While Warner Bros.'s film version of Ernie Cline's fantastic Ready Player One wasn't the perfect adaptation, it DID have plenty of nods and winks to the source material to make even the most hardened of purists enjoy and appreciate it.Thankfully, we can FINALLY have the Ready Player One experience at home, as the film has been released as[...]
All that changed this year with Geek Gatsby's Ready Player One-themed event, Ready Party One at the Fluxx Nightclub.Featuring the incredibly awesome '80s party band The Flux Capacitors as headliners, the sold-out event was part OASIS for RP1 lovers and part rock show That's not even mentioning the delightful song stylings of The Library Bards, who[...]
One of the recent films we have a decidedly love-hate-love relationship with is Warner Bros.'s Ready Player One. Don't get me wrong: for what the film is, it's tremendously entertaining and well presented, and it certainly had a box office reception that reflected that We've been waiting for news about the official home release of the flick,[...]
Love or hate it, there is no denying the hold Ready Player One took on filmgoers. Fans of the source material from Ernie Cline's Ready Player One book were torn, but the box office reflected that the average film goer wasn't bothered.Today, Warner Brothers Japan released a video featuring 3 whole minutes from the film, namely the[...]
Trigger warning for those who are sensitive about violence against female victims.Then we wrap it up with a conversation about Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One from the novel by Ernest Cline -- the book, the movie, the success and the backlash.Listen here:http://audio.voxnest.com/stream/6f142deca77f468b96afa07d21684af0/traffic.libsyn.com/castleofhorror/frenzy_rev.mp3Listen on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiCLV2_zBhgCheck out the trailer:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gWjZpkkkIsCastle of Horror/Castle Talk Podcast Links:
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Last week I saw Ready Player One, an enjoyable eyegasm of pop culture references We already have a plethora of Ready Player One reviews (here, here, and here), so I'm here to review the bath bomb set from Hot Topic.[gallery columns="2" ids="826115,826116"]For a little under $8 (seriously, their RP1 items are all 50% off now) you[...]
The official Facebook page for Ready Player One has shared two international posters for the movie, and they pack on the references There is so much going on on these two posters that it's hard to find one thing to focus on While that can also describe Ready Player One in general, the movie usually went[...]
It's so silly that people won't listen about it.***Thanks so much to Zak Penn for his time, keep an eye out for him at Los Angeles theaters as he was doing a giveaway over the weekend to any eagle-eyed cinemagoers who could correctly identify what shirt he was wearing.Ready Player One is currently in theaters[...]
With the number one film at the world box office based on his first book Ready Player One, author Ernie Cline is riding high right now Also, he just celebrated his birthday on Sunday -- happiest of natal days, buddy![caption id="attachment_810910" align="aligncenter" width="600"] AUSTIN, TX - MARCH 11: Ernest Cline speaks onstage during Ready Player[...]
[Editor's Note: This 'Ready Player One' piece comes to us from Bleeding Cool contributor Dana Han-Klein of The DHK who takes a look at the pre-theatrical release hype at WonderCon and how it showed at the weekend box office results.]Well the world has now seen Steven Spielberg’s interpretation of Ready Player One and the big question is did it[...]
This time, Kaitlyn is joined by fellow film and TV writers Bill Watters and Mary Anne Butler.The Bleeding Cool staff have been on the edge of their seats waiting for Ready Player One, but no one has been more excited than Mary Anne and Bill They are both huge fans of the book, and as[...]
Ready Player One premiered at South by Southwest (SXSW) earlier this month, and there was a Q&A following the screening However, there were some spoilers in this Q&A, so we decided to wait until the movie was out to post it Once again, this is a spoiler warning for this Q&A, because they do touch[...]
Read at your own riskIf you are looking for a movie that reminds you why you fell in love with movies in the first place, get prepared for Ready Player One.It is arguably the most entertaining film of the past decade A large reason for that is director Steven Spielberg, who has been so successful[...]
I have been absolutely dreading writing review-esque pieces about WB's Ready Player One film I don't want to be angry, I don't want to nitpick with every little "WELL, IN THE BOOK" statement that passes my lips when I talk about the movie (but a lot of this chat here will include those things), and I[...]
We're going to take a minute here to talk about the various clues, keys, gates, and challenges in Ernie Cline's book, which was the source material for Steven Spielberg's film version of Ready Player One.https://youtu.be/cSp1dM2Vj48If you haven't read the book yet, be advised there will be spoilers from here on out. There are different challenges in[...]
[rwp-review-recap id="0"]I've been looking forward to Ernie Cline's novel, Ready Player One being turned into a film ever since first reading it a few months after it's release in August of 2011 Then word finally emerged a few years ago that Stephen Spielberg had picked up the project and it added to the excitement Now[...]
Since t-shirts tend to be the make-or-break item in all the other subscription boxes I receive each month, I was intrigued to see what I would receive in a box that was just a shirt and nothing more.This month we a really awesome design from Glen Brogan for the book and upcoming film Ready Player[...]
Let's crack open the March box and see what's inside.This month's theme is "Playback", primarily because of the release of Ready Player One in theaters So we start with the most appropriate in the box, which is a copy of the novel There's nothing too special or remarkable about this edition be Ernest Cline, it's[...]
Ben Mendelsohn is having a pretty great run of roles; appearing in the Oscar-winning film Darkest Hour, to a little galactic franchise called Star Wars, a feature film based on a bestselling book directed by Steven Spielberg, and an upcoming installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.[caption id="attachment_819306" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Ben Mendelsohn during the "Ready Player One" panel at WonderCon[...]
Developed by three-time Oscar winner Steven Spielberg (Ready Player One) through Amblin Television, the project is created for series television by Oscar-winning Schindler’s List writer Steven Zaillian; with Zaillian's script based on blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo's (Roman Holiday) half-century old script Bardem is set to executive produce alongside The Americans' Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey.
“We are so pleased[...]
