Animal Logic · Village Roadshow Pictures · The Lego Group · 101 min
Box office
$469.2M worldwide on a $60M budget
Honors
British Academy Film Awards — 1 winNational Board of Review — 1 winAnnie Awards — 1 nominationCritics' Choice Movie Award — 1 winAll 3 wins · 2 nominations on record
British Academy Film Awards: BAFTA's Children & Young People Award - Feature Film
National Board of Review: National Board of Review: Top Ten Films
Critics' Choice Movie Award: Best Animated Feature
Scholarship
Named in the title of 14 peer-reviewed works
Examples
The LEGO Movie — University of Texas Press eBooks, 2020
The Lego Movie, 2022
The LEGO Movie as Savvy Cinema — University of Texas Press eBooks, 2020
Sources: Wikidata · OpenAlex · Library of Congress. The record of the motion picture, not an assessment of this cell.
FILM NOTES
Warner Animation Group released The Lego Movie in February 2014, a co-production between Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow Pictures that turned a toy-line premise into a genuine critical and commercial success. Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, it married stop-motion-style CG animation with sharp comedic writing and a sprawling cast of licensed characters pulled from across pop culture. The film's cheerful satire of corporate conformity, paired with genuine visual invention, made it a defining animated feature of the decade and set the template for the Lego cinematic universe that followed.
This 35mm cell preserves a frame of Batman, the film's brooding guest star whose deadpan self-seriousness became one of its most quoted comic threads. Collectors seek Batman material from this release for the character's crossover appeal, bridging superhero fandom and animation collecting in a single piece. A single-character cell like this one likely originates from a promotional or credits sequence, where studios often isolated key figures for marketing reels or title materials. Owning this piece means holding a tangible fragment of the character's brief, memorable residency in Lego form.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm theatrical release print of The Lego Movie (2014).
Gauge
35mm, confirmed by four perforations per frame on both edges; the strip holds three frames.
Perforations
Four per frame on both edges; spacing appears even and the punched edges appear clean throughout the visible strip.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible running along the lower edge beside the picture area, appearing as a dual bilateral waveform in blue and white; Dolby Digital data blocks are also visible in the inter-perforation gaps on the lower edge.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture.
Base & colour
Base appears with a slight cyan-blue tint consistent with modern polyester stock; the dye image reads with warm amber and deep black tones, showing no visible fading or colour shift.
Projection history
No visible scratches, splice marks, or cue marks are observed on the frames in this capture.
Picture
Positive colour image; the three frames appear to be consecutive frames from a single continuous shot, consistent with a release print of an animated feature matching the film on record.
Era check
The combination of Dolby Digital inter-perforation data blocks alongside a dual bilateral variable-area optical track is consistent with a mid-2010s theatrical release print, matching the 2014 release date of the film on record.
Read from the original intake capture shown below. Observations only — film is authenticated, not graded.
This original motion picture film element has been examined and authenticated by Crown Grading in partnership with National Film Vault, and encapsulated for archival preservation.
Why so little survivesRelease prints were leased to theaters, not sold. When the run ended they went back to the distributor to be destroyed, and most were. What collectors hold today came from the prints that escaped that order, and no new 35mm prints of these films are being struck.
CROWN SERIAL 000063886
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
Tap to enlarge
