How does Spielberg’s Ready Player One match up to his big hits?
The director has helmed a string of classic films.
Steven Spielberg’s new film Ready Player One is an adaptation of Ernest Cline’s novel of the same name.
Set in the future, it follows a group of young gamers as they battle for control of a virtual world called the Oasis.
The film has been hailed as Spielberg’s best in a decade and is expected to make more than $50 million in its opening weekend in the US, according to trade magazine The Hollywood Reporter.
Here are some of his other hits.
Jurassic Park
It was followed by two sequels, in 1997 and 2001, and then returned in 2015 for Jurassic World, starring Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard. That film’s sequel is released this year and Spielberg has an executive producer credit on all of them.
ET the Extra-Terrestrial
It stars a very young Drew Barrymore and features some of the most famous imagery in modern cinema – indeed the shot of ET on the front of the bike in front of the moon is the logo for Spielberg’s production company Amblin Entertainment.
The film made $793 million at the global box office and won four Oscars.
Raiders Of The Lost Ark
The action adventure shows Indy on the hunt for the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis and made $390 million worldwide.
Followed up by Temple Of Doom, The Last Crusade and Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull, Spielberg will start filming his next Indiana Jones project in London soon, ahead of a release in 2020.
Saving Private Ryan
Starring Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore and Ed Burns, it bagged Spielberg the best director Oscar but controversially lost the best picture prize to Shakpespeare In Love.
Clocking in at almost three hours long, it made a worldwide box office total of $482 million, off a $70 million production budget.
Catch Me If You Can
The film pulled in a global total of $352 million.
Schindler’s List
The film won seven Oscars, including best picture and best director for Spielberg, and made $321 million.
