That is down a whopping 46% from the $17m opening day of The LEGO Movie five years ago this weekend and 37% below the $14.4m opening day of The LEGO Batman Movie two years ago. For the record, The LEGO Movie pulled a 4x multiplier back in 2014, while The LEGO Batman Movie and The LEGO Ninjago Movie ($20m in September of 2017) both earned over/under 3.6x weekend multipliers. For the record, The LEGO Movie 2 is quite good, arguably about as good as the first film. The LEGO Batman Movie earned $136m against a $175m domestic cume, and LEGO Ninjago earned $64m foreign against a $59m domestic sum. Now that LEGO movies, even theatrical LEGO movies, are no longer once-in-a-lifetime (or even once every few years) cultural events, the appeal of The LEGO Movie 2 was explicitly rooted in whether or not audiences wanted more adventures featuring Chris Pratt's Emmett and Elizabeth Banks' Lucy.

Source: Forbes February 09, 2019 15:45 UTC