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Behind the Scenes: LEGO® Star Wars Droid Tales
A look into the creative process behind LEGO Star Wars animated content with
Michael Price, Michael Donovan, Anthony Daniels and Jason Cosler. Panel
discussion originally held at Star Wars Celebration 2015.
YouTube Channel: LEGO
Video Link: YouTube.com
Note: It’s a long video.
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LEGOLAND® Parks Premiering New The LEGO Movie 4D Film
Feb. 25, 2015
CARLSBAD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Merlin Entertainments announced today it is
partnering with Warner Bros. Consumer Products and The LEGO Group to bring a new
4D animated film based on the popular characters of The LEGO® Movie™, from
Warner Bros. Pictures, Village Roadshow Pictures and LEGO System A/S, to guests
at LEGOLAND® Parks and LEGOLAND® Discovery Centers around the world later this
year. The new 4D animated film will open exclusively at the six LEGOLAND Parks
and 11 LEGOLAND Discovery Centers in North America, Asia and Europe.
Using elements such as wind, water, smoke and special lighting effects, the
larger-than-life experience brings the film’s main characters, Emmet and
Wyldstyle, back together with their friends for another awesome adventure.
“We’re excited to be partnering with Warner Bros. Consumer Products and The LEGO
Group on such a, dare I say, awesome, adventure,” says Merlin Entertainments
Chief Executive Officer Nick Varney. “Emmet and Wyldstyle have become immensely
popular at our theme parks and Discovery Centers across the globe and bringing
this new 4D movie exclusively to our guests continues our Merlin philosophy of
creating memorable family experiences.”
“More than a film, The LEGO Movie became an anthem for creative building,
inspiring families around the world to pull their LEGO collections out and piece
together their imaginations,” says Jill Wilfert, vice president licensing &
entertainment for the LEGO Group. “I know that LEGOLAND guests are going to love
seeing these characters in a fun, new adventure.”
For the latest news on this 4D adventure, check the Merlin website at
www.MerlinEntertainments.biz
About Merlin Entertainments
MERLIN ENTERTAINMENTS plc is the leading name in location-based, family
entertainment. Europe’s number one and the world’s second-largest visitor
attraction operator, Merlin now operates 106 attractions, 11 hotels/3 holiday
villages in 23 countries and across 4 continents. The company aims to deliver
memorable and rewarding experiences to its almost 60 million visitors worldwide,
through its iconic global and local brands, and the commitment and passion of
its managers and approximately 25,000 employees.
Among Merlin’s attractions are - SEA LIFE, Madame Tussauds, LEGOLAND, The London
Eye, Dungeons, Gardaland, LEGOLAND Discovery Centres, Alton Towers Resort,
Warwick Castle, THORPE PARK Resort, Blackpool Tower, Heide Park Resort, WILD
LIFE Sydney Zoo, Sydney Tower Eye and SKYWALK. All brands which are distinctive,
challenging and innovative – and which have great potential for growth in the
future. Visit www.merlinentertainments.biz for more information.
About The LEGO Group
The LEGO Group is a privately held, family-owned company, based in Billund,
Denmark. It was founded in 1932 and today the group is one of the world’s
leading manufacturers of play materials for children. The company is committed
to the development of children’s creative and imaginative abilities through its
products, which can be purchased in more than 130 countries. Visit www.LEGO.com
LEGO, the LEGO logo, the brick and knob configuration and the Minifigure are
trademarks of The LEGO Group. ©2015 The LEGO Group.
About Warner Bros. Consumer Products
Warner Bros. Consumer Products, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company, is one of
the leading licensing and retail merchandising organizations in the world.
Source:
Businesswire.com
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Rob Schrab to Direct The LEGO Movie Sequel!
Director Rob Schrab (“Community,” “The Mindy Project”) will mark his feature
directorial debut overseeing construction on The LEGO Movie Sequel, the eagerly
awaited follow-up to the worldwide sensation The LEGO Movie. The announcement
was made today by Greg Silverman, President of Creative Development and
Worldwide Production, Warner Bros. Pictures.
Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, who wrote and directed The LEGO Movie, are
writing the new feature based on a story by Lord, Miller, Jared Stern and
Michelle Morgan. In addition, Lord and Miller will serve as producers, alongside
returning producers Dan Lin and Roy Lee.
“‘The LEGO Movie’ captivated critics and audiences on a global scale with its
irresistible blend of humor, imagination and fun. Warner Bros. is excited to
build our relationship with The LEGO Group with this new adventure,” says
Silverman, “and we join them in welcoming the multi-talented Rob Schrab to the
LEGO family as he takes the helm of ‘The LEGO Movie Sequel.‘”
“We are so excited to collaborate with Rob,” add Lord and Miller. “He is a
comedy genius, a visual savant, and we have been stalking him for years. No one
works harder than Rob, and his aesthetic, combined with his sense of humor,
bring a strong, unique, thoughtful, and passionately nerdy voice to this
project. People who know him are slapping their foreheads today and saying, ‘Of
course!’”
In addition to his small-screen work, Schrab is well known as the creator of the
comic book series “Scud: The Disposable Assassin.” He also wrote, directed and
executive produced “The Sarah Silverman Program,” for which he gained a WGA
Award nomination. He previously earned a 2007 Annie Award nomination for Best
Writing in an Animated Feature Production, for the Oscar-nominated comedy
Monster House. In addition, he won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding
Original Music and Lyrics, and received an additional nomination for Outstanding
Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Special for his work on the 81st Annual
Academy Awards.
The LEGO Movie Sequel is another piece of the Studio’s growing LEGO film
franchise, also including the upcoming Ninjago, slated for a September 23, 2016,
release, and an as-yet-untitled LEGO Batman feature, due out in May 2017.
Source:
Comingsoon.net
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The movie ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ will be released in February based from the
popular book with the same name.
There is a LEGO version of the movie trailer. ‘Fifty Shades of Bricks’.
YouTube Video: ‘Fifty Shades of Bricks’.
Created by Antonio Toscano.
Enjoy.
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Phil Lord And Chris Miller On The Upcoming LEGO Movies
From Ninjago to The LEGO Movie 2
Back in November, there were a few quotes from the Empire Podcast interview with
LEGO Movie and Jump Street directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller worth analysing
in their own news story, and now you can enjoy some more, in the form of these
outtakes from our Oscars Special interview with the very same pair. In short, if
you’re excited about Ninjago, The LEGO Batman Movie and The LEGO Movie 2, click
no further, brick botherers.
Are you going to direct The LEGO Movie 2?
Miller: “I don’t think so. We’re writing the sequel right now and obviously
producing all the other ones. There’s a challenge to make each one feel like its
own thing. Part of the fun is finding people like Charlie Bean, who’s doing the
Ninjago movie, and Chris McKay who did so much on the first film. Each of them
have their own distinct voices and ideas for tone. So it will each have its own
personality and not just be, ‘Hey, remember that last movie? Here’s another one
just like it!” So that’s been a big challenge but so far it’s been going better
than I expected.”
Lord: “I think it’s nice for all these other films to have their own voice and
that’s what’s neat about working with all these other filmmakers. They come up
with solutions you wouldn’t think of. Watching Charlie Bean’s sequences for
Ninjago is so gratifying because he’s able to make it play without any dialogue
and has a really great visual style. It’s really nice and refreshing. I think it
would get boring if we directed them all, quite honestly.”
Will the other films have the same ‘LEGO self-awareness’ that your film had?
Miller: “We talk about them and oftentimes we say, ‘What can you do in this
movie that you can only do because it’s a LEGO movie?’ Obviously you’re not just
going to do a straight Batman movie. You have to take advantage of the medium
you’re working in. So then you have the advantage of the Will Arnett version of
Batman. On top of that we’re trying to take advantage of the fact that it’s
LEGO.”
Lord: “Sometimes the more serious you take the material the funnier it is.
They’re so cute. They’re like three heads tall and they look like Smurfs, so if
they take themselves seriously there’s something funny about it.”
You’re writing LEGO Movie 2. You weren’t originally, so what changed?
Miller: “We thought we’d said everything we wanted to say about creativity and
imagination and the inherent nature of Lego, and that left-brain/right-brain
nature. So we were scared about trying to write something that felt like the
next chapter and new ideas and not just a rehash.”
Lord: “We also worried we didn’t have enough time. Luckily, Chris McKay and
Jared Stern and Michelle Morgan all worked on the movie a bit in our absence and
really cracked the beginnings of a story and got us really excited; excited
enough to write it. We should be writing right now. We’ve opened a Final Draft
document and titled it. I mean, that’s really the hardest part. And we’ve chosen
the formatting. That is all that’s happened so far. We’ve been outlining a
bunch.”
Miller: “There are some really fun new themes that we didn’t explore in the
first movie and got us really excited, so that it’s its own thing. With 22 Jump
Street we did the whole making fun of yourself for just doing the same thing
again. We can’t do that ever again. You can only go so far up your own rear
end.”
In broad strokes, what do you want to explore with the second?
Miller: “Well I don’t want to give you spoilers but we were really interested
in what happens to that boy who’s in the meta story in the first movie when he’s
four years older. When he’s an adolescent how does that change his point of
view?
“And it’s nice to have the characters start in a different place from the first
movie. Emmet, for example, was in an existential crisis of having seen another
dimension and was questioning the whole point of his existence.”
The LEGO Movie 2 is set for a 2018 release, The LEGO Batman Movie will come
out February 10, 2017, and Ninjago will hit cinemas on October 14, 2016. The
current issue, where more from Lord and Miller can be found, is out now.
From: Empireonline.com
Video: The LEGO Movie - “Creating the Bricks”
YouTube.com Warner Bros. Pictures.
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