Aaron Sorkin's Social Reckoning film flops at box office

Summarised from The Verge's report · Updated 13 Oct, 02:50 · Archive

Aaron Sorkin's The Social Reckoning grossed $5.5 million against a $30–42 million budget in its opening weekend.

The Verge reports that Aaron Sorkin's follow-up to The Social Network, titled The Social Reckoning, has flopped at the box office. The film grossed $5.5 million this past weekend against a budget estimated between $30 million and $42 million, making it a significant financial underperformance for Columbia Pictures and Sony. By comparison, The Social Network opened to $22 million.

The film has received middling reviews with a 55% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and has been widely criticised on social media. The underperformance may reflect audiences' expectations for a proper sequel rather than a different story, or difficulty connecting with the performances of Mikey Madison as whistleblower Frances Haugen and Jeremy Allen White as Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz. The Verge also notes that Jesse Eisenberg, who played Mark Zuckerberg in the original film, declined to appear in the new project.

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• The Social Reckoning is flopping at the box officeAs important as some of the messages in The Social Reckoning are, the movie has been drastically underperforming at the box office. Per Variety, Aaron's Sorkin's follow up to The Social Network only grossed a measly $5.5 million this past weekend against a budget that's somewhere within the $30-42 million range. That would make it […]The Verge · 12 Oct, 22:20

In this story: Aaron Sorkin · The Social Network · Mikey Madison · Frances Haugen · Jeremy Allen White · Columbia Pictures

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