The big movie over the weekend was David Fincher's "Social Network," AKA "The Facebook Movie." And while its filmmakers took liberties with the facts to build a broad appeal, the story of Mark Zuckerberg's brainchild still resonates with tech entrepreneurs, as well as the mainstream audience that spent $23 million in the film's opening weekend. Takeaway digital editor Jim Colgan followed 300 such techies, who rented out their own movie theater in Midtown Manhattan, to find out why.
"You don't get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies," reads the tagline to what is expected to be this weekend's biggest movie, "The Social Network." Directed by David Fincher from a script by Aaron Sorkin, the film chronicles the meteoric rise of Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and the people he walked over to get there.
"The Social Network" hits theatres today. The biopic details the story of how then-Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg co-founded Facebook. Now at age 26, there is a movie out about his life, he’s made it to the Forbes List of richest people in the U.S., and he’s become a household name. What would be the movie of your life at age 26? Listeners tell us what they had accomplished by that age.
So you may not have created Facebook before you were 26. But what did you consider your greatest achievement before that age? John and Celeste have been weighing in.
The both preposterous and completely unsurprising bio-flick, “Social Network,” about Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s both preposterous and completely unsurprising 21st century life, is both sociology and entertainment. Zuckerberg is 26 and the looming question has to be who cares about the biography of a 26-year-old?
Mark Zuckerberg gets a feature film made about his life and he's not happy with it. I'm not surprised. Apart from his incredible success with Facebook, I'm sure the guy is dealing with all the same issues that most people in their 20s do — conflicting ideas about identity and morality, struggles for true independence, bad dating experiences. Clearly, he's not worried about bounced checks, credit card debt or student loan payments, but I imagine that the rest is the same.
Mark Zuckerberg created the internet phenomenon of a generation, amassed billions of dollars and had a movie made about him ... all by the age of 26. As "Social Network" opens, what would you call the movie about your life at 26?
Some of the biggest news in Forbes' list of 400 richest Americans is the growing wealth of 26-year-old Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg's net worth is currently estimated to be $6.9 billion; he is planning to donate $100 million to the Newark, New Jersey public school system. Cynics point out that Zuckerberg's generous philanthropy could be a crafted PR move scheduled a week before "The Social Network," a not-entirely-complimentary movie about Zuckerberg comes out. All the same, we wanted to know: how do billionaires spend their money?
Facebook today announced major changes to how it manages its users' privacy. The social networking site was responding to growing criticism from users and what CEO Mark Zuckerberg said today was a "need to simplify the controls."
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