Contribute to This PageSteven Mnuchin had a pretty good weekend. First the treasury secretary pick advanced a step closer toward confirmation on Friday. Then his latest movie claimed the top spot at the box office. Mnuchin is an executive producer on Warner Bros.’ “The Lego Batman Movie,” which pulled in an estimated $55.6 million from U.S. audiences during its opening weekend. CNN, like Warner Bros., is owned by Time Warner. The kid-friendly spinoff of 2014’s “The Lego Movie” handily beat its raunchy competitor, Universal’s “Fifty Shades Darker.” The sequel to 2015’s “Fifty Shades of Grey,” based on a best-selling series of romance novels, debuted at $46.8 million in the United States. Mnuchin is listed as a producer or executive producer on 34 films in recent years, including last summer’s “Suicide Squad,” which brought in $786 million worldwide. He also produced “The Lego Ninjago Movie,” another Lego franchise spinoff that will hit screens this fall.
Mnuchin is widely expected to be serving as Treasury secretary by then. Following a 53-46 vote last Friday to break a Democratic filibuster, Mnuchin is scheduled for a final vote before the full Senate at 7 p.m. Monday. The Lego Movie (2014) 6 February 2014 (Singapore) 4 more credits » See more awards » 5269 news articles » A video game villain wants to be a hero and sets out to fulfill his dream, but his quest brings havoc to the whole arcade where he lives. The special bond that develops between plus-sized inflatable robot Baymax, and prodigy Hiro Hamada, who team up with a group of friends to form a band of high-tech heroes. The LEGO Batman Movie Bruce Wayne must not only deal with the criminals of Gotham City, but also the responsibility of raising a boy he adopted. A rat who can cook makes an unusual alliance with a young kitchen worker at a famous restaurant. A family of undercover superheroes, while trying to live the quiet suburban life, are forced into action to save the world.
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David Silverman, and 1 more credit » Princess Fiona's parents invite her and Shrek to dinner to celebrate her marriage. If only they knew the newlyweds were both ogres. Kelly Asbury, and 1 more credit » Cast overview, first billed only: Lord Business (voice) / President Business (voice) / The LEGO Movie is a 3D animated film which follows lead character, Emmet a completely ordinary LEGO mini-figure who is identified as the most "extraordinary person" and the key to saving the Lego universe. Emmet and his friends go on an epic journey to stop the evil tyrant, Lord Business. See All (59) » The story of a nobody who saved everybody See all certifications » View content advisory » Release Date: 6 February 2014 (Singapore) Also Known As: La gran aventura Lego Fox Studios, Moore Park, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia In order to add more realism to the movie, the Lego bricks have scratches, fading, and even fingerprints to make the movie look like someone was manipulating real bricks in a stop-motion fashion.
The Bricks are also affected by their locations, with the bricks in The Old West realm being more dusty and faded from the sunlight. During Metal Beard's tale, the first time they show the Relic Room there is a gummy bear on the pillar between the floppy disc and golf ball, and there is a highlighter behind the golf ball between the key and pen cap. When they zoom in on the battery, it's sitting where the highlighter was and a bottle of white out is where the gummy bear was. (In scenes with Lord Business and Good Cop/Bad Cop, it consistently shows the white out and highlighter in those spots.) He's coming, cover your butts. The Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow Pictures logos are made up of Lego bricks. References For Me and My Gal (1942) Everything Is Awesome (Awesome Remixxx!!!) Written by Shawn Patterson Additional lyrics by Bartholomew (as Joshua Bartholomew) and Lisa Harriton Rap lyrics by Akiva Schaffer, Andy Samberg and Jorma Taccone Produced by Mark Mothersbaugh
Additional production by Akiva Schaffer Performed by Tegan and Sara featuring The Lonely Island Courtesy of Warner Bros. Records Inc. By arrangement with Warner Music Group Film & TV Licensing See more »Three years before President Trump’s pick for treasury secretary began amassing an astonishing swath of Hollywood credits, he was just breaking into executive producing by backing a bunch of colorful kiddie toys. dossier out of Legos. When “The Lego Batman Movie” opens Friday, Mnuchin’s name will be prominently featured in the closing credits. And Trump’s Cabinet nominee — he awaits confirmation vote after Democrats last month boycotted a Senate hearing — should also receive an executive producer credit in September, when Warner Bros.’ “Lego Ninjago Movie” opens. [15 reasons why Trump just might be Batman] The tagline on that latter film is: “Find your inner piece.” And the first piece of Munchin’s exec-producing portfolio landed on Feb. 7, 2014, when “The Lego Movie” opened to blockbuster business with a $70 million domestic debut.
The Oscar-nominated PG film involving toy “master builders” would go on to gross nearly a half-billion dollars worldwide on a reported $60 million production budget. From there, Mnuchin became something of a master builder himself. One week after the animated “Lego Movie” opened, his live-action “Winter’s Tale (starring Colin Farrell and Russell Crowe) was released, followed that year by such hits as the Tom Cruise-starring “Edge of Tomorrow” ($370 million worldwide), Paul Thomas Anderson’s Oscar-nominated “Inherent Vice” and Clint Eastwood’s Oscar-winning “American Sniper.” Since then, Mnuchin has had big hits (“Mad Max: Fury Road,” “Sully”) and misses (“Pan,” “In the Heart of the Sea”), including two films that suited up a superheroic Ben Affleck: last year’s “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” and “Suicide Squad.” His name is also on last year’s animated “Storks” (tagline: “Find your flock”) and “The Accountant” (tagline “Calculate your choices”), and he appeared on screen last year as a Merrill Lynch banker in Warren Beatty’s biopic “Rules Don’t Apply,” for which he helped cover the costs.
[Why the ‘Suicide Squad’ extended cut is a better movie than the original] Eight years before “The Lego Movie,” the 54-year-old former Goldman Sachs banker and hedge-fund manager created Dune Entertainment, which helped finance such blockbusters as “Avatar” and the X-Men franchise, as well as such cartoon crossovers as “Marmaduke” and a “Garfield” sequel. Then in 2013, it merged to form RatPac-Dune Entertainment, which, in its partnership with Warner Bros., is helping to bring such DC superheroes as Wonder Woman and the Flash to the screen. [‘Avatar’ producer Jon Landau talks blue skin and white-hot hopes] Mnuchin — who became Trump’s campaign finance chairman in spring — has also been bedeviled by his brief, controversial teaming with the still-struggling Relativity Media, which last year emerged from Chapter 11 protection; just this month, he was named in a fraud lawsuit brought against Relativity by RKA film financing. But now, if he becomes treasury secretary, will he leave Hollywood entirely?