This movie is our JAM! The teaser dropped today for The LEGO Batman movie, a spin-off of 2014’s surprising hit The LEGO Movie, and it looks like there is plenty of DARKNESS and NO PARENTS to go around. The LEGO Movie’s take on Batman was hailed as a highlight in a film full of creativity, embracing the Dark Knight’s obsession with his own brooding and adding a twist in the form of his penchant for dropping sick beats. It was hilarious to see the often-humorless superhero parodied for all his quirks, and Will Arnett did a smashing job of replicating the Bat’s doubled-down vocal fry. Now that Batman has his own feature, the trailer suggests we’ll get a deeper look at his very, very, very lonely existence, (“I deserve this,” he tells himself in the trailer about re-heated lobster thermidor. “Today, I deserve this.”) Screenwriter Seth Grahame-Smith (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies) and co-director of The Lego Movie Chris McKay do have some work cut out for them, of course.
While LEGO Batman featured hilariously as a side character in the original film, transitioning humor that worked fantastically in small dollops into the main thrust of a movie is serious work, and not all franchises do it well. Still, with a supporting cast including Rosario Dawson, Ralph Fiennes, Zach Galifianakis, and freaking MARIAH CAREY as the mayor of Gotham, LEGO Gotham may finally have the hero it needs (please, oh please, let there be a Batman/Mariah duet.) Check out the trailer, and before you feel too much sympathy, remember that Batman is “SUPER RICH…KINDA MAKES IT BETTER!” The LEGO Batman Movie Teaser – BatcaveGet ready for a whole lot of LEGO Batman… Here’s a teaser for the #LEGOBatmanMovie. Posted by The LEGO Batman Movie on Thursday, March 24, 2016 Animated movies in 3-D are box-office bonanzas, and The Lego Movie is no exception. George Clooney's Monuments Men should prepare to be shot down. The brightly-imagined Lego Movie is also a wickedly smart and funny free-for-all, and sassy enough to shoot well-aimed darts at corporate branding.
Satirical subversion in family entertainment is an unexpected treat, especially in a movie that also functions as a triumph of product placement. For plot, we get Chris Pratt voicing a block of plastic called Emmet Brickowski, a construction worker who follows the rules until he's enlisted to rebel against President Business (Will Ferrell) to take down the forces against spontaneity so we can all create our own universe, preferably with Legos. Or something like that. The movie, designed with flair to spare by Chris Miller and Philip Lord, the creators of Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, has so much energy it sometimes spins out of control. But the fun is nonstop. The movie's irresistible theme song, by Tegan and Sara, is "Everything Is Awesome." In this movie, everything really is. Get ready to experience “Serial” in an entirely new way. The popular true crime podcast is coming to TV, though not necessarily in a way you might expect. “The LEGO Movie” directors and “The Last Man on Earth” executive producers Chris Miller and Phil Lord have optioned the TV rights for the podcast.
They plan to develop a cable series with FOX 21 TV Studios that centers on the creation of the series as it investigates a case, Deadline reports. RELATED: ‘Serial’ podcast Seasons 2 and 3 premiere dates announced While the case it follows has yet to be revealed, it will not be the murder of Hae Min Lee, which the show focused on during Season 1 of its podcast run. In a release, “Serial” co-producer Julie Snyder — who works with Sarah Koenig on the podcast — says, “Chris and Phil take an unexpected approach to telling stories and that is so appealing to us at ‘Serial.’ Developing a show with them is exciting because we feel like we speak the same language, only they’re smarter than us.” RELATED: ‘Serial’s’ Sarah Koenig dances with Fred Armisen at 2015 Peabody Awards Snyder and Koenig will executive producer the TV series, alongside Miller, Lord, Alissa Shipp, Ira Glass and Seth Cohen. Get Screener's essential guide to the best TV delivered to your inbox every week.
This Rotten Week: Predicting The Lego Batman Movie, Fifty Shades Darker And John Wick 2 Reviews Super Bowl Sunday is a big day for Hollywood, as its a television event that features an epic number of trailers for upcoming blockbusters. Now that the national holiday has come to an end, however, let's talk about what's coming up this Friday. Get ready for The LEGO Batman Movie, John Wick: Chapter Two and Fifty Shades Darker. It's gonna be a Rotten Week! Just remember, I'm not reviewing these movies, but rather predicting where they'll end up on the Tomatometer. Let's take a look at This Rotten Week has to offer. Very simply, when an animated movie marketed as a kid's flick can also hit a total home run with the adults, then you have basically the perfect flick. This is what the Pixar folks have nailed time after time though with a slightly different, more humanistic touch. The LEGO Movies seem to be taking a slightly different approach with what appear to be fantastic results.
The LEGO Movie had a sarcastic and dry humor bent most adults could instantly latch on to while the kids enjoy the spectacle, and it appears that Chris McKay's The LEGO Batman Movie is fun on the same level. The original LEGO Movie (96%) crushed it with critics and now the beloved building blocks are back on the big screen with a solo Batman story - followng The Dark Knight as he navigates the world of fatherhood and lonliness. It looks fantastic and Little Rotten Week and I watched this trailer around ten times this morning. It's sitting in the 90% range right now and I doubt it moves much over the course of the week. Continued On Next Page > Blended From Around The WebFirst it was The Muppets. Then it was The Lorax. Now, the Fox Business Network has found another children’s movie that is clearly promoting an “anti-business” agenda. Ladies and gentlemen, beware The Lego Movie. The first thing you need to know, according to Fox Business host Charles Payne, is that the film features a character who is actually named President Business.
He’s voiced by Will Ferrell and “looks a little bit like Mitt Romney.” “Listen, Hollywood has its own agenda, and we’re kind of used to this” Payne conceded. “But it feels a little bit more threatening when they start to push this out to our kids over and over.” When his media analyst guest suggested that a CEO can be an “easy target” when screenwriters are looking for villains, Payne was having none of it. “Why is the head of a corporation, where they hire people, people go to work, they pay their rent, their mortgage, they put their kids through college, they feed their families, they give to charities, they give to churches—why would the CEO be an easy target?” he asked indignantly. When it was contributor Monica Crowley’s turn to chime in, she decried Hollywood’s long history of “anti-Capitalist” movies. In fact, she had to go all the way back to 1946’s It’s a Wonderful Life to make the point that movies, in general, hate rich people.
She then used the logic that “Hollywood” must think The Lego Movie is going to make a ton of money “no matter what” so they might as well “embed these kinds of anti-Capitalist messages and get away with it.” They must have made that decision at last year’s big “Hollywood” meeting. By the end of the segment, Payne had concluded that the whole thing “smacks of hypocrisy” and “there’s definitely something wrong with it for sure,” but he did not seem quite ready to define what that is. The Lego Movie exists for one reason and one reason only — and it’s not to entertain small children. The idea that a film designed solely to sell more Lego toys could be anti-Capitalist would be laughable coming from anyone, let alone a television network that proclaims to employ experts in the subject of business. If kids take away any major message from The Lego Movie this weekend, it’s likely to be something along the lines of “Buy me Legos!” Watch video below, via FBN: