Spielberg's 'Ready Player One' Tops Holiday Box Office

LOS ANGELES — Steven Spielberg’s action-adventure “Ready Player One” has topped the domestic box office over the holiday weekend.

Studio estimates on Sunday say the Virtual Reality-focused film earned a solid $53.2 million in its first four days in theatres from 4,234 locations.

Based on Ernest Cline’s popular novel and chalk full of references to 1980s pop culture, “Ready Player One” cost a reported $175 million to produce.

“Tyler Perry’s Acrimony” took second place. Driven by an overwhelmingly female audience, the Taraji P. Henson flick grossed $17.1 million over the 3-day weekend,

followed by “Black Panther” in third place with $11.3 million.

Faith-based films also competed for attention, including “I Can Only Imagine” which scored again with $10.8 million,

outshining “Paul, Apostle of Christ’s” $3.5 million

and “God’s Not Dead 3′s” $2.6 million.

Lindsey Bahr, The Associated Press