Box office mojo ready player one8/16/2023 ![]() This backstory may not be entirely necessary, but it’s hard not to feel giddy seeing Han Solo and Lando Calrissian meet and fly the Falcon together, and it’s hard not to feel intrigued at the gritty underbelly that this film looks to explore. Ehrenreich absolutely nails his comedic lines and at least looks the part in regard to the drama and action anyone who’s seen Hail, Caesar! knows that this guy can act just fine. ![]() While the film was reshot under Ron Howard to a point where Lord and Miller didn’t even try for director credits, the trailers have been surprisingly exciting. Movies are meant to take us to galaxies far, far away, and we don’t get that, on this scale, too often elsewhere. Solo: A Star Wars Story may have gone through hell during production, enduring a director firing that has understandably left many rather nervous. Or it could really catch fire all over the world, in which case we're looking at a run not unlike Kong: Skull Island ($168m domestic/$168m in China/$566m worldwide on a $185m budget) or beyond.Starring: Alden Ehrenreich, Emilia Clarke, Donald Glover, Woody Harrelson, Thandie Newton And when it passes the $369m global total of Fifty Shades Freed, it'll be the second-biggest Hollywood release of the year and still 3.4x smaller than Black Panther's current $1.275b gross.Ī boffo run in China (where studios can get as little as 25% of the ticket sales) may merely be what separates Ready Player One from other acclaimed/buzzy $150-$175 million sci-fi fantasy actioners like Edge of Tomorrow ($370m worldwide in 2014) and Mad Max: Fury Road ($378m in 2015). ![]() That will still, shockingly, make it the second-biggest domestic grosser of 2018. Now, to be fair, we're probably looking at a domestic finish of $125-$150 million, which is solid by today's standards but not necessarily a windfall for a $175m Warner Bros./Village Roadshow production. So that Ready Player One has even the potential for long legs is interesting, especially considering that Chinese moviegoers aren't as obsessed with 1980's Hollywood pop culture. It's no secret that most Hollywood movies aren't terribly leggy in China (Warcraft was more frontloaded in China than in North America), which is as much about much of the demand being filled on opening weekend and a near-weekly schedule of new biggies (sound familiar?). Most Hollywood offerings of late (save for Coco) have opened big but then quickly vanished while Chinese moviegoers spent their money on local biggies like Operation Red Sea ($564 million in China alone) and Detective Chinatown 2 ($535m). This difference is that Ready Player One pulled a whopping 4.26x weekend multiplier and seems primed for a longer run. ![]() And now Ready Player One opened with $41m in North America (over its Fri-Sun debut) but $62m in China. Pacific Rim: Uprising earned $28m in its domestic Fri-Sun opening weekend while opening with $63.5m Fri-Sun debut for a current (and swiftly dropping) $90m cume. ![]() If you recall, Tomb Raider snagged a $23 million domestic bow but a $40m Fri-Sun opening in China toward a current $78m cume. It's also the third time in a row that a day-and-date China/US release resulted in a much bigger opening for China than for North America. It's playing ridiculously well in China, and there's already talk of a run like Zootopia ($235m in 2016) in what is about to become the biggest moviegoing marketplace in the world. So, yeah, with $181 million worldwide as of Sunday, another $9.8m Monday in China (plus whatever it did yesterday, since yesterday was "Tuesday" in China), $5.25m in North America and whatever it made overseas since Sunday, Ready Player One has crossed the $200m mark at the worldwide box office. ![]()
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