Mikey Madison as Frances Haugen fills Sony Pictures UK's week before October 9
Most of the fifteen uploads tease Aaron Sorkin's The Social Reckoning, while a Jenna Ortega short for Klara and the Sun drew the biggest crowd.
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The Social Reckoning - Reckoning Clip - Only In Cinemas October 9
Fifteen uploads, and most of them carried a single film. Sony Pictures Releasing UK spent the week counting down to The Social Reckoning, Aaron Sorkin's new screenplay, which the studio bills as a companion piece to The Social Network and which opens in cinemas on October 9. Mikey Madison plays Frances Haugen, the Facebook engineer turned whistleblower, and Jeremy Allen White plays Jeff Horwitz, the Wall Street Journal reporter she turns to. Jeremy Strong, Betty Gilpin, Wunmi Mosaku and Bill Burr are in the cast too, which suits a writer whose films tend to be crowded rooms full of fast talk.
The campaign arrived as a stream of short teasers with titles like "Three words say it all" and "They knew what they were doing," plus a longer Reckoning Clip that is picking up speed as release day nears.
The most watched upload of the week came from a different film. A short introducing Jenna Ortega as Klara, the artificial friend at the heart of Klara and the Sun, passed 20,000 views. Its comment section fixed on one cut: Klara notices the tension between Josie and her mother, and the very next shot has Josie sweeping the kitchenware off the table. Viewers found the timing funnier than perhaps intended. Verity, meanwhile, is still on the schedule: a day-old short for the thriller is moving fastest of anything new.
The channel as a whole ran slower than its usual pace, adding about a thousand subscribers. Among film studio channels, Warner Bros. Rewind and Legendary are the ones having a lively week, while Focus Features, the biggest of the group, is calmer than normal. On views gained, Sony's British channel sits in the middle of that group.
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"klara instantly notices the tension between josie and her mother" followed by josie knocking down all the kitchenware from the table in an emotional outburst was so unintentionally (?) funny
@MissKilmanSee it on YouTubeIt's coming out on the day of my 25th birthday I wanna watch it
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The videos drawing views on Sony Pictures Releasing UK right now
Jenna Ortega is Klara. #KlaraAndTheSun #Shorts20,420 views · 2026-10-02
You heard it here first. The Social Reckoning, a companion piece to T…4,883 views · 2026-10-02
Three words say it all. The Social Reckoning, a companion piece to Th…4,791 views · 2026-10-03
Information can change the course of the world. The Social Reckoning.…4,302 views · 2026-10-05
It's never over 😩 #VerityFilm #Shorts3,893 views · 2026-10-06
They knew what they were doing. The Social Reckoning. #Shorts1,884 views
- Channel
- Sony Pictures Releasing UK
- Subscribers
- 573,000 ▲ 1,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 3,637,682
- Videos published this week
- 15
- Video published
- October 5, 2026
- Video views so far
- 5,816
- Views on its first day
- 3,060
The numbers
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Under what name did The Wall Street Journal publish its 2021 series based on Frances Haugen's documents?
The Wall Street Journal ran its reporting on Haugen's internal Facebook documents as a series called The Facebook Files in 2021.
