Jan 5, 2011 by B. Alan Orange

The Social Network Gets Theatrical Re-Release

The Social Network heads back to theaters this month
The Social Network heads back to theaters this month
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, "DVD 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."

DVD 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 Jesse Eisenberg and Andrew Garfield, as well as two nominations from the Screen Actors Guild, including Ensemble and Jesse 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 Mark 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 Mark 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 Social Network was released October 1st, 2010 and stars Jesse Eisenberg, Rooney Mara, Bryan Barter, Dustin Fitzsimons, Armie Hammer, Joseph Mazzello, Patrick Mapel, Max Minghella. The film is directed by David Fincher.

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Comments (71)

  1. Worth5Bucks

    ok good i still need to see this

    1 year agoby @mattbierwagenFlag

  2. CelluloidKid

    .... Not a bad film ...I just can't believe we have Facebook becuae I guy got dumped by his girlfriend!

    1 year agoby @celluloidkidFlag

  3. Claudio Marinaccio

    Julian Assange vs Mark Zuckerberg : Who is the real Man of the Year?

    http://olderime.wordpress.com/2010/12/30/julian-assange-vs-mark-zuckerberg-who-is-the-real-man-of-the-year/

    1 year agoby @claudio-marinaccioFlag

  4. slysnide

    @Dave: Don't worry. I haven't jumped on you for that. I can't even remember it.

    Ooh, see what comes next....

    @SomeBelow: And I've caught up on Foy's retarted forum from your posts. :P

    1 year agoby @slysnideFlag

  5. Daveactor7

    .........

    1 year agoby @daveactor7Flag

  6. slysnide

    @Supes: Actually, I'd go to Brroklyn since Sonny Wortzik sounded like a pretty cool dude, even though he's been dead for 5yrs & 3 days.

    1 year agoby @slysnideFlag

  7. The Narrator: The Better Man

    I actually lolled at that @Supes.

    1 year agoby @narratorFlag

  8. The Narrator: The Better Man

    Lol, I remember @Sly. However you were relatively mature in your posts. At times, our good friend @Dave would get lost in his pursuit for blue monkey vengeance. Lol. Sorry @Dave, I just had to put in one more poke. I'll stop now. :)

    1 year agoby @narratorFlag

  9. Dan

    I never could call myself an "Avartard", it always sounded too close to retard for my liking :P

    1 year agoby @dan1Flag

  10. slysnide

    @Narrator: So was I to an extent. I was shocked by everyone at college loving it as if it was some unique masterpiece when they'd never spoken up on any film, so I felt I needed to exasperate on that during my less than tasteful review of it.

    1 year agoby @slysnideFlag

  11. The Narrator: The Better Man

    Lol @Dave, just having a laugh mate. My bad for missing the good ol' days. :P

    @'geek, I never looked at it like that, but it does seem fitting don't it?

    1 year agoby @narratorFlag

  12. Dan

    @Sly hahahaha me, too. Sorry @Dave, won't be visiting anytime soon :P

    @Narrator I could add more to that, but as you said, in the past.

    1 year agoby @dan1Flag

  13. moviegeek

    @Narrator Hence your new avatar? ;)

    1 year agoby @moviegeekFlag

  14. Daveactor7

    Guys its over so let it go

    1 year agoby @daveactor7Flag

  15. The Narrator: The Better Man

    Lol @Dave, not to join the "remember when Dave was..." wagon, but yeah, you were pretty against anything blue if you know what I mean. :)

    @Supes, you don't have to tell em twice. I got into numerous arguments with Brian over Avatars superiority, and superhero films lack of substance and originality. I couldn't talk to that guy without somehow being a hater. *sigh* Glad that's in the past.

    1 year agoby @narratorFlag

  16. slysnide

    I for whatever reason have no desire to go to NYC, Manhattan, or Brooklyn due to the stereotypes in flicks. :P j/k

    1 year agoby @slysnideFlag

  17. Daveactor7

    @Supes lol "New yawk" thats how brooklynites say that. I'm a manhattanite so its just "new york" just throwing that in there

    1 year agoby @daveactor7Flag

  18. Dan

    @Sly However he addressed them, it tells me he's paying attention to how people reacted. I gathered that through his big ol' ego.

    1 year agoby @dan1Flag

  19. Daveactor7

    Its all over now though :)

    1 year agoby @daveactor7Flag

  20. Dan

    @Dave I gotta back up @moviegeek1 there. You were like the cheerleader of hatred towards Avatar for a good while there. You chilled out and became more reasonable after a long period of time, though. I guess that's that New Yawk stubbornness in ya :P

    1 year agoby @dan1Flag

  21. slysnide

    @Supes: JC didn't really address the haters, he just coyly mentioned that "they like it too," as if he couldn't find any reason why.

    And why re-release this if the DVD is out on Tuesday?

    1 year agoby @slysnideFlag

  22. moviegeek

    @Dave Well you sure were for a few months when you had no profile pic and the such. It was very annoying!!!! :P

    1 year agoby @moviegeekFlag

  23. Daveactor7

    Btw-looking at that shot of Mark Zuckerberg there thats some impressive cinematography. The man in business attire is being shown basically being little in power and stature compared to Zuckerberg.

    1 year agoby @daveactor7Flag

  24. Daveactor7

    @Moviegeek lol i got to my theater at 11 and they still had IMAX tickets
    I'm not a hater of avatar, I just hated how simple and used the concept was.

    1 year agoby @daveactor7Flag

  25. moviegeek

    cool beans hehe.

    1 year agoby @moviegeekFlag

  26. Dan

    @Narrator Cool beans. I'm sure Avatar 2 will deliver the goods. Hell, God knows Movieweb was inundated with all the Avatar related articles during its run (thanks to that Avatar nut, Brian, I'm sure), and we did get a few of them of Cameron addressing the "haters", which to me means he's listening. Which is good :)

    1 year agoby @dan1Flag

  27. moviegeek

    @Dave i didn't get to see it in IMAX :( i went to a midnight showing instead. (which was still totally worth it)

    1 year agoby @moviegeekFlag

  28. Daveactor7

    If Cameron can pull off Avatar 2 with a better story and script im good

    1 year agoby @daveactor7Flag

  29. Daveactor7

    @Jake yeah I get you, Toy Story 3 was good, but it wasnt something id like to see on the big screen again. After getting used to watching toy story 1 and 2 on tv, i think its something id like to watch on tv again. Inception however, watching on the big screen was epic its not the same on the small screen.

    1 year agoby @daveactor7Flag

  30. The Narrator: The Better Man

    @Supes, I'm in the same boat as @moviegeek. Since it was announced I have been looking forward to the sequel, since similar to GI Joe (but better of course), there is only room for improvement with a guy like Cameron. He gets now that people need an original piece, and now that he's established an up and coming franchise he can focus less on the visuals to draw in crowds, and let the name alone do that, as he makes a well crafted story. Pumped is the word I would use as well. :)

    1 year agoby @narratorFlag

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