'The LEGO Movie' Will Easily Demolish George Clooney's 'Monuments Men' At Theaters This Weekend

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"The Lego Movie" is out in theaters today and from what everyone is saying the animated picture is going to be huge.

The movie is predicted to open north of $50 million. As a whole, the film cost Warner Bros. $60 million, relatively low for an animated picture.

Any number above $42 million, would push "The LEGO Movie" past Universal's "Ride Along" ($41.5 million) to give it the largest opening weekend of the year so far.

Currently, "LEGO" is far ahead of the competition in ticket sales.

Fandango provided us with a break down of ticket sales as of Friday morning. "The Lego Movie" is dominating:

77% "The LEGO Movie"
11% "The Monuments Men"
2% "Vampire Academy"

From the looks of things, it's going to be a rough weekend for The Weinstein Company's "Vampire Academy." Projections have it sitting at $6.6 million. Meanwhile, "Monuments Men" is on track to make $20.5 million. George Clooney's World War II film about a team of men saving art from being destroyed by Nazis cost Sony an estimated $70 million.

We wouldn't be surprised if "The LEGO Movie" has a larger opening weekend.

Yesterday, Fandango announced "The LEGO Movie" is its second largest advance ticket-seller for animated films behind "Toy Story 3" (2010). That film went on to make $110.3 million opening weekend.

"LEGO" has also passed advanced ticket sales for Disney's "Frozen" and "Monsters University." "Frozen" debuted to $67.4 million while "Monsters University" had a $82.4 opening weekend.

Currently, the film is sitting at 97% on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, with 96 positive reviews.

Rotten TomatoesSo far, there have only been three poor reviews for the film.

From a Fandango survey of more than 1,000 ticket-buyers for "The LEGO Movie":

• 71% of trailer-watchers can't get the movie's ironic theme song, "Everything is Awesome," out of their heads;
• 67% of adult ticket-buyers say they are nostalgic for their LEGO toys;
• 62% of adult ticket buyers says they would consider seeing the movie on a date;
• 54% picked Morgan Freeman as the ancient wizard Vitruvius as the new character they were most anticipating;
• 52% said they re-enacted movie scenes with LEGO when they were kids.