Paramount Pictures announced yesterday that ‘The Big Short,’ a film based on the best-selling book by Michael Lewis about traders who foresaw and profited massively on the collapse of the housing and subprime credit market in 2007-08, will open nationwide on December 23. The cast includes stars Brad Pitt, Ryan Gosling, Christian Bale, and Steve Carell, and the film is written and directed by Adam McKay, who co-wrote Anchorman, Talladega Nights, and The Other Guys with Will Ferrell.
