Hollywood got bested one out of three with the debut of The Social Network, Case 39, and Let Me In. The pair of horror films landed below the halfway mark with neck and neck numbers while the critically acclaimed Facebook based drama took the top spot. The Social Network is the latest film to match critical acclaim with commercial success. It easily overtook second and third place finishers with $23 million in its first weekend.
David Fincher’s fantastic The Social Network opened this weekend, sporting an impressive 98% Fresh rating on www.rottentomatoes.com and turning the story of Mark Zuckerberg and the creation of Facebook into a tense, well-acted drama. The Information Age has provided us with the world’s youngest billionaires, an updated and revolutionary way of communicating with each other, and a new source of contemporary drama at the movies. The Social Network isn’t the first or the last one of these, though it just might be the best.
The Social Network, however is not some insouciant attempt to capitalize on the world’s most popular social networking site for revenue purposes. It is a loaded drama that unlike most based-on-true stories, is a bit unforgiving of its “protagonist” (or anyone else for that matter) and unafraid to handle the unflattering side of human nature. Check the idea of this being a “Facebook movie” aside; this is the story of what can happen in today’s age when an arguably stolen idea can be born at a frat party and turn into a $25-billion-dollar property in fewer than 10 years.
Right off the heels of her breakthrough role in Easy A, actress Emma Stone has been offered the role of Mary Jane Watson in Marc Webb’s upcoming Spider-Man reboot. When rumors of Gwen Stacey casting calls first surface the thought was that Watson was being kept out of the first film at least, but it turns out both were written into James Vanderbilt’s script.
Superman/Batman: Apocalypse takes place after the defeat of Lex Luthor in Superman/Batman: Public Enemies. This is a must have animated film for fans of Superman/Batman Supergirl which was written by Jeph Loeb and artwork by Michael Turner. Superman and Batman’s friendship is going to be tested in this film, with a visitor from Krypton on Earth, the World’s Finest are going to have to deal with a new crisis. The story is about Kara (Supergirl) who has finally crashed on Earth from the planet Krypton, that has been destroyed over 20 years now (that’s what the film states Krypton’s destruction). Now, with new powers and a teenaged girl on Earth, Kara has to deal with new problems and is trying to find her place in the world! While Batman doesn’t trust Kara with all praises, Superman will continue to look for the good in her and will help by finding her special place in the world. This film was released on September 28, 2010 and is on Blu-Ray, OnDemand and DVD format. The Blu-Ray contains all special features with HD quality and a digital copy.
Well, you can either be ambitious and try to create a billion-dollar website,or you can start small and predict which five movies will place in the topfive of this weekend’s U.S. domestic box office. It’s that easy. I will makemy own predictions here and explain them to you each week to give yousome sort of reference point. It’s then your job to enter a comment withyour top five.
When done effectively, remakes can act as a tribute to the source material while providing different interpretations in various ways. Let Me In, the remake of the 2008 Swedish film Let the Right One In, for all of its faults, is one of those remakes doing more good than bad, but still not enough to match its predecessor.
