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В Warner Animation Group (WAG) - американец анимационная студия это подразделение художественной анимации Warner Bros. Entertainment. Студия, основанная 7 января 2013 года, является преемником распавшейся 2D традиционная рисованная анимация студия Warner Bros., полнометражная анимация, которые закрылись в 2003 году, а распущенные семейный фильм деление Семейные развлечения Warner Bros., которая закрылась в 2009 году. Компания также является дочерней анимационной студией обычной анимационной студии. Warner Bros. Animation. Его первый фильм Лего Фильм был выпущен 7 февраля 2014 г., и его последний выпуск был Scoob! 15 мая 2020 г .; со следующим выпуском Том и Джерри 5 марта 2021 года. Фильмы производства WAG собрали в прокате 1,4 миллиарда долларов.

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7 января 2013 года Джефф Робинов (тогда глава отдела кинематографии студии) основал отдел разработки сценариев, получивший прозвище «аналитический центр» по разработке театральных анимационных фильмов, известный как Warner Animation Group. [1] В состав группы входят Джон Реква, Гленн Фикарра, Николас Столлер, Джаред Стерн, Фил Лорд и Кристофер Миллер. [1] Warner Bros. создали группу в надежде, что кассовые сборы их фильмов будут конкурентоспособны с релизами других анимационных студий. [1]

7 февраля 2014 года Warner Animation Group выпустила свой первый фильм, Лего Фильм, фильм, анимированный Логика животных, который также предоставил анимацию для обоих спин-оффов. Фильм был встречен положительными отзывами и имел кассовые сборы.

Второй фильм WAG, Аисты, был выпущен 23 сентября 2016 г. [2] Он получил неоднозначные отзывы критиков.

10 февраля 2017 года Warner Animation Group выпустила Лего Бэтмен Фильм, который получил положительные отзывы критиков и имел кассовый успех. [3] [4] 14 декабря 2017 г. Warner Bros. объявила, что Эллисон Аббейт назначена исполнительным вице-президентом, а Крис Лихи - старшим вице-президентом. [5]

Фильм Лего Ниндзяго, на основе Лего Ниндзяго toys, был выпущен 22 сентября 2017 года. После выхода фильм был встречен неоднозначными отзывами критиков и стал первым фильмом студии, который не смог окупить свой бюджет. [6] [7]

Смолфут, выпущенная 28 сентября 2018 г., получила рейтинг одобрения 75% на Гнилые помидоры с в основном положительными отзывами критиков и собрал более 214 миллионов долларов по всему миру. [8] [9]

Лего Фильм 2: Вторая часть, продолжение Лего Фильм, был выпущен 8 февраля 2019 г. и получил рейтинг одобрения 85% на Гнилые помидоры но собрал всего около 192,3 миллиона долларов по всему миру, почти с трудом окупив свой бюджет и став вторым кассовым разочарованием студии и франшизы. [10] [11] [12]

В октябре 2019 г. Слесарь Анимация заключила многолетний производственный контракт с Warner Bros., которая будет распространять фильмы Locksmith. [13]

Анимированная перезагрузка Скуби ду сериал под названием Scoob! изначально был запланирован к выпуску в прокат 15 мая 2020 г., [14] но потом это было отложено из-за COVID-19 пандемия. [15] 21 апреля 2020 года было объявлено, что вместо этого он перейдет в видео по запросу в ответ на пандемию. [16] Он получил неоднозначные отзывы критиков.

Предстоящие релизы

Живой / анимационный фильм по мотивам Том и Джерри планируется к выпуску 5 марта 2021 года. [17] [18] [19]

Space Jam: новое наследие, в главной роли Леброн Джеймс, планируется выпустить 16 июля 2021 года. [20]

Анимационный фильм по мотивам Легион супер-питомцев названный DC Супер Питомцы Релиз запланирован на 20 мая 2022 года. [21]

Производство

Бюджеты их фильмов обычно находятся в пределах 60–80 миллионов долларов. Их самые дорогие фильмы на сегодняшний день, Лего Фильм 2: Вторая часть и Scoob!, стоили 99 миллионов и 90 миллионов долларов соответственно.

Сообщается, что отдел сценария в чем-то похож на Студия Pixar Animation«мозговое доверие» с точки зрения того, как его члены консультируются друг с другом и дают отзывы о проектах друг друга. Группу прозвали «мозговым центром». [22]

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The LEGO Movie is a 2014 American-Australian-Danish 3D computer-animated action adventure comedy film directed and written by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, from a story by Dan and Kevin Hageman, as well as Lord and Miller, and produced by Dan Lin and Roy Lee. Based on the Lego line of construction toys, the film stars the voices of Chris Pratt, Will Ferrell, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett, Nick Offerman, Alison Brie, Charlie Day, Liam Neeson, and Morgan Freeman. It was the first film produced by Warner Animation Group in eleven years since Looney Tunes: Back in Action, which was released in 2003, and is an international co-production of the United States, Australia, and Denmark. The film tells the story of an ordinary Lego minifigure as he ends up becoming involved in a resistance against a tyrannical businessman who plans to glue everything in the Lego worlds.

The film was released theatrically on February 7, 2014, through Warner Bros. Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures to near-unanimous acclaim; critics praised its visual style, humor, voice cast, and heartwarming message. It earned more than $257 million in the U.S. and Canada and $210 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of over $469 million. The film won the BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film, the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Animated Feature, and the Saturn Award for Best Animated Film. It was also nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film. The film also received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song for "Everything Is Awesome".

The film quickly expanded into a franchise which ties to the Lego brand, with two spin-off films, The Lego Batman Movie, and The Lego Ninjago Movie, to be released in 2017, a sequel scheduled for release on February 8, 2019, as well as a third spin-off, The Billion Brick Race.

The film is dedicated in memory of Kathleen Fleming, the former director of entertainment development of the Lego company, who died in an unidentified accident while vacationing in Cancun, Mexico, in April 2013.

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In a world made of Lego bricks and populated by anthropomorphic minifigures, the evil Lord Business breaks into the resting place of a superweapon called the "Kragle". The wizard Vitruvius attempts to stop him but is blinded by Business's robots; he prophesies that a person called "the Special" will find the Piece of Resistance, a brick capable of stopping the Kragle. However, Lord Business merely scoffs at the idea of being stopped.

8½ years later, construction worker Emmet Brickowski finds a woman named Wyldstyle searching for something at his construction site after hours. When he investigates, Emmet falls into a hole and finds the Piece of Resistance. Compelled to touch it, Emmet experiences vivid visions and passes out. He awakens in the custody of Bad Cop, Lord Business's lieutenant, and with the Piece of Resistance attached to his back. Wyldstyle rescues Emmet, believing him to be the Special, and takes him to meet Vitruvius in the Old West.

Emmet learns that she and the wizard are "Master Builders"[6] — people capable of building anything from their imagination without needing building instructions—who oppose Business. Wyldstyle explains Business wants to use the Kragle, a partially weathered tube of Krazy Glue, to freeze the world into perfection; the mingling of the Lego worlds confused him, driving Business insane. Though disappointed to find Emmet is not a Master Builder, Wyldstyle and Vitruvius are convinced of his potential when he recalls visions of a seemingly human deity referred to as "the Man Upstairs".

Emmet, Wyldstyle, and Vitruvius evade Bad Cop's forces with the aid of Batman, Wyldstyle's boyfriend. They go to the hidden "Cloud Cuckoo Land," where they attend a council of Master Builders, who are unimpressed with Emmet and refuse to fight Business. Bad Cop's forces attack, placing a tracking device on Emmet and capturing everyone except Emmet, Vitruvius, Wyldstyle, Batman, Benny (a Spaceman Lego Minifigure), and Princess Unikitty of the now-destroyed Cloud Cuckoo Land. Escaping, they are picked up by the makeshift pirate Metal Beard. Emmet devises a team plan to infiltrate the office and disarm the Kragle, but the group is captured and imprisoned in the Think Tank, where all the captured Master Builders are forced to make instructions. Trying to retaliate, Vitruvius is decapitated by Lord Business, who sets a self-destruct protocol and leaves everyone to die, including Bad Cop. As he dies, Vitruvius reveals he made up the prophecy and that it was never true. He soon reappears as a ghost to Emmet and tells him that his belief makes him the Special. Strapped to the self-destruct's battery, Emmet sacrifices himself to save his friends by jumping into a pit and severing the connection, shutting the computer down. Inspired by Emmet's sacrifice, Wyldstyle rallies the Lego people across the universe to use whatever creativity they have to build machines and weapons to fight against Lord Business's forces.

Emmet finds himself in the human world as a Lego Minifigure, unable to move. The story's events are being played out by a little boy named Finn on his father's expansive Lego set in their basement. His father—"the Man Upstairs"—comes home from work and chastises his son for ruining the set by creating variations of different playsets and proceeds to permanently rebuild and glue his perceived perfect creations together. Realizing the danger his friends are in, Emmet wills himself to move and gains Finn's attention. Finn returns Emmet and the Piece of Resistance to the set, where Emmet now possesses the powers of a Master Builder and confronts Business.

Meanwhile, Finn's father looks at his son's creations and realizes that Finn had based the villainous Business on him and his perfectionism. Through a speech Emmet gives Business, Finn tells his father that he is special and has the power to change everything. Finn reconciles with his father, which plays out as Business having a change of heart, capping the Kragle, and ungluing his victims with mineral spirits. Emmet is hailed as a hero. With Batman's blessing, Emmet begins a relationship with Wyldstyle.

As a result of Finn's father allowing Finn's younger sister to join them in playing with his Lego sets, aliens from the planet Duplo beam down and announce their plans to kill them all.

  • Chris Pratt as Emmet Brickowski, an everyman, construction worker from Bricksburg. He is mistaken for the Special and is trained to be a Master Builder.
  • Will Ferrell as Lord Business, an evil businessman and tyrant of Bricksburg and the Lego Universe who is the company president of the Octan Corporation under the name President Business.
    • Ferrell also plays "The Man Upstairs", a Lego collector and Finn's father in the live-action part of the film.
    • Neeson also voices Pa Cop, Bad Cop/Good Cop's father.

    In addition, Anthony Daniels and Billy Dee Williams reprise their Star Wars roles as C-3PO and Lando Calrissian respectively, with Keith Ferguson voicing Han Solo (whom he previously voiced in Robot Chicken and Mad). Shaquille O'Neal voices a Lego version of himself who is a Master Builder alongside two generic members of the 2002 NBA All-Stars.

    Will Forte, Dave Franco, Jake Johnson, Keegan-Michael Key, Chris McKay, and Jorma Taccone provide voice cameos in the film.

    Co-director Christopher Miller cameos as a TV presenter in the studio that films the Where Are My Pants? TV series.

    Development

    The plans to develop the movie were revealed in 2009. In 2010 it was reported that Phil Lord and Chris Miller were going to write and direct the movie. In November 11, 2011 it was revealed that the release of the film will be in 2014 and it would be developed by the Australian company Animal Logic. In March 2012, Phil Lord and Chris Miller stated a possible working title could be "LEGO: The Piece of Resistance" and that story development, character design, and casting would begin shortly. "In the 3 to 4 months, hopefully," Phil Lord stated.

    In a press release before the San Diego International Comic-Con 2013, LEGO revealed there would be 17 new sets released in 2014 based on The LEGO Movie, based on several themes from Space to Wild West. This press release also states there will be a line of [1] [2]

    Video Game

    Alongside the announcement that sets would be produced based on the movie, it was announced that a video game would also be released based on the movie. [1] [2]


    The film quickly expanded into a franchise which ties to the Lego brand, with two The Lego Batman Movie and The Lego Ninjago Movie, both with 2017 release dates, a sequel and a third spin-off, The Billion Brick Race, scheduled for release in 2019.

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    Feature films

    Main series

    The Lego Movie (2014)

    The film was released theatrically on February 7, 2014 through Warner Bros. Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures to near-unanimous acclaim; critics praised its visual style, humor, voice cast and heartwarming message. It earned more than $257 million in the U.S. and Canada and $210 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of over $469 million. The film won the Saturn Award for Best Animated Film . It was also nominated for the The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019)

    In February 2014, it was reported that Warner Bros. had started working on a sequel, with Jared Stern and Michelle Morgan tasked to write a screenplay. On February 21, 2014, the studio scheduled the sequel for a May 26, 2017 release. On March 12, 2014, Warner Bros. did not invite co-producer of the first film, Village Roadshow Pictures, to return as a participant in the sequel, due to Warner Bros. having now more confidence in the film and trying to keep as much profit as possible for itself. On April 10, 2014, McKay expressed that he would like to introduce more women in the sequel than men. In July 2014, it was reported that Chris Pratt expressed interest in reprising his role as Emmett for the sequel.

    In October 2014, Warner Bros. scheduled The Lego Batman Movie for 2017, and The Lego Movie 2 for 2018. By October 25, 2014, Lord and Miller had signed on to write The Lego Movie 2. The writers have implied that the sequel will take place four years after the events of the first film. In February 2015, Warner Bros. announced that the title of the sequel had been changed to The Lego Movie Sequel, and that Monster House replaced McKay as director since McKay went to direct The Lego Batman Movie. According to an interview at the Raphael Bob-Waksberg had been hired to do rewrites of the script. By February 2017, Schrab had been replaced by Spin-offs

    The Lego Batman Movie (2017)

    In October 2014, Warner Bros. scheduled The Lego Batman Movie, a spin-off starring Batman for 2017, which moved The Lego Movie Sequel to 2018. Will Arnett returned to voice Batman, while Chris McKay, who was earlier attached to the sequel, will direct the film which is being written by Arrested Development co-star Michael Cera was cast to voice Robin. In August 2015, Zach Galifianakis entered final negotiations to voice the Joker. In October 2015, Rosario Dawson was cast to voice Barbara Gordon, the daughter of police commissioner James Gordon who later becomes the crime-fighting heroine Batgirl. The following month, Ralph Fiennes was cast as Alfred Pennyworth, Bruce Wayne's butler. Mayor McCaskhill . The first trailer for the film was released on March 24, 2016, followed by a second on March 28 the same year. The film was released in the United States on February 10, 2017.

    The Lego Ninjago Movie (2017)

    Brothers Dan and Kevin Hageman, who wrote Charlie Bean , who produced Disney's Tron: Uprising , will direct the film, produced by the The Lego Movie team of Phil Lord and Chris Miller . The spin-off movie was scheduled to be released on September 23, 2016. On April 20, 2015, the film was delayed to September 22, 2017. In June 2016, the cast was announced to include Jackie Chan, Dave Franco, Michael Peña, Abbi Jacobson, Kumail Nanjiani, Zach Woods, and The Billion Brick Race (2019)

    In March 2015, Warner Bros. announced that a third Lego Movie spin-off, titled The Billion Brick Race, was in development. Jason Segel and Drew Pearce were signed on to co-direct and write the film. The film is scheduled to be released on May 24, 2019.

    Short films

    The Lego Movie: 4D - A New Adventure (2016)

    Main article: at Chris Pratt being unavailable at the time). The film is titled The Lego Movie 4D: A New Adventure, and introduces a new character called Risky Business (voiced by Patton Oswalt) who is Lord Business' older brother.

    The Master (2016)

    The short is based on the Lego Ninjago series and features some of the same voice talent that has committed to The Lego Ninjago Movie. It was released theatrically with Storks.

    Film Director(s) Producer(s) Executive producer(s) Writer(s) Composer Editor(s)
    Main series
    The Lego Movie Phil Lord and Christopher Miller Allison Abbate, Zareh Nalbandian, Mark Mothersbaugh David Burrows and Chris McKay
    The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part Spin-offs
    The Lego Batman Movie Chris McKay Dan Lin, Roy Lee, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller Jill Wilfert, Matthew Ashton, Will Allegra, Brad Lewis, Zareh Nalbandian, and Steven Mnuchin Screenplay by: Lorne Balfe David Burrows, Matt Villa, and John Venzon
    The Lego Ninjago Movie Charlie Bean, Paul Fisher and Bob Logan Dan Lin, Roy Lee, Chris McKay, Maryann Garger, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller Jill Wilfert, Keith Malone, Simon Lucas, Chris Leahy, Seth Grahame-Smith, Zareh Nalbandian, and Brett Ratner Screenplay by: Hilary Winson, Bob Logan and Paul Fisher
    Story by: Dan Hageman, Kevin Hageman, Hilary Winson, Bob Logan and Paul Fisher    		 Mark Mothersbaugh Julie Rogers, Garret Elkins, Ryan Folsey, John Verzon, and David Burrows

    Reception

    Box office performance

    Film Release date Budget Box office revenue
    North America Other
    territories    		 Worldwide
    The Lego Movie February 7, 2014 $60,000,000 $257,760,692 $211,400,000 $469,160,692
    The Lego Batman Movie February 10, 2017 $80,000,000 $175,750,384 $136,200,000 $311,950,384
    The Lego Ninjago Movie September 22, 2017 $70,000,000 $59,281,555 $63,800,00 $123,081,555
    Total $ Critical and public response
    Film CinemaScore
    The Lego Movie 96% (226 reviews) 83 (43 reviews) A
    The Lego Batman Movie 90% (228 reviews) 75 (48 reviews) A-

    Academy Awards

    Main series Award Category
    The LEGO Movie Nominated

    Video games

    Name Release date Consoles Notes
    The Lego Movie Videogame February 7, 2014 iOS, Win, 3DS, PS3, PS4, Wii U, XBO, X360
    Lego Dimensions September 27, 2015 PS3, PS4, Wii U, X360, XBO Starter pack, fun packs and story pack

    Television series

    In 2017, Warner Bros. and Lego have announced that Unikitty will get a spin-off television series that would most likely be on Cartoon Network.



    The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (known in some countries as The Lego Movie 2) is a 2019 computer-animated musical science-fiction action-adventure comedy fantasy film produced by the Warner Animation Group and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. A direct sequel to The Lego Movie (2014), it is the fourth film in the franchise, following the release of two spin-offs, The Lego Batman Movie and The Lego Ninjago Movie (both 2017). Animal Logic, who provided the animation for all the films in the franchise, returned.

    The film is directed by Mike Mitchell, with Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (writers and directors of the first film) returning as producers and writers; animation direction is by Trisha Gum. It features Chris Pratt, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett, Charlie Day, Alison Brie, Nick Offerman, and Will Ferrell reprising their roles from the previous film and new additions to the cast, including Tiffany Haddish, Stephanie Beatriz, and Maya Rudolph.

    The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part was released in the United States on February 8, 2019, in 2D, 3D, RealD 3D, Dolby Cinema, IMAX, and IMAX 3D formats. The film received positive reviews from critics, who commended its humor, screenplay, animation, and voice acting, although some said it was not as "fresh" as the first film.

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    It's been five years since the first film's events. As the story continues, Finn's younger sister Bianca has started taking some of his LEGO creations and other toys from the sets in their basement along with her own set of Duplo bricks to play with in her own room.[9] Metaphorically, in the LEGO universe, the Duplo invaders have turned Bricksburg into a post-apocalyptic wasteland named Apocalypseburg and continue to invade periodically. The ordeal has made most of Apocalypseburg's citizens hardened, but Emmet remains upbeat, wanting to move into a dream home with Lucy. However, Emmet is troubled by dreams of a pending "Our-Mom-Ageddon".

    General Sweet Mayhem, the leader of the Duplo army, arrives in Apocalypseburg and announces that Queen Watevra Wa'Nabi of the Systar System intends to wed Batman. Mayhem's forces kidnap Batman, Lucy, Benny, MetalBeard, and Unikitty, taking them to the Systar System. Batman is taken to Wa'Nabi, where he eventually finds that the Queen helps satisfy his emotional validation and proposes marriage. The others are placed in environments designed to tempt them. The others each fall for these temptations, but Lucy refuses to accept hers, an endless attempt to brainwash her with catchy pop music.

    Emmet converts his dream house to a spaceship to give pursuit. En route, he is saved from colliding with an asteroid field by the rugged adventurer Rex Dangervest. As they continue on to the Systar system, Emmet begins to take on several of Rex's mannerisms, hoping to impress Lucy. When they arrive, they evade capture by Wa'Nabi's forces and join with Lucy. Rex helps them develop a plan to rescue their friends, which involves switching off the pop music that is brainwashing the others, while Emmet will destroy the reception cake encased in a temple to stop the wedding. As Lucy fights Mayhem to get to the music, she learns that the Systar System was never meant to be antagonistic to Apocalypseburg but instead tried to establish peace between them and simply failed at communicating this well. Lucy tries to stop Emmet from destroying the temple, but Emmet, facilitated by Rex's manipulations, destroys the temple anyway. This creates a hole in the LEGO universe, and Wa'Nabi warns them all the Our-Mom-Ageddon is upon them all.

    In the real world, the act of destroying the temple is represented by Finn angrily destroying Bianca's LEGO creations. Hearing them bicker, their mother orders them to put the LEGOs into storage. Emmet tries to stop them but is prevented by Rex, who reveals he is an embittered version of himself from the future. After being neglected for years underneath the dryer after crashing in the asteroid field, he time-traveled back intending to deliberately bring upon the Our-Mom-Ageddon as revenge. When Emmet tries to fight back, Rex knocks him under the same dryer, ensuring that he would continue to exist. Lucy rallies the others into escaping from the storage bin and brings them back into the LEGO world. Emmet and Lucy overpower Rex and destroy his time machine. Realizing that Emmet being saved by Lucy means he won't end up becoming him, Rex's timeline, and therefore Rex himself, is erased from existence.

    Wa'Nabi and Batman finally wed, represented by Finn and Bianca reconciling and agreeing to play together again. Their mother returns their LEGOs, averting Our-Mom-Ageddon. The LEGO universe is transformed into a mishmash of Apocalypseburg and the Systar System called "Syspocalypstar," which is peaceful. Emmet's dream house is rebuilt, and Lucy reveals that she was one of the original artists of "Everything is Awesome," as Emmet gasps in response, closing the film.

    • Chris Pratt as Emmet and Rex Dangervest
    • Elizabeth Banks as Wyldstyle/Lucy
    • Will Arnett as Batman
    • Tiffany Haddish as Queen Watevra Wa'Nabi
    • Stephanie Beatriz as General Sweet Mayhem
    • Charlie Day as Benny
    • Alison Brie as Unikitty
    • Nick Offerman as Metalbeard
    • Jason Sand as Finn
    • Brooklyn Prince as Bianca
    • Maya Rudolph as Mom, Dorothy Gale
    • Will Ferrell as Lord Business/President Business, "The Man Upstairs"
    • Richard Ayoade as Ice Cream Cone
    • Channing Tatum as Superman
    • Jonah Hill as Green Lantern
    • Cobie Smulders as Wonder Woman
    • Jason Momoa as Aquaman
    • Margot Rubin as Harley Quinn, Susan, Mermaid, Wonder Woman Mini-Doll, Panda
    • Ike Barinholtz as Lex Luthor
    • Ralph Fiennes as Alfred Pennyworth
    • Will Forte as Abraham Lincoln
    • Bruce Willis as Himself
    • Ben Schwartz as Banarnar
    • Jimmy O. Yang as Zebe
    • Noel Fielding as Balthazar
    • Jorma Taccone as Larry Poppins
    • Gary Payton as Himself
    • Sheryl Swoopes as Himself
    • Todd Hansen as Gandalf and The Swamp Creature
    • Liam Knight as Sewer Babies
    • Doug Nicholas as Chainsaw Dave
    • Mike Mitchell as Mrs. Scratchen-Post, Guard, Octopus, Harmony Town Citizen, Announcer, Apocalypseburg Warrior
    • Chris Miller as Chad, Chocolate Bar, Horse, Paper Boy, Plantimals
    • Emily Nordwin as Cleopatra
    • Chris McKay as Larry the Barista
    • Trisha Gum as Velma
    • Ryan Halprin as Dolphin Clock

    Production

    Development

    On February 3, 2014, Jared Stern was hired to write the sequel, along with Michelle Morgan. On March 12, 2014, Deadline reported that animation co-director Chris McKay would direct the sequel with Phil Lord and Christopher Miller as producers. On April 10, 2014, it was reported that McKay wanted to have more women in the sequel than men. On July 28, 2014, it was reported that Chris Pratt wants to return to reprise his role as Emmet. It was also reported that Will Arnett might return to reprise his role as Batman but had not decided yet.

    In October 2014, Warner Bros. scheduled The Lego Batman Movie for 2017 and The Lego Movie 2 for May 25, 2018. On October 25, 2014, it was reported that Lord and Miller had signed on to write The Lego Movie 2. On October 30, it was announced that Australia-based animation studio Animal Logic was in talks to produce the next three Lego films (though the deal was not finalized at the time), and the New South Wales government would make financial contributions to all the films. On November 12, during an interview with BBC News, Lord and Miller revealed that there would be more female characters featured in the film.

    On February 24, 2015, the sequel was titled The Lego Movie Sequel, and Rob Schrab was announced as the film's director, replacing McKay as director as he was scheduled to direct The Lego Batman Movie instead. By November 2015, Miller announced that the first draft of the script was completed. Subsequent rewrites were provided by Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Dominic Russo, and Matthew Fogel. By February 2017, Schrab had been replaced by Mike Mitchell, reportedly due to "creative differences". Production started in Canada on October 2, 2017. In an interview with Collider, producer Dan Lin confirmed that Lord & Miller were rewriting the script during production.

    The film is dedicated to Charlie Miller, Christopher Miller's mother, who died on December 27, 2018, before the film was released.

    Writing

    The Lego Movie 2's narrative starts after the first film's events, just as Finn's toddler sister Bianca starts to play with Duplo blocks and tries to take over Bricksburg. Bianca has taken more of the Lego sets to incorporate into her own creations in the intervening years. The animation team recognized that girls would likely use Lego bricks and incorporate other materials, such as fabrics and paper, creating a challenge for their rendering team. They wanted these elements to appear as if a child was manipulating them through their stop-motion animation process. They explored multiple design styles for each playset that is within Bianca's room, the "Systar System", and developed new animation approaches for some of these styles, including using fewer frames as in inbetweening.

    They also incorporated the Lego Friends line of toys aimed at girls, including mini-dolls like General Sweet Mayhem. However, unlike traditional Lego mini-figurines, the Lego Friends' mini-dolls do not have the same articulation, for example, having no separate leg movement or wrists that rotate. The production team, working with Lego, did not want to create walking and movement patterns that did not match the articulation the real figurines could do and came up with creative solutions for animating these in the film. This also created a challenge for at least one song and dance number; production brought in a choreographing team to help plan out the dance considering the restrictions of movement for the mini-figures. For Queen Watevra Wa-Nabi, the production team decided to simply assign a pile of random Lego bricks for her but required each of the forms that she could shape-shift into used only those bricks from that pile.

    Among a concern between the creative leads was how to represent the Lego universe. Miller stated that they see each of the Lego films taking place in a child's mind, with both The Lego Movie and The Lego Batman Movie occurring within Finn's mind. With The Lego Movie 2, both Finn and Bianca's imaginations drive events, and the creators opted to leave parts of the film vague if the scene was based on Finn's version, Bianca's version, or some combination. However, in some scenes, they wanted to be clear that Finn or Bianca's view influenced the events and thus provided clues such as the type of dialogue given by the main characters to figure out whose imagination was at work.

    Among the mini-figures within the film will be one based on Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Lord and Miller had considered figures that would be unexpected within the film, with Ginsburg as one of their ideas. They received Ginsburg's blessing for this appearance, though she did not perform any voice work for this role. Subsequently, the Ginsburg mini-figure will be made as part of the movie's toy line.

    Casting

    On March 23, 2018, it was reported that Tiffany Haddish had been cast in the film to voice a new lead character, while returning actors would be Chris Pratt as Emmet, Elizabeth Banks as Wyldstyle, Will Arnett as Batman, Channing Tatum as Superman, and Jonah Hill as Green Lantern. Stephanie Beatriz and Arturo Castro were announced to be part of the film on June 4, 2018. Castro was replaced by Richard Ayoade in the final film. During San Diego Comic-Con 2018, it was announced that Pratt would also voice a new character in addition to Emmett, Rex Dangervest, who is based after Pratt himself, while Margot Robbie would reprise her role as Harley Quinn from the DC Extended Universe, replacing Jenny Slate from The Lego Batman Movie. In November 2018, Maya Rudolph joined the cast. In early January 2019, it was revealed that Jason Momoa would reprise his role as Aquaman from the DC Extended Universe. Gal Gadot was to also reprise her role as Wonder Woman from the DC Extended Universe, replacing Cobie Smulders from the previous film, but Smulders ended up returning shortly before the film's release.

    Daniel Radcliffe was originally set to voice a look-like of his iconic Harry Potter character known as Larry Potter, but his scene was ultimately cut. It was revealed by Mike Mitchell that Radcliffe's cameo was deleted due to not wanting to risk anything that would upset the Harry Potter fandom. The character was replaced by Larry Poppins (another look-alike character based on a British media icon).

    Music

    Theatrical release

    The film was theatrically released in the United States and the United Kingdom on February 8, 2019. The film was released one day earlier in Denmark. This was its third rescheduling; it was first scheduled to be released in the US on May 26, 2017, and then on May 18, 2018. The film was originally titled The Lego Movie Sequel before it was officially renamed The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part in May 2018.

    On January 24, 2019, Warner Bros. announced it would hold one-day previews for the film in 500 theaters in the United States on Saturday, January 26, 2019.

    International releases

    Marketing

    On June 4, 2018, the first poster was released, along with an announcement that the first trailer would be released the following day. The second trailer was released on November 20, 2018, along with the second poster. On Black Friday 2018, Warner Bros. released The Lego Movie on YouTube in its entirety for one day only, with a trailer for The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part attached. The third and final trailer was released on December 19, 2018. In the UK, DFS Furniture ran a marketing campaign that tied in with The Lego Movie 2. Other brands that partnered with the film include Chevrolet for promoting the Silverado, Chiquita, McDonald's for Happy Meal toys, and Turkish Airlines.

    Video game

    A video game based on the film, The Lego Movie 2 Videogame, a direct sequel to The Lego Movie Videogame, was announced on November 27, 2018, and was released on February 26, 2019, two weeks after the film's release, for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, and for the Nintendo Switch a month later on March 26. A Microsoft Windows version was also released.

    Short films

    On August 1, 2018, Turkish Airlines and Warner Bros. released a special safety video featuring characters from the franchise. On December 10, 2018, Warner Bros. released a short film, Emmet's Holiday Party, as a Christmas-styled promotion for the film. On January 8, 2019, one month before the film's release, Lego released a music video titled "Everything is Awesome" Dance Together Music Video on its official YouTube Channel. The video uses the titular song. From January 5 to January 26, 2019, the Lego channel made a franchise of short films, Saving Bricksburg, in which characters from the film were shown in short reenactments of The Lego Movie.

    Reception

    Box office

    As of February 11, 2019, The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part has grossed $36.2 million in the United States and Canada, and $18.5 million in other territories, for a total worldwide gross of $54.7 million.

    In the United States and Canada, The Lego Movie 2 was released alongside What Men Want, Cold Pursuit, and The Prodigy and was originally projected to gross $50–55 million from 4,303 theaters in its opening weekend. The film made $1.5 million from Thursday night previews, and when combined with advance screenings held at 550 theaters on January 26, 2019, made a total preview gross of $2.1 million. After making just $8.5 million on its first day, weekend estimates were lowered to $31 million. It debuted at $34.4 million, finishing first at the box office but marking a 50% decline from the first film.

    Critical response

    On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 85% based on 202 reviews, with an average rating of 7/10. The website’s critical consensus reads, “While it isn’t quite as much fun as its predecessor, The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part fits neatly into an animated all-ages franchise with heart and humor to spare.” On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 65 out of 100, based on 45 critics, indicating “generally favorable reviews”. Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of “A–” on an A+ to F scale (down from the first film’s “A”), while those at PostTrak gave it an average of 4 out of 5 stars; social media monitor RelishMix noted online responses to the film were “great”.

    Jesse Hassenger of The A.V. Club called the film “lovable”, giving it a grade of B and writing “Like Brad Bird’s recent Incredibles 2, it follows up a dazzling animated original (all the more dazzling for earning that designation despite being based on a toy line) with some big ideas that don’t cohere with the same streamlined magic as its predecessor.” TheWrap’s Yolanda Machado commended the screenplay and directing and wrote that the film “expands on the original’s premise, adding new worlds and characters to the growing LEGO universe, while also crafting a story that is timely, inventive, hilarious and perfect for all ages.”

    Chris Nashawaty of Entertainment Weekly says that while it was better than most other films, it didn’t recapture the surprise of the first film, saying, “Everything is still awesome. Just a little bit less so.” For The Hollywood Reporter, Michael Rechtshaffen wrote that the film brought “little that’s fresh or funny to the interlocking brick table despite boasting a script penned by originators Phil Lord and Christopher Miller.”

    In 2013, Warner Bros. relaunched their feature animation division as the Warner Animation Group. The first film from the division was The LEGO Movie, released on February 7, 2014.

    1st Logo (February 7, 2014-May 15, 2020)

    Nicknames: "CGI Shield", "The WB/WAG Combo", "Shield in the Sky"

    Logo: We start with the normal 1998 Warner Bros. Pictures logo, but the 1998 WB shield is rendered differently and with considerably less detail. When its original animation is complete, it flips around to reveal a shield similar-looking to the standard Warner Bros. Pictures logo, but has a white border and red interior, and the letters "WB" are replaced by "WAG", while the wording on the banner reads "warner • animation • group" (later using the uppercase letters, reading "WARNER • ANIMATION • GROUP"). The banner is also lower than usual. The byline is seen below.

    • On the teaser trailer for Storks, the shield is still, smaller, and less shiny, the background is a gradient purplish-gray, and the Time Warner byline is larger and red.
    • On Storks, the logo is in the white background and the WB shield stands still at the beginning.
    • Each film has a different variant of this logo, all of which can be described here.

    FX/SFX: The animation of the 1998 WB logo and the shield flipping. The Smallfoot variant was done by Sony Pictures Imageworks and the Scoob! variant was done by Reel FX Animation Studios, just like the aforementioned films.

    Music/Sounds: The opening theme of the movie. The Master and The Lego Batman Movie both feature the opening narration. SCOOB! uses the 1999 Warner Bros. Pictures fanfare for the WB part and the film's opening theme ("California Love" by 2Pac ft. Dr. Dre) for the WAG part and the film's prologue.

    Availability: Common. It can be seen on films produced by the company from this era. Debuted on their first film The Lego Movie (as a variant), while the final film to use this logo was SCOOB!. Do not expect this logo to appear on Teen Titans GO! To the Movies, as that film is produced by Warner Bros. Animation instead. It was last seen on the trailer, as well as some TV spots, for Tom & Jerry (2021), while the next logo makes its debut on the actual movie.

    Editor's Note: The colors of the WAG shield are more reminiscent of the how the shield appeared in Looney Tunes cartoons that were released in the 1950s.

    2nd Logo (February 10, 2021- )

    Nicknames: "The WB/WAG Combo II", "Shield in the Sky II", "The AT&T Shield", "CGI Shield II", "Discovery Shield"

    Logo: We start with the normal 2021 Warner Bros. Pictures logo. When its original animation is complete, the byline fades in below the shield (earlier than the normal WB logo). Then the shield flips around to reveal a shield similar-looking to the 2019 Warner Bros. shield. Like the previous logo, it has the same white border and red interior, and the letters "WB" are replaced by "WAG", but this time, it does not have the "WARNER • ANIMATION • GROUP" banner. Just like the standard WB logo, the shield then shines.

    Trivia: In the end credits of Space Jam: A New Legacy, the WAG logo is seen on Granny's jersey when she's fighting with former UFC fighter and WWE superstar, "Rowdy" Ronda Rousey (archival picture from UFC), while Speedy cheers in the picture.

    • February 10-July 16, 2021: "a WarnerMedia company"
    • May 3, 2022: Bylineless. This only appeared in the 2nd trailer for DC League of Super-Pets.
    • July 29, 2022-: "A WARNER BROS. DISCOVERY COMPANY"
    • Sometimes, the sun appears first, then the footage of the studio lot fades in. This can be seen on Space Jam: A New Legacy.
    • On films animated in the 2.39 aspect ratio, the shield and byline are a bit smaller.

    FX/SFX: The animation of the 2021 WB logo and the shield flipping. Nice CGI animation done by Devastudios. Like the normal WB logo, the sky and clouds were done using Terragen from Planetside Software.

    Music/Sounds: So far, the opening theme of the movie is heard.

    Music/Sounds Variants:

    • On Tom & Jerry, "Can I Kick It?" by hip-hop group A Tribe Called Quest is heard.
    • On Space Jam: A New Legacy, a creepy-sounding ambience from the basketball court (including the sound of the buzzer) can be heard, syncing with the logo.

    Availability: Current.

    • First appeared on Tom & Jerry (2021, albeit using a variant). The normal version debuted on the Japanese trailer for Space Jam: A New Legacy and later debuted on the aforementioned film, and will be seen on future WAG films.

    Editor's Note: Solid CG throughout, and compared to the first logo, the WAG shield looks even more like the Looney Tunes shield. Only time will tell if the 2021 WB fanfare will be used.

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