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Can we all just admit Ready Player One was terrible?

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Anghus Houvouras on Ready Player One… Every movie doesn’t need to be a movement. These are some wise words spoken by one of cinema’s most prolific and revered voices: Myself. This deep kernel of wisdom was uttered sometime around the turn of the century when everyone was freaking out about the tragedy of Star Wars: […]

Steven Spielberg says Ready Player Two is in the works, but he’s only producing it

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Steven Spielberg has revealed an adaptation of Ready Player Two is in the works, but this time around he will only be on producer duties. 2018’s Ready Player One provided Spielberg with one of his biggest box-office hits in years, grossing over $600 million worldwide and earning largely positive reviews, so when author Ernest Cline […]

Ready Player One images show off the characters and their avatars

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Entertainment Weekly has revealed a batch of new stills and behind the scenes images for the upcoming sci-fi fantasy Ready Player One featuring Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) and Samantha Cook (Olivia Cooke), and their avatars Parzival and Art3mis, James Halliday (Mark Rylance), Ogden “Og” Morrow (Simon Pegg), Anorak, the High Five, Diato (Win Morisaki), Shoto (Philip […]

Tye Sheridan and Olivia Cooke featured in new image from Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One

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Empire has revealed a new images from Steven Spielberg’s upcoming adaptation of Ernest Cline’s New York Times best-selling sci-fi novel Ready Player One featuring Tye Sheridan and Olivia Cooke; check it out below… SEE ALSO: Watch the trailer for Ready Player One here In the year 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage […]

Justice League trailer, Valerian flops hard, Thor: Ragnarok trailer and more – Weekend News Roundup

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YOU CAN’T SAVE THE WORLD ALONE While Marvel Studios (again) didn’t release their trailer for Avengers: Infinity War from San Diego Comic Con, Warner Bros. put up a whopping four-minute trailer for this November’s Justice League. The trailer features Batman (Ben Affleck), Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot), The Flash (Ezra Miller), Cyborg (Ray Fisher) and Aquaman […]

The Highest Grossing Movies of 2017

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Luke Owen explores the highest grossing movies of 2017… Another movie year has come to a close, and what a year it has been. We’ve had five movies from the Marvel and DC movie universes, another entry into Star Wars cannon, and several horror films break into the mainstream media and earn huge money at […]

Movie Review – Ready Player One (2018)

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Ready Player One, 2018. Directed by Steven Spielberg. Starring Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, Mark Rylance, Simon Pegg, T.J. Miller, Lena Waithe, Hannah John-Kamen, Ralph Ineson, Mckenna Grace, Win Morisaki, Susan Lynch, and Philip Zhao. SYNOPSIS: When the creator of a virtual reality world called the OASIS dies, he releases a video in which he […]

Ready Player Two plot revealed by Ernest Cline

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The sequel to Ready Player One will hit bookshelves in a few weeks and now the plot has been revealed. author Ernest Cline revealed Ready Player Two‘s story in a virtual appearance with Wil Wheaton at the New York Comic Con. You can watch the panel below… Cline appeared with Wheaton, who will narrate the Ready Player Two audio […]

Ready Player One home entertainment release date and special features revealed

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Warner Bros. has announced the home entertainment release of Steven Spielberg’s acclaimed adaptation of Ernest Cline’s cult novel Ready Player One which is set to hit Digital on July 3rd followed by a 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, and DVD release on July 24th; check out the cover artwork and special features here… SUPPORT FLICKERING MYTH: […]