{"id":3112,"date":"2018-04-01T12:16:58","date_gmt":"2018-04-01T16:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=e47fe1b6dedf4a5393e8223740adac05"},"modified":"2018-04-01T12:16:58","modified_gmt":"2018-04-01T16:16:58","slug":"spielbergs-ready-player-one-tops-holiday-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/04\/01\/spielbergs-ready-player-one-tops-holiday-box-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Spielberg\u2019s \u2018Ready Player One\u2019 tops holiday box office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES &#8212; Steven Spielberg&#8217;s action-adventure &#8220;Ready Player One&#8221; has topped the domestic box office over the holiday weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Studio estimates on Sunday say the Virtual Reality-focused film earned a solid $53.2 million in its first four days in theatres from 4,234 locations.<\/p>\n<p>Based on Ernest Cline&#8217;s popular novel and chalk full of references to 1980s pop culture, &#8220;Ready Player One&#8221; cost a reported $175 million to produce.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tyler Perry&#8217;s Acrimony&#8221; took second place. Driven by an overwhelmingly female audience, the Taraji P. Henson-starrer grossed $17.1 million over the 3-day weekend, followed by &#8220;Black Panther&#8221; in third place with $11.3 million.<\/p>\n<p>Faith-based films also competed for attention, including &#8220;I Can Only Imagine&#8221; which scored again with $10.8 million, outshining &#8220;Paul, Apostle of Christ&#8217;s&#8221; $3.5 million and &#8220;God&#8217;s Not Dead 3&#8217;s&#8221; $2.6 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES &mdash; Steven Spielberg&rsquo;s action-adventure &ldquo;Ready Player One&rdquo; has topped the domestic box office over the holiday weekend. Studio estimates on Sunday say the Virtual Reality-focused film earned a solid $53.2 million in its first four days in theatres from 4,234 locations. Based on Ernest Cline&rsquo;s popular novel and chalk full of references to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3112"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3139,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112\/revisions\/3139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}