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18-05-2025
- Entertainment
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23 Awesome "The Lego Movie" Facts I Bet You Didn't Know
Remember The Lego Movie? The so-good-you-almost-can't-believe-it, Academy Award-nominated film that spawned a whole franchise turns 11 years old this year. Here are some cool behind-the-scenes facts about it: Mark Mothersbaugh, who was the main composer on Rugrats, wrote the score for The Lego Movie. The film racked in a whopping $468 million worldwide. Directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller planned to include R2-D2 in the film, but had to scrap him after a battle over ownership rights. However, they were able to work out a deal to have Anthony Daniels reprise his famous role as C-3PO for the film. The film's success will spawned three separate Lego-themed films: The Lego Movie Sequel, a direct sequel to the original film; The Lego Ninjago Movie, which will be based off the Lego Ninjago product line; and The Lego Batman Movie, in which Will Arnett reprised his role as the Caped Crusader. After the film dominated box offices, Lego profits skyrocketed by 15%. In 2014, approximately 62 billion Lego pieces were sold, which equates to about 102 Lego pieces for every single person in the world. Whoa. All Lego pieces in the film were digitally rendered, resulting in a total of 3,863,484 pieces. However, if the producers had chosen to make the film stop-motion animation, it would have taken 15,080,330 pieces. The "Where Are My Pants?" running gag parodied How I Met Your Mother. Phil Lord and Chris Miller were writers and executive producers for the show's first season. When the idea was initially pitched, Lego executives weren't interested. Their company was already doing very well, and they didn't want to risk it. They eventually changed their minds after reading the treatment by Kevin and Dan Hageman. The corporation Lord Business runs is called "Octan," which is a fictional brand of gasoline Lego created back in 1992. Morgan Freeman, who voiced Vitruvius, assumed he'd be doing scenes with the other actors, because he thought that's how animated movies worked. Nope. He ended up doing his part alone in a room. Posters in Emmet's apartment clearly reference 21 Jump Street, which Phil Lord and Chris Miller directed in 2012. Macho and the Nerd is actually the Russian title of that film. Consequently, both Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill from 21 Jump Street have cameos in the film as Superman and Green Lantern, respectively. This ended up making Phil Lord and Chris Miller battle with Warner Bros. about letting Superman and Green Lantern have a certain storyline in the film. Both Robert Downey Jr. and Emma Stone were considered for the main roles, but Chris Pratt and Elizabeth Banks ended up playing the parts. In an older draft of the script, Unikitty ends up with Batman. However, in another version, she ends up with Metal Beard. The directors wanted the Lego pieces to look used and played with, so they worked with their effects team to add fingerprints, fading, and scratches. No one ever says the word "Lego" during the entire movie. Chris Miller drew some of the artwork the characters use in the film. Liam Neeson insisted on doing his Good Cop and Bad Cop characters at the same time, instead of during separate sessions like the directors wanted. According to Will Arnett, Batman was chosen as Wyldstyle's boyfriend to make Emmet feel completely out of her league. No one can compete with Batman. Will Forte, who voiced Abraham Lincoln, actually played the president years earlier in the short-lived TV series Clone High. This show was created by The Lego Movie directors, Phil Lord and Chris Miller. Benny the spaceman's helmet is cracked in a certain spot because Lego's space-line products from the 1980s would tend to break in that exact location. Vitruvius' line, "Ah, we gotta write all that down 'cause I'm not gonna remember any of it, but here we go," wasn't originally in the script. It was only added when Morgan Freeman said it during filming because he was frustrated with all the line changes.
CNET
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- CNET
'Spider-Noir' Pic Shows Nic Cage in Amazon's Live-Action Series
During Amazon's annual upfronts on Monday, the streamer let loose a first look at Academy Award-winner (and genre icon) Nicolas Cage as the titular hero in the buzzy comic book series Spider-Noir. Spider-Noir was first introduced on the big screen in 2018's Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. The character, which is part of the Marvel Noir comics universe, was introduced to the paneled page in 2009. It follows an alternate reality version of Peter Parker -- this one is a struggling private investigator in 1930s New York who's seen better days -- who suffers a spider bite that gives him superpowers. A masked vigilante upholding justice in the Big Apple during the Great Depression? Yes, that about sums up the comic and the upcoming live-action TV series from MGM Plus and Prime Video. The show also stars Lamorne Morris, Brendan Gleeson, Li Jun Li, Karen Rodriguez, Jack Huston and Lukas Haas, among many others. Oren Uziel (The Lost City, 22 Jump Street) and Steve Lightfoot (Marvel's The Punisher, Shantaram) will executive produce and co-showrun the project, which was developed with the Academy Award-winning creative team who brought Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse to the big screen: Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and Amy Pascal. Spider-Noir will be presented in both black and white and color; the highly anticipated program will premiere in 2026 on MGM Plus and Prime Video.
Yahoo
01-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse' Hitting Theaters in June 2027
'Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse,' the sequel to 2023's 'Across the Spider-Verse,' will hit theaters in the summer of 2027. Sony Pictures Entertainment as part of its CinemaCon presentation on Monday night announced that the film will hit theaters on June 4, 2027. Producer Phil Lord joined the stage along with directors Bob Persichetti and Justin K. Thompson, and he explained that the film 'decided to break the boundaries of animation again with the epic conclusion of Miles Morales' story.' He also said that for the first time, it will be made specifically for large format screens, the first time Sony has done that on an animated film. Sony also showed a brief sizzle reel of some psychedelic and trippy footage. More from IndieWire Even the Most Successful Indie Directors Can't Make a Living. Why? 'A Nice Indian Boy' Review: This Charming, if By-the-Book Interracial Rom-Com, Packs a Bollywood Twist 'We needed to make sure we had the time to get it just right,' Lord said on the CinemaCon stage at Caesar's Colosseum in Las Vegas. He said the film picks up literally the second where 'Across the Spider-Verse' left off on a cliffhanger, in which Miles Morales was a fugitive on the run from all the other Spider-Men across multiple universes and was the prisoner of his own self in a separate universe, who instead of becoming Spider-Man has now become the Prowler. The last 'Spider-Verse' film, which was Oscar nominated after the original 'Into the Spider-Verse' film won the Best Animated Feature Oscar, grossed $690 million at the box office, and its follow-up was originally expected to open as early as 2024 as two halves of a single story, but after being undated for some time, audiences will have to wait even longer than expected. Bob Persichetti was one of the co-directors on the original 'Into the Spider-Verse,' and Justin K. Thompson was a co-director on 'Across the Spider-Verse,' and the threequel brings the two of them together. Phil Lord and Christopher Miller are producing the film. Sony's presentation also included teasers for Danny Boyle's '28 Years Later,' which comes out this summer, and its follow-up '28 Years Later: The Bone Temple,' which comes out January 2026, as well as Darren Aronofsky's new film 'Caught Stealing' and the rebooted 'I Know What You Did Last Summer.' Best of IndieWire Guillermo del Toro's Favorite Movies: 56 Films the Director Wants You to See 'Song of the South': 14 Things to Know About Disney's Most Controversial Movie The 55 Best LGBTQ Movies and TV Shows Streaming on Netflix Right Now
