Posts Tagged ‘Mark Zuckerberg’

Remember life without Facebook? Me either. But there was a time, not too long ago actually, that The Facebook was just an idea turning in the cogs of Mark Zuckerberg’s brilliant mind. In 2004, the Harvard student turned his pet project into the largest social network in the world thanks to two other students and a little financial help from his friend Eduardo Saverin. It quickly spread through the dorms of Harvard, extending its cyber fingertips to Stanford and other elite schools, until anyone in the world could join in updating statuses, upload pictures, and checking in on old friends of yesteryear.

The Social Network stars Jessie Eisenberg (Zombieland, The Education of Charlie Parker), who looks perfectly the part of Ivy league braniac Mark Zuckerberg, and Justin Timberlake smooth talks his way to the top as Sean Parker. Parker, who co-founded Napster in 1999, went on to become President of Facebook. Disney’s Brenda Song (“The Suite Life of Zack and Cody”) also co-stars.

So, a movie about a website? That sounds a little risky, but The Social Network takes us through the dark biography from the beginnings of TheFacebook.com to its global explosion with plenty of lies, betrayals and a love story or two along the way that could satiate anyone’s newsfeed hunger. Based on Ben Mezrich’s 2009 best-seller The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal, most of the movie was filmed in Cambridge. Although there were no scenes shot on Harvard’s Campus, Wheelock College, John’s Hopkins University, and Phillips Academy in Andover, MA doubled as Harvard yard.

The film looks like it will offer plenty of drama, and even though it is far from a documentary about the founding of the world’s most popular website, it should be interesting to see how a student’s part-time hobby turned into an integral part of almost every students’ lives. That, and the sepulchral version of Radiohead’s “Creep” during the trailer makes it look way to juicy to pass up. Catch it in theaters this fall.

★ On a recent appearance on “The Daily Show”, Julianne Moore (above) discusses the Kenmore Square inspiration for her Boston accent for her stint on “30 Rock”.

★ Actor Michael Weatherly, who grew up in Connecticut and attended Brooks Academy in Andover, MA,  just signed an “NCIS” deal.

★ Executive producer and Dorchester native Mark Wahlberg appears at the premier of season 7 of “Entourage”.

★ “Body of Evidence,” filming entirely in Rhode Island, gets picked up for full season on ABC and name gets changed to “Body of Proof”.

★ New England Patriots player and actor Brian White talks to Boldfacers.com about his charity work and new TNT series, “Men of a Certain Age”.

★After dismal domestic numbers for the made in Mass. movie, Knight and Day, foreign fans could decide the fate of Tom Cruise’s future life at the box office.

★ First look at Katie Holmes as Jackie Kennedy in new History Channel miniseries.

★ Facebook creator and Harvard alum Mark Zuckerberg to appear on “The Simpsons” this fall.