Ready Player One Opening Box Office Points Towards Big Easter Weekend
Warner Bros. rolled out the highly-anticipated Steven Spielberg adaptationReady Player Onein over 3,500 theaters for sneak peek screenings last night, where it fared quite well, earning roughly $3.8 million. With these numbers in hand, it pushes the four-day projections from Thursday through Sunday from $45 million to between $52 and $55 million for this adaptation of Ernest Cline’s nostalgia-heavy novel. While it will have two new competitors in theaters tomorrow, with Lionsgate’sTyler Perry’s Acrimonyand PureFlix’sGod’s Not Dead: A Light in Darkness, it is still expected to dominate thebox officethroughout the Easter holiday weekend....