The GameStop Movie Is More Entertaining Than It Has Any Right to Be

The latest in pop-culture news, recaps, and reviews, plus close reads, profiles, interviews, and more from Vulture.com. [Brand Logo]( tiff 2023 [The GameStop Movie Is More Entertaining Than It Has Any Right to Be]( Is Dumb Money the first Pete Davidson role that works in its entirety? Photo: Claire Folger/Columbia Pictures The [race to bring the meme-stocking of GameStop]( to the screen began before the Reddit-fueled phenomenon even reached its peak in January of 2021. The nonfiction projects were finished first — feature doc GameStop: Rise of the Players managed to get pulled together in time to hit theaters on the one-year anniversary of the short squeeze, while a Kieran Culkin–narrated docuseries about the events was released on HBO Max two months later in March 2022. Scripted projects are slower moving and more expensive, making the stakes higher. Blumhouse and RatPac Entertainment got in the mix, while Netflix announced that homegrown hunk Noah Centineo would star in a film written by The Hurt Locker’s Mark Boal. A newly launched production company declared its intentions to make a series version called To the Moon. But the winner turned out to be Dumb Money, a movie directed by [I, Tonya](’s Craig Gillespie and starring an ensemble cast led by Paul Dano as Keith Gill — a.k.a. DeepFuckingValue, a.k.a. Roaring Kitty — the online investor whose videos and posts helped drive GameStop stock to record highs. [read more]( The Latest TV Recaps • Winning Time: [It’s Actually Losing Time]( • The Real Housewives of New York City: [Switching Teams]( • The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon: [I’m On a Boat]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( Stories We Think You’ll Like [J.Lo’s Bennifer 2.0 Album Is on the Way This Is Me … Now comes out … soon.]( By Justin Curto [In Dream Scenario, Nicolas Cage Confronts the Memes At its best, Cage’s new film works as a parable for acquiescing to other people’s reality — a conceit that gets very specific when it comes to him.]( By Nate Jones [Where Does Dark Winds Go From Here? Season two ends with a subversion of one of the series’ guiding principles — and opens up all kinds of avenues for another season.]( By Roxana Hadadi [Can You Get It Up for Dicks: The Musical? Sure, Venice had Yorgos and Bradley and Sofia, but it didn’t have what is basically The Parent Trap with more gay incest.]( [Demi Lovato Embraced the Dystopia of The Masked Singer As “Anonymouse.”]( By Jason P. Frank [Lil Wayne Performs a Fitting Song for Kamala Harris “Mrs. Officer,” at her 50 Years of Hip-Hop celebration.]( By Zoe Guy [Grimes Used Elon Musk’s Own Platform to Reveal Their Third Child Named Techno Mechanicus.]( By Justin Curto [After Three Rounds of Reshoots, Here Comes Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom Alexa, play I Get Wet by Andrew W.K.]( By Bethy Squires [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Today’s Crossword]( 1-Across, Four Letters: Olivia Rodrigo’s sophomore album. Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Getty Pretty Major at Union Hall Photo: Vulture Tomorrow at Union Hall at 7 p.m., Vulture’s comedy show, Pretty Major, will be hosted by Jay Jurden and Zach Zimmerman and feature comedy from Brittany Carney, Courtney O’Donnell, Martin Urbano, Leanne Velednitsky, and Sophie Zucker. [Buy tickets here.]( [Read more from Vulture]( A newsletter of TV and movie recommendations. [Sign up]( to get it every week. [Get the Newsletter]( [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe]( | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on email newsletters, please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, 12th Floor Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2023, All rights reserved