After garnering the kind of reviews seen every couple of decades, David Fincher’s latest film, The Social Network, unsurprisingly opened on top of the American box-office.
The film, based on the inception of uber-popular networking site, Facebook, managed to take in an impressive $23 million in its first three days of release. Funding studio Sony expect it to show strong legs, with the brilliant flick now seen as a firm favourite for Oscar season. Director Fincher and producer Scott Rudin reportedly deferred payment on the film for profit participation, keeping the budget below $40 million.
Elsewhere, the also critically well received Let Me In, didn’t catch on with audiences, taking a disappointing $5.5 million, just behind the long delayed Case 39, which came in barely above that haul after being delayed since 2006.
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