Facebook has been used to accomplish a lot of things including organizing global protests, running political campaigns, and even hunt down criminals. On Friday, the first “crowd-sourced” movie to be developed, “Live Music”, will be released. The movie, was developed by connecting artists from around the world on Facebook via the Mass Animation Facebook page.
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For the upcoming 10th anniversary of Fight Club, Fox has launched a Facebook Connect integration similar to a number of implementations that we’ve previously written about. One coincidental trivia item first noted on Techcrunch is that the director behind Fight Club, David Fincher, is also the director of the upcoming movie about Facebook, “The Social Network“.
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According to an announcement from Johns Hopkins University today, Columbia Pictures will be shooting two sequences of the film, “The Social Network” on the university campus on November 2nd and 3rd. According to the release, “Homewood will be doubling for Harvard in the scenes being shot next week.” This is the first notice we’ve seen about the actual shooting of the film.
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Apparently violent Facebook applications are the new trend. Last week I wrote about Al-Qaeda Wars application which let you fight against terrorists, and was subsequently shut down. This week, a new Saw 6 promotion launched and it enables you to choose which of your friends will be killed and which will be saved. Sound violent? It is!
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Aaron Sorkin, the writer behind the West Wing, is apparently still in the process of developing the screenplay adaptation of Ben Mezrich’s recent book “Accidental Billionaires“. Sorkin, who was recently interviewed by the website, “MakingOf“, said that this was the fastest he ever said yes to a project. He also says “Umm” and “Uhh” about fifty times throughout the interview. It appears that the title of the movie will most definitely be “The Social Network”. Filming is expected to begin later this year.
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