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Ready Player One opens with $181 million worldwide

April 1, 2018 by Gary Collinson

Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One has enjoyed a healthy debut at the global box office, pulling in $181.3 million worldwide. Domestically, the pop culture sci-fi grossed $53.2 million across the Thursday to Sunday period to take top spot ahead of Tyler Perry’s Acrimony, and pulled in a further $128 million from […]

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: Ready Player One, Steven Spielberg

Movie Review – Ready Player One (2018)

March 31, 2018 by Ricky Church

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 […]

Filed Under: Movies, Reviews, Ricky Church Tagged With: Ben Mendelsohn, Hannah John-Kamen, Lena Waithe, Mark Rylance, Mckenna Grace, olivia cooke, Philip Zhao, Ralph Ineson, Ready Player One, Simon Pegg, Steven Spielberg, Susan Lynch, T.J. Miller, Tye Sheridan, Win Morisaki

Ready Player One opens with $3.8 million in Wednesday previews

March 29, 2018 by Matt Rodgers

Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One got off to a solid start at the North American box-office, with its Wednesday night previews collecting $3.8 million worth of coins for the Warner Bros. blockbuster. Box-office analysts have the adaptation of Ernest Cline’s book reaching between $38 to $42 million over this four-day weekend. Ready Player One will […]

Filed Under: Matt Rodgers, Movies, News Tagged With: Ben Mendelsohn, Ernest Cline, Mark Rylance, olivia cooke, Ready Player One, Simon Pegg, Steven Spielberg, Tye Sheridan

Steven Spielberg’s involvement allowed Ready Player One to be crammed with pop-culture references, according to writer Zak Penn

March 29, 2018 by Jordan Jones

One of the best aspects of Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One is its unabashed affection for the past. Reading the book feels like a freefall into the 1980s, with each page packed to the brim with nostalgia. With that said, any film adaptation of Ready Player One would need access to this wealth of pop-culture […]

Filed Under: Jordan Jones, Movies, News Tagged With: Ready Player One, Steven Spielberg, Zak Penn

Ready Player One to win Easter weekend with $42 million at the box office

March 28, 2018 by Samuel Brace

Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One is looking to come out of the Easter weekend the victor with a projected $42 million at the US box office. Now that Black Panther is finally slowing down at the box office, other movies are starting to come into the frame. Once such feature is Ready Player One, the […]

Filed Under: Movies, News, Samuel Brace Tagged With: Ready Player One, Steven Spielberg

Exclusive Interview – Author Ernest Cline on Ready Player One and working with Steven Spielberg

March 28, 2018 by Gary Collinson

Coinciding with its UK release, Flickering Myth’s Thomas Harris has been chatting to author Ernest Cline about Steven Spielberg’s acclaimed adaptation of his cult novel Ready Player One, and collaborating with Spielberg on the movie; watch the interview below, or check it out over on our YouTube channel here… SEE ALSO: Steven Spielberg’s involvement allowed […]

Filed Under: Exclusives, Gary Collinson, Interviews, Movies, Thomas Harris Tagged With: Ernest Cline, Ready Player One, Steven Spielberg

Movie Review – Ready Player One (2018)

March 27, 2018 by Robert Kojder

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 […]

Filed Under: Movies, Reviews, Robert Kojder Tagged With: Ben Mendelsohn, Hannah John-Kamen, Lena Waithe, Mark Rylance, Mckenna Grace, olivia cooke, Philip Zhao, Ralph Ineson, Ready Player One, Simon Pegg, Susan Lynch, T.J. Miller, Tye Sheridan, Win Morisaki

Ready Player One images show off the characters and their avatars

March 24, 2018 by Amie Cranswick

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 […]

Filed Under: Amie Cranswick, Movies, News Tagged With: Lena Waithe, Mark Rylance, olivia cooke, phlip zhao, Ready Player One, Simon Pegg, Steven Spielberg, Tye Sheridan, Win Morisaki

Second Opinion – Ready Player One (2018)

March 24, 2018 by Rafael Motamayor

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, and Philip Zhao. SYNOPSIS: When the creator of a virtual reality world called the OASIS dies, he releases a video in which he challenges all […]

Filed Under: Movies, Rafael Motamayor, Reviews Tagged With: Ben Mendelsohn, Hannah John-Kamen, Lena Waithe, Mark Rylance, Mckenna Grace, olivia cooke, Philip Zhao, Ralph Ineson, Ready Player One, Simon Pegg, Steven Spielberg, Win Morisaki

Check out an IMAX featurette for Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One

March 24, 2018 by Amie Cranswick

With exactly a week to go until Ready Player One arrives in cinemas, IMAX has released a behind the scenes featurette for the upcoming big screen adaptation of Ernest Cline’s cult novel which includes interviews with director Steven Spielberg, author Cline, stars Lena Waithe, Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, and Ben Mendelsohn, producers Kristie Macosko Krieger, Donald […]

Filed Under: Amie Cranswick, Movies, News Tagged With: Ben Mendelsohn, Ernest Cline, Lena Waithe, olivia cooke, Ready Player One, Steven Spielberg, Tye Sheridan

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