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Ready Player One(2018)
Released
2018 · FILM

Ready Player One

A teenage gamer races against ruthless corporates in a high‑stakes virtual treasure hunt, hoping to claim the ultimate prize and prevent a dystopian empire from hijacking humanity’s only escape.

“A better reality awaits.”

Directed by
Steven Speilberg, Steven Spielberg
Written by
Zak Penn, Ernest Cline
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
140 min
ActionAdventureSci-Fi
Streaming on
  • HBO Max

Synopsis

When the creator of a popular video game system dies, a virtual contest is established to determine who will inherit his fortune.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 38

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Sarah BrosharShot by Janusz KaminskiScored by Alan SilvestriDesigned by Kodi Jackman

Box Office

2018 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 3.5× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$607.3M

Budget$175.0M
Worldwide gross$607.3M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $137.7M — 23% of worldwide · International: $469.6M (77%)

Opening weekend: $11.9M — 9% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $11.9M — 9% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 4,234 theaters

Full synopsis

Also known as

  • Ready Player Onede

Companies

ProductionWarner Bros., Amblin Entertainment, Village Roadshow Pictures

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