Ready Player One Solidifies Steven Spielberg as a Record-Breaking Storyteller

You can’t put a price on your favorite movie memories, but here’s a rough value of Steven Spielberg’s catalog of films. Ready Player One reached number one at the box office in its opening week pushing Spielberg’s lifetime gross past $10 billion.

Spielberg is the first filmmaker to cross that threshold making him the most profitable director of all time. The visionary director has been behind the lens for more than half a century,

Ready Player One Turns Virtual Adventure into Box Office Victory

Jaws, Raider of the Lost Ark, Jurassic Park, Minority Report. The list goes on for Steven Spielberg blockbusters, and now there’s a certified addition to that elite group. Spielberg dominated the box office again this weekend with Ready Player One. The virtual adventure commanded audiences to the tune of $53.2 million in the US with $128 million more overseas.

Spielberg has a legendary history of displaying a mastery over mega movies.

There is Way More to Steven Spielberg’s Thrilling Ready Player One Than ’80s References

Play the trailer for Ready Player One in any public space, and you’ll likely get one of three reactions. The youngest in the crowd will almost instantly know what you’re watching, and will tell you they can’t wait to see it. Older demographics will automatically recognize the opening strains of the Van Halen’s Jump, and pause just the same. Still others will stop to tell you how fantastic the book was. Ready Player One is one of those rare stories that truly has something for everyone.

Ready Player One Prepares for Opening with New Poster Highlighting Wade’s Epic Adventure

Are you ready? With less than a week left until Ready Player One is released in theaters, Warner Bros. has released a new poster ahead of the premiere, as fans continue parsing the latest trailers and theme song. The crowds at SXSW were thrilled with the screening they saw.

Ready Player One is adapted from the novel by Ernest Cline,

Prepare to Journey to the OASIS with the Ready Player One Theme Song

In any Spielberg movie, there is a chance you’ll encounter a horrible danger: dinosaurs, aliens, man eating sharks etc. Although faced with absolute fear and terrible odds, there’s an excitement that makes audiences line up to embark on that adventure. Spielberg has a filmmaking magic that extends into the score. The Ready Player One main theme most certainly captures the thrill of exploring a new land.

WaterTower Music has shared the main title theme and it’s as epic as you would hope.

New Ready Player One Trailer is an 80s Video Gamer’s Dream

Ready Player One looks like the ultimate video game dreamscape of any 80s kid, and probably the future of every kid born after 2015. The latest trailer dives deeper into the objective of the game and shows off a fantastic virtual Nirvana.

The action takes place in the “OASIS”, a virtual reality world created by the recently deceased James Halliday (Mark Rylance). Game development is to these kids what chocolate was to Augustus Gloop.

Ready Player One Reactions at SXSW Rejoice at Spielberg’s Return to Blockbuster Form

It was big news when the film world found out Steven Spielberg would be adapting Ernest Cline’s blockbuster sci-fi novel “Ready Player One,” and now, after a screening of the film at SXSW, the first reactions are hailing the legendary director’s return to the blockbuster format he practically invented. Lovers of the novel, lovers of the many 1980s pop culture references Cline built his novel around, and lovers of Spielberg’s blockbusters, rejoice—Ready Player One works.

Leave Reality for the Oasis in new Trailer for Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One

Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One has a brand new trailer, ingeniously set to a cover of “Pure Imagination,” the iconic song from 1971’s Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Spielberg’s film, adapted by Zak Penn from Ernest Cline’s blockbuster novel, follows Wade Watts (X-Men‘s Tye Sheridan), a bored teenager who, like millions of other kids, finds purpose in the virtual world of the OASIS, where the only limit to who you can be and what you can do is what you can imagine.

Watch the Thrilling new Trailer for Steven Spielberg’s Return to Blockbuster Filmmaking With Ready Player One

Steven Spielberg’s return to blockbuster filmmaking looks about as thrilling and massive as you’d expect. Behold, a brand new trailer for Ready Player One, Spielberg’s adaptation of Ernest Cline’s ‘80s-loving sci-fi novel, a eye-popping, futuristic romp set to Van Halen’s “Jump” and boasting some of the most striking visuals in Spielberg’s recent career. Watch it for the frame filling details, stay for the King Kong cameo.

The film follows Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan),

Comic-Con 2017: Watch the First Trailer for Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One

Ready Player One has been making waves since it was first published to wide-spread attention and acclaim in 2011. That momentum shows no signs of slowing down any time soon, with the first trailer for the film version debuting at Comic-Con over the weekend. Part high-stakes quest, and part ode to bygone decades, Ready Player One already has a loyal following. After the release of this trailer, one can only expect that fan base to grow.

Silicon Valley‘s TJ Miller Joins Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One

It was just last Friday when we shared this video of Silicon Valley's TJ Miller's hilarious riffs on how old "Action" Jake Barker is (Stephen Tobolowsky). Miller's star has been slowly rising for a while now, beginning in 2008’s Cloverfield, finally reaching a point in the firmament where people really started to take notice once landed on Silicon Valley. He recently played Weasel in February's smash hit