Steven Spielberg is in the thick of Ready Player One right now, and since everything these days is shown to us as they happen we now have a whole slew of set photos and a few videos to go along with it.
Ready Player One is filming right now in Birmingham, in the U.K., and since the set is fairly open people are snapping pics and filming quick videos. Here’s a few photos:
"MAKE ENGLAND AMERICAN AGAIN" – Spielberg. That bloody phone box hider. #StevenSpielberg #Birmingham #ReadyPlayerOne pic.twitter.com/WWprL7Jftz
— Kirsty Bosley (@Bozzers) September 6, 2016
Speilberg rolls in to town. Set of #ReadyPlayerOne in City all ready for action pic @snappersk pic.twitter.com/FqJgZzPLAT
— Birmingham We Are (@BirminghamWeAre) September 5, 2016
It's very exciting walking to work in the midst of a film set. #ReadyPlayerOne #Birmingham pic.twitter.com/2Hh5rux98h
— Dave Thompson (@DaveThompsonCC) September 6, 2016
Love the look of this! Fun walking through the Birmingham streets seeing it come to life #readyplayerone #spielberg pic.twitter.com/cnFgYu0QG5
— Christopher Bevan (@ChrisBevan89) September 6, 2016
So the photos are mostly set pics, and that mail truck we saw in the first set photo a couple of weeks back. Here are a handful of videos where we see Spielberg and a few of the actors working on things:
#spielberginbrum directing the cast for #ReadyPlayerOne @GreatCharlesSt pic.twitter.com/dgrh1188UX
— Great Charles Street (@GreatCharlesSt) September 5, 2016
Watching the filming of #ReadyPlayerOne on my way home from work. Really cool they're filming in the #JQ pic.twitter.com/SK38yu6m4J
— Michelle (@Shelliweb) September 5, 2016
#ReadyPlayerOne @GreatCharlesSt Lionel Street. #spielberginbrum pic.twitter.com/SWQmh2v8Vi
— Great Charles Street (@GreatCharlesSt) September 5, 2016
There you have it. There are a few more Ready Player One set photos out there, but they are pretty redundant with these. It will be interesting to see how Spielberg handles Ernest Cline’s pop-culture heavy novel. There are references to all sorts of films, some Spielberg films, and others from his buddies George Lucas and Robert Zemeckis.
Tye Sheridan stars alongside Simon Pegg, Ben Mendelsohn, Mark Rylance, T.J. Miller, and Olivia Cooke. We’ll see the finished product March 30, 2018.





This sci-fi failure is going to disappear quick. Hell, I wouldn’t be surprised if it drops out of theaters almost entirely by this time next weekend. The latest from 20th Century Fox was a mere $6 million production, so it’s not a gigantic flop. But it’s going to have some serious trouble making back that limited budget. Let’s say goodbye to Morgan once-and-for-all. We hardly knew thee, though we barely wanted to.
But hey, if Suicide Squad can have some legs, then maybe The Light Between Oceans can make a comeback too? The anti-superhero film was the number two movie of the weekend, coming in at $10 million during its fifth weekend in theaters. I’m going to avoid any snark or crass comments at this point. If people are seeing this movie, then they’re seeing the movie. What am I going to do about it? I just hope they’re enjoying themselves. Its $297.4 million total is good fuel for those fighting the good fight.
It’s one of the most entertaining films in a disappointing season, and I’m glad to see it holding its own. I wish I could say the same for Kubo and the Two Strings, which came in fourth place with $6.5 million earned to its $34.3 million total.