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The Big Short is a 2015 American biographical comedy-drama film directed by Adam McKay and co-written by McKay and Charles Randolph.The film is based on the 2010 book The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis, and shows how the 2008 financial crisis was triggered by the United States housing bubble. [4]
Plan B Entertainment financed the film with Paramount handling the distribution rights. Production started March 23, 2015 [ 8 ] in New Orleans, LA. [ 9 ] The film was released on December 11, 2015, and was met with critical acclaim, winning the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay , and receiving a nomination for the Academy Award for Best ...
Too Big to Fail is a 2011 American biographical drama television film directed by Curtis Hanson and written by Peter Gould, based on Andrew Ross Sorkin's 2009 non-fiction book Too Big to Fail. The cast includes William Hurt , Edward Asner , Billy Crudup , Paul Giamatti , Topher Grace , Cynthia Nixon , Bill Pullman , Tony Shalhoub , and James ...
Margin Call is a 2011 American drama film written and directed by J. C. Chandor in his feature directorial debut. The principal story takes place over a 24-hour period at a large Wall Street investment bank during the initial stages of the 2008 financial crisis.
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (also known as Wall Street 2 or Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps) is a 2010 American drama film directed by Oliver Stone, a sequel to Wall Street (1987). It stars Michael Douglas, Shia LaBeouf, Josh Brolin, Carey Mulligan, Frank Langella, Susan Sarandon and Eli Wallach.
Inside Job is a 2010 American documentary film, directed by Charles Ferguson, about the 2008 financial crisis.Ferguson, who began researching in 2008, [3] said the film is about "the systemic corruption of the United States by the financial services industry and the consequences of that systemic corruption", [4] amongst them conflicts of interest of academic research, which led to improved ...
Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System—and Themselves, also known as Too Big to Fail: Inside the Battle to Save Wall Street, is a non-fiction book by Andrew Ross Sorkin chronicling the events of the 2008 financial crisis and the collapse of Lehman Brothers from the point of view of Wall Street CEOs and US government regulators. [1]
The Big Short and The Big Short (film) recount many of the events described in Gregory Zuckerman's 2009 book The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History; List of New York University alumni; List of Harvard University people