The LEGO Batman Movie had a lot of built-in buzz ahead of its wide release. A hugely successful predecessor, an established, generation-spanning Batman fan base, and a relative lack of box office competition set the sequel up for smash success in its opening weekend. Its chief rival in terms of ticket sales was the newly released Fifty Shades Darker, but LEGO Batman is on pace to win the weekend in its first days in U.S. theaters. The international markets tell a different story in terms of the competition. Fifty Shades is expected to win in terms of foreign box office totals, but that doesn’t mean that The LEGO Batman Movie isn’t still going to be a huge success. Early box office figures have LEGO Batman on pace to crush The LEGO Movie’s international totals in its opening weekend two years ago. As reported by Deadline, The LEGO Batman Movie has earned $12 million on Thursday and Friday in 60 combined markets at the international box office in its opening weekend overseas.
It’s projected to earn about 49 percent more than the opening weekend for The LEGO Movie, which earned over $18 million in its international opening weekend. Deadline noted that LEGO Batman may be benefiting from being released during the start of school vacation for kids in Europe. Warner Bros. is also expecting “excellent numbers” for LEGO Batman across Asia. LEGO Batman has already earned $1.1 million in the U.K. alone on 1,441 screens, with an estimated cume of $4 million including sneak previews. Its combined Thursday-Friday gross in Germany, France, and Spain is estimated at $1.575 million. It’s at $489,000 in Mexico and is estimated at a combined $1.469 million in Russia, South Korea, Brazil, and the United Arab Emirates. While LEGO Batman is expected to beat Fifty Shades Darker at the U.S. box office by the end of the weekend, it will likely have to settle for second place in international markets, as Fifty Shades had the benefit of a slightly earlier release. LEGO Batman was already a huge critical success as a more-than-worthy follow-up to The LEGO Movie.
It’s not just an acclaimed animated feature – it could also be better than anything the D.C. Extended Universe has to offer. Considering the buzz surrounding the sequel to the smash hit LEGO Movie, and the already-massive Batman fan base, it ought to come as no surprise that The LEGO Batman Movie is surpassing the original at the overseas box office. Though Deadline projects LEGO Batman to hit around $55 million in its opening weekend at the U.S. box office, that number would be down from The LEGO Movie’s $69 million opening weekend in 2014. The domestic opening total has to be something of a disappointment for Warner Bros. execs when comparing LEGO Batman to its predecessor. But The LEGO Batman Movie’s massive early international success could more than make up for it as the sequel shatters The LEGO Movie’s foreign opening weekend and stays on track to out-gross the original.The page you were looking for doesn't exist. You may have mistyped the address or the page may have moved.
If you are the application owner check the logs for more information.The official LEGO website Rebrick is running a contest for fans to get their brick film included on The LEGO Batman Movie DVD. The competition has been running for a few weeks now, and ends this week on January 5, 2017 – so there is a little time left to get something uploaded. Here are a few of the entries so far… The Milky Mugger by FuturePast5096 False Alarm by eehe Quick Capture by Hobbitchild To enter the contest, visit The LEGO Batman Movie page on the Rebrick website.We are busy updating our site for you and will be back shortlyThis weekend, moviegoers will have to decide whether they want to enter Bruce Wayne’s Batcave or Christian Grey’s Red Room of Pain. According to midweek estimates, the Batcave is looking like the safer bet. Despite competition from newcomers, “The Lego Batman Movie” will likely be the No. 1 film at the box office in the U.S. and Canada, ending the three-week reign of M. Night Shyamalan’s low-budget hit “Split.”
The computer-animated comedy spinoff will probably gross about $60 million to $65 million domestically Friday through Sunday, according to people who have seen pre-release audience surveys.That should be enough to fend off Universal Pictures’ naughty romantic follow-up “Fifty Shades Darker,” as well as the Keanu Reeves action sequel “John Wick: Chapter Two.” All three should give the movie business a much-needed jolt after a sleepy Super Bowl weekend that delivered disappointing openings for Paramount Pictures’ “Rings” and STX Entertainment’s “The Space Between Us.” For Warner Bros., the likely success of “The Lego Batman Movie,” which cost $80 million to make, will perform double duty by strengthening two of the Burbank studio’s key franchises. One is the DC Comics superhero brand that has taken a beating from reviewers as of late because of “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” and “Suicide Squad,” though both were big box-office successes.
The other is Lego, the toy behemoth that Warner Bros. turned into a surprisingly popular film in 2014 with “The Lego Movie.”A strong opening for the spinoff, which focuses on the over-the-top Lego Batman character voiced by Will Arnett, bodes well for Warner Bros. as it looks for ways to ride the unexpected popularity of the original that grossed $258 million in the U.S. and Canada. The plastic caped crusader’s standalone film should benefit from the lack of other recent animated movies in theaters, plus early reviews praising the picture’s irreverently comic take on the generally downbeat Batman storyline. Second place should go to “Fifty Shades Darker,” Universal’s sequel to the R-rated romance that beat its competition two years ago by catering to female moviegoers over the Valentine’s Day weekend. It grossed $93 million in its first four days in theaters, on its way to a domestic total of $166 million. The sequel isn’t getting audiences quite as hot and bothered, with analysts predicting $40 million to $50 million in ticket sales through Sunday.
That would still be considered a financial success for a movie that cost about $55 million to make, though it’s a considerable drop-off from the original, which had the good fortune to open over a long weekend that coincided with Valentine’s Day. The erotic E.L. James book series was still a publishing phenomenon when the first movie was released. The other wide release to watch this weekend is “John Wick: Chapter Two,” from Lionsgate’s Summit Entertainment label, which is poised to become the now rare type of sequel that does better than its predecessor. Lionsgate’s 2014 original, starring Keanu Reeves as a highly efficient ex-hitman out for revenge, was a decent performer at the box office, grossing $43 million total in the U.S. and Canada. But the movie became a cult hit for home viewing, especially among young males. The follow-up is expected to open with $22 million in ticket sales, significantly better than the original’s $14-million opening. The studio is projecting no more than $19 million, but there’s a possibility it will overperform, given the loyal audience for the original and the mostly positive reviews, which have noted the R-rated movie’s impressively choreographed violence.