The 2022 edition of the SXSW Conference and Festivals has announced the World Premiere of Anne Hathaway and Jared Leto's WeCrashed in the festival's Episodic Premieres track. Visit SXSW's program details page for additional screening information.

I've found myself increasingly interested in the film and streaming interpretations of various Silicon Valley startups ever since, well, Mike Judge's Silicon Valley premiered on HBO several years ago. Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Super Pumped, about the rise and fall of Uber founder Travis Kalanick, just started on Showtime and it's got me hooked. No doubt WeCrashed will have a similar effect considering the crazy history surrounding WeWork's meteoric rise...and fall.

The series is inspired by actual events — and the love story at the center of it all. WeWork grew from a single coworking space into a global brand worth $47 billion in under a decade. Then, in less than a year, its value plummeted. What happened?

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Chris Giroux
Movie Reelist Contributor: Chris Giroux
Chris Giroux is founder and editor-in-charge at Movie Reelist, an entertainment news and review blog serving the most fanatic moviegoers. Chris started his publication in Detroit in 2010 and has since reviewed hundreds of films and interviewed numerous talent across the country. He is an avid film festival attendee and red carpet photographer, having shot the likes of Steven Spielberg, Bill Murray, Mark Hamill, and more. Chris grew up in New Mexico, where he studied mass media writing while working in post-production and multimedia authoring. It is also where he discovered Big Trouble in Little China and Escape from New York, resulting in an unhealthy Kurt Russell obsession.

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