Think physical media is dead? Try telling that to the people who spent hundreds and hundreds of dollars on Blu-rays and box sets recently on eBay. While overall Blu-ray and DVD sales are certainly down from their peak, the aftermarket for physical media is still going very strong. In fact, the wider decline in home … Read more
86-year-old Billy Dee Williams is down to play Lando Calrissian again…provided he gets paid enough to return. Star Wars fans haven’t seen Lando Calrissian – that is, the Billy Dee Williams version – on the big screen in five years. But will we ever again? With so many Star Wars projects on the horizon, it’s … Read more
Gary Oldman says being cast in major franchises allowed him to make a lot of money while still being his with children following a divorce. Poll any 25 movie fans on what their favorite Gary Oldman performance is and you’ll get nearly as many answers (I’ll take Sid Vicious in Sid and Nancy). But one … Read more
Though rumors previously swirled about Jake Gyllenhaal potentially playing Reed Richards/Mister Fantastic in the Fantastic Four movie, it sounds like money may have stopped that from happening. A report from The InSneider states that Gyllenhaal wanted “too much money” to play Reed Richards in Marvel Studios‘ Fantastic Four movie — a situation that Jeff Sneider … Read more
Pete Davidson has bought thousands of VHS tapes, with the hope that they’ll be hugely profitable in just a few years. Everything old is new again. Just as vinyl has made a resurgence in recent years, Pete Davidson is hoping that VHS will follow a similar path… and he’s made a pretty sizable investment to … Read more
The DVD — short for digital video disc — was only brought to market in 1996, and didn’t become widely prevalent until the early 2000s. So the DVD medium has barely existed for a quarter century. Many people still use their DVD players. Even though the format has long since been eclipsed by Blu-ray and streaming, you can … Read more
Paul Dano grounds the film as Keith Gill, aka Roaring Kitty, a relatively unknown personality on the Reddit channel wallstreetbets, who became massive when he orchestrated a short squeeze against GameStop. The simplest way to explain this is that major hedge funds make a fortune off the failure of companies, essentially betting that they will … Read more
Dumb Money is a fresh, easy-to-digest movie about the GameStop short squeeze that brought Wall Street to its knees. PLOT: An amateur investor who regularly posts on YouTube and Reddit bets heavily on GameStop, only to kick off a mini-revolution where many of his followers invest in the stock, bringing it to an incredible high … Read more
A new Dumb Money wide release date has been set by Sony Pictures, moving the Paul Dano-led movie‘s debut up further from its original wide release date of October 6. What is the new Dumb Money wide release date? Dumb Money will now have a three-step platform release instead of a four-step one. The new … Read more
Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn doesn’t have much love for streaming services. Speaking at the Venice Film Festival, per Variety, Refn slammed streaming services for being “overfunded and rotten with money and cocaine.” He continued, “It’s incredibly sad and terrifying because art is essentially the only thing – besides, you know, sex, water and happiness … Read more