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READY PLAYER ONE

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Warner Bros. and De Line Pictures won a bidding war for the rights to Ernest Cline's novel in 2010, before it had been published.

During the garage scene, you can see a copy of the ED209 robot from RoboCop .

OASIS is actually an acronym. It stands for Ontologically Anthropocentric Sensory Immersive Simulation.

Ready Player One is Steven Spielberg's 33rd film.

The Zemeckis cube is named after director Robert Zemeckis. When the cube is activated, the music playing is from the Back to the Future trilogy, directed by Zemeckis.

Ernest Cline based the relationship of James Halliday and Ogden Morrow on Apple founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.

"Ready Player One" is a phrase from the days of classic video games.

O lder viewers will have probably first encountered Sharon Stone in Wes Craven's Deadly Blessing (1981), and the Indiana Jones-wannabe King Solomon's Mines (1985). But it was her kick-ass performance opposite Arnie in Total Recall (1990) and revealing turn as the platinum blonde femme fatale of Basic Instinct (1992) that launched her career proper. Stone was a familiar face throughout the '90s in films like Sliver (1993), The Quick and the Dead (1995) and Casino (1995), for which she received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress, before suffering a cerebral haemorrhage in September 2001. Following a lengthy recovery period and hiatus from acting, she appeared in the lamentable Catwoman (2004) and dire sequel Basic Instinct 2 (2006), as well as a number of TV guest roles, but was never the ubiquitous and luminous star of old. She has now made a triumphant return to the screen as the star of Steven Soderbergh's interactive mystery series Mosaic , and can also be spotted in The Disaster Artist (2017) as Greg Sestero's agent. Stone has also weighed in on the issue of sexual harassment in Hollywood, telling Lee Cowan of CBS: "I've been in this business 40 years. Can you imagine the business I stepped into 40 years ago? Looking like I look? From Nowhere, Pennsylvania? I didn't come here with any protection. I've seen it all." Whatever happened to... SHARON STONE

Chadwick Boseman @chadwickboseman THANK YOU #MTVAwards!

#BlackPanther fans, you’re incredible. During the show, I was honored to meet @JamesShawJr9. He saved countless lives by tackling a gunman who opened fire on people in Antioch, Tennessee in April. He’s a true hero that walks among us.

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"I put the book down and I said, 'you're going to need a younger director.' I had no idea at first how I was going to do it as a filmmaker, but [Ernest] was the handbook for doing that. The thing that made me want to tell the story, more than anything else, was the kind of world that 2045 gives to people, which is so dystopian."

Steven Spielberg on bringing Ernest Cline's best-seller Ready Player One to the screen

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