By Barely a week ago, the GameStop stocks have seen a significant increase, thanks to "retail investors" from the subreddit group r/WallStreetBets; now, the craze is even getting further as a film and stocks to the moon have been reported and the subreddit group becoming the fastest-growing one on the platform. (Photo : Andrew Burton / Getty) WallStreetBets, GameStop Movie First on the news is the possible GameStop and WallStreetBets movie coming soon. In a report...

Leading Off (02/01/2021) Welcome to a historic date: 2/1/21! By Zac Crain Published in FrontBurner February 1, 2021 6:13 am Rough Sports Weekend. The Mavs kicked off things by losing their second game in a row to the Utah Jazz, which featured one of the most dispiriting quarters I have ever suffered through in my many years as a Mavs fan, maybe second only to the game against the Lakers when they scored just two points. Then, they bounced back against the Suns Saturday night, looking strong fo...

Salt of the Earth Billionaires Bankroll GameStop Movie Share Filed to:ben mezrich Photo: Justin Sullivan, Getty Images To sign up for our daily newsletter covering the latest news, features and reviews, head HERE. For a running feed of all our stories, follow us on Twitter HERE. Or you can bookmark the Gizmodo Australia homepage to visit whenever you need a news fix. As soon as the GameStop short squeeze unfolded, making millionaires of youthful pirates staging a raid on Wall Street, a cabal of...

February 1, 2021 It took only a few weeks for a group of Reddit users to send GameStop’s stock soaring and throw Wall Street into a frenzy. It took even less time than that for Hollywood to decide to turn the ongoing story into a movie. Following a bidding war, MGM acquired the rights to adapt Ben Mezrich’s GameStop book proposal, The Antisocial Network, Deadline reported. Mezrich previously wrote a book about Facebook’s founding, The Accidental Billionaires, which became the Oscar-win...

Feb 1, 2021 Hollywood is already planning to turn last weeks GameStop stock trading frenzy into a movie. MGM has acquired the rights to a book proposal on the Reddit forum WallStreetBets and its run that pumped up the price of the fading game store chain. According to a Deadline report Sunday, the book planned by New York Times best-selling author Ben Mezrich will tell how the rogue day traders group shook Wall Street in a big way that isnt over yet. The book is tentatively titled The Antiso...

Two movies on the GameStop stock squeeze are already in the works, from Netflix and MGM The Reddit-led squeeze on GameStop’s stock prices has had Wall Street sweating for about a week, and there’s already a film on the situation in development. Multiple films, in fact. Reports suggest that both Netflix and MGM are developing movies based on the short squeeze. Whether either of these movies will come out before we either forget about the GameStop talk or begin to endure a total financial apo...

Update: Deadline reports that a TV series about the GameStop/Wall Street chaos called To the Moon is now in the works from a new company called Pinky Promise. Writer Noam Tomaschoff has reportedly met with “long-time, active members of the r/WallStreetBets reddit” to ensure they’re getting the details of the story correct, and the show will follow “two roommates laid off from their jobs at GameStop and AMC, who turn Covid into lemonade by using their stimulus checks to dip into the wo...

Skip to main content Currently Reading GameStop Stock Film in the Works with Script By Mark Boal, Noah Centineo Attached, Scott Galloway to Consult Angelique Jackson, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail The stock market drama surrounding GameStop is getting the Hollywood treatment. A film version of the still-unfolding social-media driven financial scenario is in the works, with a script by Oscar-winner Mark Boal (“The Hurt Locker,” “Zero Dark Thirty”). More from Variety Noah Centineo is ...

(Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images) News travels fast in Hollywood. Less than a week after the meme stock craze that gave GameStop and other struggling firms a financial boost, MGM Studios reportedly acquired the rights to a book proposal chronicling the Wall Street hubbub. Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions and Ugly Americans: The True Story of the Ivy League Cowboys Who Raided the Asian Market for Millions—will pen The Antis...