Netflix Is Making a Movie About the GameStop Short Squeeze
For weeks, the business world has been focused on one place: A down-on-its-luck video game retailer whose stock had suddenly become the most-traded on Wall Street. After hedge funds and professional brokers sold GameStop stocks short (basically betting that the stock would continue to fall amidst the difficulties in the retail industry during the coronavirus pandemic), smaller online traders sent the company’s stock skyrocketing by buying up shares and options. Earlier this year, GameStop’s stock hit a low of $2.57. During this so-called “short squeeze” where those who’ve shorted a stock need to buy up shares at a high price to cover their losses, which then pushes prices even higher GameStop’s stock was at one point trading as high as $483 a share.
No Time To Die , Black Widow , Mission: Impossible 7 : Most-anticipated Hollywood films of 2021
The Hollywood calendar of the year comes packed with big blockbusters including Scarlett Johansson s solo superhero outing Black Widow and more.
DNA Web Team
Jan 30, 2021, 03:33 PM IST
When it comes to Hollywood, 2021 is going to be a year of superheroes, reboots and follow-ups on the big screen and, of course, James Bond.
The Hollywood calendar of the year comes packed with big blockbusters including Scarlett Johansson s solo superhero outing Black Widow , Dwayne Johnson adventure Jungle Cruise , Marvel s latest superhero genre addition Eternals , Tom Cruise s new Top Gun sequel and Daniel Craig s final outing as James Bond, No Time To Die .
How’s 2021 been treating you? If you’ve been looking around, it looks a lot like 2020, no matter what people try to tell you. When it comes to movies, well, that’s a whole other story.
Thanks to the Covid pandemic, movie fans have found themselves in a new and scary place. While theater crowds have dwindled, studios are looking to streaming sites to showcase the goods. Along those same lines, film schedules have been juggled and pushed back, leaving fans wondering when their eagerly awaited movie will come out.
Here’s hoping for those releases in 2021. Warner Bros. is planning to release its full 2021 slate in theaters and on HBO Max, while Paramount sold
While the plot for
Black Adam remains mostly unknown at this point, Johnson did reveal during DC FanDome that the film s Justice Society will include founders (in the comics, at least) Hawkman (Aldis Hodge) and Doctor Fate, as well as latecomers Atom Smasher (Noah Centineo) and Cyclone.
No news yet on when the Jaume Collet-Serra-directed film will be released.
Those looking forward to four hours of
Zack Snyder s Justice League could perhaps get a chance to see it in theaters, as long as they’re over 17.
Entertainment Weekly is reporting that Zack Snyder thinks the film is so edgy, that it might get an R-rating.