Exclusively in theaters nationwide on January 28th 2022 on the one year anniversary of the epic event that changed Wall Street Forever. From the makers of Console Wars comes the origin story of the Gamestop stock market phenomenon,featuring exclusive access to the original players who lit the fuse on a historic amateur investor uprising.Spotlighting the human side of a sensational business drama, Gamestop: Rise of the Players is a David vsGoliath tale about ordinary people waking up to the power they have in numbers.
In January 2021, the brick-and-mortar video game retailer GameStop had been the top story on everynews network in the country. Its stock had risen over 2500% amidst a wild flurry of volatility, despite nonew news coming out of the company. The run was fueled by an epic “short squeeze” on a handful ofbillion-dollar hedge fund behemoths, netting online investors millions and costing the hedge fundstens-of-billions of dollars in the process. But this wasn’t just a run on a stock. This was a battle that hasbeen brewing for years. It’s a David and Goliath story of a band of contrarians who bucked conventionalwisdom to bet on themselves, their own research, and a business that Wall Street had given up on.
Directed by Jonah Tulis
Produced by Blake J. Harris, Dan Braun, Josh Braun