The Social Network has stormed to the top of the U.S. box office as it toppled Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.
The Social Network follows the story of the birth of Facebook as Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake and Andrew Garfield all join forces for the movie.
On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea.
In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication.
A mere six years and 500 million friends later, Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in history, but for this entrepreneur, success leads to both personal and legal complications.
The movie took $23 million in it's opening weekend to comfortably take the top spot. Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga 'Hoole moved up one place from three to two, taking $10.9 million.
Last week's number one Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps fell two place to number three after just a week at the top.
Ben Affleck's new movie The Town was the second new entry inside the top ten at number four, having received rave reviews from the critics.
Easy A dropped one place to round off the top five. You Again was also down just one place to this week's number six.
Cast 39, the new movie from Renee Zellweger, was in at seven while Let Me In, the American re-make of Let The Right One In, wad a fourth new entry at eight.
Devil was this week's biggest faller as it dropped from six to nine while Alpha and Omega was down two to number ten.
1. (-) The Social Network - $23,000,000
2. (2) Legend Of The Guardians: The Owls Of Ga'Hoole - $10,900,000
3. (1) Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps - $10,100,000
4. (-) The Town - $10,000,000
5. (4) Easy A - $7,000,000
6. (5) You Again - $5,600,000
7. (-) Case 39 - $5,400,000
8. (-) Let Me In - $5,300,000
9. (6) Devil - $3,700,000
10. (8) Alpha And Omega - $3,000,000
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