Money Monster
Financial TV host Lee Gates and his producer Patty are put in an extreme situation when an irate investor takes them and their crew as hostage.
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"Money Monster is financial crime thriller directed by Jodie Foster. It centers around Lee Gates (George Clooney) a financial reporter and Patty Fenn (Julia Roberts), his executive producer as they are in the midst of a hostage situation being run by Kyle Budwell (Jack O'Connell) as he attempts to get answers as to why 800 million dollars was lost by a financial company that Gates recommended everyone buy stock in. Being that the majority of the film takes place in a secluded area with our three main characters, Jodie Foster does a great job making sure that the film never feels claustro..."
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For scheduling reasons, Julia Roberts and George Clooney worked together very little in this film. All of the 'Money Monster' TV show, within the movie, were shot first, using both broadcast TV cameras and movie cameras. Then the entire TV show and everything that happened in the TV studio and was seen in the control room and broadcast live was edited and synchronized together. Then synchronized playback filling all 140 monitors in a working CBS control room, was played back for each scene with Julia Roberts interacting with the prerecorded George Clooney on the screens. The control room scenes were shot at the CBS Broadcast Center in an actual working control room. Pre-recorded clips of the TV studio were played back on various locations so that actors could react to the 'live' TV show. The 'Money Monster' studio set was built at Kauffman Astoria Studios and all scenes happening on that set were shot several weeks before the control room scenes were shot. George Clooney and Julia Roberts were briefly together for a scene on the TV studio floor set and for the hospital scene at the end of the film.
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Financial TV host Lee Gates and his producer Patty are put in an extreme situation when an irate investor takes them and their crew as hostage.