Coming up on Saturday at the Described Movies, Ready Player One and Paul.

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From this Saturday at 12am Eastern, that’s 4pm Saturday in NZ, 2pm in Sydney and 5am in the UK, and repeated every four hours throughout the day, it’s
the described movies Ready Player One from 2018, and Paul from 2011.
Ready Player One is a 2018 American science fiction action film based on Ernest Cline's novel of the same name.
Directed by Steven Spielberg from a screenplay by Zak Penn and Cline, it stars Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, Lena Waithe, T.J. Miller, Simon Pegg, and Mark Rylance.
The film is set in 2045, where much of humanity uses the OASIS, a virtual reality simulation, to escape the real world.
A teenage orphan finds clues to a contest that promises the ownership of the OASIS to the winner, and he and his allies try to complete it before an evil corporation can do so.
Development of the film first began in 2010 when Warner Bros. acquired the rights to the book.
In July 2015, Spielberg signed on to direct and produce the film, with casting commencing in September 2015.
Filming began in England in June 2016 and was completed in September that year.
The visual effects were handled by Industrial Light & Magic, Digital Domain, and Territory Studio, with some pre-visualization work done by The Third Floor.
As with the novel, many popular culture references appear throughout the film, including references to The Shining, the Back to the Future franchise, and The Iron Giant.
Ready Player One premiered at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas on 11 March 2018, and was theatrically released by Warner Bros. Pictures in the United States on 29 March 2018.
The film received mostly positive reviews from critics, who praised Spielberg's direction, the visual effects, brisk pacing, and the performances of both Sheridan and Rylance.
It grossed around $583 million worldwide and earned a nomination for Best Visual Effects at the 91st Academy Awards, 24th Critics' Choice Awards, and 72nd British Academy Film Awards.
Ready Player One was awarded the title of Best Science Fiction Film at the 45th Saturn Awards, and a further two Outstanding Achievement Awards from the Visual Effects Society.
A sequel is in development.
Directed by: Steven Spielberg.
Screenplay by: Zak Penn, and Ernest Cline.
Based on: Ready Player One: by: Ernest Cline.
Produced by: Donald De Line, Kristie Macosko Krieger, Steven Spielberg , and Dan Farah.
Starring: Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, Lena Waithe, T.J. Miller, Simon Pegg, and Mark Rylance.
Cinematography: Janusz Kamiński.
Edited by: Michael Kahn, and Sarah Broshar.
Music by: Alan Silvestri.
Production companies: Warner Bros. Pictures, Amblin Partners, Amblin Entertainment, Village Roadshow Pictures, De Line Pictures, and Farah Films & Management.
Distributed by: Warner Bros. Pictures.
Release dates: 11 March 2018 ( SXSW), and 29 March 2018 (United States).
File Length: 140 minutes.
Country: United States.
Language: English.
Budget: $155–175 million.
Box office: $583 million.
Paul is a 2011 comic science fiction road film directed by Greg Mottola from a screenplay by Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.
Starring Pegg and Frost, with the voice and motion capture of Seth Rogen as the titular character, the film follows two science fiction geeks who come across an alien.
Together, they help the alien escape from the Secret Service agents who are pursuing him so that he can return to his home world.
The film is a parody of other science-fiction films, especially those of Steven Spielberg, as well as of science fiction fandom in general.
It is a British-American venture produced by Working Title Films, StudioCanal, Big Talk Pictures and Relativity Media, and distributed by Universal Pictures.
Paul was released on 14 February 2011 in the United Kingdom and on 18 March 2011 in the United States to generally positive reviews from critics and grossed $98 million worldwide on a $40 million budget.
Directed by: Greg Mottola.
Written by: Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost.
Produced by: Nira Park, Tim Bevan, and Eric Fellner.
Starring: Simon Pegg , Nick Frost , Jason Bateman, Kristen Wiig, Bill Hader, Blythe Danner, John Carroll Lynch, Sigourney Weaver, and Seth Rogen.
Cinematography: Lawrence Sher.
Edited by: Chris Dickens.
Music by: David Arnold.
Production companies: Relativity Media, Working Title Films, Big Talk Pictures, and StudioCanal.
Distributed by: Universal Pictures.
Release dates: 7 February 2011 ( London), 14 February 2011 ( United Kingdom), and 18 March 2011 ( United States).
File Length: 99 minutes.
Countries: United Kingdom , and United States.
Language: English.
Budget: $40 million.
Box office: $98 million.
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