Blockbusters like Ready Player One play especially well overseas, so the celebration of pop culture may have even longer legs with foreign audiences than domestic ones.
Ready Player One has a long way to go to become profitable, possibly needing to make somewhere in the neighborhood of $420 to $500 million overall.
Falling out of first is certainly not ideal for Ready Player One; however, it sounds like it will be a reasonably tight race and the drop could certainly be worse.
I would argue Steven Spielberg’s latest is a blast, full of crowd-pleasing moments that deserve to be seen on the big screen.