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“The Social Network,” Hollywood’s unflattering portrait of Facebook Inc.’s Mark Zuckerberg, pulled in moviegoers eager to see an account of the social-networking website’s early days and driven founder, reports Bloomberg.
The film, among the year’s most praised movies by critics, follows Zuckerberg, now 26, as he rises from social outcast at Harvard to billionaire. By the time the movie ends, he’s become alienated from his friends by lawsuits and squabbles over control of the company.
Made for $50 million, the Sony Corp. film generated $23 million in its opening weekend, according to Box Office Mojo.
The film, directed by David Fincher, stars Jesse Eisenberg as Zuckerberg and Justin Timberlake as Napster co-founder Sean Parker. Aaron Sorkin wrote the screenplay, drawing from Ben Mezrich’s book “The Accidental Billionaires.”
Earlier, in an interview with ABC News, Zuckerberg described the film as fiction. He said that though he has no plans to see the movie, he’d seen a part of a trailer. He said it’s “interesting,” but called the movie and other false reports “distractions.”
“It’s not a movie about Facebook,” Sorkin said. “At the center of this is a very modern invention, but the themes in it and the story are as old as storytelling itself — of friendship and loyalty and betrayal and power and class.”