{"id":3700,"date":"2026-10-13T01:20:57","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T21:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/the-social-reckoning-is-flopping-at-the-box-office\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T01:20:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T21:20:57","slug":"the-social-reckoning-is-flopping-at-the-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/the-social-reckoning-is-flopping-at-the-box-office\/","title":{"rendered":"The Social Reckoning is flopping at the box office"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jeremy Strong as Mark Zuckerberg.\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: Columbia Pictures\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/10\/DF-04750_r.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As important as some of the messages in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/entertainment\/1005997\/the-social-reconing-review-facebook-zuckerberg-frances-haugen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Social Reckoning<\/a><\/em> are, the movie has been drastically underperforming at the box office. Per <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/box-office\/social-reckoning-flops-other-mommy-leads-box-office-1236908161\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Variety<\/em><\/a>, Aaron&rsquo;s Sorkin&rsquo;s follow up to <em>The Social Network<\/em> only grossed a measly $5.5 million this past weekend against a budget that&rsquo;s somewhere within the $30-42 million range. That would make it a certifiable flop that&rsquo;s costing Columbia Pictures (and Sony) quite a bit of money &#8211; especially when you compare it to <em>The Social Network<\/em>&lsquo;s $22 million opening. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This isn&rsquo;t entirely surprising given how middling reviews for the film have been. It&rsquo;s currently got a 55% rating on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/the_social_reckoning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rotten Tomatoes<\/a> and has widely been \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/entertainment\/1009630\/social-reckoning-box-office-other-mommy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As important as some of the messages in The Social Reckoning are, the movie has been drastically underperforming at the [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}