Posted on 03/31/2018 6:29:30 AM PDT by Simon Green
The big-budget film, nabbing an A- CinemaScore, is skewing heavily male so far.
Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One kicked off its box-office run Thursday with $12 million from 4,234 theaters for a possible U.S. debut of $50 million or more.
The big-budget film opened a day early to get a jump on Easter weekend and take advantage of some kids being out of school. So far, it is skewing heavily male (at least 59 percent), with 68 percent of ticket buyers under the age of 35. Audiences bestowed the film with an A- CinemaScore.
Ready Player One will easily top the chart in its launch, and will be Spielberg's biggest opening since the last Indiana Jones movie, which launched to $100.1 million in summer 2008.
The sci-fi adventure — which marks Spielberg's return to popcorn fare — is a big gamble, considering it cost Warners and Village Roadshow an estimated $175 million to produce before marketing. It also launches in numerous major foreign markets timed to its U.S. bow, including China. The pic has raked in $25 million in overseas markets, including a strong $14.6 million in China, bringing its foreign total to $28.3 million.
The movie, based on Ernest Cline's pop-culture-soaked novel about a teen's quest to win control over a virtual universe, will need to do sizable business over the course of its run to land in the black.
Spielberg remains one of Hollywood's most respected directors. Ready Player One is the first film he has made for Warners since A.I. Artificial Intelligence, which was released in 2001.
Infused with references to the 1980s, Ready Player One stars Tye Sheridan as Wade Watts, a young man who gets caught up in the virtual-reality world known as the OASIS, which was created by the brilliant and eccentric James Halliday (Mark Rylance). Watts and his friends are determined to find the Easter eggs that will give them control of OASIS.
Spielberg directed from an adapted script by Zak Penn and Cline. Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, T.J. Miller and Simon Pegg also star.
Two other films open nationwide over Easter weekend: Tyler Perry's psychological thriller Acrimony and the faith-based God's Not Dead: A Light in Darkness.
Acrimony, starring Taraji P. Henson, Lyriq Bent, Jazmyn Simon and Crystle Stewart, grossed a strong $1 million in Thursday-night previews.
http://freebeacon.com/issues/march-lives-now-operating-dark-money-nonprofit-advocacy-group/
“March for our lives”
If they really cared about lives they would be focusing on why to date schools have zero security whereas anybody can walk in completely unopposed, why they continually refuse to have even one armed guard, why the FBI ignored Nikolas Cruz, why nothing was done about him after the cops were called on him 37 times. Yes, but this is all the fault of the NRA who the left is now calling “child killers” which is laughable since the left insists that taxpayers finance the killing of half a million unborn kids a year.
I’ve seen the previews. It looks absolutely amazing. And the references to old memes (Iron Giant, Back to the Future, etc.) is awesome.
I always wait for movies to come out on Blue Ray before I watch them, but this one might me necessary in 3D, assuming it is released that way.
Ready Player One was a fun sci-fi read. Lots of 1980’s video game nostalgia along with an interesting plot line.
F&G Ping
I saw it Thursday, totally awesome!
I broke my movie boycott to see this. Was well worth it. Not the greatest story in the world, but the effects were jaw dropping. Needs to be seen on the big screen to appreciate it.
**”Oprah Winfrey, George Clooney, Steven Spielberg, and Jeffrey Katzenberg have each donated $500,000 to the March for Our Lives gun control rally.”**
They only have the money to donate because folks can’t figure out how to make their own entertainment. That’s what dumbing down does. The need for “escapism”; in the process, relying on anti-christs to get that fix.
The organism needs you to survive. Don’t feed it.
The death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ is celebrated this weekend. A movie about vain imaginings, that further enriches those that hate the Lord of glory, is simply poisoning the viewer’s mind, while taking away hard earned income.
Want to win a momentary universe on the cheap? Keep the commies out of your wallet: Play a game of chess.
It looks like a throwback to 80’s movies.
I'll be playing s game of Call of Cthulhu tonight...
:-)
Should Spielberg really be doing more kid movies with so much info leaking about his predilections? Isn’t it like Harvey Weinstein doing a “Sultan of Brunei and his Harem” biopic?
http://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2017/11/todays-blind-items-long-time-coming.html
This is not the only descriptive blind item about Spielberg in this direction. Slowly the talking is growing louder. You ask how Weinstein got away with this for decades. IT IS STILL GOING ON. In th very center of all those movie stars at awards shows are people like Meryl Streep and Steven Spielberg, still worshipped, still making millions off the public, still scaring their victims into staying quiet.
I plan on seeing Paul
Or go see Paul
I'll be seeing "Ready Player One" next week.
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