POLL - U@ FANS PICK RATTLE & HUM AS U2 FAN FAVORITE MOVIE!

Poll Results: Rattle And Hum is U2 Fans' Favorite U2 Movie

@U2, April 29, 2012

U2's first foray into movie-making remains the favorite of U2 fans, according to a recent poll conducted here on @U2. In March, we asked "Which of these is your favorite movie?" and gave fans four choices. Among the more than 2,300 fans that voted, Rattle And Hum was picked by just under 40 percent. That was plenty of votes to beat out the second-place finisher, U2 3D. From The Sky Down and It Might Get Loud followed in third and fourth, respectively.
Our current home page poll question asks fans which Bono character from Zoo TV they prefer -- The Fly or MacPhisto. And, while we're on the subject of voting, we're planning to begin releasing results from the 2012 U2 Fan Survey within the next week or so. That survey remains open until end-of-day on Monday, April 30th.

maybe im a bit off with the rest of the U2 lovers, but i thought U23d was AMAZING! and thus, stands as MY personal favorite U2 movie, i havnt even seen, IT MIGHT GET LOUD, or FROM THE SKY DOWN ...yet. lol
MICHELLE

MOVIE REVIEW - 'CHIMPANZEE' (I Wanna See This!)

Movie review: 'Chimpanzee'

With a wealth of informative TV wildlife programming already in the marketplace, Disneynature faces a Darwinian dilemma. How can the studio's zoology unit create films that will put paying audiences in theaters? In “Chimpanzee,” the strategy is clear: Make dramas, not documentaries. With its emphasis on entertainment rather than edification, the film occupies a warm-and-fuzzy middle ground between “The Jungle Book” and Animal Planet.

The new nature film follows a baby chimp named Oscar and his clan, observing them as they forage, use tools, play games, and care for one another. Just like humans, our primate relatives grapple with issues of dominance, family organization, reciprocation, competition and altruism. They even make war, fending off a rival pack of chimps that wants their nut grove. We face most of the same problems, and sometimes we come up with the same solutions.
Filmmakers Alastair Fothergill and Mark Linfield get intimately close to their subjects. In shots of chimps learning to crack hard-shell nuts with rocks, you can almost feel the sting when they whack a toe instead. When Oscar's life takes a sad turn midway through the film, the story becomes a real-life “Bambi of the Apes.”

Tim Allen's folksy narration fulfills its mission, which is not to deliver Jane Goodall-quality anthropology but to show kids that wild animals are amazing. So are the jungle plants. Some of this visually gorgeous film's most indelible images show puffballs shooting out spores in slow motion, phosphorescent fungi glowing at midnight, and delicate mushrooms growing in time-lapse hyperspeed. The film is not designed to answer every question but to inspire youthful curiosity.
The youth-friendly plotline involves Oscar's primal need to find his own place in the hierarchy, while the group battles villainous antagonist Scar and his pack. Purists may object to covering animal tales with cheesy sentimentality, but there's nothing wrong with capturing your viewers' hearts en route to their heads.
At one touching turn, I heard a small voice in the row behind me stoutly declare, “I am not crying.” Job well done.
— Colin Covert, Star Tribune (Minneapolis)

NEWS - MOVIE SHOT IN OKLAHOMA CITY AREA TO SCREEN IN BRICKTOWN

Movie shot in Oklahoma City area to screen in Bricktown

FROM STAFF REPORTS   

Published: January 19, 2012

The locally filmed movie “Wolf Head” will be screened at 7 p.m. Thursday at Harkins Theatres, 150 E Reno Ave. The 90-minute film was produced, cast and shot in the greater Oklahoma City area.
According to a news release, the action-comedy centers on the overly sheltered Flannigan brothers who come home to discover their mother is sick and can no longer provide. So they turn to the only person who can help them make money: their mother's new boyfriend Leonard. He gets them started on a life of street hustling to make money, but things don't go as planned.
“Wolf Head” was written, directed and produced by filmmaker Ryan “Staples” Scott, founder of Yukon-based RYIT Creative.
Lucas Ross, Ryan Bellgardt, Jack Elliot and Emoly West appear in the film.

NEWS - KEVIN DURANT FILM SEEKS EXTRAS ON OKLAHOMA CITY!

Aww, man! id do this in a heartbeat! i had a blast filming for 10 days on the set (as an extra) for the movie The Program in Columbia, SC...would be pretty awesome to be considered again for another movie to add to my portfolio of  'EXTRA' Cast Member ...:) MICHELLE

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Kevin Durant film seeks extras in Oklahoma City

FROM STAFF REPORTS   

Published: January 19, 2012

The Kevin Durant film “Thunderstruck” is seeking extras for a shoot next week in Oklahoma City.
Extras will portray passers-by and neighbors in some street scenes on Monday and Wednesday, Freihofer Casting has announced. Tuesday, the casting office will hire 500 paid extras to portray Oklahoma City Thunder fans at a home game.
The casting office is looking for ages 11-70; entire families and all ethnicities will be considered. Children must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.
Extras must be available all day. Tuesday, extras will begin in the early afternoon and will shoot into the night. Applicants may email a recent photo and all contact information to the casting office at Submissions@FreihoferCasting.com. The photo must be attached to the email and the body of the email must include a name, city of residence, all phone numbers and an email address.
Additionally, the subject heading of the email should be THUNDERSTRUCK EXTRAS — (day(s) of availability). It is requested that all information is sent in one email.
Submissions must be received no later than noon Sunday.

ARTICLE- MOVIE: 'KILLING BONO' : ROCK N RIVALRY DOWN DUBLIN WAY

'Killing Bono': Rock 'N' Rivalry, Down Dublin Way

 

by Mark Jenkins

November 4, 2011 Most people who've paid attention to rock music over the last 30 years will have been annoyed by U2 frontman Bono at one point or another — but few casual bystanders will have been as peeved as Neil McCormick, a school chum of the future celeb who coveted just the sort of stadium-filling success his four classmates achieved.
No rock stars were injured in the making of Killing Bono, a semi-fictionalized retelling of McCormick's 2004 memoir, despite the picture's aggrieved title; in fact Neil himself (played by Ben Barnes) is the only main character the movie seriously lampoons. It's an amiable, lightweight romp that should interest fans of U2 and other '80s Irish rockers, but it would be more actively amusing if it didn't insist on portraying its title character (impersonated by Martin McCann) as such a bloody nice guy.
The story includes some classic tropes of Brit-rock legend, including the feuding brothers (see The Kinks, Oasis) and the bandmate who just missed the double-decker bus to fame (see Pete Best). Neil's original sin is that he secretly convinced Bono not to recruit his little brother for the Hype, the band that became U2. More than a decade later, huge posters for The Joshua Tree are plastered all over Dublin, and Ivan McCormick (Robert Sheehan) is still playing guitar for Shook Up, Neil's struggling group. (It's scrambling not just for success, but also for a style it can call its own and not U2's.)
Now a rock journalist for the British daily The Telegraph, McCormick did some late-'70s writing for Hot Press, Ireland's equivalent of Rolling Stone, and his cockiness earned him a few enemies there. One of them was happy to inform Ivan, years after the fact, that his brother had kept him out of what became perhaps the world's biggest rock band.
In the movie, this news does not go down well, especially since it arrives at roughly the same moment Neil has made the serious miscalculation of sleeping with the wife of the boss of Shook Up's record label. Also not pleased is Neil's American manager and girlfriend (Krysten Ritter) — who's called Gloria, the name of songs by both U2 and Van Morrison.
Booted from his band, Neil heads to Dublin for a showdown, impelled both by his resentment of U2 and the demands of a disgruntled Irish gangster who financed the brothers' failed run at Top of the Pops. But the movie's payoff fails to deliver the mayhem promised by its high-pitched prologue.
While Barnes and Sheehan are persuasive as the squabbling siblings, the music-biz mockery is blunt and obvious. Relying mostly on genuine songs of the period, director Nick Hamm twists Neil and Ivan into a variety of now-embarrassing '80s-rock poses, drawing on Devo, Wall of Voodoo, Adam and the Ants and others. Yet it's hard to accept that so earnest a wannabe as Neil would pursue such clownish paths to possible stardom.
Limited by actual events, the movie can't really kill Bono. So writers Dick Clement and Ian la Frenais (who scripted another Irish rock dramedy, The Commitments) and Simon Maxwell take random shots at stereotypical supporting characters: the clueless record exec, his sexually predatory wife and Neil and Ivan's campy gay slumlord (the late Pete Postelthwaite, in his final performance.)
A few digs at Bono's growing self-importance might have enlivened the proceedings, but perhaps McCormick and the filmmakers really do think he's a good egg. Or maybe they just didn't want to risk alienating someone who could deny them the use of a U2 song on the soundtrack.

NEWS - FARMVILL MOVIE TO BE MADE?

FarmVille Movie In The Works?

 FarmVille Is 3rd Most Popular Game On Facebook

By Lindsey Hunter Lopez, Special to CNN

POSTED: 5:33 pm CDT October 10, 2011
UPDATED: 7:31 am CDT October 11, 2011

(CNN) -- Annoying Facebook game FarmVille may be coming to a theater near you, reports IGN."Toy Story" screenwriters Alec Sokolow and Joel Cohen hinted to the movie news outlet that they are at work on a script for a FarmVille film."We're in conversations with Zynga to do something with one of their brands," the writers share. "Can't really say too much on that front yet, but 'Old MacDonald' didn't have a factory, if you get our drift."Zynga is the social network game developer responsible for FarmVille, an interactive game involving virtual farm management chores.According to the Los Angeles Times, FarmVille, once the most popular game on Facebook, is now ranked third, after The Sims Social. Zynga's CityVille is currently the No.1 game.FarmVille was launched in 2009, and at its peak nearly 32.5 million people played the game in a single day.

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i cant imagine ANYONE would waste thier time oing to see this (or buying it if it goes direct to DVD) to think i myself spend countless hours  harvesting and planting crops to master them, why would i wast 90 more minutes of my time watching a concept movie about the same thing?


click, click click click click
plow plow plow plow
harvest harvest harvest...

yeah, exciting.
i can see a 5 star rating right now...NOT!

MICHELLE

NEWS - TURN BACK THE CLOCK TO A FUTURE WITH NO 'BLADE RUNNER' REMAKES

Turn back the clock to a future with no 'Blade Runner' remakes

 By Kurt Schlosser

Come in out of the acid rain, I've got troubling news.
Ridley Scott is planning to return to the futuristic world of "Blade Runner," his iconic 1982 film, which for me set the bar for what all films dealing with the future should look like. Yes, living in this world, today, I fully anticipate a future world that will be bleak, dark and rainy -- and possibly inhabited by fake humans (no comment.)
I just came across "Blade Runner" (not the director's cut) the other night on cable and found it still meets the requirement to be considered a favorite film: no matter how many times you've seen it, or how far along it is, you'll sit and watch what's left -- even with commercials and even with a DVD copy 6 feet away.
We see plenty of stories out of Hollywood these days about plans to remake or reimagine classic films. Just last week, readers were fired up about news of a new "Dirty Dancing" film and who could possibly replace Patrick Swayze. "Hollywood has no original ideas!" you always shout, across the Internet. And "Dirty Dancing" didn't even have Harrison Ford!
This "Blade Runner" project is described as a "follow up" to the first film and The Hollywood Reporter says, "filmmakers have not yet disclosed whether it will function as a prequel or a sequel to the original." That doesn't appease some diehard skeptics. "I'll only watch it if it's in 3-D, and they get Shia LaBeouf," one sarcastic commenter said on a co-worker's Facebook post about the plans.
I can't imagine plans for any remake these days that wouldn't be met with some level of disdain by the 3-D-weary public. Maybe I'm just depressed by the fact that a film I loved so much in my youth is already ripe for revisiting. The future ... it came so fast.
And all those moments will be lost in time, like ... tears ... in rain.

MOVIE - 'APES' RETURN TO ITS ORIGINS

'Apes' returns to its origins 

By Kevin Williamson ,QMI Agency

July 31, 2011 

SAN DIEGO, Calif. -- When last we visited the planet of the apes, Mark Wahlberg was an astronaut, Helena Bonham Carter was a love-sick chimpanzee and Charlton Heston was a grizzled monkey who spat: "Take your stinking hands off me, you damn dirty human." In other words, things had devolved, rather precipitously, from speculative satire to abject camp.
And while Tim Burton's 2001 "re-imagining" of the 1968 classic was a box-office hit -- demonstrating the still-valid power of the brand -- it wasn't a film that anyone, anywhere, really wanted a sequel to.
Which explains why only now a decade later, 20th Century Fox is hoping to rekindle interest in some of cinema's most revered simians by returning, quite literally, to the origin of the species in Rise of the Planet of the Apes.
"It's always a challenge -- it's a challenge to make any film. But it was never my intention to be slave to the franchise as it were," says director Rupert Wright, whose prequel is set in contemporary San Francisco and traces the roots of a revolt by our nearest relatives against humanity.
"The writers presented us with a script that's very, very respectful and subtly acknowledging of the mythology. But it's very much an origin story in the real sense of the world "¦ It doesn't deal with humanoid apes. It deals with apes who are of our world. The very fact we're laying the groundwork for the Planet of the Apes is the icing on the cake."
In the movie, opening Friday, James Franco is a scientist whose attempts to cure Alzheimer's involve a chimp named Caesar.
But instead of just repairing the human brain, the experiments also amplify the primate's intelligence -- putting him on a path toward revolution.
Although the human cast includes Freida Pinto, John Lithgow and Brian Cox, the star of the story is clearly Caesar himself, a digitally rendered character performed via motion capture by Andy Serkis.
It marks a first for the Apes franchise, which has until now employed make-up and prosthetics to create its cast.
Serkis, 47, is no stranger to motion-capture work, having portrayed Gollum in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy (a role he will reprise in 2012's The Hobbit) and King Kong in Jackson's 2005 remake.
As well, he will co-star in Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin. Apes, he explains, represents only the latest leap forward for the technology.
"On Lord of the Rings, it was shot on 35 mm film, so I interacted with all the other actors and we always shot on a blank plate and I had to go reshoot all the performance capture in a tiny volume," he says, referring to the studio where the mocap work happens.
"There weren't many cameras and the markers didn't always work and the real time kept breaking down. So it was in the early days.
"When we started to work on King Kong, it was the first use of facial capture, because up to that point, with Gollum, all my facial expressions had been key-framed matched as the definitive reference "¦ With Kong it was facial capture where I was wearing 132 markers on my face ... Then in the years after that, when Avatar started, the change was you could put multiple actors in performance suits and a volume -- with head-mounted cameras so you didn't need markers on facial expressions.
"And then the whole shift happened where in Avatar principal photography was taking place within a volume. That was how Avatar was shot, then how Tintin was shot.
"Then on Planet of the Apes, it was the first time performance capture has existed outside of a volume on a live-action set. We were shooting in a live-action environment and we didn't have to go back and repeat anything. Every scene was with the live-action actors and the performance-capture actors "¦
"People aren't celebrating the technology anymore. That's passe. It's now an industry tool. It's a magnificent way of recording an actor's performance -- that's all it is."
Joining Caesar are a cast of non-human characters, Wright says.
"We have a gorilla who's named Buck, an orangutan named Maurice who's from the circus. These are really fully-formed characters of a movie of real scale, which is unusual because they are animals.
"But the way we approached it, Andy and I and the other actors, is we said, 'What if 3,000 years from now, there is a civilization where the alpha of that world are apes?' They will look back at these characters as the heroes of the day. They will build statues of Buck.
"That's the way we wanted to tell it -- almost as a Bible story or a story like any great myth with broad resonance, I guess."
And Serkis believes the appeal of the series -- which has been around for 43 years -- is just as primal for audiences.
"We go through kind of a cycle in being interested in our closest brethren, which are apes. We have to as scientific discovery moves on and we understand more where they're coming from "¦
"We live in a time of conflict and global uncertainty and if anyone were to take over, it probably would be apes.
"But whatever species took over, they would be faced with the same problems. The selfish gene would be present in whatever species did take over. They are the closest mirror to us."
Nim a harrowing doc
It's a film about a chimp raised to believe he's human. But Project Nim isn't science-fiction.
Now playing in select cities, it's a harrowing documentary that recounts how in the 1970s, "Nim Chimpsky" was taken from his mother at infancy and brought up by homo sapiens as part of an ill-conceived behavioural experiment.
The fact it's unspooling in theatres at the same time as Rise of the Planet of the Apes is coincidence, of course. But its presence only underscores that, among summertime blockbusters, Apes is uncommonly topical and timely.
"The theme is very current -- the whole animal testing thing and do we really need it and how far can we go to change evolution in order to benefit ourselves," says Freida Pinto who co-stars in the prequel. "That makes it more interesting (as an actor) -- to deal with a subject matter like that. It was an amazing script."
And director Rupert Wright recognizes the connection as well.
"(Apes protagonist) Caesar grows up in a human environment, that's not unique -- Project Nim is a good example of that.
"But he's a very interesting experiment; at what point does he become more human than ape? Caesar has an intelligence far above that of other apes, so he's always learning. But fundamentally he begins to perceive himself as a human."
He winds up "neither here nor there. That's where the revolution begins -- (with this) Frankenstein creature who is shunned by our society and his own society."

MOVIE - MOVIE ON MONKEY WHO WAS 'RAISED AS A HUMAN'

Movie on monkey who
was 'raised as a human' 

Ape-y days ... Nim was invited to 'explore' nude woman's body

25 Jul 2011

THE life story of a chimp who was raised 'as a human' for a 1970s experiment is to be made into a film.

The primate - called Nim - was encouraged to 'explore' a nude woman's body, be breastfed and allowed to smoke as part of the weird test.
He was also dressed and fed like a young boy and was given sign language lessons to see if he could communicate with people.

Grub ... he was given human food

New York psychologist Herb Terrace launched the four-year study in 1973.
Now British director James Marsh - the man behind Oscar-winning Man On Wire - has turned his story into a film called Project Nim.

As a baby ... Nim was given a human 'mother'

'Hippy' Terrace took the chimp from his mother shortly after his birth at a primate research centre in Oklahoma, US.
He named him Nim Chimpsky - a pun on famous thinker Noam Chomsky who believed only humans have the capacity for language.
Nim was sent to live with the academic's former lover Stephanie LaFarge - who later stripped naked for him.

Idea ... boffin Terrace

She recalled: "I never felt sexually engaged with him."
Chimps are unable to speak, but after sign language lessons he was soon able to make the signs for 'eat', 'me', 'Nim' and 'hug'.
Nim became a celebrity, appearing on the cover of New York magazine in 1975 and in an episode of kids' TV show Sesame Street.
He later moved in with another woman - but when she began an affair with boffin Terrace, he lashed out.

Nim swooped from a 25ft high window and began banging her head against the floor.
Speaking in the film, the woman said: "You can't give human nurture to an animal that could kill you."
Nim was eventually returned to the primate research centre where he was born and rehoused with a cage of other chimps.
Carers told how as they walked away he gave the sign language for 'hug'.
But test results later proved he had no idea what he was saying and had simply been copying the sign used to beg for things.

He was later befriended by another hippy called Bob Ingersoll, who would share cannabis joints with him.
Bob admitted: "He liked to have fun - who doesn't."
Nim died in 2000 from a heart attack aged just 26 - tragically young as most chimps in captivity live until the age of 60.

NEWS - FORMER WIS TV ANCHOR (COLUMBIA SC) TALKS ABOUT ROLE IN 'TRANSFORMERS'

 i knew about this article BEFORE i saw the movie, and i just saw it yesterday, and have no recollection of any scenes where theres any news anchors...except at the beginning, maybe? must not have been noteworthy..lol MICHELLE

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Wednesday, Jun. 29, 2011

Former WIS anchor talks about role in ‘Transformers’

By OTIS R. TAYLOR JR.

Craig Melvin, the former WIS-10 anchor, stood in front of the camera for a live shot. But he wasn’t reporting a story for WRC-TV, the Washington, D.C., station he left WIS for in July 2008.
Melvin was on the set of “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” acting as a reporter.
“It’s a scene in D.C. and there’s a lot of activity going on behind me,” Melvin said about the shot. “I’m just supposed to be describing the activity.”

Melvin filmed the scene for the movie, which opens in theaters today, about four or five times. Director Michael Bay, known for explosively cinematic displays, sometimes uses people who actually perform the role’s job description.
“He was looking for an actual news guy,” Melvin said. “With that being said, there was an actor on standby in case the news guy was awful.”
And the scene could’ve ended up on the cutting-room floor. (Let us know, because we’re not sure we’ll make it to the theater for this one.)
Melvin has already appeared as a newscaster on the small screen. In “The Event,” NBC’s recently canceled political sci-fi drama, he played an anchor.
“They sent a script and put it in the prompter,” he said. “We did it after the newscast. It was good. I was still in news mood.”
Melvin, 32, is a rising TV star, but not because of his acting. He’s anchored the weekend edition of the “Today Show” and filled in on the cable news network MSNBC.
“It was a tremendous honor to be asked to fill in,” Melvin said. “The most exciting part, my folks back home got to watch.”
Melvin, who served as emcee at the dedication ceremony of the Hootie & The Blowfish monument in October, said he missed Columbia. In October, he’ll marry Lindsay Czarniak, a WRC reporter whom local TV viewers might recognize from TNT’s NASCAR coverage. If you’re house hunting, Melvin’s Rosewood home is on the market, he’d like you to know.
It’s a good time to be in the news business in Washington, D.C., particularly with a presidential election looming and the Republican nomination wide open.
“I feel like what I’m able to do every day is God’s plan,” said Melvin, whose Facebook page long ago reached its friend limit. “I don’t feel like this is it necessarily. As far as news, you’d be hard pressed to find a better place to do it.”

MOVIE- THE SOCIAL NETWORK

so, late last night i decided on the net too look for a movie to watch, and i remembered i had wanted to watch (at the theateres) but never did, THE SOCIAL NETWORK. so, i punch in the search bar the name of the movie, and was pleased too see it was there.


clicked the link, started to watch a movie about a young college kid who has gone and revolutionized the internet world we live in, so much so the word "social network(ing) has become common place, an every day word in our language.


and it all started with an idea...a thought.
'how to connect people online so they can share each others information.'


the next thought, was how to make this national, the idea to go global was introduced by another person.


this movie was very good, and i understood allot of the techie langauge. (too bad craig was asleep, hed prolly have enjoyed watching it too, just too se if they knew what they were talking about as far as techie info goes.)



heres what WIKIPEDIA has about the movie. (by the way WIKI is another well known word we use in our common every day language, it has become the Internets global encyclopedia..and i LOVE it!)

The Social Network

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Social Network is a 2010 drama film about the founding of the social networking website FacebookDavid Fincher and features an ensemble cast including Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake, Brenda Song, Armie Hammer, Max Minghella, Rashida Jones and Rooney Mara. and the resulting lawsuits. The film was directed by
Aaron Sorkin adapted his screenplay from Ben Mezrich's 2009 nonfiction book The Accidental Billionaires. Sorkin also makes a cameo appearance as a would-be investor. No Facebook personnel, including founder Mark Zuckerberg, were involved with the project, although Eduardo Saverin was a consultant for Mezrich's story.^[3] The film was released in the United States by Columbia Pictures on October 1, 2010 to critical acclaim.

Plot 

In 2003, Harvard University student Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) has the idea to create a website to rate the attractiveness of female Harvard undergraduates after his girlfriend Erica Albright breaks up with him. Mark hacks into the databases of various residence halls, downloads pictures and names of female students and, in a few hours, using an algorithm for ranking chess players supplied by his best friend Eduardo SaverinAndrew Garfield), he creates a website called "FaceMash", where male students can iteratively choose which of two girls presented at a time is more attractive. (
Mark is punished with six months of academic probation after the traffic to the site brings down parts of Harvard's network, and becomes vilified among most of Harvard's female community. However, the popularity of "FaceMash" and the fact that he created it in one night, while drunk, brings him to the attention of Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss (Armie Hammer), identical twins and members of Harvard's rowing team, and their business partner Divya Narendra (Max Minghella). As a result, he gains a job working for the Winklevoss twins as the programmer of their website, Harvard Connection.
Soon afterwards, Mark approaches his friend Eduardo and tells him of his idea for what he calls "Thefacebook", an online social networking website exclusive to Harvard University students. He explains this would let people share personal and social information securely. Eduardo agrees to help Mark, providing a thousand dollars to help start the site. They distribute the link to Eduardo's connections at the Phoenix S-Kfinal club, and it quickly becomes popular throughout the student body. When they learn of Thefacebook, the Winklevoss twins and Narendra believe that Zuckerberg had stolen their idea while simultaneously stalling on their website. Cameron and Divya want to sue Mark for intellectual property theft, but Tyler convinces them they can settle the matter as "Harvard gentlemen" without resorting to the courts.
At a visiting lecture by Bill Gates, fellow Harvard University student Christy Lee (Brenda Song) introduces herself and her best friend Alice to Eduardo and Mark. She asks that the boys "Facebook us"; their use of this phrase impresses both of them. Christy invites them to a bar, where she and Eduardo have sex in the restroom. Mark later runs into his ex-girlfriend, who is not aware of The Facebook's existence because she is not a Harvard University student. Stung by this, Mark decides to expand the site to more schools.
As The Facebook grows in popularity, they expand to other schools in the Northeastern United States, while the Winklevoss twins and Narendra become angrier at seeing "their idea" advance without them. Tyler refuses to sue them, instead accusing Mark of violating the Harvard student Code of Conduct. Through their father's connections they arrange a meeting with Harvard President Larry Summers, who is dismissive and sees no potential value in either a disciplinary action or in Thefacebook website itself.
Through Christy Lee, now Eduardo's girlfriend, Eduardo and Mark arrange a meeting with NapsterSean Parker (Justin Timberlake). When Christy, Mark and Eduardo meet Sean Parker, Eduardo becomes skeptical of Parker, noting his problematic personal and professional history. Christy also notes that Eduardo seems jealous of Parker, and attempts to calm him in order to avoid causing a scene. Mark, however, is impressed with Parker, who presents a vision for Facebook similar to his own. Although no deals are reached, in a parting comment, Parker suggests that they drop "The" from Thefacebook, to make it simply "Facebook". Eduardo later characterizes this as Parker's biggest contribution to the project. co-founder
At Parker's suggestion, Mark moves the company's base of operation to Palo Alto, while Eduardo remains in New York seeking advertising support. When Eduardo visits from New York, he is angered to find that Parker is living at the house they have rented and is making business decisions for Facebook. After an argument with Mark, Eduardo freezes the company's bank account and returns to New York. Upon returning, Christy argues with Eduardo about his Facebook profile, which still lists him as "single". When Christy questions Eduardo about why he has not changed his Facebook profile, he tells her he does not know how to, further infuriating Christy because she believes he is lying. She cites his profile as evidence he cheated on her with promiscuous women in Silicon Valley and subsequently sets fire to a scarf he has given to her as a gift. While Eduardo extinguishes the fire, Mark reveals on the phone that they have secured money from an angel investor through Parker's contacts. As a result of Christy's arson attempt, Eduardo ends his relationship with her.
Meanwhile in England, while competing in the Henley Royal Regatta for Harvard, the Winklevoss twins discover that Facebook has expanded to a number of universities there. They decide to sue. Eduardo discovers that the deal he signed with Parker's investors has allowed them to dilute his share of the company from thirty-four percent to three hundredths of a percent, while maintaining the ownership percentage of all other parties. He confronts his erstwhile friend Mark and announces his intention to sue him. Later that night, during a party celebrating Facebook's 1 millionth member, Parker and a number of Facebook interns are arrested for possession of cocaine.
The framing device throughout the film shows Mark testifying in depositions in two lawsuits: one filed by the Winklevoss twins, and the other filed by Eduardo. In the final scene, Marilyn Delpy (Rashida Jones), a junior lawyer for the defense informs Mark they will be settling with Eduardo, since the sordid details of Facebook's founding and Mark's personality will make a jury highly unsympathetic. The film ends with Mark sending a friend request to his former girlfriend Erica on Facebook, and refreshing the page every few seconds waiting for a response.

thats pretty much the whole movie, in a nutshell. but the parts i liked best were the scheming to make an idea into something thats now..global..everywhere, and has 500 MILLION users on it. and...the final word on mark? hes now the YOUNGEST..BILLIONAIRE EVER!.


yes, dreams do come, its how we make them bigger than counts.


now, i can remember when i signed onto facebook, years ago..(like 6, maybe?) and i hated it..plain white and blue interface, couldnt customize it with any backgrounds, seemed stupid to get poll reviews from total strangers...left it alone for about 18 months, and something made me go back. maybe a notification in my email said someone was looking for me and wanted to connect through facebook (i really dont remember)..so i went back. at the time i was largley on MYSPACE...but something happened when i went back to go look at facebook again...
i came away telling my family: "THIS (Facebook) will be BIGGER than Myspace!" to which, of course came the laughs and comments.


within another 18 months...news articles and statistics showed..it had met the potential i saw it reaching...


and ive been there every day since.


freinds of mine (including my hubby) have said they would NEVER be a facebooker...and they are...my husband is so much so, its his OTHER social lifestyle...
its the games, i think...that make it so popular...thats why im there...to play games...all for free!


ive had family i never knew i had, contact me on Facebook...and we connected. shared family history, and family lines.


i havnt seen anything else come up into our lives as fast as this entity has, and stay as long as it has...i dont see anyone else coming up with anything better...for a LOOOOONG time!


for something i once hated, im there every day...
theres a line one character says on the movie...
"TheFacebook is addictive." my son and i lauoghed. she went on to say "i dont know why, but im like in 5 times a day." 
i have her beat..im in it ALL day, and its the 1st thing i check in the morning (mastering those farmville crops..lol)
last thing i do before i go to bed (refreshing and replanting those farmville crops..lol)


it IS, the future, right here, right now.
plucked from its brnches at exactly the right time.
i love the site now. even though they make constant changes to the site (and its for a better flow, and dynamic.)
FACEBOOK..YOUR ONE IN A MILLION! keep on, keeping on!


MICHELLE