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House GameStop Hearing Delves Into Robinhood, Reddit And WallStreetBets Deadline 2/19/2021 Vlad Tenev, founder of retail stock trading app Robinhood, told a House Committee on Thursday that “the financial system should be open to everyone,” including frenzied buyers of GameStop and AMC Entertainment whipped up by a Reddit chatroom. He apologized profusely that a funding rule had forced the app to subsequently block share purchases – a temporary restriction that was a focus of the five-hour hearing today. The stocks fell and some Robinhood users lost their shirts. More from Deadline Te...

Documentary filmmaker Liz Garbus ’92 reflects on finding filmmaking, the power of a true story Liz Garbus ’92 initially saw herself pursuing a career in law. But as a semiotics and history student at Brown, she had long studied the ability of images to impart social, political, and emotional messages. So, inspired by the scenes she encountered working on a voter registration drive soon after graduation, she began pursuing filmmaking. Now, Garbus has multiple Emmy awards and two Academy Award nominations under her belt. Her films have covered topics from the New York Times’ coverage of T...

The Defiant Ones, Judgment at Nuremberg and Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, the 1967 film about interracial romance that was groundbreaking in its time. Netflix is the cinema vanguard recipient “for fostering a global tribe rooted in bringing all people together across various languages and continents through the power of cinema.” Robertson, a veteran journalist and author, co-founded the AAFCA in 2003 with Daryle Lockhart, Kathy Williamson and Kevin Chill Heard. The organization bills itself as the world’s largest group of Black film critics, with about 90 members who are active film...

Mariah Carey photographed on Nov. 8, 2019 at Spring Studios in New York.  'Ma Rainey' director George C. Wolfe, the Oscar-shortlisted documentary 'All In: The Fight for Democracy' and Netflix will also be honored. Mariah Carey and George C. Wolfe, director of the acclaimed film adaptation of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, are among those set to receive special awards from the African American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) at the 12th annual AAFCA Awards, which are set to be presented virtually on April 7. Carey will receive the innovator award, which will recognize her creative role in her ...

Narrative Features “The Antisocial Network” Ben Mezrich, the author of “The Accidental Billionaires” about the founding of Facebook, made a book proposal called “The Antisocial Network,” and the film rights to the proposal were swiftly swooped up by MGM. Oscar-nominee Aaron Ryder will produce the narrative feature film about Mezrich’s unwritten story. Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss are also attached to executive produce the film. RatPac Entertainment nabs WallStreetBets founder’s life rights Though there’s no writer involved just yet, the founder of the subreddit WallStreetBet...