The $45 million dollar film, written by Aaron Sorkin and directed by David Fincher, started production in October this year in Boston, and for the past few days, the crew were at Johns Hopkins University at Washington to film a scene of the movie. The much anticipated film will tell the story of how Mark Zukerberg turned his site, which was created from a Harvard dorm room, to the world’s most popular social networking platform.

“The Facebook Movie”, officially known as “The Social Network”, will be released in 2010. The film stars Jesse Eisenberg as Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Justin Timberlake as Sean Parker, an early investor in the social networking site and co-founder of Napster.

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