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Ready Player One opens with $181 million worldwide

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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 […]

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 […]

Steven Spielberg thinks Netflix films are TV movies and shouldn’t qualify for the Oscars

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Out on the promotional rounds for his new film Ready Player One, legendary director Steven Spielberg has been chatting about current trends in filmmaking – and specifically, the rise of original content on streaming services such as Netflix. “A lot of studios today would rather just make branded, tentpole, guaranteed box office hits from their […]

Colin Trevorrow returning to direct third Jurassic World movie

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Having handed over the reins on Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom to J.A. Bayona in order to focus on Star Wars: Episode IX, a project he’s since departed amid creative differences, it has now been revealed that Jurassic World helmer Colin Trevorrow will be returning to the director’s chair to close out the trilogy. “Colin Trevorrow […]

Ready Player One opens with $3.8 million in Wednesday previews

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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 […]

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

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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 […]

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

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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 […]

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

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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 […]

Steven Spielberg, Steven Zaillian and Javier Bardem team for miniseries Cortes

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Amazon Studios is reteaming Schindler’s List director Steven Spielberg and screenwriter Steven Zaillian for Cortes, a new four-hour miniseries based around the exploits of the legendary Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes. Created for television and written by Zaillian from an original screenplay by Dalton Trumbo (Roman Holiday), Cortes will see Oscar winner Javier Bardem (No Country […]

Steven Spielberg won’t ‘George Lucas’ any more of his old films after E.T. backlash

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While his good pal George Lucas was fond of tweaking his Star Wars movies at every available opportunity, Steven Spielberg has revealed that he has no plans to revisit and digitally ‘enhance’ any of his old films after the backlash he received for doing just that to the 1982 classic E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial. “I got […]