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  Movie About Facebook Will Open the New York Film Festival

  http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/ … /?src=tptw

  Here’s a bit of news you may want to share on Facebook, Twitter or whatever it is you Web-savvy kids are using these days: «The Social Network,» David Fincher’s much anticipated movie about the creation of Facebook, has been selected for opening night at the New York Film Festival, the Film Society of Lincoln Center said on Thursday.

  «The Social Network» is directed by Mr. Fincher («Zodiac,» «The Curious Case of Benjamin Button») with a screenplay by Aaron Sorkin («The West Wing») adapted from Ben Mezrich’s book «The Accidental Billionaires.» Starting in the long-ago year of 2003, it tells the story of how the Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg (played in the film by Jesse Eisenberg) helped hatch an idea that became the wildly popular Facebook Web site — and the complications that its success quickly yielded.

  Scott Rudin, a producer of «The Social Network,» said the film is told in an «All About Eve» style, from multiple points of view, including the perspectives of other young entrepreneurs who sued Mr. Zuckerberg, saying the site was their idea.

  «Everybody believes they’re right,» Mr. Rudin said in a telephone interview. «But the movie leaves you to make up your own mind about what you feel about how Facebook was founded.»

  He added, «It’s an examination of how hard it is to find out what the truth is about anything.»

  Though Facebook might seem like an all-too-topical subject for a piece of cinema with high ambitions, Mr. Rudin said the overarching themes of the film would give it dramatic weight, whether or not we’re still using Facebook five years from now.

  «Movies have a very hard time being current, and this is the rare example of a movie that is about something that is happening at this very moment,» he said. «It’s about ambition, it’s about greed. It’s about betrayal. It’s about friendship. It’s about trying to be on the inside of something when you feel, terminally, on the outside of everything.»

  The New York Film Festival will show the premiere of «The Social Network» on Sept. 24, before the movie is released on Oct. 1. The full festival runs through Oct. 10 with additional films to be announced.

  Just Announced! NYFF10 Opening Night: David Fincher’s The Social Network

  http://filmlinc.com./nyff/index.html

  Commenting on the Opening Night Selection, Mara Manus, Executive Director, The Film Society of Lincoln Center, said, «Our mission is to bring our audience films that entertain, spark a dialogue, and speak to the moment. That is the best of what film can do, and it is why The Social Network is the perfect choice to kick off this year’s New York Film Festival. David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin have focused their lenses on a story of friendship, loyalty, and betrayal, with a multifaceted character at the center who is as complex as he is clever. This is just the kind of film that our audience wants to see and we’re thrilled to be hosting the world premiere.»

  The Social Network Will Open the New York Film Festival, New Full-Length Trailer Coming Soon

  http://www.movieline.com/2010/07/the-so … g-soon.php

  You know that new second teaser for The Social Network that you keep chasing around the internet like some game of Whack-a-Mole, trying to catch before Sony pulls it down? Well as the studio told Movieline, that teaser — which is awesome, for those who haven’t been lucky in tracking it down — is actually exclusive to the New York Film Festival. And hey, look at that: The Social Network is going to open the New York Film Festival on September 24, a full week before it opens nationwide. Fear not, though: you’re about to get something new much sooner than that.

  According to Sony, while you may be crestfallen because you haven’t seen the newest teaser, a full-length trailer is coming very soon. Presumably, that means everyone will finally get their first look at actual moving images from the film, and not just dialogue snippets or (in the case of the NYFF teaser) scrolling Facebook updates.

  ‘The Social Network’ as this fall’s ‘Hurt Locker’?

  http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/ … orkin.html

  It’s probably too early to start handicapping fall awards movies, but probably not too early to predict that Sony’s Aaron Sorkin-penned, David Fincher-directed «The Social Network» — informally known as The Facebook Movie — is going to be a hot-button film this fall.

  Not just an awards contender, like Fincher’s previous «The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,» but the kind of movie that migrates to the news pages and gets people talking about film outside its fictional context, the way «The Hurt Locker,» «Frost/Nixon» and «Syriana» did for their respective topics. Mark Boal and Kathryn Bigelow got commentators going about the rigors and ethics of war; this will get tongues wagging about the rigors and ethics of social media.

  The first tangible sign of its cred came today, when the New York Film Festival took the unusual step of announcing the picture as its opening-night movie. The New York Film Festival almost always chooses highbrow, twee movies to kick off its fall festivities («The Queen» and «The Class,» among some recent examples), and although this selection may say something about the availability of distribution-ready art-house films, it also speaks volumes about how both a sober-minded festival jury and Sony view this picture.

  In conjunction with the NYFF world-premiere announcement, there’s also a new Social Network teaser trailer, which you can see here (no embed code yet). The spot audaciously uses nothing but messages typed into a faux Facebook page, though from the way the tone and sound ratchets up throughout the spot, you’d think Iran disarmament was at stake.

  This anointing comes as the movie begins to make waves because of its depiction of former Harvard students and Facebook founders Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin and the early days of the site. As this is a movie about the founding of that company, you might think that Sony would want to market it on the immensely popular social-networking site, but on the Wall Street Journal’s All Things Digital blog, Kara Swisher writes that there won’t be any Facebook movie ads on Facebook itself.

  The reason, the post explains from both the Sony and Facebook points-of-view, is that Facebook policy requires approval of all ads that reference its brand, and Sony didn’t want to cop to those conditions.

  Of course, the talk about Facebook policy elides the more commonsensical point that, since it’s likely that the film is not hugely complimentary to Zuckerberg and Saverin — at the very least, the book on which it’s based, Ben Mezrich’s «The Accidental Billionaires,» was the subject of some pretty strident criticism from the players it spotlighted — it would give Facebook pause about taking an ad, policy or no policy. And besides, why would a movie that seeks to tell a hard-hitting story of Facebook want to look complicit with the site even if said site did want to accept its ads?

  Guess Sony will have to settle for cable-news chatter, print stories, blog posts and tweets. There will be plenty of that.

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