The Social Network sneak previews set

MANILA, Philippines - Considered as the film to beat in next year’s Academy Awards, Columbia Pictures’ The Social Network will have whole-day sneak previews on Oct. 18 and 19 in selected theaters in Metro Manila. Tickets will be available at regular admission prices.

This affords film buffs and Facebookers a chance to watch the much-talked-about movie ahead of its grand opening here on Oct. 27. The Social Network has been the No. 1 movie in the US for two consecutive weeks now, earning a cumulative gross of $47-M.

Manohla Dargis of The New York Times praises the movie as “fleet... funny, exhilarating... supremely confident... a creation story for the digital age,” while Richard Corliss of Time Magazine raves, “The film is like a video game at warp speed. The rewards for paying attention are mammoth and exhilarating.”

“It’s the movie of the year that also brilliantly defines the decade,” applauds Peter Travers of Rolling Stone.

In the film, on a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication. A mere six years and 500 million friends later, Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in history, but for this entrepreneur, success leads to both personal and legal complications.

Also starring are Justin Timberlake (Shrek The Third) as Sean Parker, the Napster co-founder who became Facebook’s founding president; and Andrew Garfield (Lions for Lambs, Spider-Man 2012) as Eduardo Saverin, the Facebook co-founder who fell out with Zuckerberg over money.

Directed by David Fincher and written by Aaron Sorkin, The Social Network is distributed by Columbia Pictures, local office of Sony Pictures Releasing International. Visit http://www.columbiapictures.com.ph for trailers, exclusive content and free downloads.