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unusual facts about The Social Network


Klyce

Ren Klyce, US-American sound designer, sound-editor and Oscar nominee (for Fight Club and The Social Network)


A Captain's Duty

In March 2011, it was announced that Barkhad Abdi would star as the lead Somali pirate, Tom Hanks would star as Phillips and Faysal Ahmed as Najee in a Columbia film based on the hijacking and Phillips' book, scripted by Billy Ray, and produced by the team behind The Social Network.

Angus Wall

He and fellow film editor Kirk Baxter won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for the David Fincher film The Social Network (2010) and again the next year for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011).

Appletini

In the 2010 film The Social Network, in the initial meeting between Facebook co-founders Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin and Napster co-founder Sean Parker, Parker buys the table a few rounds of the drink.

Brett Leigh

Leigh first gained recognition for his role as the President of The Phoenix – S K Club opposite to Andrew Garfield in The Social Network.

ConnectU

The story of the relationship between ConnectU and Facebook is depicted in The Social Network, a film directed by David Fincher and written by Aaron Sorkin, based on the book The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich.

Divya Narendra

Divya, of Indian ethnicity, is portrayed by the half Italian-quarter Hong Kongese Max Minghella in The Social Network (2010), a film directed by David Fincher about the founding of Facebook.

Jeff Cronenweth

Other notable feature films on which he worked as a DP are One Hour Photo, K-19: The Widowmaker, Down With Love and The Social Network.

Joseph Mazzello

Joseph Francis Mazzello III (born September 21, 1983) is an American actor, known for his roles as Tim Murphy in Jurassic Park, Eugene Sledge in the HBO miniseries The Pacific, and Dustin Moskovitz in The Social Network.

Kirk Baxter

He has worked with director David Fincher and editor Angus Wall several times, winning Academy Awards for The Social Network and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

OTOY

OTOY also commercializes the LightStage technology, a facial- and motion-capture device that can capture an actors' performance in photorealistic detail, and has been used in several motion pictures including The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Spider-Man 3 and The Social Network.

To the Boy in the Blue Knit Cap

The story and the characters in the episode were highly influenced by the real-life lawsuit against Facebook made by Tyler Winklevoss and his brother Cameron Winklevoss, as well as the film adaption to the event, The Social Network.


see also

RockLive

RockLive is the venture-funded mobile development lab behind the social network, Shots of Me.

The D'oh-cial Network

Actor Armie Hammer portrayed the twins in both The Social Network and "The D'oh-cial Network".

Total Music

Total Music was then conceived as a streaming service to be incorporated into social networking sites—particularly Facebook—in a model similar to what was already in place through agreements between the record companies and MySpace: in exchange for user data and advertising revenue, Total Music would grant the social network a license to use the participating labels' music.