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2016 film directed by Jodie Foster

Coin Monster
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Theatrical release poster
Directed by Jodie Foster
Written by
  • Jamie Linden
  • Alan Di Fiore
  • Jim Kouf
Story by
  • Alan Di Fiore
  • Jim Kouf
Produced past
  • Daniel Dubiecki
  • Lara Alameddine
  • George Clooney
  • Grant Heslov
Starring
  • George Clooney
  • Julia Roberts
  • Jack O'Connell
  • Dominic West
  • Caitríona Balfe
  • Giancarlo Esposito
Cinematography Matthew Libatique
Edited by Matt Chessé
Music by Dominic Lewis

Product
companies
  • TriStar Pictures
  • LStar Capital
  • Smokehouse Pictures
  • The Fidelity Theater
Distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing

Release dates
  • May 12, 2016 (2016-05-12) (Cannes)
  • May 13, 2016 (2016-05-xiii) (Us)

Running time

 99 minutes[1]
Country U.s.a.
Linguistic communication English
Budget $27.4 million[two]
Box function $93.3 1000000[three]

Money Monster is a 2016 American crime thriller film directed by Jodie Foster and written past Jamie Linden, Alan Di Fiore, and Jim Kouf. The film stars George Clooney (who as well co-produced), Julia Roberts, Jack O'Connell, Dominic West, Caitríona Balfe, and Giancarlo Esposito. It follows fiscal television host Lee Gates and his producer Patty Fenn, who are put in an extreme situation when an irate investor takes them and their crew equally hostage.

Coin Monster had its world premiere at the 69th Cannes Film Festival on May 12, 2016 and was theatrically released in the United States on May 13, 2016, by Sony Pictures Releasing. Despite receiving mixed reviews from critics, the film was a box office success, grossing over $93 one thousand thousand.[3] [4]

Plot [edit]

Flamboyant television financial expert Lee Gates is in the midst of the latest edition of his show, Money Monster. Less than 24 hours earlier, IBIS Articulate Capital letter's stock inexplicably cratered, apparently due to a glitch in a trading algorithm, costing investors $800 million. Lee planned to have IBIS CEO Walt Camby appear for an interview virtually the crash, but Camby unexpectedly left for a business organization trip to Geneva, Switzerland.

Midway through the show, a deliveryman wanders onto the fix, pulls a gun and takes Lee hostage, forcing him to put on a vest laden with explosives. The human being reveals that his proper noun is Kyle Budwell, who invested $sixty,000—his entire life savings—in IBIS afterwards Lee endorsed the visitor on the bear witness. Kyle was wiped out along with the other investors. Unless he gets some answers, he will accident up Lee before killing himself. Once police are notified, they discover that the receiver to the bomb'due south vest is located over Lee's kidney. The merely way to destroy the receiver—and with it, Kyle'south leverage—is to shoot Lee and hope he survives.

With the help of longtime director Patty Fenn, Lee tries to calm Kyle and notice Camby for him, though Kyle is not satisfied when both Lee and IBIS chief communications officer Diane Lester offer to recoup him for his fiscal loss. He besides is not satisfied past Diane'southward insistence that the algorithm is to blame. Diane is not satisfied by her own explanation, either, and defies colleagues to contact a programmer who created the algorithm, Won Joon. Reached in Seoul, Joon insists that an algorithm could not take such a big, lopsided position unless someone meddled with it.

Lee appeals to his TV viewers for help, seeking to recoup the lost investment, but is dejected by their response. New York Metropolis police observe Kyle's pregnant girlfriend Molly and allow her to talk to Kyle through a video feed. When she learns that he lost everything, she viciously berates him before the police cut the feed. Lee, seemingly taking pity on Kyle, agrees to assistance his captor discover what went wrong.

Once Camby finally returns, Diane flips through his passport, discovering that he did not get to Geneva but to Johannesburg. With this clue, forth with messages from Camby's phone, Patty and the Money Monster team contact a group of Icelandic hackers to seek the truth. Afterwards a police force sniper takes a shot at Lee and misses, he and Kyle resolve to corner Camby at Federal Hall National Memorial, where Camby is headed according to Diane. They caput out with one of the network's cameramen, Lenny, plus the constabulary and a mob of fans and jeerers akin. Kyle accidentally shoots and wounds producer Ron Sprecher when Ron throws Lee a new earpiece. Kyle and Lee finally face up Camby with video evidence obtained by the hackers.

It turns out that Camby bribed a South African miners' matrimony, planning to have IBIS make an $800 1000000 investment in a platinum mine while the union was on strike. The strike lowered the mine's owners stock, allowing Camby to buy it at a low toll. If Camby's program had succeeded, IBIS would have generated a multibillion-dollar profit when work resumed at the mine and the stock of the mine's owner rose again. The gambit backfired when the union stayed on the picket line. Camby attempted to bribe the union leader, Moshe Mambo, in order to stop the strike, only Mambo refused and continued the strike, causing IBIS' stock to sink under the weight of its position in the flailing company.

Despite the evidence, Camby refuses to admit his swindle until Kyle takes the explosive vest off Lee and puts information technology on him. Camby admits to his wrongdoing to Kyle on alive camera. Satisfied with the outcome, Kyle throws the detonator away, then much to Lee's dismay, gets fatally shot by the law. Lee punches Camby with anger and disgust because his greed and corruption cost Kyle's life. In the aftermath, the SEC announces that IBIS will be put under investigation, while Camby is charged with violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Human activity.

Bandage [edit]

  • George Clooney as Lee Gates
  • Julia Roberts as Patty Fenn
  • Jack O'Connell as Kyle Budwell
  • Dominic Westward as Walt Camby
  • Caitriona Balfe as Diane Lester
  • Giancarlo Esposito every bit Captain Marcus Powell
  • Christopher Denham as Ron Sprecher
  • Lenny Venito as Lenny, The Cameraman
  • Chris Bauer as Lieutenant Nelson
  • Dennis Boutsikaris as Avery, Goodloe CFO
  • Emily Meade as Molly
  • Makhaola Ndebele equally Moshe Mambo
  • Condola Rashād as Bree, The Assistant
  • Aaron Yoo as Won Joon
  • Olivia Luccardi every bit Arlene
  • Anthony DeSando as Officer Benson
  • John Ventimiglia equally A Team Leader
  • Grant Rosenmeyer every bit Dave
  • Greta Lee as Amy
  • Laura Meakin as Wall Street Adult female
  • Cenk Uygur as Himself[5] [6]

Product [edit]

Evolution [edit]

The project Money Monster was first announced by Deadline on February 7, 2012, when Daniel Dubiecki launched his ain flick production company, The Allegiance Theater. It would be the company's first produced moving-picture show.[vii] IM Global financed while Dubiecki produced, forth with Stuart Ford.[7]

Alan Di Fiore and Jim Kouf wrote the script of the film.[7] On Oct 11, 2012, Jodie Foster was set to direct the film.[8] Lara Alameddine also produced the film.[9] The story was altered from its original script inspired past the stock market glitch and crash of Cynk Technologies.[10]

On July 25, 2014, TriStar Pictures won the rights to finance and release the flick, whose latest typhoon was written past Jamie Linden.[11] Clooney and Grant Heslov besides produced for their Smoke House Pictures.[eleven]

Casting [edit]

On May 8, 2014, it was appear that George Clooney was manager Foster's choice to star in the flick as a Telly personality, Lee Gates, merely the bargain was non yet confirmed.[9] Clooney's interest was confirmed in July 2014.[11] Jack O'Connell and Julia Roberts were added to the cast November xiv, 2014 to star along with Clooney in the film.[12] Caitriona Balfe joined the cast of the pic on January 29, 2015, to play the head of PR of the visitor whose stock bottomed.[13] Dominic West signed-on on February 25, 2015 to play the CEO of the company.[14] Christopher Denham as well joined the cast on March four, 2015, playing Ron, a producer on the show.[15]

Filming [edit]

In October 2012, filming was scheduled to brainstorm early 2013.[viii] In July 2014, it was appear that production would begin after Clooney completed the Coen brothers' Hail, Caesar!,[xi] and chief photography on the film began in New York Urban center on February 27, 2015.[16] [17]

On April 8, filming began on Wall Street in the Financial District, Manhattan, where information technology would last for fifteen days.[eighteen] A scene was too shot in front of Federal Hall National Memorial.[xviii] Some re-shooting for the motion-picture show took place in mid-Jan 2016 in New York City on William Street and Broad Street.[19]

Release [edit]

In August 2015, Sony Pictures Amusement set the picture show for an April 8, 2016 release.[20] The film was later pushed back to May xiii, 2016.[3] The Money Monster Premiered in Cannes on May 12, 2016, where the bandage attended the photocall[21] and screening in the evening.

Reception [edit]

Box office [edit]

Money Monster grossed $41 one thousand thousand in the U.s. and Canada, and $52.3 one thousand thousand in other territories, for a worldwide full of $93.iii million, against a net production budget of $27 million.[3]

In Due north America, the flick was projected to gross $10–12 million from 3,104 theaters in its opening weekend.[22] The flick grossed $600,000 from its early Thursday night previews and $five one thousand thousand on its first day.[23] It went on to gross $14.eight million in its opening weekend, beating expectations and finishing 3rd at the box role behind Captain America: Civil War ($72.6 million) and The Jungle Book ($17.ane million).[24] Information technology fell 53% to $7 million in its 2nd weekend, finishing 6th.[25]

Critical response [edit]

Money Monster met with mixed reviews from critics.[26] [27] As of 2020, the picture show holds a 59% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 279 reviews with an boilerplate rating of 6.00/x. The consensus reads: "Money Monster 's strong bandage and solidly written story ride a timely wave of socioeconomic acrimony that'due south powerful enough to overcome an occasionally muddled approach to its worthy themes."[28] On Metacritic the film has a score of 55 out of 100, based on 44 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[29] Audiences polled past CinemaScore gave the motion picture an average course of "B+" on an A+ to F scale, while comScore reported audiences gave an 81% overall positive score and a 56% definite recommend.[24]

Clooney'southward functioning was praised past critics. A.O. Scott of The New York Times said that the "quality of the acting both enhances the credibility of the narrative and exposes some of its weak points".[30] Christy Lemire of RogerEbert.com, in a mixed review, praised Clooney'south "enormous charisma", but criticised the film for non "being quite as thrilling or thought-provoking as [its] premise sounds".[31] Chris Hewitt of Empire however gave a more positive review.[32]

Several reviewers praised the atmosphere of suspense. Sandra Hall of The Sydney Morning Herald praised the motion-picture show, particularly Foster's directing and her power to "continue things moving".[33] Richard Brody of The New Yorker wrote that Foster "keeps the action vigorous and the suspense loftier", but said that the picture was "swallowed up past the very hectoring and impersonal sensationalism that it derides".[34]

Some reviewers criticised the script. Wendy Ide of The Guardian gave the film a negative review, writing that the film lacks the "authentic anger" of The Big Short and the "sniper-like accuracy" of Network, criticising Clooney's "consummate lack of sincerity".[35] Peter Travers of Rolling Stone said that what the script lacks in "emotional subtext" can be establish in the bandage's "richly detailed" performances.[36] In a mixed review, Robbie Collin of The Telegraph chosen the motion-picture show a "raucous hostage thriller that eschews explanation for wish-fulfillment", final by saying that "in the oestrus of the moment, Coin Monster 'southward bluster and nerve keeps you hooked".[37] Josh Lasser of IGN was disquisitional of the film's mix of comedy and drama, calling the transitions "too fast, ripping the audience out of the unfolding drama".[38]

Despite comparisons of Clooney's grapheme to Jim Cramer and his TV evidence Mad Money,[39] [twoscore] Clooney and Foster denied this.[41] [42]

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External links [edit]

  • Official website
  • Coin Monster at Box Role Mojo
  • Money Monster at Fandango
  • Money Monster at IMDb
  • Money Monster at the TCM Picture show Database
  • Money Monster at Rotten Tomatoes
  • Money Monster Trailer
  • Coin Monster on Twitter

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