Lego Batman | Feb 10, 2017 | Teaser Trailer on Page 7! Billy Dee Williams to voice Two-Face.

[John Marston]

looks to finish with about 315-320m worldwide

Edited April 3, 2017 by John Marston

[WrathOfHan]

2 minutes ago, John Marston said:

looks to finish with about 315-320m worldwide

Damn, I didn't realize it went that low  

[aabattery]

The worldwide total is gonna end up at what a bunch of people were predicting the DOM total would be. Yikes.

[Jonwo]

4 minutes ago, WrathOfHan said:

Damn, I didn't realize it went that low  

 

At $80m, it's still made a profit for Warner Bros.

[DeeCee]

I didn't give it much thought but I was expecting it to double GitS in Australia. 

[UrosepsisFace]

These Lego movies have been great. As long as they're cheap enough to produce, I hope they keep on doing what they're doing. Would be a shame if these were dumped for an Ice-Age type appeal to appease the foreign masses...

[YM!]

At least this makes a profit.  (I hope Ninjago and LM2 succeed)

[UrosepsisFace]

15 minutes ago, YourMother said:

At least this makes a profit.  (I hope Ninjago and LM2 succeed)

 

I'm far more excited for those than I was for Lego Batman.

[Blipsy]

I wonder how Lego Batman and Ninjago will affect the gross of Lego Movie 2. Like a lot of people, I thought Lego Batman would do a lot better, considering how popular the original movie was, how popular Batman is, and how this got pretty good reviews. And I'm guessing Ninjago will do even worse (though still probably profitable). 

 

So, it makes me wonder how the GA will view Lego Movie 2. Will they see it as the real sequel to a movie they seemed to love, or will the two spin-off movies lower their interest in it?

[Talkie]

Is it possible that Lego Batman's audience appeal was blunted by the fact that both BvS and The Killing Joke were fairly family unfriendly films? The Lego films are primarily aimed at kids, but two Batman films prior to LB were more or less unsuitable for the youngest viewers. BvS was a rather dark and brutal PG-13 affair, while TKJ went straight into R-rated rape and mayhem territory that no parent would take a child to see. The fact that TKJ is animated makes the situation even dicier. Parents who had to forego taking their kids to those movies may have been reluctant to risk a trip to see Lego Batman. Sure, the ads and trailers made it seem like a fun adventure, but there could have been a reluctance to trust the studio not to throw the same "dark and gritty" themes into The Lego Batman. Without families to fuel it, TLB couldn't reach the level of The Lego Movie. At least, that's my theory.

 

 

[Eric Duncan]

 

[SpiderByte]

Aw, that's cute. Also, I love it when stuff aimed at kids does not treat kids like fucking morons and actually explains complicated things in easily understandable ways