Runner Runner Hits Hot Buttons on Both Sides of Gambling Fence

Runner Runner Hits Hot Buttons on Both Sides of Gambling Fence

The American Gaming Association (AGA) has ruffled some feathers by running political ads concerning the online poker film Runner Runner that is new

Stars of films nowadays often understand ahead of time that most forms of merchandising and interviews are part of the job. They know that entertainment reporters will ask them all types of nosey questions regarding their latest paramour, a scandalous ensemble, or a run in with all the paparazzi. But what Runner Runner stars Justin Timberlake and Ben Affleck both definitely seasoned in the ways of Hollywood by now probably didn’t anticipate were the heated feelings their movie about a wicked internet poker operator, pre-Black Friday, plus the broke student conned by his website would evoke.

Federal Regulations Still Vague

In today’s tense climate with some states creating their own regulatory climate, but nearly all of America still sitting in regulatory limbo they position the film’s message as a ‘cautionary tale,’ and one that federal legislators should take heed of while they wait to see if and when the federal government will finally act the American Gaming Association (which represents the interests of many of the casino industry’s major players) has pulled out all their guns, buying ads throughout social media where.

But the film- which just opened nationwide is perhaps not meant to make any such statement, say the screenwriters, whom simply thought the similar-to-real-life-but-slightly-embellished tale of a 20-something gambler, played by Timberlake, and his evil offshore poker site nemesis-become-crime-boss, played by Affleck, would make a pretty juicy story. Leer más