The Lego Batman Movie Sign In or Join to save for later Genre: Family and Kids Running Time: 104 minutes What parents need to know Parents Need to Know LEGO Batman: The Movie -- DC Superheroes Unite Lego DC Comics: Batman Be-Leaguered Top advice and articles What parents and kids sayOn February 10 2017, audiences around the world will be sitting down in cinemas to watch the much anticipated LEGO: Batman movie. 48 days later, Australians can do the same. Village Roadshow is repeating history, making the same mistake it made with The LEGO Movie. A five million dollar mistake. A mistake co-CEO Graham Burke said the distributor would not be making again. @BrickingAround LEGO Batman will be released in Australia on 30th March, 2017. — Roadshow Films (@RoadshowFilms) December 5, 2016 Piracy of The LEGO Movie cost Village Roadshow "somewhere between $3.5 and $5 million in sales" Burke revealed at a government-led Copyright Forum back in September 2014.
"We made one hell of a mistake with LEGO," Burke said of the decision to delay The LEGO Movie's release in Australia by 54 days. "We'll now make all our movies day in date with the US. I know 20th Century Fox are and Universal are too." Adding insult to injury both films were created here by Animal Logic, and the CEO Zareh Nalbandian has spoken out about piracy in the past, expressing a wish to teach kids about the impacts of piracy on creators before they become teenagers and stop caring. So why, two years later, is this happening again? Expect to hear reasons like "school holidays" and "maximising audiences" being floated, but we've reached out to Village Roadshow for an official comment.As if the wait wasn’t already painful enough, Warner Bros. has given The LEGO Movie 2 another significant delay, pushing the animated sequel back from May 18, 2018 to February 8, 2019. Here on the internet, I believe we call that savage. To put the wait into perspective, go get pregnant on the previously slated release date and then you can watch the movie with your baby when it actually comes out (nevermind, don’t do that, nobody likes newborns in a theater).
For the sequel, The LEGO Movie writer/directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller remain on board as screenwriters alongside Michelle Morgan and Jared Stern with Rob Schrab, whose writing and directing credits include episodes of the excellent TV comedies Community,The Mindy Project, and Children’s Hospital, stepping in to direct. With Lord and Miller being two of the most in-demand filmmakers on the market, LEGO co-director Chris McKay was initially slated to helm, but jumped aboard The LEGO Batman Movie when the team decided to move forward on that movie first. Little is known about the story at this point — not surprising since the movie doesn’t come ot for two and a half freaking years — but Lord and Miller previously teased a four year time jump in the narrative and an increase in female characters. The duo also teased in interest in seeing how those four years affected the boy inside the real-world story and how his perspective changes as he moves into adolescence.
Elsewhere, Warner Bros. also shuffled up the release dates for a number of other films, pushing up Ben Affleck‘s Live By Night, pushing it up from October 2017 up to Jan. 13, 2017, bumping back Dean Devlin‘s Gerard Butler-led sci-fi Geostorm to Oct. 20, 2017, to be released in 3D and Imax, and shifting the Owen Wilson and Ed Helms led Bastards from November 2016 to Jan. 27The LEGO Movie Videogame Wiki » The LEGO Movie Videogame is an action-adventure game that casts players in the role of Emmet, who must stop an evil tryant from taking over the world. E10+ for Everyone 10 and older: Cartoon Violence, Comic Mischief The LEGO Movie Videogame Grand Theft Auto V Grand Theft Auto Online Metal Gear Online [MGS V] Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag -- Freedom Cry Metal Gear Online [MGS V]Toys ‘R’ Us gets into The Lego Movie marketing spirit Mega retailer Toys 'R' Us is gearing up for the US February 7 theatrical release of The Lego Movie by introducing all-new construction sets, branded special events and movie ticket promotions tied into the highly anticipated film.
Mega retailer Toys ‘R’ Us is gearing up for the US February 7 theatrical release of The Lego Movie by introducing all-new construction sets, branded special events and movie ticket promotions tied into the highly anticipated film. American Toys ‘R’ Us stores are now housing dedicated feature shops that will be stocked with all-new minifigures, vehicles and playsets based on the film, and all US stores will host special events as well as ongoing contests. Additionally, beginning next month, customers buy more than US$50 worth of Lego construction items in-store will receive a complimentary ticket to see The Lego Movie in theaters. The Lego Group has been steadily building a global merchandising plan surrounding the release of the brand’s first full-length feature film. Global licensees already on-board with movie tie-in merchandise include Scholastic, Penguin, Ameet and DK Publishing (readers, sticker books, activity books and movie guides), Mad Engine, Isaac Morris, Kabooki, and Casco Blu (T-shirts), TV Mania (T-shirts, hoodies, pajamas), SGI Apparel, Kabooki (pajamas), Handcraft (undergarments), Carry Gear and Grown Up (bags, backpacks), Clic Time (clocks, buildable watches), MZB Imagination and Funtastic (notebooks, journals
, folders, pens, pencils and pencil cases, erasers, rulers and luggage/bag tags), IQ HK (key lights), and ROOM Copenhagen (lunchboxes, lunch set, drinking bottle and storage and sorting boxes). The 3D/CG-animated The Lego Movie is directed by Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs’ Phil Lord and Christopher Miller and stars the voice talents of Chris Pratt, Will Ferrell, Elizabeth Banks, Liam Neeson and Morgan Freeman.Last updated: 10 February 2017 The 48-day countdown begins for Australians keen on watching The Lego Batman Movie, even though the locally produced flick launches overseas today. The Lego Batman Movie (Village Roadshow/Animal Logic) It's a case of deja vu for Australians, who had to wait 54 days after 2014's The Lego Movie was released in most other countries first. Many chose not to wait, downloading the movie illegally; a move estimated to cost studio Village Roadshow $3.5 to $5 million in lost sales. At the time, Village Roadshow co-chief executive and anti-piracy advocate Graham Burke described the delayed release as a mistake, assuring fans that a follow-up to the smash hit would have a release date in-line with the US.
"We made one hell of a mistake with [The Lego Movie]," Burke told an audience at the Online Copyright Infringement Forum in 2014. "We held it for a holiday period, it was a disaster. It caused it to be pirated very widely. And as a consequence: No more. Our policy going forward is that all of our movies will release day and date with the United States." But it appears Village Roadshow has since back-peddled its stance. The Australian release of The Lego Batman Movie is being held back and by a long margin. It'll be released in 42 other countries before Australia, in spite of it being developed by local animation studio Animal Logic in Sydney's Fox Studios. The 46th and last country in which the movie will be released is New Zealand. Holding the release off for so long in Australia will only encourage piracy, says Sarah Agar, manager of consumer policy at CHOICE. "Australians have been telling us for a long time that piracy comes down to price and availability.
The head of Village Roadshow publicly accepted that delaying the release of The Lego Movie in 2014 caused it to be widely pirated." Burke has been a longtime proponent of anti-piracy measures. Offering the movie in-line with the US would've been the simplest way to stop it from being pirated, added Agar. "Village Roadshow has demanded that the government introduce legislation to protect its old-school business model, including new excessive website blocking powers, but it's not taking the most simple action it can to reduce piracy." When the movie is released in Australia on 30 March it'll be a week before Australian school holidays. The timing mirrors that of the original, which still fared well with global box office sales of $469 million. Village Roadshow was not immediately available for comment. Helping older people online Tomorrow's smartphones globally unveiled at MWC As the NBN rollout continues, when will you get faster internet? Wireless speakers – what we found