The Lego movie The Lego movie Director/s Phil Lord/Christopher Miller Production company Warner brothers pictures Plot summary An ordinary LEGO minifigure, mistakenly thought to be the extraordinary MasterBuilder, is recruited to join a quest to stop an evil LEGO tyrant from gluing the universe together. Cast: actors Chris Prat,Will Arnett, Elizabeth banks, Morgan freeman, will Ferrell Cast: crew/animators Animal logic (Australian company) budget $60 million
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The Lego movieThe Lego movie
Director/s Phil Lord/Christopher Miller
Production company Warner brothers pictures
Plot summary An ordinary LEGO minifigure, mistakenly thought to be the extraordinary MasterBuilder, is recruited to join a quest to stop an evil LEGO tyrant from gluing the universe together.
Cast: actors Chris Prat,Will Arnett, Elizabeth banks, Morgan freeman, will Ferrell
$275,515,455! (and it’s still only in it’s third week)
Pre-production
The film has been in development at Warner Bros. since 2008. By august of that year, a script was being written and in 2010 the popular children’s film directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller had been selected to direct the production.
Green-lit in 2011 it was said to be released on February 28th 2014*.The films title was released in march of 2012 and a script written.
The Lego movie was set up with a pre-existing product to work from.
producers
Roy Lee- creator of Virtigo entertainment and was one of two producers of the Lego movie.
Dan Lin- owner and founder of Lin pictures and the Lego movie has been his first film with him as the producer.
production
The production of the film mostly took place in the hands of Australian animators: animal logic. These people are currently being referred to as the unsung heroes of the Lego movie, as they produced 80% of the animation that you see throughout the film, the rest being left to stop animation.
The cast of voice actors is immense with cameos from Channing Tatum and even Billy Dee Williams (Lando)
distribution
Being a big American production, Distribution is automatically taken care of by Warner brothers pictures, who are capable to distributing any film to the massess
Exhibition and exchange
Exhibition and exchange. Further.
Technology and audience
Technology is key to the films success and in-fact the film would be at a massive loss without it.
Having come from such a well known brand, the Lego movie developed large success from all audiences, as it is a film that anyone who had a childhood can enjoy.
