First MONEY MONSTER Trailer Here is the first MONEY MONSTER trailer! The film, directed by Jodie Foster (The Beaver, Home for the Holidays), stars Julia Roberts, George Clooney, Jack O’Connell, Giancarlo Esposito, and Dominic West. MONEY MONSTER will be released in theaters on May 13. In the taut and tense thriller Money Monster, Lee Gates (George Clooney) is a bombastic TV personality whose popular financial network show has made him the money wiz of Wall Street. But after he hawks a high tech stock that mysteriously crashes, an irate investor (Jack O’Connell) takes Gates, his crew, and his ace producer Patty Fenn (Julia Roberts) hostage live on air. Unfolding in real time, Gates and Fenn must find a way to keep themselves alive while simultaneously uncovering the truth behind a tangle of big money lies.