A collection of “featurettes” about the making of Facebook biopic The Social Network, of the sort you’d usually find on the DVD extras, is available on IMDb for free. Better than that, it’s available in the UK too. There are four videos, which offer a behind the scenes glimpse of what it’s like working with the notorious David Fincher, who can demands up to a punishing 70 retakes from his cast.
Out now | free | IMDB
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The Social Network rated higher than ET and The Godfather when it was released before Christmas. Now you can appreciate just how fast Jesse Eisenberg was talking by trying to restage The Social Network yourself, with the script downloadable from here. Aaron Sorkin’s script is notoriously dialogue heavy, and it’s a pretty hefty chunk of text, but if you’re looking for a play your year eight’s will get their teeth into, step right up.
Available here | Free
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In a move to make tagging multiple photos of the same person easier, Facebook has taken a page from Apple’s playbook, introducing facial recognition. Similar to the way Apple “faces” works, Facebook facial recognition will compare freshly uploaded pics to older, tagged ones. Should we celebrate or run and hide from the new feature?
Announcing the Facebook profile redesign on 60 minutes, Mark Zuckerberg came face-to-face with the fake Mark Zuckerberg of The Social Network with clips from the film juxtaposed with his answers. Want to know what Zuck makes of the fake him? Interested to know why he feels sorry for the beefcake twins who sued him? Bounce through to the video after the break to hear the answers straight from the Zuckerberg’s mouth…
The Social Network, the film about the rise and rise of Mark Zuckerberg, also tracks his relationship (or lack of) with the Winklevoss twins, the rowing twins of Harvard who claimed Zuckerberg stole their idea, which resulted in a $65 million settlement. Watching The Social Network, the pair look like twins. Identical twins, but not carbon copies. Skip to the credits, and there’s two different actors named. So how did they do it?
The Social Network opens in the UK next week and we’ve got news of one review that we weren’t expecting…from Facebook creator and head honcho Mark Zuckerberg. After months of dismissing The Social Network and trying to distract attention from it, Mark Zuckerberg took the surprising decision to hire out a movie theatre on Wednesday and take the entire Facebook staff to watch the film. The trip has been widely reported but one element of the story was missing…
What hadn’t been revealed until now was just what he thought of it. Luckily, Jesse Eisenberg (who plays Zuckerberg in the film) has a first cousin who works at Facebook. Aaron Sorkin revealed Mark Zuckerberg’s review this afternoon in an interview on BBC 5Live. He said: “Jessee Eisenberg’s cousin texted him and said: ‘Mark loved all the parts he agreed with…’” Now there’s a surprise!
Out October 15 | £varies | The Social Network
