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 LEGO Batman Movie release date: Feb 10, 2017The LEGO Ninjago Movie release date: Sep 22, 2017The LEGO Movie 2/LEGO Movie Sequel release date: Feb 8, 2019
THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE Cast: Will Arnett, Michael Cera, Ralph Fiennes Movie is not showing at this location. Continue without logging in For only $15 annually, benefits include: I would like to receive exclusive member offers and information on the latest happenings at ArcLight *I agree to the Please update your account with your preferred ArcLight location Save as Primary Card Name this Credit Card A credit card is required for gift card transactions. Add another gift card Auto-renew my membership annuallyFollowing the blockbuster success of The LEGO Movie in 2014, Warner Bros. green lit two spin-offs, The LEGO Batman Movie, which hit theaters earlier this month and is already a box office hit with $226.2 million worldwide, and Ninjago, which arrives on September 22. After that, fans have a long wait until LEGO Movie 2, which is slated for release on February 8, 2019, but today we have new details about the story.
Chris McKay, who directed The LEGO Batman Movie and produces The LEGO Movie Sequel, reveals this story is set in outer space. Here's what the director had to say in a recent interview."LEGO 2 is going to be this big musical and space action movie. They need a lot of the writing, a lot of development, not only with script development, but development with songwriters. So it was very ambitious to get that movie out."Chris McKay, who was originally set to direct The LEGO Movie Sequel before he was moved over to The LEGO Batman Movie, revealed on the Shanlian On Batman Podcast these first details about the space action aspects of this sequel. Unfortunately, he wouldn't shed more light on this outer space element, but it could tie into the Spaceman Benny character from The LEGO Movie, who was voiced by Charlie Day, but that is only speculation at this point. Here's what Chris McKay had to say about how quickly they moved forward with LEGO Movie 2."The critics liked The LEGO Movie, audiences liked it, then we started talking about sequels and obviously everyone wanted to do LEGO 2."
Back in 2015, then-director Rob Schrab hinted that Warner Bros. is working out a deal with BBC that would bring the beloved TV character Doctor Who to The LEGO Movie Sequel, which followed the character's appearance in the LEGO Dimensions video game. We never got confirmation that Doctor Who will appear on this sequel, but Rob Schrab would later leave the project due to creative differences. Earlier this month, Mike Mitchell, who directed last year's hit animated musical comedy Trolls, stepped in to direct.Phil Lord and Chris Miller, who directed both 21 and 22 Jump Street, directed The Lego Movie and wrote The Lego Movie Sequel, but because they decided to take the gig directing theHan Solo spin-off for Disney and Lucasfilm, they didn't have time to direct this sequel. BoJack Horseman creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg also did a rewrite on the script. Warner Bros. has yet to confirm which cast members from The LEGO Movie will return for The Lego Movie Sequel, and with just under two years until it hits theaters, we may not get more updates for quite some time.