Overview
- Studio materials and a trailer released on June 10 announced The Social Reckoning and set a theatrical release date of October 9, 2026.
- Aaron Sorkin is credited as the film’s writer, director and producer, returning to the Facebook story he helped dramatize in 2010.
- Jeremy Strong stars as Mark Zuckerberg with Mikey Madison as Frances Haugen and Jeremy Allen White as Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz.
- The movie dramatizes reporting from the 2021 Wall Street Journal ‘Facebook Files,’ including internal findings on harm to teenagers, algorithms that amplified divisive content, and the platform’s role in spreading disinformation.
- Press notes list multiple producers and executive producers and outlets differ on distributor attribution, with some naming Sony Pictures and others Columbia Pictures.