After over a decade, The Social Network’s sequel, The Social Reckoning, is finally coming out. The film features a new star cast, and the early estimates are already all over social media. The film is a thriller, and despite the previous film’s commercial success, the sequel is eyeing an opening weekend far below it. The movie will hit the screens this weekend, and there is hardly any buzz around it. Keep scrolling for the deets.
For the uninitiated, the prequel was released in 2010 and portrays the founding of the social networking website Facebook. David Fincher directed the first film, whereas the sequel was directed by Aaron Sorkin, who appeared as an ad executive in the 2010 hit. The upcoming thriller features Mikey Madison, Jeremy Allen White, Jeremy Strong, Bill Burr, Betty Gilpin, and Billy Magnussen in key roles.
The Social Reckoning, led by Mikey Madison and Jeremy Allen White, is expected to have a slow start at the box office in North America. According to Box Office Pro‘s early estimates, the legal thriller is tracking to earn between $6 million and $10 million in its opening weekend in North America. It will have to depend on strong word-of-mouth to become a commercial success like the prequel.
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The Social Network is a biographical drama based on the 2009 book The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich. It collected $22.4 million in its opening weekend at the North American box office. The film was made on a reported budget of $40 million and collected $97 million at the domestic box office over its lifetime. But the sequel, The Social Reckoning, will not earn half of the prequel’s debut weekend gross even if it lands in the upper end of the projected range in North America.
The film follows Frances Haugen, a young Facebook engineer, who enlisted the help of Jeff Horwitz, a Wall Street Journal reporter, to blow the whistle on the social network’s most guarded secrets. The Social Reckoning will be released on October 9.
Note: Box office numbers are based on estimates and various sources. Numbers have not been independently verified by Koimoi.
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