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The Social Reckoning is flopping at the box office
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The clear picture
What happened
The Verge describes Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Reckoning, a follow-up to The Social Network, as a box-office dud. TechCrunch had previously characterized its opening as weak.
Latest development
The Verge adds a comparative market claim: Other Mommy is apparently a hit, alongside its stronger characterization of The Social Reckoning as a flop rather than merely off to a weak start.
Why it matters
The contrasting performance labels for The Social Reckoning and Other Mommy do not support attributing The Social Reckoning’s result to audience rejection of any single genre, theme, or actor.
Known / unclear
As important as some of the messages in The Social Reckoning are, the movie has been drastically underperforming at the box office.
Does The Social Reckoning’s performance indicate a broader problem for films featuring villainous tech CEOs?
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Sources
Compiled from 3 independent publishers The Verge · TechCrunch · The New York Times
The Verge calls The Social Reckoning a box-office dud and says Other Mommy is apparently a hit; TechCrunch reports only a weak start and frames the wider tech-CEO-film implication as a question.
The big question
Does The Social Reckoning’s performance indicate a broader problem for films featuring villainous tech CEOs?
TechCrunch poses the question, while The Verge supplies only one contrasting title, Other Mommy.
Bottom line
The new reporting strengthens the negative characterization of The Social Reckoning’s box-office performance but supplies too little market data to diagnose why it underperformed.
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- Development updated
As important as some of the messages in The Social Reckoning are, the movie has been drastically underperforming at the box office.
2 sources at this update - Headline updated
Aaron Sorkin’s followup to The Social Network is a box office dud, but Other Mommy is apparently a hit.
2 sources at this update - Headline updated
What does this mean for a fall full of movies starring villainous tech CEOs?
1 source at this update - Headline updated
Aaron Sorkin’s latest movie is about how social-media platforms like Facebook have rewired our brains and the larger world.
1 source at this update - First reported
The writer and director explains how he evolved the character of Mark Zuckerberg in the sort-of sequel to “The Social Network.”.
1 source at this update
Publisher timeline
- The New York Times‘The Social Reckoning’ Review: Sounding the Alarm ↗
- The New York TimesAaron Sorkin on ‘The Social Reckoning’ ↗