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A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. You can tell what a tight race this 91st Academy Awards is providing because it doesn’t look like anyone is throwing in the towel. Just three days after nominations were announced, advertising is ramping up in what is known as Phase 2, or the final…

Warner Bros’ The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part hit tracking today with a robust $45 million-$55 million opening. The sequel to the surprise 2014 movie opens February 8. We hear that Lego Movie 2 literally just locked its print, and that Warners is prepping a great screening program for the movie prior to its…

“Once, everything was awesome,” Wildstyle broods. “Now everything is bleak.” That opening line from the new trailer for The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part might trigger some parents who endured “Everything Is Awesome” on daylong replay — possibly while contorted into the fetal position — but it sets up the premise for…

Warner Bros unveiled the cast of The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part — Chris Pratt, Elizabeth Banks, Stephanie Beatriz — with Phil Lord and Chris Miller as part of the studio’s Hall H presentation Saturday at Comic-Con. The Con crowd sparked to a new trailer that sets the stage for the space mayhem. Pratt talked about…

EXCLUSIVE: Brooklyn Nine-Nine‘s Stephanie Beatriz and Broad City‘s Arturo Castro are joining Warner Bros.’ The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part and will portray new characters Sweet Mayhem (pictured above) and Ice Cream Cone. Also confirmed to return per today’s poster unveiling is Alison Brie as Unikitty and Nick…

Girls Trip breakout star Tiffany Haddish will voice a character in Warner Bros. Animations' The Lego Movie 2, Deadline has confirmed. Haddish’s role and the movie plot are being kept under wraps, but The Lego Movie 2 is a sequel to the critically acclaimed and global box office phenomenon and picks up right where the…

Warner Bros has shifted release dates for four of its upcoming films, including The Lego Movie 2, which moves almost a year back from 05/18/18 to 02/08/19. No word on why the sequel to 2014’s huge hit has been moved, but it now is slated to come out nearly five years to the day after The Lego Movie, and just under two…

EXCLUSIVE: Phil Lord and Chris Miller have signed on with Warner Bros to write The Lego Movie sequel. They wrote and directed the first film, but it has been an open question of whether they would return beyond producing the sequel. It’s a big step for Warner Bros to broaden the franchise. No word on whether they’ll…