The spin-off from 2014's The Lego Movie will be released in February 2017 The new trailer for The Lego Batman Movie has been released. The film is a spin-off from 2014’s The Lego Movie, and features the voice of Will Arnett as the eponymous protagonist, as well as Zach Galifianakis (The Joker), Michael Cera (Robin), Rosario Dawson (Batgirl), and Ralph Fiennes (Alfred Pennyworth). Mariah Carey will also lend her voice to proceedings, playing the role of the Mayor of Gotham City. The film is scheduled for a release date of February 10, 2017, and a new trailer – the third teaser to be released so far – for the film was unveiled over the weekend at Comic-Con in San Diego. Watch the trailer below. The Lego Batman Movie is the first of three Lego-based films in the works. It will be followed by Ninjago, a Ninja-themed spin-off which will arrive on September 22, 2017, and then The Lego Movie Sequel, which is due on May 8, 2018. Released in 2014, The Lego Movie was a surprise smash for Warner Bros, raking in more than $468million (£301million) at the box office worldwide.
Sign In or Join to save for later Genre: Family and Kids Running Time: 100 minutes What parents need to know Parents Need to Know LEGO Batman: The Movie -- DC Superheroes Unite LEGO: The Adventures of Clutch Powers LEGO Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu Top advice and articles What parents and kids sayand if you like us, share us:Emmet (Pratt) is a happy member of the Lego community, constructing buildings and being entirely unremarkable. An accidental discovery opens his eyes to a world beyond his own and a destiny he is not prepared for.Phil Lord and Christopher Miller are the patron saints of lost causes in the movie world, having taken the book Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs, which had no characters, and the TV show 21 Jump Street, which had no cachet, and turned them into funny, knowing, hit films that use low expectation as a licence for experimentation. The Lego Movie operates on the same terms. It is by some margin their weirdest movie.
It is in many ways their most creative and ambitious, if not always their most focused, but it is definitely their weirdest. Lego is an odd toy. It’s lots of tiny little bits of boring that combine to fit the shape of your imagination. It doesn’t have a story or defined characters. It is by its nature surreal, a toy where pirates mix with spacemen and buildings fly. Lord and Miller have seized that free-for-all nature for their film, which begins as the story of a generic drone (Chris Pratt) who discovers he’s destined to save the world, then reassembles itself over and over into whatever — Western, sci-fi, seafaring adventure — seems like it might be fun next. If the spoken jokes are uneven, the visual humour is constantly astonishing. Lego has no rules and the directors don’t mean to make any. There is a downside to this level of creative freedom: it easily turns to chaos. The middle of the movie is an avalanche of ideas that seem random at the time, and it becomes rather fidgety, with the suggestion that there’s no real aim to it.
Yet there is, with an ending of affectionate, loopy brilliance that ties together everything that’s happened previously in a way that makes sense of the nonsensical. It is mad, but also strangely moving. It’s very hard to believe that a major studio gave a fairly major budget (around $60 million) to a film with the sensibility of a homemade passion project, with only a very loose structure, little mind for logic and absolutely no reverence for its subject. Well, thank goodness it did, as for all its faults, The Lego Movie is bursting out of its box with enthusiasm and excitement for the possibilities of a little pile of nubby plastic. The makers could have easily Smurfed this, chucking out something bland that would probably still make a chunky profit on the back of brand recognition. Instead they’ve gone for broke, unleashing a film that’s insane, witty, uneven and almost certain to delight anyone who’s ever laid hands on Lego.But it's 'Paddington' that proves the unexpected local hit
Without a James Bond or Harry Potter film in the lineup, 2014 was a mostly Hollywood-dominated affair in U.K. cinemas. However, the year’s overall winner, The Lego Movie, drew just over $1 million more than the No. 2 film — and highest-placed U.K. entry in the top 10 — The Inbetweeners 2. The second spin-off from the popular TV show laughed (and farted and cursed) its way to an impressive haul of $55 million, scoring the biggest-ever opening-day earnings for a comedy in the process. Read more China's 2014 Box-Office Figures Set to Miss Industry Target Despite the earnings of these two films, the overall box-office tally missed the impact of a major franchise blockbuster, with revenue down almost $90 million, or 5 percent, from 2013 — a year that itself had dropped 1 percent from 2012 — to $1.73 billion as of Dec. 28, according to figures released by Rentrak. This year's box office was also affected by the summer’s World Cup in Brazil, even though England was knocked out in the preliminary stages.
Elsewhere, there were local cheers for Paddington, the live-action/CGI adaptation of the story of the much-loved kids’ character that was arguably the surprise hit of the year, sneaking into the top 10 list at the expense of big-hitters The Wolf of Wall Street and Gone Girl. Despite fears that another fond childhood memory would be ripped to pieces in front of the camera, the film proved to be a hit, earning more than $37 million for distributor and financier StudioCanal by the end of December and sparking talk of a franchise. The film launches in the U.S. on Jan. 16 with The Weinstein Company making the push. Read more U.K. 2014 in Review: Oscar Glory, 'Star Wars' and Benedict Cumberbatch Oscar winner 12 Years a Slave, backed by the U.K.’s Channel 4, scored big with $33 million, while future award contenders The Imitation Game and Mr. Turner did decent business on their home soil, the latter becoming Mike Leigh’s most successful title of all time. This year could also be seen as the one when event cinema truly came into its own in Britain.