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The Master (2016 Film)
''The Lego Movie'' is an American media franchise and shared universe based on Lego construction toys. It began with the 2014 film '' The Lego Movie'', which was directed and written by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. The success of the film led to the release of two licensed video games, a 4D film theme park attraction, two spin-off films titled '' The Lego Batman Movie'' and '' The Lego Ninjago Movie'', which were released in 2017, '' Unikitty!'' an animated television series that also came out in the same year, and the sequel to the original film titled '' The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part''. Development would end in 2020, with Warner Bros. letting the rights lapse back to The Lego Group after ''The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part'' underperformed at the box office and the studio failed to materialize any new projects. The franchise has received a generally positive critical reception, with the exception of ''The Lego Ninjago Movie'' which received mixed reviews, and has gro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Lin
Dan Lin (; born April 8, 1973) is a Taiwanese-American film and television producer. He is the chairman of Netflix Films and the founder of Rideback (formerly Lin Pictures until 2018), a film and television production company that he formed in 2008. Lin produced Warner Bros.' ''Sherlock Holmes'', '' Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows'', ''The Lego Movie'', ''The Lego Batman Movie'', ''The Lego Ninjago Movie'', '' The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part'', and the horror film '' It'', which holds the record for highest-grossing horror film. Lin also produced Disney's ''Aladdin'', a live action adaptation of the 1992 animated feature. Early life and education Dan Lin was born in Taipei, Taiwan, the son of an executive in the international food industry. He moved to the United States at the age of five. In 1994, Lin graduated with a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He then earned a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enter The Ninjago
''The Lego Movie'' is an American media franchise and shared universe based on Lego construction toys. It began with the 2014 film ''The Lego Movie'', which was directed and written by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. The success of the film led to the release of two licensed video games, a 4D film theme park attraction, two spin-off films titled ''The Lego Batman Movie'' and ''The Lego Ninjago Movie'', which were released in 2017, ''Unikitty!'' an animated television series that also came out in the same year, and the sequel to the original film titled '' The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part''. Development would end in 2020, with Warner Bros. letting the rights lapse back to The Lego Group after ''The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part'' underperformed at the box office and the studio failed to materialize any new projects. The franchise has received a generally positive critical reception, with the exception of ''The Lego Ninjago Movie'' which received mixed reviews, and has grossed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rideback (production Company)
Rideback (formerly Lin Pictures until 2018) is a film and television production company formed on December 12, 2007 by producer Dan Lin. Its notable films include ''The Lego Movie (franchise), The Lego Movie'' franchise. History On December 12, 2007, Dan Lin announced that he would leave Warner Bros. as senior vice president of production, to launch his company Lin Pictures. In 2008, the studio hired Jon Silk as vice president of production and Stephen Gilchrist as director of development for film production. In 2011, they launched its own roots into television, signing a deal with Warner Bros. Television, to produce TV shows, and hired Jennifer Gwartz to run the new television division with Dan Lin. In 2014, the studio was successful in the television industry when their first TV show ''Forever (2014 TV series), Forever'' was picked up to series by American Broadcasting Company, ABC. It even gained more success when the studio's second TV series ''Lethal Weapon (TV series), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warner Animation Group
Warner Bros. Pictures Animation (WBPA), formerly known as the Warner Animation Group (WAG), is an American animation studio that serves as the animated feature film label of Warner Bros.' theatrical film production and distribution division, Warner Bros. Pictures. Established on January 7, 2013, by Jeff Robinov, the studio is the successor to the dissolved 2D traditional hand-drawn animation studio Warner Bros. Feature Animation, which shut down in 2004, and is also a sister to the regular Warner Bros. Animation studio. The studio has produced 10 feature films, the first one being ''The Lego Movie'', which was released on February 7, 2014, and the most recent being ''DC League of Super-Pets'', which was released on July 29, 2022. Films produced by WBPA have grossed a total of $2 billion at the box-office. History On January 7, 2013, Jeff Robinov (then head of the studio's motion picture division) founded a screenplay development department, nicknamed a "think tank" for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piece By Piece (2024 Film)
''Piece by Piece'' is a 2024 American animated biographical documentary comedy film co-written, co-produced, and directed by filmmaker Morgan Neville in his animated directorial debut. It follows the life and career of American musician Pharrell Williams, who stars in the film, through the lens of Lego animation, or brickfilm. Produced by The Lego Group, Neville's Tremolo Productions, and Williams' I Am Other, ''Piece by Piece'' marks the sixth theatrical Lego-based film and the first under Universal Pictures' run of their film rights. Alongside Williams and Neville, the film stars the voices of Gwen Stefani, Kendrick Lamar, Timbaland, Justin Timberlake, Busta Rhymes, Jay-Z, and Snoop Dogg as Lego versions of themselves. Williams had considered creating a film about his life since 2013; however, serious plans for a documentary in animated musical form started in 2019 following a discussion between Williams and Neville. Neville interviewed with Williams' associates remotely du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Universal Pictures
Universal City Studios LLC, doing business as Universal Pictures (also known as Universal Studios or simply Universal), is an American filmmaking, film production and film distribution, distribution company headquartered at the 10 Universal City Plaza, Universal Studios complex in Universal City, California, and is the flagship studio of Universal Studios, Inc., Universal Studios, the film studio arm of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. Founded in 1912 by Carl Laemmle, Mark Dintenfass, Charles O. Baumann, Adam Kessel, Pat Powers (producer), Pat Powers, William Swanson, David Horsley, Robert H. Cochrane and Jules Brulatour, Universal is the oldest surviving film studio in the United States and the fifth oldest globally after Gaumont Film Company, Gaumont, Pathé, Titanus and Nordisk Film, and is one of the Major film studios, "Big Five" film studios. Universal's most commercially successful film franchises include ''Fast & Furious, Jurassic Park'', and ''Despicable Me''. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Construction Toy
A construction set is a standardized piece assortment allowing for the construction of various different models. Construction sets are most often marketed as toys. Popular construction toy brands include Lincoln Logs and ''LEGO''. Toys Psychological benefits Construction toy play (activity), play is beneficial for building social skills and building trust in others because it acts as a collaboration, collaborative task where individuals have to cooperation, cooperate to finish the taskbuilding an object out of Lego, for example. The effect was found in high school students. For children specifically, children who complete models using toy building blocks have much better spatial visualization ability, spatial ability than children who do not complete such models. Spatial ability also predicts completion of models. Construction toy play is also beneficial for autism, autistic children when both individual and group play with building blocks is incorporated. Autistic chil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shared Universe
A shared universe or shared world is a fictional universe from a set of creative works where one or more writers (or other artists) independently contribute works that can stand alone but fits into the joint development of the storyline, characters, or world of the overall project. It is common in genres like science fiction. It differs from collaborative writing in which multiple artists are working together on the same work and from crossovers where the works and characters are independent except for a single meeting. The term ''shared universe'' is also used within comics to reflect the overall milieu created by the comic book publisher in which characters, events, and premises from one product line appear in other product lines in a media franchise. A specific kind of shared universe that is published across a variety of media (such as novels and films), each of them contributing to the growth, history, and status of the setting is called an "imaginary entertainment enviro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Media Franchise
A media franchise, also known as a multimedia franchise, is a collection of related media in which several derivative works have been produced from an original creative work of fiction, such as a film, a work of literature, a television program, or a video game. Bob Iger, chief executive of the Walt Disney Company, defined the word ''franchise'' as "something that creates value across multiple businesses and across multiple territories over a long period of time." Transmedia franchise A media franchise often consists of cross-marketing across more than one medium. For the owners, the goal of increasing profit through diversity can extend the commercial profitability of the franchise and create strong feelings of identity and ownership in its consumers. Those large groups of dedicated consumers create the franchise's fandom, which is the community of fans that indulge in many of its media and are committed to interacting with and keeping up with other consumers. Large franchis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Second Part (soundtrack)
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lego Ninjago Movie (soundtrack)
''The Lego Ninjago Movie (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)'' is the soundtrack to the 2017 film ''The Lego Ninjago Movie'' which is the third instalment in ''The Lego Movie'' franchise. The album featured five original songs along with the score composed by Mark Mothersbaugh. The 23-track soundtrack album released through WaterTower Music on 15 September 2017. Background Mark Mothersbaugh who composed the score for ''The Lego Movie'', returned to score ''The Lego Ninjago Movie''. Along with the score, the album includes five new songs created for the film—"Heroes", "Operation New Me", "It's Garmadon", "Found My Place", and "Dance of Doom". The Japanese version features an exclusive theme song, performed by the band Johnny's West, "Mou 1% (Another 1%)". Flautist Greg Pattillo covered three songs as a part of Master Wu's flute music, which are—" (It's the) Hard Knock Life" from '' Annie'' (2014), "Welcome to the Jungle" by the hard rock band Guns N' Roses and " The Power" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lego Batman Movie (soundtrack)
''The Lego Batman Movie (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)'' is the soundtrack to the 2017 animated film ''The Lego Batman Movie'', which is the second installment in ''The Lego Movie'' franchise. The film is based on the DC Comics superhero Batman, and other primary characters from the DC Universe and the Lego DC Super Heroes' Batman toy line. It is the only film in the franchise not to be scored by Mark Mothersbaugh, with it instead being scored by Lorne Balfe. The soundtrack to the film was released by WaterTower Music, through two-disc CD formats and for digital download, on February 3, 2017, a week prior to the film's release. A vinyl edition of the soundtrack was released on May 19, 2017. The film has a theme song that's exclusive to the Japanese version titled "Let's Go," performed by the band Kis My Ft2. Background Lorne Balfe was hired to score for the film in June 2016. He previously assisted Hans Zimmer on the music of ''The Dark Knight'' trilogy, which is al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
