According to the Hollywood Reporter, Disney has made a rare venture into the spec script world, winning a bidding war for a new pitch by John Whittington, the screenwriter who contributed to The Lego Batman Movie and The Lego Ninjago Movie and wrote the Netflix rom com When We First Met. But what is it about? The THR article only says that it is a … Continue reading Disney Picks Up ‘Lego Batman’ Writer’s Mysterious Adventure!!
Ready Player Two, Ernest Cline‘s highly-anticipated sequel to his blockbuster debut novel Ready Player One, is set to publish on Nov. 24, it was announced Wednesday by Ballantine Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House. Ready Player One was set in a near-future dystopia where people escape the chaos of the real world for an expansive virtual universe called the OASIS where they can create … Continue reading ‘Ready Player One’ Sequel Novel Is Coming This November!!
The Oscar nominations are here at last. It’s been a whirlwind of an awards season packed with plenty of drama and controversy after controversy. It has also been one of the most unpredictable seasons in recent memory, with the field wide open in a number of categories. Roma and The Favourite picked up the most nominations of any film with 10 nods each, including Best … Continue reading Oscar Nominations 2019: ‘Roma’ and ‘The Favourite’ Lead with 10 Nominations!! Check Out The Full List!!
Nominations have been announced for the upcoming Critics Choice Awards, and it’s a mix of this awards season’s usual suspects with a few welcome additions. The Favourite leads the charge with 14 nominations in total, including Best Picture, Best Acting Ensemble, and Best Director for Yorgos Lanthimos. Just behind the biting period piece is Marvel Studios’ Black Panther, which scored 12 nominations including Best Picture, … Continue reading ‘The Favourite’ and ‘Black Panther’ Lead Critics Choice Awards Nominations!! Check Out The Full List!!
Audiences assembled worldwide as Disney and Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War broke both the domestic opening weekend box office record and worldwide opening record with a massive $250 million domestically and $630 million worldwide. In its wake, the majority of films on the weekend box office chart fell dramatically, though fellow Marvel Cinematic Universe release Black Panther improved its position from eighth place last weekend to … Continue reading ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Scores Biggest Opening Weekend of All-Time With $630M at the Worldwide BO!!!
Early on it looked as if it might be a tight race for the weekend #1, and while the margin was slim, in the end A Quiet Place settled into the spot, topping last weekend’s champion Rampage. STX‘s I Feel Pretty settled into third over its debut weekend, delivering results a shade over expectations, narrowly topping the outstanding performance from Fox Searchlight‘s Super Troopers 2, … Continue reading ‘A Quiet Place’ Takes Back #1 Spot, As ‘I Feel Pretty’ and ‘Super Troopers 2’ Open Above Expectations at the BO!!
It was nearly an upset at the weekend box office, but Warner Bros. and New Line‘s Rampage was able to hold off a strong second weekend from Paramount‘s hit horror/thriller A Quiet Place to take the weekend’s #1 spot. But that doesn’t discount the fact A Quiet Place is less than $400k shy of topping $100 million domestically after just ten days in release. Additionally, … Continue reading ‘Rampage’ Tops Weekend as ‘A Quiet Place’ Continues Strong at the BO!!!
After beginning its quest in 62 markets last weekend, Warner Bros/Village Roadshow’s Ready Player One maintained the high score at the international box office, grossing $81.7M to lead the chart this session. That sets the Steven Spielberg pic on track for $300M overseas and $400M global in the coming days. The total cumes through Sunday are $294.4M offshore with $391.3M worldwide. Remarkable has been the … Continue reading ‘Ready Player One’ Racing To $400M WW; Scores $161M In China For WB Best International BO!!!
With a $50 million debut, Paramount‘s A Quiet Place finished atop the weekend box office in impressive fashion and while Universal‘s Blockers didn’t deliver even half of what A Quiet Place did, the film’s $21 million debut was a solid start for the low budget R-rated comedy. The weekend also saw a very strong hold for Warner Bros.’s Ready Player One and Disney and Marvel‘s … Continue reading ‘A Quiet Place’ Tops ‘Ready Player One’ with Huge $50 Million Opening at the BO!!!
Coming in on par with Mojo‘s pre-weekend forecast, Steven Spielberg‘s Ready Player One topped the weekend box office and delivered the director’s largest opening weekend in ten years. The weekend also saw a strong second place debut for Lionsgate‘s Acrimony, the latest film from Tyler Perry, while Black Panther and I Can Only Imagine remain in the top five with their continued impressive runs. Not … Continue reading ‘Ready Player One’ Tops With $53M Four-Day Debut at the Easter Weekend BO!!!
Synopsis – When the creator of a virtual reality world called the OASIS dies, he releases a video in which he challenges all OASIS users to find his Easter Egg, which will give the finder his fortune. My Take – I will be honest, despite the gratuitous criticism directed towards him, I still remain a huge fan of director Steven Spielberg’s work. From the 1970s … Continue reading Ready Player One (2018) Review!!!
While Steven Spielberg called an audible in 2017 and put together, shot, and released The Post in what has to be some kind of record time, with Ready Player One hitting theaters this month the filmmaker is now turning to what’s next. It was announced in March 2016 that Spielberg and Harrison Ford were reuniting for Indiana Jones 5, which at the time had a July … Continue reading Steven Spielberg Reveals ‘Indiana Jones 5’ Filming Start-Date and Location!!!
Fresh off some pretty glowing reactions from the film’s premiere at SXSW, Warner Bros. has released a bounty of new Ready Player One movie images from director Steven Spielberg’s upcoming adaptation. Based on the novel of the same name by Ernest Cline, the film follows Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan), who spends most of his time in a Virtual Reality space called the OASIS hunting for special … Continue reading 65 New ‘Ready Player One’ Images Further Reveal Steven Spielberg’s Easter Egg-Filled Blockbuster!! Check It Out!!
Synopsis – When the creator of an MMO called the Oasis dies, he releases a video in which he challenges all Oasis users to find his Easter Egg, which will give the finder his fortune. Wade Watts finds the first clue and starts a race for the Egg. Directed – Steven Spielberg Starring – Hannah John-Kamen, T.J. Miller, Ben Mendelsohn Check out the trailer: Continue reading New ‘Ready Player One’ Trailer Is the Most Immersive and Coherent Yet!! Check It Out!!
Steven Spielberg’s next movie will be Indiana Jones 5, which is currently due out July 10, 2020. We previously reported that Spielberg would follow Indy with a remake of West Side Story and he was currently casting the lead roles. However, Variety now reports that Spielberg might be shuffling up his slate. He recently held a table read for an untitled biopic about famous composer … Continue reading Steven Spielberg May Move from ‘West Side Story’ to Leonard Bernstein Biopic!!!
Warner Bros. has released a new Ready Player One TV spot, and it has me returning to my mantra about the film, “Trust in Spielberg.” That’s not to say that director Steven Spielberg has never made a bad movie, but if he hasn’t earned the benefit of the doubt, then no one has. The question that I keep coming back to with Ready Player One … Continue reading New ‘Ready Player One’ TV Spot Mentions Batman!! Check It Out!!
It doesn’t look like Michael Bay will be directing a DC movie anytime soon. While the filmmaker was reportedly in early discussions to take the helm of Lobo for DC and Warner Bros., Variety now reports that the Transformers director has solidified his next two projects. Up first will be an action movie called 6 Underground, which boasts a screenplay by Zombieland and Deadpool screenwriters … Continue reading Michael Bay Sets ‘6 Underground’ and ‘Robopocalypse’ as His Next Two Projects!!!
The Ready Player One movie’s marketing campaign has hit the “character posters” stage, and the internet is ready to tear this movie apart. Which I don’t understand, at all. First of all, this is marketing. We all know marketing campaigns don’t always reflect the finished film, and on a pure foundational level the marketing campaign is not the movie. So love or hate the posters, … Continue reading ‘Ready Player One’ Character Posters Reveal the Avatars!! Check It Out!!
We’re about a month away from the release of Steven Spielberg‘s Ready Player One, an adaptation of Ernest Cline‘s nostalgia-packed novel that centers on an ordinary kid who taps into extraordinary wealth and fame while playing a virtual reality game. In the book, that game and its promise of ultimate treasure was the sole thing that kept Wade Watts, a.k.a. Parzival, going as he had to use his … Continue reading New ‘Ready Player One’ Video Invites You to Enter a Contest by Marketing the Movie!! Check It Out!!
Synopsis – When the creator of an MMO called the Oasis dies, he releases a video in which he challenges all Oasis users to find his Easter Egg, which will give the finder his fortune. Wade Watts finds the first clue and starts a race for the Egg. Directed – Steven Spielberg Starring – Hannah John-Kamen, T.J. Miller, Ben Mendelsohn Check out the trailer: Continue reading New ‘Ready Player One’ Trailer Takes You to a World of Pure Imagination!!! Check It Out!!
Warner Bros. has released a new poster for the upcoming Ready Player One movie, and fans flummoxed by the seemingly superhuman leg-length of Tye Sheridan’s Wade Watts in the initial poster won’t find the same complaints here. Instead, this time around the poster is a clear Drew Struzan-inspired piece of art meant to evoke the movie posters of the 1980s, when hand-drawn poster art used … Continue reading New ‘Ready Player One’ Poster Goes Full-80s!!! Check It Out!!
Ernest Cline‘s novel Ready Player One is a fun read, made all the more enjoyable for those readers who grew up in the halcyon days of 80s video games, music, movies, and pop culture. The only way a movie adaptation of the story could be done justice is to bring in Steven Spielberg to wrangle the many, many references, Easter eggs, in-jokes, and pop culture milieu that … Continue reading ‘Ready Player One’ Featurette Celebrates Spielberg and Flashes Back to the Future!!! Check It Out!!
Spielberg gonna Spielberg, y’all. With his Oscar-contender The Post now in theaters and making the awards circuit rounds, with the release of his tentpole sci-fi adventure Ready Player One just around the corner, Steven Spielberg is reportedly gearing up for his next two directing gigs because he is a film making force that cannot be contained. Deadline reports that Spielberg has a number of possible projects in the … Continue reading Steven Spielberg Eyeing ‘Indiana Jones 5′, ‘West Side Story’ for His Next Movies!!!
2018 is here, which means a brand new slate of movies coming our way over the next 12 months. Warner Bros. has quite a bit on tap this year, and the studio has released a 2018 preview with high-resolution images from some of its more intriguing titles. Most of these images we’ve seen before in one form or another, but here we’ve got glorious high-resolution … Continue reading Warner Bros. Releases Hi-Res Images from Their 2018 Movies ‘Rampage’, ‘Crazy Rich Asians’, and More!!! Check It Out!!!
There’s plenty of movies to look forward to next year, and now we have some more brief glimpses with a collection of images. USA Today has released new images from Black Panther, Ready Player One, A Wrinkle in Time, Red Sparrow, and more. While these movies will get plenty of attention, it should be interesting to see how they relate in context to other films. … Continue reading New Images from ‘Black Panther’, ‘Ready Player One’, ‘Aquaman’ and More Released!! Check It Out!!!
Synopsis – When the creator of an MMO called the Oasis dies, he releases a video in which he challenges all Oasis users to find his Easter Egg, which will give the finder his fortune. Wade Watts finds the first clue and starts a race for the Egg. Directed – Steven Spielberg Starring – Hannah John-Kamen, T.J. Miller, Ben Mendelsohn Check out the trailer: Continue reading New ‘Ready Player One’ Trailer Further Reveals Spielberg’s Return to Blockbuster Filmmaking!!! Check It Out!!
While Steven Spielberg is back in the awards race this year with The Post, his long-awaited return to blockbuster mode is merely months away. Indeed, Spielberg will have prepped, shot, and released The Post all while continuing post-production on Ready Player One, because the dude is inhuman. The Ernie Cline adaptation was a curious choice of material for the legendary filmmaker, as it sees him … Continue reading New ‘Ready Player One’ Images Reveal the Avatars Ahead of New Trailer Debut!!! Check It Out!!
In a surprise to probably no one, Indiana Jones 5 will not be Indiana Jones and the Adventures of Indy and Mutt. Indeed, Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford’s return to the franchise with Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull introduced Shia LaBeouf’s Mutt as Indy’s long-lost son, conceived with Karen Allen’s Marion Ravenwood, and the film’s ending even had a nod towards … Continue reading Shia LaBeouf Won’t Return for ‘Indiana Jones 5’!!
A new image from Steven Spielberg’s highly anticipated sci-fi adaptation Ready Player One has landed online, and it offers a pretty interesting look at a main character. Based on the Ernest Cline novel of the same name, the film takes place in 2045, where the world is on the brink of chaos and collapse. Tye Sheridan stars as young boy named Wade Watts, who decides … Continue reading New ‘Ready Player One’ Image Reveals Olivia Cooke as Art3mis!! Check It Out!!
Synopsis – When the creator of an MMO called the Oasis dies, he releases a video in which he challenges all Oasis users to find his Easter Egg, which will give the finder his fortune. Wade Watts finds the first clue and starts a race for the Egg. Directed – Steven Spielberg Starring – Hannah John-Kamen, T.J. Miller, Ben Mendelsohn Check out the trailer: Continue reading First ‘Ready Player One’ Trailer Reveals Steven Spielberg’s Sci-Fi Adaptation!! Check It Out!!
Hollywood is gearing up for the annual Comic-Con marketing bonanza and if there’s one studio you can always count on to go big, it’s Warner Bros. In addition to bringing out Steven Spielberg‘s Ready Player One and Denis Villeneuve‘s Blade Runner 2049, the studio is of course delivering some DCEU updates. The press release promises “stars Ben Affleck, Gal Gadot, Jason Momoa, Ezra Miller and Ray … Continue reading Warner Bros. Dates Two Mystery DC Movies for 2020!!!
Though the much-anticipated adaptation of Ready Player One won’t hit theaters until March 30th of next year, we now have our first solid look at Tye Sheridan as Wade Owen Watts. It’s a good start. We get to see Wade’s VR hideout as it exists in the real world, a place where there’s a vast gulf between the wealthiest individuals and the folks eking out a … Continue reading ‘Ready Player One’: First Image Reveals Tye Sheridan’s Protagonist and Easter Eggs!!! Check It Out!!
Ant-Man and The Wasp has found its first new cast member in Killjoys and Black Mirror star Hannah John-Kamen. Per Variety, the actress is taking on a “key role” in the superhero sequel, but details her role and the film’s plot are still being kept under locks. John-Kamen joins returning title stars Paul Rudd as Scott Lang and Evangeline Lilly as Hope van Dyne, who will … Continue reading ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp’ Recruits ‘Black Mirror’ Star Hannah John-Kamen for a Key Role!!!
Disney decided to drop a release date bombshell yesterday with new dates for a slew of major upcoming projects. We’ve already brought you the breaking news regarding release dates for Frozen 2, The Lion King, and of course Star Wars: Episode IX, but there are plenty of other films of note. Briefly: Indiana Jones 5 has been delayed a year from July 2019 to July … Continue reading ‘Indiana Jones 5’ Delayed a Year; Disney Shifts ‘Wreck-It Ralph 2’, ‘Gigantic’ and More!!!
Boy, that Steven Spielberg is one busy fella. Last year, the man behind Jaws had a healthy Oscar-friendly year with the hugely undervalued Bridge of Spies, easily one of his best films of this century alongside Lincoln, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, and Minority Report. He also produced Jurassic World and All the Way last year, along with a variety of TV shows ranging from The Whispers and Extant to Falling Skies and Public Morals. And this is ignoring the slew of projects that he has … Continue reading Steven Spielberg, Amblin Developing Alien Invasion Thriller ‘The Fall’!!
Back in April, we reported that Oscar-winner Alicia Vikander has landed the coveted role of Lara Craft for the Tomb Raider reboot. The movie project, which has Roar Uthaug (The Wave) on board to direct, will tell the story of a young and untested Croft fighting to survive her first adventure. It’s a similar plotline to the 2013 video game, which saw a young Lara … Continue reading ‘Tomb Raider’ Movie Gets 2018 Release Date!!
Steven Spielberg is adding yet another fascinating potential project to his slate. While the director is currently gearing up to start production on the blockbuster sci-fi adaptation Ready Player One for Warner Bros., he’s also got his eye on a Bridge of Spies reunion of sorts on yet another historical drama. Per Deadline, Spielberg is teaming with Bridge of Spies co-writer Matt Charman and Bridge of Spies producer Marc Platt to develop a feature film about legendary newscaster Walter … Continue reading Steven Spielberg May Direct Vietnam-Centric Walter Cronkite Drama!!
A powerhouse duo is reuniting for a family adventure film called, appropriately enough, Powerhouse. Filmmaker Steven Spielberg worked closely with director Colin Trevorrow on Jurassic World as a producer, helping Trevorrow hone the story for the fourth Jurassic Park installment, and now the two are teaming up once more, but this time to support a different filmmaker. Per THR, Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment is teaming up with Trevorrow to produce the family action-adventure Powerhouse, based on an … Continue reading Steven Spielberg and Colin Trevorrow Reteaming for ‘Powerhouse’!!
The Ready Player One movie has found its Wade Watts. As Steven Spielberg continues to prep his highly anticipated adaptation of the Ernest Cline novel, the lengthy casting search for the film’s male protagonist has come to an end with Mud and Tree of Life actor Tye Sheridan. Deadline broke the news, and it’s a small wonder we never got a typical casting shortlist for … Continue reading Tye Sheridan Lands Lead in Steven Spielberg’s ‘Ready Player One’!!
