‘Ready Player One’ launches with $53.7 million
Game on for “Ready Player One.”
Steven Spielberg’s virtual reality adventure launched slightly above expectations with $53.7 million in its first four days of release and $41.8 million over the threeday weekend, according to final box office figures Monday.
The opening gave Spielberg his best debut since 2008’s “Indiana
Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,” as well as 2018’s high-grossing opening for anything not named “Black Panther.”
Still, for a $175 million film, the Warner Bros. release will need to have strong legs to make “Ready Player One” a success. Its international rollout is helping. The film grossed $128 million overseas over the weekend, including an especially robust $61.7 million from China.
Tyler Perry’s “Acrimony” followed in second place with $17.1 million over the three-day weekend. The Lionsgate release, starring Taraji P. Henson, drew an overwhelmingly female audience.
The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Sunday by comscore:
1. “Ready Player One,” Warner Bros., $41,764,050, 4,234 locations, $9,864 average, $53,710,325, one week.
2. “Acrimony,” Lionsgate, $17,170,707, 2,006 locations, $8,560 average, $17,170,707, one week.
3. “Black Panther,” Disney, $11,486,915, 2,988 locations, $3,844 average, $650,923,549, seven weeks.
4. “I Can Only Imagine,” Roadside Attractions, $10,445,994, 2,648 locations, $3,945 average, $55,271,331, three weeks.
5. “Pacific Rim Uprising,” Universal, $9,370,405, 3,708 locations, $2,527 average, $45,836,225, two weeks.
6. “Sherlock Gnomes,” Paramount, $7,001,570, 3,662 locations, $1,912 average, $22,822,216, two weeks.
7. “Tomb Raider,” Warner Bros., $4,922,048, 2,788 locations, $1,765 average, $50,715,273, three weeks.
8. “A Wrinkle in Time,” Disney, $4,842,624, 2,367 locations, $2,046 average, $83,399,038, four weeks.
9. “Love, Simon,” 20th Century Fox, $4,767,488, 2,024 locations, $2,355 average, $32,108,320, three weeks.
10. “Paul, Apostle of Christ,” Sony, $3,457,864, 1,473 locations, $2,347 average, $11,488,702, two weeks.
11. “Isle of Dogs,” Fox Searchlight, $2,943,366, 165 locations, $17,839 average, $6,050,860, two weeks.
12. “God’s Not Dead: A
Light in Darkness,” Pure Flix, $2,689,677, 1,693 locations, $1,589 average, $2,689,677, one week.
13. “Game Night,” Warner
Bros., $2,511,676, 1,335 locations, $1,881 average, $65,041,223, six weeks.
14. “Peter Rabbit,” Sony, $2,121,583, 1,667 locations, $1,273 average, $110,767,709, eight weeks.
15. “Midnight Sun,” Open Road, $1,822,313, 2,128 locations, $856 average, $7,671,529, two weeks.
16. “Unsane,” Bleecker Street, $1,450,574, 1,929 locations, $752 average, $6,832,037, two weeks.
17. “The Death of Stalin,”
IFC Films, $1,345,577, 484 locations, $2,780 average, $3,809,159, four weeks.
18. “Met Opera: Cosi Fan Tutte (2018),” Fathom Events, $1,265,000, 900 locations, $1,406 average, $1,265,000, one week.
19. “Red Sparrow,” 20th Century Fox, $718,609, 508 locations, $1,415 average, $45,679,149, five weeks.
20. “The Greatest Showman,” 20th Century Fox, $700,398, 764 locations, $917 average, $172,069,900, 15 weeks.