Jason Harris
Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One just dominated the global box office this weekend with a whopping $181.2 million!
According to Coming Soon, Ready Player One starring Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, T.J. Miller, Simon Pegg, and Mark Rylance has raked in $41.2 million this weekend and debuted with $128 million from 62 territories on over 35,600 theaters.
Acrimony starring Taraji P. Henson, Lyriq Bent, Crystle Stewart, Jazmyn Simon, Ptosha Storey, Ajiona Alexus, Antonio Madison, Bresha Webb, Danielle Nicolet, Nelson Estevez, and Kendrick Cross came in at second place in North America earning $17.1 million from 2,006 theaters.
Black Panther starring Chadwick Boseman, Danai Gurira, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong’o, Martin Freeman, Daniel Kaluuya, Letitia Wright, Winston Duke, Angela Bassett, Forest Whitaker, and Andy Serkis remains strong at third place with a seven-week total to $650.7 million.
I Can Only Imagine starring Dennis Quaid, Cloris Leachman, Trace Adkins, J. Michael Finley, Priscilla Shirer, and Madeline Carroll is in fourth place domestically with $10.8 million.
And Pacific Rim Uprising starring John Boyega, Scott Eastwood, Cailee Spaeny, Jing Tian, Rinko Kikuchi, Adria Arjona, Burn Gorman, and Charlie Day is on fifth place domestically with $9.2 million, grossing $45.7 million in North America.
The remainder of the top ten includes Sherlock Gnomes featuring the voices of James McAvoy, Emily Blunt, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Maggie Smith, Michael Caine, Ashley Jensen, Matt Lucas, Stephen Merchant, Mary J. Blige and Johnny Depp on sixth place. Love, Simon starring Nick Robinson, Josh Duhamel, and Jennifer Garner in seventh place. Tomb Raider starring Alicia Vikander, Dominic West, Walton Goggins, Daniel Wu, Sir Derek Jacobi, and Kristin Scott Thomas is in eighth place. A Wrinkle in Time starring Storm Reid, Levi Miller, Deric McCabe, Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Mindy Kaling, Chris Pine, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Zach Galifianakis, Michael Peña, and André Holland is in ninth place and Apostle of Christ starring Jim Caviezel, Olivier Martinez, Joanne Whalley, John Lynch, and James Faulkner is in tenth place rounding out the top ten.
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