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Production CompaniesWarner Bros. (presents) (as Warner Bros. Pictures) Village Roadshow Pictures (in association with) LEGO (in association with) (as LEGO Systems A/S) Vertigo EntertainmentLin PicturesAnimal Logic

DistributorsGolden Village Pictures (2014) (Singapore) (theatrical) InterCom (2014) (Hungary) (theatrical) Warner Bros. Entertainment (2014) (Canada) (theatrical) Warner Bros. (2014) (Japan) (theatrical) Warner Bros. (2014) (Netherlands) (theatrical) Warner Bros. (2014) (USA) (theatrical) SF Film Finland (2014) (Finland) (all media)

Special EffectsLegend3D (stereoscopic conversion)

Other CompaniesBig Bang Sound (sound post-production) Chapman/Leonard Studio Equipment (camera dollies) Jigsaw Music (music preparation) Scarlet Letters (end cards by) WaterTower Music (soundtrack)

DC Entertainment, a company of Warner Bros. Entertainment, which itself is owned by Time Warner. This means they have the right to use Lego characters such as batman in the film

The film is based on the Lego line of construction toys

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In July 2012, a Lego-user contest announced on the movie's Facebook page would choose a winning Lego vehicle to appear in the film. Tech production – CGI, able to have a global team working on the film, easy to transfer files between countries, computers etc.Tech distribution – able to be shown digitally with ease, no need for conversion.Tech marketing – online, apps, trailers, physical posters etc. Fan based films on youtube? Tech exchange – this will be blu ray, dvd, think about piracy or torrents for sharing.

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17 Lego building sets based on the film's scenes and characters will be released, including Lord Business' Evil Lair, and Cloud Cuckoo Palace, along with a new set of 16 Minifigures (William Shakespeare, Gail the Construction Worker, Panda Guy, Abraham Lincoln, Taco Tuesday Guy, Larry the Barista, President Business, Calamity Drone, Marsha Queen of the Mermaids, Wild West Wyldstyle, Scribble-Face Bad Cop, Velma Staplebot, Hard Hat Emmet, "Where are my Pants?" Guy, Mrs. Scratchen-Post, and Wiley Fusebot).

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Russian: http://www.lego.com/en-gb/movie/videos/behind-the-bricks#./trailer-one

http://blog.zap2it.com/pop2it/2014/02/fox-business-totally-misses-the-point-of-the-lego-movie-watch.html

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Lego, the Danish company, for years refused to entertain Hollywood’s overtures. “We are not an entertainment company. And we were very much in doubt about what a Lego movie would look like so we said no many times,” said Lego chief marketing officer Mads Nipper at the afterparty, referring to the many pitches he heard. Still, he and the other execs were eventually won over by producers Dan Lin and Roy Lee who talked of a movie paying tribute to creativity and imagination. The script also took years to craft. Lord and Miller worked off a foundation by Dan and Kevin Hageman and began writing four years ago. They said they were still writing even weeks ago when trying to mix the movie. (We’re a little obsessive,” said Miller.)

Pre-ProductionThe film has been in development at Warner Bros. since 2008. By August 2009, Dan and Kevin Hageman were writing the script for a comedy action-adventure live-action/animated film. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller were in talks in June 2010 to write and direct the film. Warner Bros. green-lit the film by November 2011, with a planned 2014 release date. The Australian studio Animal Logic was contracted to provide the animation, which was expected to comprise 80% of the film. By this time Chris McKay, the director of Robot Chicken, had also joined Lord and Miller to co-direct. In March 2012, Lord and Miller revealed the film's working title, Lego: The Piece of Resistance, and a storyline. In April 2012, Warner Bros. scheduled the film for release on February 28, 2014, a date that subsequently changed. By June 2012, Chris Pratt had been cast as the voice of Emmet, the lead Lego character, and Will Arnett voicing Lego Batman; the role of Lego Superman was offered to Channing Tatum. By August 2012, Elizabeth Banks was hired to voice Lucy (later renamed Wyldstyle) and Morgan Freeman to voice Vitruvius, an old mystic. In October 2012, Warner Bros. shifted the release date for the film, simply titled Lego, to February 7, 2014. In November 2012, Alison Brie, Will Ferrell, Liam Neeson, and Nick Offerman signed on for roles. Brie voices a member of Emmet's team with a powerful secret, Ferrell voices a villain named President Business, Neeson voices a foe called Bad Cop, and Offerman voices Metalbeard, a pirate seeking revenge on the President. Production

The Wrap is reporting that Warner Bros. will announce a sequel to The Lego Movie. It will be written by Jared Stern (The Internship, Mr. Popper’s Penguins) and Michelle Morgan (Girl Most Likely). It should come as no surprise to see Warner Bros. greenlight The Lego Movie 2 (or whatever they end up calling it) this early. It’s commonplace that animated films get sequels, and they often get them planned before the wide public even sees them. There’s a formula that works well for studios. What do kids love even more than animated characters? Animated characters that they already know they love. If that weren’t enough already, all signs are pointing to The Lego Movie being a major hit this weekend. It’s faced up against the George Clooney directed The Monuments Men, which has a huge A-list cast, as well as Vampire Academy, which is based on the popular book series. These three would seemingly make a crowded and competitive weekend, but all signs point to The Lego Movie running away with the box office (and finally putting a stop to Ride Along‘s run in the top spot). Advanced research suggests The Lego Movie will make at least $40 million.

Warner Bros. has been looking to expand its own development of animated films for a while now, and Stern has actually been a big part of that process. Last year it was announced that the studio was bringing in a brain trust of writers and directors to help develop new projects, and names involved in that story included Stern, Lord & Miller, Nicholas Stoller (The Muppets/Forgetting Sarah Marshall), and the team of John Requa & Glenn Ficarra (Bad Santa). In addition to a LEGO Movie sequel, WB is also working on an animated film called Storks and another called Smallfoot.

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Russian: http://www.lego.com/en-gb/movie/videos/behind-the-bricks#./trailer-one

MarketingVarious Lego characters, either original or from licensed properties, make cameos or play bit parts. These include, among others: Johnny Thunder (from the Adventurers line), Lloyd Garmadon the Green Ninja (Ninjago), C-3PO, Han Solo and Lando Calrissian (Star Wars) the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Dumbledore (Harry Potter), Gandalf (Lord of the Rings), Shaquille O'Neal and the NBA All-Stars (Sports), Lion Knights (Castle), and many characters from the Minifigures series.

Videogame: http://www.lego.com/en-gb/movie/videos/behind-the-bricks#./videogame-trailer-new

Videos: http://www.lego.com/en-gb/movie/videos/behind-the-bricks

The Lego Movie will premiere at LEGOLAND California on February 6, 2014,[29] and is scheduled to be released in theaters on February 7, 2014. The first teaser/theatrical trailer was released on June 18, 2013.[30] The second was released on October 31, 2013, preceded by a series of teasers featuring main characters

A video game based on the film, The Lego Movie Videogame, is being developed by TT Games for Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Wii U, Nintendo 3DS, PlayStation Vita, and Windows, to be released alongside the film in 2014.[34] An exclusive "Wild West Emmet" minifigure will be released with preorders of the game at Gamestop.

soundtrack "Everything Is Awesome!!!" featuring: Tegan and Sara featuring The Lonely Island "Prologue" "Emmet's Morning" "Emmet Falls In Love" "Escape" "Into The Old West" "Wyldstyle Explains" "Emmet's Mind" "The Transformation" "Salloons And Wagons" "Batman" "Middle Zealand" "Cloud Cuckooland And Ben The Spaceman" "Emmet's Speech" "Submarines And Metalbeard" "Requiem for Cuckooland" "Reaching the Kragle" "Emmet's Plan" "The Truth" "Wyldstyle Leads" "Let's Put It All Back" "I Am A Master Builder" "My Secret Weapon" "We Did It!" "Everything is Awesome!!!" featuring Jo Li "Everything is Awesome!!! (Unplugged)" featuring Shawn Patterson and Sammy Allen "Untitled Self Portrait" featuring Will Arnett (batman) "Everything is Awesome!!! (Instrumental)"

The soundtrack will be released on February 4, 2014 by WaterTower Music. All music composed by Mark Mothersbaugh, except where noted. http://www.watertower-music.com/releases_spotlight.php?search=WTM39500

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The Lego Movie will premiere at LEGOLAND California on February 6, 2014,[29] and is scheduled to be released in theaters on February 7, 2014.

The 3D animation, set in a world made up of plastic children's blocks, took $69.1 million (£42m) between Friday and Sunday, according to studio estimates.

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Sound mix: Dolby Digital, Datasat, SDDSAspect Ratio: 2.35 : 1 Camera: Arri Alexa

The animation is a combination of stop-motion and CGI. The creators deliberately tried to make the movie feel like stop-motion, and avoided making the computer-generated effects look too obvious. This was done to make the movie look like real Legos

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