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Facebook Rules the Web; The Social Network Rules the Box Office
David Fincher’s Facebook film, The Social Network, topped the box office this weekend, earning $23 million in its first weekend of release. The movie features Jesse Eisenberg as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg; the film has attracted lawsuits and arguments aplenty, but the real question is whether Farmville gets its share of the spotlight. Number two at the box office was Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole, which earned $10.8 million over its second weekend, bringing its total to $30 million. Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps came in third (weekend gross $10.1 million, total gross $35.8 million), fourth was The Town (weekend gross $10 million, total gross $64.3 million). Rounding out the top five was Easy A, which is apparently the next Clueless; as everyone knows, though, Cher Horowitz has big (and fashionable) shoes to fill. Easy A‘s weekend gross $7 million, and its total gross so far is $42.4 million.
Other new releases were Case 39, which earned $5.35 million; since over half of that money was probably in the budget for bees, they’d better hustle and make more so they can afford wasps for the sequel. Let Me In made $5.3 million, Chain Letter made $143,318, Hatchet II made $62,000, Freakonomics made $32,300, Partir made $13,300 and Nine Nation Animation made $3,000 at one theater.
Next weekend will moviegoers spend their money on The Social Network, or will they opt instead to sit at their computers and… go to Facebook? Competing with The Social Network are Life as We Know It, Secretariat, My Soul to Take and Buried (expanding to wide release). In limited release there are It’s Kind of a Funny Story, Nowhere Boy, Tamara Drewe, As Good as Dead, Cherry, GhettoPhysics: Will the Real Pimps and Hos Please Stand Up?, I Spit on Your Grave, Inside Job, It’s a Wonderful Afterlife, Marwencol, Postia pappi Jaakobile, Rachel and Stone.
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- Comment by Denver DUI Lawyer on 10/05/10 at 9:21 pm
I was wondering if lawsuits have resulted from that movie. That was actually the first question that came to my mind when I saw the previews. They should do a movie on the lawsuits! Seriously though, it is good to see that the Facebook movie can be as successful as the website itself.
- Comment by Ray Goto on 10/06/10 at 10:26 am
I saw the film Facebook on Monday night with my longtime promo editor friend DS Ramierez. We saw it at the Landmark on Pico and thought it was a very good movie. I had gone to see the movie because of the buzz, but at the Landmark because of the superior theater screens. Of particular interests to me was that the motion picture was shot on the Red One with the new mx chip. The story was so compelling that after the initial evaulation of the picture qualities, I found myself lost in the action of the movie, which as fast paced and edited extremely tight and well. The film was shot at 4 or 5K, but the DI was done at 2K and the filmout, of course, was done at 2K. While I’ve seen better done other digital cameras and 35mm film, I think that the Red One with the new chip is certainly “good enough” for most projects of this kind! This may not seem like a glowing review of the film or the camera, but its actually a stellar review of the Red One Mx, which at $25K is a game changer. I am not a Red fanboy, although we own Red Cinema products and I can say that. We see a lot of various Red projects and some are not very good in there picture quaity. However, since the Red media stays at the raw state, we have been able to fix them in postl Incidentally, our company FinishYourShow is a company that help filmmakers complete, package and distribute their films- all on a deferred basis. Check us out at http://www.FinishYourShow.com for further information about this alternative source of financing.
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- Comment by facebook on 11/06/10 at 11:31 pm
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- Comment by addison_parsons80 on 10/31/11 at 8:45 am
I saw this movie “The Social Network” a few days ago. It was one of the best movies I’ve watched lately. It is amazing how Mark Zuckerberg had an idea like this and at first he didn’t even think that he will make money online from creating Facebook. Now, most of the people who are using Facebook are also using it’s features that means more money for this guy and more opportunities for us.
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