‘Ready Player One’ wins the Easter weekend box office

Easter weekend gave us a new box office champion as Ready Player One delivered a solid opening weekend.

Ready Player One delivered an impressive $41.2 million opening weekend and since the film opened on Thursday it landed a $53.2 million opening over the four-day weekend. This is the largest opening for a Steven Spielberg-directed film in ten years. It is also the fifth largest Easter opening ever.

Tyler Perry’s latest film Acrimony opened in second place with $17.1 million. This was a very solid opening for the film and I’m projecting that the film will finish around $40-$50 million domestically.

Black Panther dropped one spot to third place with $11.3 million. The film has crossed $650 million domestically and is close to passing Jurassic World to becoming the fourth largest domestic release of all-time. An incredible box office performance in less than two months and Marvel will have another hit in less than a month when Infinity War is released.

I Can Only Imagine dropped to fourth place with $10.8 million and is approaching $60 million domestically. It expanded its release even more this week and has already become Roadside Attraction’s largest domestic release of all-time.

Pacific Rim: Uprising rounds out the top five after being box office champion last week. The film dropped 67 percent during its second weekend and only brought in $9.2 million. The domestic gross stands just around $46 million.

Sherlock Gnomes and Paul, Apostle of Christ both dropped two spots during their second weeks. Sherlock Gnomes brought in $7 million and grossed $20 million domestically while Paul, Apostle of Christ brought in $3.5 million and crossed $10 million domestically.

Love, Simon ($4.8 million), Tomb Raider ($4.7 million) and A Wrinkle in Time ($4.7 million) round out the rest of the top ten. God’s Not Dead: A Light in Darkness failed to open inside the top ten. The film opened in twelfth place with $2.6 million.

Ready Player One will face competition from four new releases coming out next week including the anticipated horror film A Quiet Place starring John Krasinski and Emily Blunt.

Weekend Gross by Distributor:

Warner Bros.: $48.4 million (+33.8%)

Lionsgate: $17.1 million (n/a)

Disney: $16.1 million (-8.8%)

Roadside Attractions: $10.8 million (-3.1%)

Universal: $9.3 million (-19%)

Paramount Pictures: $7.3 million (-4.2%)

20th Century Fox: $6.2 million (-4.5%)

Sony Pictures: $6.2 million (-2.2%)

Fox Searchlight: $2.8 million (+0.7%)

Pure Flix Entertainment: $2.6 million (n/a)

Open Road: $1.9 million (-2.2%)

IFC Films: $1.5 million (+0.4%)

Bleecker Street: $1.4 million (-2.5%)

Next week’s openings: Blockers, Chappaquiddick, The Miracle Season, A Quiet Place