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Warner Bros. Pictures have picked up the pieces once again in a franchise that probably won’t see its end for a while, now animating LEGO® blocks for Charlie Bean’s directorial debut, The LEGO NINJAGO Movie. September 22 is the day to catch this one in theaters with a cast headlined by none other than Jackie Chan who plays master to a ninja warrior whose heroic team sets out to defeat his evil father. SYNOPSIS: In this big-screen NINJAGO adventure, the battle for NINJAGO City calls to action young Master Builder Lloyd, aka the Green Ninja, along with his friends, who are all secret ninja warriors. Led by Master Wu, as wise-cracking as he is wise, they must defeat evil warlord Garmadon, The Worst Guy Ever, who also happens to be Lloyd’s dad. Pitting mech against mech and father against son, the epic showdown will test this fierce but undisciplined team […]

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A whole line-up of LEGO-inspired movies are in the works following the hit success of The LEGO Movie from Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, including The LEGO Batman Movie which opens next February. One other title now making the rounds courtesy of the events over at Licensing Expo 2016 in Nevada is Tron: Uprising helmer Charlie Bean’s The LEGO Ninjago Movie, based on the popular toyline and with an already-running series iteration of its own on Cartoon Network. Brickset reportedly unveiled new details on the film and its cast late last week which otherwise confirms the first-billed star of many a title between now and next year, action star Jackie Chan who himself is no stranger to voice-over artistry with such projects as cartoon series, Jackie Chan Adventures, and Dreamworks’s Kung Fu Panda trilogy. Chan will play Master Wu, while Now You See Me 2 co-star Dave Franco will play Lloyd, […]

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