Production budget: $60,000,000 Worldwide gross: $468,060,692 Profit: 780% Everything is indeed awesome for Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, the directing duo behind the surprisingly successful Jump Street films and the years tenth most profitable movie. Despite Lord and Millers impressive work launching 21 Jump Street and bringing Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs to the screen, its fair to say expectations for The Lego Movie weren't sky high - and rightly so. Cinemagoers have been burned more than once by attempts to turn popular childrens products into films worth seeing, so the prospects of a motion picture based on interlocking plastic bricks producing an entertaining spectacle were on the low side. So naturally the result was one of the years most outright entertaining movies and the beginning of a brand new franchise. All told, The Lego Movie ended up taking home $468 million, making it the fourteenth-highest-grossing film of 2014. Lego may not have managed to crack the years top ten earners, but its relatively modest $60 million budget ensured its profitability outstripped every film that finished above it.
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