The Social Reckoning Tracks for $8M

The Social Reckoning is tracking for an about $8 million North American debut as Aaron Sorkin’s follow-up to The Social Network heads into theaters. Sorkin wrote and directed the film about Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz and Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen, whose disclosures exposed internal research on harms linked to Facebook. Haugen, a former Facebook product manager, leaked tens of thousands of internal documents in 2021, helping fuel the Facebook Files investigation and her U.S. Senate testimony. Meta has disputed earlier reporting on internal research and said Trump’s stolen-election claims, not Facebook, caused the January 6 violence; Sorkin says the film focuses on Facebook. The film opens October 9, well below the original’s roughly $22 million debut.