‘Lego Batman’ producer, afterwards Treasury sec?

Steven Mnuchin had a flattering good weekend.

First a book secretary collect modernized a step closer toward acknowledgment on Friday.

Then his latest film claimed a tip mark during a box office.

Mnuchin is an executive writer on Warner Bros.’ “The Lego Batman Movie,” that pulled in an estimated $55.6 million from U.S. audiences during a opening weekend.

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The kid-friendly spinoff of 2014’s “The Lego Movie” handily kick a raunchy competitor, Universal’s “Fifty Shades Darker.”

The supplement to 2015’s “Fifty Shades of Grey,” formed on a best-selling array of intrigue novels, debuted during $46.8 million in a United States.

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Mnuchin is listed as a writer or executive writer on 34 films in new years, including final summer’s “Suicide Squad,” that brought in $786 million worldwide.

He also constructed “The Lego Ninjago Movie,” another Lego authorization spinoff that will strike screens this fall.

Mnuchin is widely approaching to be portion as Treasury secretary by then.

Following a 53-46 opinion final Friday to mangle a Democratic filibuster, Mnuchin is scheduled for a final opinion before a full Senate during 7 p.m. Monday.

–CNNMoney’s Frank Pallotta and CNN’s Ashley Killough contributed to this story.

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