Social Network still liked at box office

The Social Network

The Social Network , aka the Facebook Movie as directed by David Fincher, may just have 500 million friends after all.

For the second week in a row (after its debut last week), the website-inspired flick came top of the pile at the US box office, grossing a further $15.5m.

Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel came close to trumping that, though, their poorly-reviewed Life As We Know it beating the odds to open in second place ($14.6m). Must be those posters of Duhamel in his pants that are to blame.

Sports drama The Secretariat opened in third with $12.6, while the visually sumptuous owl epic Legend Of The Guardians came in fourth ($7m). Final new opener My Soul To Take , courtesy of Wes Craven, came in fifth ($6.9m).

The rest of the chart consisted of holdovers from last week, with The Town in sixth place ($6.3), Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps dropping from third to seventh ($4.6m), Easy A downgrading from fifth to eighth ($4.2m) and Case 39 re-numerating from seventh to ninth ($2.6m).

Julia Roberts’ You Again rounded out the charts in tenth place with $2.4m. Meanwhile, Let Me In exited the top ten entirely, slipping from eighth to eleventh with just $2.4m. Poor Matt Reeves.

Josh Winning has worn a lot of hats over the years. Contributing Editor at Total Film, writer for SFX, and senior film writer at the Radio Times. Josh has also penned a novel about mysteries and monsters, is the co-host of a movie podcast, and has a library of pretty phenomenal stories from visiting some of the biggest TV and film sets in the world. He would also like you to know that he "lives for cat videos..." Don't we all, Josh. Don't we all.