After the massive brick box-office smash hit film ‘The Lego Movie’ get ready for another blockbuster ‘The Lego Batman Movie.’ The stars of the #LEGOBatmanMovie get candid on camera about each other. /vwNixE4EMu— Batman (@LEGOBatmanMovie) 26 January 2017 The DC comic hero Batman created by Bill Finger and Bob Kane is now made of plastic bricks and voiced by Will Arnett. “Initially when directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller told me that they were going to make the Lego Movie I was confused because I thought ‘What is that going to be? Is it just a commercial for Lego?’ and of course it wasn’t, they had a really great story in mind.” /i60ZkVEXXd— Comics Tweets (@GeekTweeters) 25 January 2017 Batman is still a crime fighter in Gotham City, while mega-rich Bruce Wayne confronts his loneliness with hilarious results. Can Gotham assemble a superhero team in time? THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE hits theaters Friday, 2/10! #/0YzP9HT4NJ— CW6 San Diego (@CW6SanDiego) 25 January 2017
“He is a billionaire and he’s handsome and he has got this great house and he’s got all these great gadgets, why is he so upset? And it really made us laugh, we were thinking: ‘What is it about his life that he feels is incomplete, we should get into that.” The movie is out in Europe this month.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, 2019Earlier this year, we found out that our favorite Frozen characters would be returning in an all-new original series of animated LEGO shorts called Frozen Northern Lights, accompanied by an amazing collection of books. We were absolutely thrilled that we would be able to see the journey of Elsa, Anna, Kristoff, Sven, and Olaf continue—and couldn’t wait to see more. Lucky for all of us, today is the day we’ve been waiting for! Take a look at the exciting new trailer for the upcoming journey: First of all, can we just talk about Elsa’s LEGO ice castle? We would like to live there, ASAP. After the gorgeous snowy scene is set, we find out that Anna, Elsa, and team have noticed that the Northern Lights are starting to disappear, so they’re going on an adventure to find them. Let’s please also take a moment to praise the LEGO carrots that Kristoff is carrying (for Sven of course.)
The trailer is full of classic Olaf moments, which remind us that Olaf is simultaneously adorable and hilarious—and just the best. It’s also action packed, with a super cool sleigh jump (wouldn’t be Frozen without it) and a literal cliffhanger at the end. We can’t wait to see more of these iconic characters in their epic journey to find the Northern Lights. Catch the LEGO Disney Frozen Northern Lights premiere event on December 9 on Disney Channel! What do you think of the new Frozen Northern Lights trailer? Tell us in the comments!People Are Really Pissed That The Lego Movie Got Snubbed at the Oscars Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures We just want to start this post out by flailing like giddy school children over Big Hero 6's Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature Film! It's not a surprising nomination by any stretch, but we are still so psyched to see one of our favorite movies of the year (animated and otherwise) get the nod it so deserves.BAYMAX FOR ALL THE AWARDS!
Now for the bad news. The Lego Movie did not get a nomination in the Best Animated Film category, which was quite surprising. Not only are people shocked by this snub…they are pissed. The Lego Movie's writer Phil Lord had the best response on Twitter, though:/kgyu1GRHGR— philip lord (@philiplord) January 15, 2015 NEWS: Twitter is so angry about the acting categories filled with only white people Still, all the Lego Oscar statues in the world would not be enough for the fans whose days and possibly lives are now ruined by this blatant crime against cinema: /n0YzQ5ZVr6— CJ Johnson (@cjjohnsonjr) January 15, 2015 So you're saying #LegoMovie wasn't nominated for Best Animated Film? Was CarrotTop also nominated for Best Actor in a role in your world?— Dan Santat (@dsantat) January 15, 2015 I don't want to sound outraged that #LegoMovie wasn't nominated but it's currently 96% (!) fresh on @RottenTomatoes and made $257M. C'MON!— Frank Pallotta (@frankpallotta) January 15, 2015
Rappers boycotted the 1989 Grammys in protest. #LegoMovie— Mike Taddow (@taddmike) January 15, 2015 I am guessing no-one in the Academy has ever played with Lego #LegoMovieSnub— Katie Wong (@Guitargalchina) January 15, 2015 Cannot believe that The Lego Movie has been left out of #OscarNoms for best animated film, complete madness. It's up there with Toy Story— Kelly Lowenek (@HeadintheCluds) January 15, 2015 Who at the Academy do I yell at for not nominating The Lego Movie for best Animated Feature? I also would've accepted Best Picture.— Hal Lublin (@hallublin) January 15, 2015 Ey @TheAcademy: NOT AWESOME. #/p8MRk6T2EX— Zona Negativa (@ZonaNegativa) January 15, 2015 #LegoMovie is like the kid in Little League that could throw a curve so parents decided it wouldn't be fair for him to pitch— Demetri Ravanos (@DemetriRavanos) January 15, 2015 I just spoke to President Business, and Taco Tuesday is TOTALLY canceled. #OscarNoms #LegoMovieSnub— Jen Chaney (@chaneyj) January 15, 2015
WATCH: Dick Poop is the new Adele Dazeem Everything is not awesome, because we are alll looooost staaaaars. #BeginAgain #LegoMovie #OscarNoms— Alyse Whitney (@AlyseWhitney) January 15, 2015 Did Academy voters just not watch #LEGOMovie or something? This makes no sense. #OscarNoms— bart (@bart_smith) January 15, 2015 "Honey... where are my nominaaaaaaaations?" http://t.co/o7TROSP4CN #LegoMovieSnub— Madden Producer (@MaddenProducer) January 15, 2015#legomovie is NOT nominated for best animated feature at the #oscars? Decisions like that make me hate award shows.— Dan Doolan (@DanDoolan) January 15, 2015I thought everything was awesome? #LegoMovieSnub #Oscars2015— Bert Swattermain (@BertSwattermain) January 15, 2015 /pZYCt187Mb— Sunny Cupcakes (@thecupcakeking) January 15, 2015 #LegoMovieSnub happened because Legos are yellow, so they're technically people of color, and clearly #OscarNoms are only for white peeps.— elliott owen (@ElliottOwen) January 15, 2015