Lego Movie 2 takes $1.91m at weekend box office, well behind Captain Marvel
The Lego Movie 2’s debut was overshadowed by the continuing box office dominance of Captain Marvel over the weekend.
Captain Marvel’s $3.88m in takings across 645 screens dwarfed The Lego Movie 2 which earned $1.91m from 391 screens nationally while wrestling biopic Fighting With My Family took $1.22m from the 319 venues where it appeared.
Being beaten by a superhero movie is history repeating for the Lego movie franchise with the original’s debut falling behind a Captain America sequel in 2014.
“Our policy going forward is that all our movies will be released within the time and date of the United States.” Graham Burke, 2014
LEGO Movie 2 US release date – February 8
LEGO Movie 2 AUS release date – March 28
WB gave Village Roadshow the elbow as co-producer of the Lego movies after the breakout success of the first one. So that lag might just a reflect a certain ambivalence towards the franchise.
A brief internet search would tell you that the movie has been all over the internet the last 2 weeks.
So is the small box office Marvels fault or that the internet found a better way to distribute the product? We’ll never know – but I’m pretty sure Roadshow will blame piracy (again).
The fools need to remember Australia is one of the largest media pirates, and for this exact reason. I pirated Lego Movie 2 over a month ago because I didn’t want my kids to be upset because they though it would be an international release.