‘Dumb Money’ Scribes/EPs At TIFF Premiere Express Solidarity With WGA & Fight For Transparency
deadline.comSony’s Dumb Money fired off their TIFF world premiere tonight, and while the mega ensemble cast of Paul Dano, Seth Rogen, Pete Davidson, Shailene Woodley and more couldn’t be there due to actors strike, the pic’s director Craig Gillespie, producers Teddy Schwartzman and Aaron Ryder and scribes/EPs Rebecca Angelo and Lauren Shuker Blum were.
Angelo and Shuker Blum specified that despite the WGA strike they were present onstage tonight at Roy Thompson Hall in their capacity as EPs.
The movie which is about the common folk meme investors who profited off of the Gamestop stock surge much to the ding of the bigwig investors, based on Ben Mezrich’s novel, The Antisocial Network, had Shuker Blum beam in a post Q&A, “We’re just watched a film about the system being rigged.
It’s rigged on Wall Street, it’s rigged in Hollywood. So, we’re proud to be a part of a union that’s fighting for transparency.” “We just watched a film about the system being rigged.
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