“The Lego Batman Movie” soared to the box office crown this weekend, bringing in $55.6 million at 4,088 locations, as a family audience helped carry the Warner Bros. film past Universal’s “Fifty Shades Darker.”
Will Arnett reprises his role as Batman from “The Lego Movie” in the film written and directed by Chris McKay. The voices of Zach Galifianakis, Michael Cera, Rosario Dawson and Ralph Fiennes also feature in the animated movie, which carries a 91 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
“Lego Batman” began its run with a modest $2.2 million at the Thursday night box office and couldn’t pass “Fifty Shades Darker” on Friday, but its younger target audience apparently turned out during more family-friendly parts of the weekend.