Ready Player One | March 29, 2018 | Spielberg directing | No untagged spoilers allowed

[a2k]

This movie does have everyone's curiosity. They have to work on the attention part.

[KeepItU25071906]

Spielberg's #ReadyPlayerOne eyes $45 million debut https://t.co/XNXjDewIEV

— Variety (@Variety) March 8, 2018

[The Wild Eric]

[MrGlass2]

From $35M to $55M in a few hours, the posters are working!

[KeepItU25071906]

4 minutes ago, CoolEric258 said:

Just another big gap of projections from "reliable source"

 

35-55 mln.

 

We all can be insiders, guys.  We all can make this type of projections.

 

I predict 190-250 mln for Avengers 3, 30-60 mln for RPO, 20-45 mln for Tomb Raider, etc. opening week-end.

 

[CaptainJackSparrow]

Hopefully it goes over 50 mil by time it releases.

[Barnack]

24 minutes ago, MrGlass2 said:

From $35M to $55M in a few hours, the posters are working!

Tracking is how much the movie would do if it opened right now with the current metric I think ?, the other one is a projection.

 

That part:

To do that, “Ready Player One” must broaden its appeal. It is tracking well with male moviegoers, but has yet to garner as much interest with female audiences. 

 

Good luck trying to attract female audience (hard to imagine older female being interested and younger well will not have nostalgia factor going on)

Edited March 8, 2018 by Barnack

[MovieMan89]

4 minutes ago, Barnack said:

Tracking is how much the movie would do if it opened right now with the current metric I think ?, the other one is a projection.

 

That part:

To do that, “Ready Player One” must broaden its appeal. It is tracking well with male moviegoers, but has yet to garner as much interest with female audiences. 

 

Good luck trying to attract female audience (hard to imagine older female being interest and younger well will not have nostalgia factor going on)

Very reminiscent of John Carter, which failed to garner much female interest.  

[The Futurist]

The thing people rarely say is Spielberg has done pretty  big movies throughout his career but he never made the giant Michael Bay/Cameron/Peter Jackson/Avengers type movies, the really huge ones in terms of scope, scale and now VFX.

 

Edited March 8, 2018 by The Futurist

[MovieMan89]

2 minutes ago, The Futurist said:

The thing people rarely say is Spielberg has done pretty  big movies throughout his career but he never made the giant Michael Bay/Cameron/Peter Jackson/Avengers type movies, the really huge ones in terms of scope, scale and now VFX.

 

VFX was barely a thing when most of his blockbusters were made. 

[a2k]

Looking at last year's Easter 4-day and giving better internal multi than F8, RPO still needs close to 15 on OD to get to 40

 

15 + 12 (-20%) + 8.5 (-29%) + 4 (-53%) = 39.5

F8 was -31%, -32%, -60% on SSM

 

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/daily/chart/?view=7day&sortdate=2017-04-16&p=.htm

[a2k]

19 minutes ago, Barnack said:

Tracking is how much the movie would do if it opened right now with the current metric I think ?, the other one is a projection.

 

That part:

To do that, “Ready Player One” must broaden its appeal. It is tracking well with male moviegoers, but has yet to garner as much interest with female audiences. 

 

Good luck trying to attract female audience (hard to imagine older female being interested and younger well will not have nostalgia factor going on)

 

12 minutes ago, MovieMan89 said:

Very reminiscent of John Carter, which failed to garner much female interest.  

How about now

 

Edited March 8, 2018 by a2knet

[WrathOfHan]

@EmpireCity what have you seen for tracking?

[Chewy]

14 minutes ago, The Futurist said:

The thing people rarely say is Spielberg has done pretty  big movies throughout his career but he never made the giant Michael Bay/Cameron/Peter Jackson/Avengers type movies, the really huge ones in terms of scope, scale and now VFX.

 

Indiana Jones and Jurassic Park don't exist?

[The Futurist]

2 minutes ago, Chewy said:

 

Indiana Jones and Jurassic Park don't exist?

In scope, the Jurassic Park movies are small, especially the first one.

Indy were big movies for their time no doubt but to me, in scope, he never went full epic mode a la Cameron/Bay/Jackson/Lean, it is still another division in my mind.

Say what you want about Bay but the reason he is admired by his peers is because his peers know exaclty the insane difficulties Bay puts himself through during his shoots in terms of scale and spectacle and stunts and action.

[dashrendar44]

18 minutes ago, The Futurist said:

In scope, the Jurassic Park movies are small, especially the first one.

Indy were big movies for their time no doubt but to me, in scope, he never went full epic mode a la Cameron/Bay/Jackson/Lean, it is still another division in my mind.

Say what you want about Bay but the reason he is admired by his peers is because his peers know exaclty the insane difficulties Bay puts himself through during his shoots in terms of scale and spectacle and stunts and action.

Empire Of The Sun, AI and WOTW are pretty epic in scope but Spielberg's knack is focusing on how the macro element is reflected through his characters.

 

You will always have a dramatic close up that conveys the epicness and scale of the spectacle through the character's reaction. 

 

(See how Sam Neill sells the shit out of the first full blown dinosaurs reveal or Tom Cruise experiencing the first tripod emerging from the depth of the earth. That last one conjures a sense of dread, I felt like watching 9/11 unfolding all over again petrified. That church shot, the cracking ground blowing up then collapsing )

 

Edited March 8, 2018 by dashrendar44

[Barnack]

13 minutes ago, The Futurist said:

In scope, the Jurassic Park movies are small, especially the first one.

 

War of World was one of the first that come to mind about what you are saying, has big as what is going on the background, it is a lot about the family, lot of time in a basement and the ending homage to John Wayne/Ford is also on the small side.

 

Not sure he ever made a 200-250m movie adjusted in budget either.

 

Saving Private Ryan was quite "big" by moments (then again he goes down to the one guy, one bridge toward the end).

 

Oh A.I. above is a good one in term of epicness of scope, it really go giant.

Edited March 8, 2018 by Barnack

[The Futurist]

Like I said, he did plenty of big movies and he was known for doing them, he s the Godgather of the modern blockbuster but other went to the extra mile in terms of scope and spectacle, and now VFX.

I wonder how much he worked on the Ready Player One VFX post production.

It is his biggest VFX movie to date.

The BFG was already big VFX wise but "small" next to recent Marvel that are giant VFX undertakings.

Wonder if Peter Jackson didn't tackle post-porduction on the Giant movie since it was all done in New Zealand with Weta Digital.

Peter Jackson worked probably more than Spielberg on Tintin, it is a very little know fact.

 

So did Spielberg spend a year in a room, checking VFX shots again and again for this one ?

[Barnack]

4 minutes ago, The Futurist said:

So did Spielberg spend a year in a room, checking VFX shots again and again for this one ?

He did a movie during this one post-prod.

[HockeyPads]

56 minutes ago, MovieMan89 said:

VFX was barely a thing when most of his blockbusters were made. 

Jurassic Park was a landmark is special effects.