David Fincher to Direct The Social Network

[BLACK-SPIDEY]

Man those guys look like a-holes in real life.

 

[Crockett]

Indeed they do. It's ridiculous that they're brought up this settlement again, greedy bastards.

 

[Project862006]

just read facebook is now worth 50 billion

 

[carrrnuttt]

Indeed they do. It's ridiculous that they're brought up this settlement again, greedy bastards.

Between the fact that FB has been up-valued by a lot (as stated above), and they got to relive/dramatize their biased perspective on-screen along with the rest of the moviegoing world, effectively giving them reason to believe that they'd garner more sympathy from a judge and/or jury, I guess it was to be expected.

 

[MadVillainy]

I dont see how they look like jerks or how theyre being greedy?
They maintain (think) that someone stole there idea and became a billionaire and proclaimed a genius because of it. If I was in their same spot, I'd be doing all the things I can to get something out of Zuckerberg

 

[MadVillainy]

The Social Network Crossing $200M and Coming Back to Theaters
Source: Columbia Pictures January 5, 2011

Columbia Pictures announced today that The Social Network is crossing the $200 million mark worldwide and will make its way back to theaters. Here is the studio's press release:

As The Social Network, the most critically acclaimed film of the year, is set to launch on DVD, the hit film is poised to pass $200 million at the worldwide box office, it was announced today by Jeff Blake, chairman, Worldwide Marketing and Distribution for Sony Pictures. To date, The Social Network has grossed more than $93 million in the US and $104 million overseas, and will pass the $200 million mark in the next few days. The DVD will be released on January 11, 2011, and contains more than eight hours of bonus extras about the motion picture. The film will also be re-released in approximately 600 theaters nationwide on January 7.

Commenting on the announcement, Blake said, “The Social Network has struck a chord with audiences all around the world. No invention defines our era like Facebook does, but what has made it break through as a motion picture is that it is a parable for our time. Everyone, everywhere, can relate to the human motivations of the real-life people who are depicted in the film. At the box office, this film showed true staying power, grossing more than four times its opening weekend gross – a rare accomplishment when the average for wide releases last year was below three times its opening weekend gross. It is always a great feeling to see a film connect with moviegoers, but this film is incredibly special to us – we are as proud of it as any film in our studio’s history.”

The Social Network has been embraced during this year's awards season, with four honors from the National Board of Review, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Actor for Jesse Eisenberg. The film has also received six Golden Globe nominations, including Best Picture – Drama, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Original Score, and nominations for Eisenberg and Andrew Garfield, as well as two nominations from the Screen Actors Guild, including Ensemble and Eisenberg for Best Actor, and nominations for Best Picture from the Producers Guild of America and Best Adapted Screenplay from the Writers Guild of America. The film has also been named Best Picture by 24 critics groups, including the New York Film Critics Circle, the New York Film Critics Online, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, the Chicago Film Critics Association, the San Francisco Film Critics, the Boston Society of Film Critics, the Dallas/Ft. Worth Film Critics Association, the Washington Area Film Critics Association, the Toronto Film Critics Association, the UK Regional Critics Awards, Sight and Sound, the Village Voice/LA Weekly Critics Poll, the African American Film Critics Association, the Black Film Critics Circle, the Southeastern Film Critics Association, the Houston Film Critics Society, the Detroit Film Critics Society, the Florida Film Critics Circle Awards, the St. Louis Film Critics Association, the Indiana Film Journalist Awards, the Utah Film Critics Association, the Oklahoma Film Critics Circle, and the Las Vegas Film Critics Society. The film also appears on over 350 critics’ Top Ten lists.

The film has been named Best Picture of the Year by numerous publications, including The New York Times, New York Post, The New Yorker, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, LA Weekly, Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone, Chicago Sun-Times, Denver Post, Boston Phoenix, Cleveland Sun, the Daily Mail, the Daily Telegraph, the Huffington Post, IFC.com, Miami Herald, Lincoln Journal-Star, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, MSN Movies, North County Times, Oklahoma Gazette, Omaha World Herald, Orlando Weekly, Sight & Sound, Time Out Chicago, Time Out New York, and Tulsa World, among many others.

In The Social Network, director David Fincher and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin explore the moment at which Facebook, the most revolutionary social phenomenon of the new century, was invented – through the warring perspectives of the super-smart young men who each claimed to be there at its inception. Drawn from multiple sources, the film moves from the halls of Harvard to the cubicles of Palo Alto as it captures the visceral thrill of the heady early days of a culture-changing phenomenon in the making – and the way it both pulled a group of young revolutionaries together and then split them apart. In the midst of the chaos are Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg), the brilliant Harvard student who conceived a website that seemed to redefine our social fabric overnight; Eduardo Saverin (Andrew Garfield), once Zuckerberg’s close friend, who provided the seed money for the fledgling company; Napster founder Sean Parker (Justin Timberlake), who brought Facebook to Silicon Valley’s venture capitalists; and the Winklevoss twins (Armie Hammer and Josh Pence), the Harvard classmates who asserted that Zuckerberg stole their idea and then sued him for ownership of it. Each has his own narrative, his own version of the Facebook story – but they add up to more than the sum of their parts in what becomes a multi-level portrait of 21st Century success – both the youthful fantasy of it and its finite realities as well. The film is produced by Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca, and Ceán Chaffin and based on the book “The Accidental Billionaires” by Ben Mezrich.


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Cool

 

[luke1234]

As much as I love Nolan's Inception, Arronofsky's Black Swan, and the Coen's True Grit, this movie really does deserve the award for best picture.

 

[Hush]

I can respect that opinion but disagree as well, by the way the Blu-Ray cover for this was ****ing awesome. Oh and at Best Buy yesterdat it was only $16.99.

 

[luke1234]

I can respect that opinion but disagree as well, by the way the Blu-Ray cover for this was ****ing awesome. Oh and at Best Buy yesterdat it was only $16.99.

good to know

 

[bullets]

I can respect that opinion but disagree as well, by the way the Blu-Ray cover for this was ****ing awesome. Oh and at Best Buy yesterday it was only $16.99.

I taped the slip cover to the case , that was weird , other than that it's a nice case ..

65 million would be enough to shut me up but these guys think too highly of themselves. Facebook wouldn't be what it is without Zuckerberg.

 

[Anita18]

I dont see how they look like jerks or how theyre being greedy?
They maintain (think) that someone stole there idea and became a billionaire and proclaimed a genius because of it. If I was in their same spot, I'd be doing all the things I can to get something out of Zuckerberg

They're jerks because they already HAVE a fat settlement, and they didn't contribute anything to Facebook beyond a very VERY general idea of what it was going to be like. Maybe. Any goon can have an idea, it's what you do with it that matters. Especially nowadays where truly original ideas are few and far-between.

I agree that Mark shouldn't have cut them out of Facebook so they could have at least been included, but the fact is that they already GOT a settlement. If you ask me, they're trying to ride this as long as possible, when they should have taken the money and moved on with their lives. It's like they're perpetually stuck in the "I was slighted in college and I'M NOT LETTING IT GO" mode.

 

[dark_b]

didnt they sign the first settlement?

if they did then this makes no sense.

 

[Boom]

It's baffling how $65 million dollars isn't enough for some people.

****birds.

 

[MadVillainy]

As Ive said if you think someone made billions off your idea I dont think you'd stop.

 

[Boom]

I would when I agreed to and signed a $65-million-dollar settlement saying as such.

They chose to settle. They should be happy they got wealthy for doing absolutely nothing and move on with their lives.

 

[carrrnuttt]

As Ive said if you think someone made billions off your idea I dont think you'd stop.

And what are you basing this assertion on? The scenarios given to you by a biased movie built off a biased book? Settlement or not, if the Winklevii actually did have any kind of stranglehold on their argument, they wouldn't be left with a pittance of what FB was and is worth. They'd own it. Even the biased movie portrayed the settlement as more of a "get off my back" scenario, as opposed to "you're right, FB was your idea."

Notice that this time around, their argument is: "they low-balled the value of the stocks they gave us."

Pathetic.

 

[MadVillainy]

Im basing my "assertion" on common human nature, from what Ive seen when severly wronged they dont let up.

And the guys are sons of a rich business owner, Olympian athletes (do they get paid alot? I guess that some are, but not rowers. ), Harvard graduates, grad students at Oxford I hardly think their after Zuckerberg solely for the money.

They could be they could not be. I dont know. But Im not going to say theyre selfish pr**s because I dont know theyre motives

 

[Anita18]

Im basing my "assertion" on common human nature, from what Ive seen when severly wronged they dont let up.

And the guys are sons of a rich business owner, Olympian athletes (do they get paid alot? I guess that some are, but not rowers. ), Harvard graduates, grad students at Oxford I hardly think their after Zuckerberg solely for the money.

They could be they could not be. I dont know. But Im not going to say theyre selfish pr**s because I dont know theyre motives

I agree that it isn't about the money. But the more they drag this out, the more it's clear they're the most like their movie counterparts - bitter because something didn't work out the way they wanted to.

 

[MadVillainy]

Im done talking about it after this post I just dont like when people on here unfairly try and insult someone based on little to nothing.


New topic: I wonder what Saverin is up to. I see that he still has 2.4 billion. Wonder what hes working on

 

[Eggyman]

Im done talking about it after this post I just dont like when people on here unfairly try and insult someone based on little to nothing.


New topic: I wonder what Saverin is up to. I see that he still has 2.4 billion. Wonder what hes working on

No idea. I'll ask when I see him. Anyway, can't wait to get this beaut on Blu. I'm gonna get this and Zodiac and NOT get Button because I don't like it and then that's my Fincher collection sorted and I'll sleep at nights. Or not because I'll be watching Blu-rays. Ya with me?

 

[Doctor Jones]

Benjamin Button is the flaw on Fincher's otherwise excellent filmography.

 

[Eggyman]

Many will disagree, Dr, but when I smell poo I hold my nose.

 

[luke1234]

Benjamin Button is the flaw on Fincher's otherwise excellent filmography.

agreed, its a shame really. The film was so beautiful looking and the Fitzgerald short story is brilliant.

 

[Boom]

The slip cover of my DVD has a mild crease in it .

 

[MadVillainy]

The slip cover of my DVD has a mild crease in it .

I hate that

Happened with my TDK and my Inception