\u201cThe Social Network,\u201d Hollywood\u2019s unflattering portrait of Facebook Inc.\u2019s Mark Zuckerberg, pulled in moviegoers eager to see an account of the social-networking website\u2019s early days and driven founder, reports Bloomberg.<\/p>\n
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The film, among the year\u2019s 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\u2019s become alienated from his friends by lawsuits and squabbles over control of the company.<\/p>\n
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Made for $50 million, the Sony Corp. film generated $23 million in its opening weekend, according to Box Office Mojo.<\/p>\n
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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\u2019s book \u201cThe Accidental Billionaires.\u201d<\/p>\n
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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.”<\/p>\n
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\u201cIt\u2019s not a movie about Facebook,\u201d Sorkin said. \u201cAt the center of this is a very modern invention, but the themes in it and the story are as old as storytelling itself \u2014 of friendship and loyalty and betrayal and power and class.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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