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Warner Bros. has extended its relationship with the folks at IMAX, ensuring that the studio’s biggest tentpoles will get large-format exhibition through at least 2020. Under the renewal of their deal, IMAX will be showcasing the previously announced Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and this December’s In the Heart of the Sea, as well as a slew of upcoming movies like Guy Ritchie’s spy thriller The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Ritchie’s currently filming King Arthur movie, David Yates’s 2016 adventure film Tarzan, Andy Serkis’ motion-capture Jungle Book: Origins, the thriller Geostorm, and more. Notably, today’s agreement confirms that all of Warner Bros.’ DC movies will be released in the IMAX format, including David Ayer’s currently filming supervillain pic Suicide Squad. It’s unclear if Suicide Squad will be shot in IMAX, but Zack Snyder did use IMAX cameras for the first time for portions of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and that film’s trailer premiere is taking place in IMAX theaters this evening.




Warner Bros. also confirms that the upcoming Harry Potter spinoff Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, written by J.K. Rowling and directed by Yates (who helmed the last four Potter pictures) will be released in IMAX. That’s not a huge surprise given that a number of the Harry Potter movies were released in the IMAX format, but it will be interesting to see if Yates uses IMAX cameras this time around. And finally, WB’s IMAX deal also encompasses future LEGO movies including The LEGO Movie Sequel and most likely The LEGO Batman Movie. This is all very exciting news, but I’m personally much more interested in an IMAX release if the film has actual sequences shot using IMAX cameras. The tide could be turning as IMAX recently created its first 2D digital camera, which will be implemented on Captain America: Civil War. Ayer shot Fury on film, so it’d be great to see him go the traditional route and use some good old fashioned IMAX film cameras for Suicide Squad. Regardless, you can look forward to seeing all of Warner Bros.’ big movies in the IMAX format for many more years to come.




Help us improve the site by taking this survey! Israel Box Office Index Click to viewTop 12 TotalChange# Movies#1 MovieWeekFebruary 16–19 $ = US DollarsTo view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video "The Lego Movie," directed by Phil Lord, has been criticized and praised as an anti-business film with a villain who looks like Mitt Romney, but Christian reviewers say it does not take a political stance and provides a strong outlet for conversation with children about the important things in life."The movie is so frenetic that it's hard to pin it down the first time," Alex Wainer, associate professor of Communication and Media Studies at Palm Beach Atlantic University, told The Christian Post in a statement on Friday. Nevertheless, he praised the film. "I recommend the film as a great conversation starter for families and friends interested in the way movies can raise questions about life and how we should live."




The Lego Movie" hit the top of the box office last weekend with $69 million and a 96% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. While some attack it as a "capitalist dystopia" ruled by "President Business," libertarian critic Mollie Hemingway suggested it may be "the most subversive pro-liberty film ever."Under President Business' "iron-fist rule, everyone follows the instructions at home and work, enforced by cheery 'I've got my eye on you!' advertisements and surveillance cameras," Hemingway explained. "The world's free thinkers – known as master builders – are President Business' greatest threat." Hemingway argued that these master builders represent entrepreneurs, innovating to make the world a better place, despite the red tape of big government."Even though the film is a 100-minute commercial for business, it's also an ad for personal responsibility, individual choice, meaningful work, natural constraints, the dignity of the individual, and the fight against a government that desires control of the lives of citizens," Hemingway wrote.




Dan Gainor, vice president of Business and Culture at the Media Research Center, agreed with Hemingway's analysis. "I think we all agree it's incredibly pro-freedom and funny, too." Gainor added that "it's witty enough that you can overlay whatever cultural critique you wish, but I think it's a stretch to try and link that to the Christian perspective, especially when so much out there does so directly.""Mollie Hemingway does a very good job of offering a libertarian/virtue-centered (two elements that don't necessarily go together) explanation that makes more sense than the superficial liberal take," Wainer argued. Nevertheless, he cautioned against "the tendency for ideologues to claim this or that movie for their side, conscripting entertainments into their arsenal and often freighting them with meaning they don't have."Wainer's first impression of the film "was that one may do anything with their Legos and it will be just as good as anyone else's, since 'Everything is Awesome!'" In this view, the film refutes "the famous line from The Incredibles, when Dash, replying to his mother's admonition to suppress his abilities, saying that 'everyone's special,' replies 'which is another way of saying no one is.'"




In addition to this insight, Wainer explained that the film could be taken in a Christian direction. "There might be a thematic thread concerning the care we take in building our lives – we are free in Christ but not to use this freedom to indulge our flesh," he wrote. "We should build our lives carefully using only the best 'bricks' of gold, silver, costly stones, rather than wood, hay or straw lest what we construct not stand the fire of God's inspection (1 Cor. 3:12-15)."The reviewer did admit, however, that this theme is more "a sermon illustration from pop culture, rather than a response.""I consider the film appropriate for all ages with not enough wood, hay or straw to object to," he concluded.WHEN FILMMAKERS Phil Lord and Christopher Millerwere first brought the idea to work on a Lego film, they were, as Miller puts it, “a little bit sceptical about doing a movie based on a toy”. But then the duo (who had previously worked together on hit movies such as Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs and 21 Jump Street) started watching what are popularly known as “brickfilms” – shorts based on Lego characters and pieces typically filmed in someone’s basement.




“And we realised we could do it in a way that could use Lego as a medium and not as a commercial to sell toys,” Miller says. The result, four years on, is The Lego Movie, an animated extravaganza that fulfils their ambition to create a film that looks like a Lego play set has come to life. The film centres on Emmet (voiced by Chris Pratt), an average, easygoing construction worker, who is told that he is The Special; anointed as the saviour of the world. His nemesis is President Business, voiced by Will Ferrell, a corporate chieftain and ruler of the world. Along the way, Emmet meets up with characters who help him in his quest. Among them are: Wyldstyle, a fiery renegade and activist (voiced by Elizabeth Banks); a brooding Batman (voiced by Will Arnett); and the God-like Vitruvius (voiced by Morgan Freeman). On the other side, President Business has his henchman Bad Cop/Good Cop (voiced by Liam Neeson). Miller said that although the idea was to create a Wizard of Oz-like entourage – with this cast of unique characters going off on a mission – the inherent creativity in the Lego world allowed the filmmakers to explore a huge range of possibilities.




“With a bucket of Lego, you can tell any story,” he says. “You can build an airplane or a dragon or a pirate ship – it’s whatever you can imagine.” Lord and Miller – who conceived of the story and wrote the script (along with Dan and Kevin Hageman) as well as directed the film – were brought onto the project by producer Dan Lin, the Taiwanese-born CEO of Lin Pictures who had been Warner Bros’ senior vice-president of production. Lin – who produced the two Sherlock Holmes movies with Robert Downey Jnr and Jude Law, and Gangster Squad, for Warner Bros – says he was moved to acquire the Lego rights because he wanted his two sons, aged five and nine, to be able to watch something their father had worked on, and to be involved in making a film that embodied Lego’s core principles of creativity, imagination and fun that the entire family can participate in together. Lin found though, that Lego was originally reluctant. “They are one of the most successful toy brands in the world,” he says.




“No matter what, every year their business increases 25 per cent. They knew that if the movie doesn’t do well, it can affect their brand.” Lord and Miller agree that movies based on toys and games have had a checkered history (Battleship, anybody?), and that there is an inbuilt cynicism around the genre. “People bring their own negative feelings in the door of the movie theatre in the first place,” says Lord. “They are already sceptical, as it seems so clearly a commercial idea. But we’re lucky that people bring a lot of positive feelings about Lego to begin with.” And at a screening for 1,000 Lego employees in Denmark, Lin reports, people were coming up to him afterwards with tears in their eyes, because the filmmakers nailed the sensibility and aesthetic. The story was key, as was choosing actors that could bring to life characters that are essentially blocks of plastic, with a limited range of movement. Pratt, an up-and-coming actor who is best known for his part on the hit TV comedy Parks and Recreation (and has also been seen in Moneyball and Zero Dark Thirty) says he could easily connect with the role of Emmet.




“It’s right in my wheelhouse to play a guy who is not special, a normal, everyday kind of guy with a big heart, who dreams of being extraordinary,” he says. The 34-year-old Pratt also could relate to the premise: at 17, he was selling coupons door-to-door; and at 19 he was virtually homeless, living in a van on the Hawaiian island of Maui, before being “discovered” while working as a waiter by actress-director Rae Dawn Chong who cast him in her short horror film, Cursed Part 3. “I hadn’t put any thought into what I wanted to do,” he admits. “My friend’s parents asked me what I wanted to do, probably because I was living in a van, and I said I wanted to be an actor, with no sense of irony or cynicism or perspective, or any critical analysis on the chances of me becoming an actor, or analysing the complete lack of pro-activity on my part of doing anything to be an actor. Two months later, I was in LA, being an actor. So I could really relate to Emmet, yes.”




At its core, The Lego Movie’s story is a remarkably touching one. “It’s hard to make a movie that is both funny and emotional, that has something to say and is clear to the audience,” Miller says. “We kept tweaking it and changing it as far as we could until somebody told us to stop. It’s really about a human dynamic. The way the adventure folds out is supposed to be reminiscent of how children play, and that’s why you can have Batman and Abraham Lincoln in the same scene.” Miller and Lord also made a point of keeping the film’s pace fast; the core group of seven characters traverse a multitude of Lego worlds – the Wild West here, a pirate ship there – and pack the film with sly, sometimes even subversive humour. More specifically, The Lego Movie takes gentle jabs at the more ridiculous aspects of pop culture, setting itself in a world where everyone follows instructions and plays by the rules, with President Business demanding this compliance to assure his world domination.

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