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2009 | 2008
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Cowabunga, Dude! Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise sold to Nickolodeon.
24 October 2009 12:36 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
The venerable Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise "has acquired the global rights to the property from the Mirage Group and 4Kids Entertainment." "The global intellectual property rights to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles... cost $60 million." Nickolodeon already has plans for the newly acquired property: the company's "sister company Paramount will steer a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles feature to the bigscreen, planned for 2012. Scott Mednick (300) is producing the pic." The Nickolodeon deal also nets the company "all merchandising rights to the Turtles," which"will continue to work with its original and longstanding toy partner, Playmates Toys." Nickolodeon is also planning on "developing a CG-animated TV series based on the Turtles, also slated to premiere in 2012." Sixty million dollars sounds like a good investment on Nickolodeon's part. The franchise is in a kind of limbo now, their original audience has grown up, and do children even care? Tmnt proved they did not. »
- Drew Williamson
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Most played-out pop-culture entities of all time?
23 October 2009 7:00 AM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Nickelodeon bought the rights to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles this week, announcing their plans to produce a CG-animated TV series launching in 2012, the same year as Paramount Pictures (owned by the same parent company, Viacom) will release yet another Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles feature film. If you're keeping track, this will be the third animated TV series (we shan't count the Saban-produced live-action show), the fifth feature film, and, eventually, the kajillionth excuse to stuff our country's already-overflowing landfills with another exciting round of plastic Tmnt tie-in toys and fast-food trinkets. Based on this extraordinary output under the banner »
- Whitney Pastorek
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Take Their Pizza and 90s Slang to Nickelodeon and Paramount
21 October 2009 11:11 AM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
If 7-year-old me read the trades, he would be beside himself today with the news that his favorite TV show, “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” would be moving to his favorite network, “Nickelodeon”. Present-Day me thinks that’s adorable, reflects on our current milieu of toy-based properties and their relationship to the emotional development of adults, and then returns to some recreational reading. 7-year-old me weeps for his future.
No matter your age or the age of your sad-inner-child, hit the jump for what this means in terms of rebooting the project, the upcoming film, and how a new generation can bug their weary parents for every new action figure of Raphael (or whomever their favorite ninja turtle may be).
Variety reports that at the bargain price of $60 million, Viacom, the parent company of Nickelodeon and Paramount, has acquired the rights to Mirage Group and 4Kids Entertainment’s “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles »
- Matt Goldberg
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash-Up
30 September 2009 11:58 PM, PDT | HollywoodNorthReport.com | See recent HollywoodNorthReport.com news »
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash-Up is the new video game for the Wii/PlayStation 2 video game consoles, developed by Game Arts and published by Montreal-based Ubisoft, marking the 25th anniversary of the 'sewer surfing' reptiles. Smash-Up is a 4-player 'fighting game', where players attempt to Ko opponents by depleting their 'life bar', knocking them off the stage or into traps. Characters are colour-coded on-screen via a glow effect to help players keep track, featuring 'life-restoring' pizza and 'ninja magic' granting the ability to fire breathe and create electrical shields. Playing modes include Arcade, Battle Royal, Survival, Tournament, Swap-Out, Practice and Mission, as well as an online mode for four players and mini-games. Playable Characters include 'April O'Neil', voiced by Veronica Taylor, 'Casey Jones', voiced by Marc Thompson, 'Donatello', voiced by Sam Riegel, 'Leonardo', voiced by Michael Sinterniklaas, 'Master Splinter', voiced by Darren Dunstan, 'Michelangelo', voiced »
Today's eBay Prop-Watch Is Filled To Bursting With Turtle Power
4 September 2009 1:00 PM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
The eBay Prop-Watch pick for today stopped me dead in my tracks. Granted, I wasn't actually walking at the time, but I'm speaking in a metaphorical sense you jerk. Today's pick isn't just some random prop from "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles." It's an assortment of props from multiple "Turtles"-related projects.
There are a few caveats. First: it's expensive. Damn expensive. The Buy It Now is set at $5,000 and bidding opens at $3,5999. Second: not everything is in pristine condition, as you'll see in the image after the jump. And finally: there's no mention in the description of any sort of Certificate of Authenticity. The items certainly look legit, though someone who's prepared to rip another person off for $5K is probably will to spend a little bit to make the ruse believable.
Still... it's hard to call this auction anything less than badass.
See what I'm talking about? Bad. Ass. »
- Adam Rosenberg
Get a Tmnt head
4 September 2009 11:44 AM, PDT | JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news »
Every once in awhile a piece of film history comes along that you would literally sell your soul to have. What is this that I speak of you might ask? Ninja Turtle heads! Okay, so they're unfinished turtle heads, but c'mon! Here's the description of the items: "This auction is for a huge lot of original movie props from various Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles films, first we have an original Prototype stunt Raphael mask, which was made for the second Ninja Turtles movie and made of... »
- Niki Stephens
[TV] Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Complete Season 8
1 September 2009 7:00 AM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
The pleasure of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles could be easily epitomized by any number of lines of dialogue, visual details, or questionable pieces of logic, but I’ll be lazy and go with the one that comes in the very first few minutes of the first episode in this collection. The Turtles (Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, and Michelangelo; all named for Italian renaissance artists) are talking to crack reporter April O’Neal, who informs them that a gang of car thieves are hiding in the ‘old warehouse across the street’. She then points to the warehouse, which has a large sign at the front with simply the word ‘warehouse’ across it. I spent several moments wondering why that would ever be necessary, but by that point I had already missed all sorts of crap about Dimension X, and had to rewind.
The premise of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is fairly »
- Anders Nelson
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: 25th Anniversary Collector's Edition - Blu-ray Review
17 August 2009 8:29 AM, PDT | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
Cowabunga Dudes! The heroes in a half shell have returned, as with several others 80s figures, and make their way onto Blu-ray. This new anniversary edition really doesn.t add much special features to the discs but puts some in the oversized pizza box the flicks come in. In the sewers of New York, some toxic ooze drips out of its canister and infects a rat and four turtles. The rat mutates into master Splinter and the turtles gain amazing strength and intelligence. Splinter names them Donatello, Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Raphael after the famous renaissance painters. Years pass and Splinter trains the turtles in the way of the ninja. The villainous Shredder brings his group of thieves, the »
- Jeff Swindoll
Contest: Win the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Film Collection in Blu-ray!
10 August 2009 8:54 AM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Film Collection 25th Anniversary Gift Set will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on August 11 and you know we have to celebrate this wonderful four-disc set. We have a brand new contest lined up and we're giving away copies of this new Blu-ray set to our readers. These wonderful sets will surely go fast, so be sure to enter this contest as soon as you can. Own it on Blu-ray and DVD 8.11.09!
Winners Receive:
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Film Collection 25th Anniversary Gift Set four-disc Blu-ray set
to win this totally tubular Bd set today.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)
After exposure to strange. glowing, green ooze, four teenage turtles--Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo, and Donatello--have mutated into ninjas and have begun living in the sewers of a large city. Under the guidance of father-figure and ninja master Splinter the Rat and television reporter April O'Neil, »
Fusco hired to revamp 'Ninja Turtles'
21 July 2009 8:32 AM, PDT | Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »
John Fusco has been hired to write the script for the new live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. According to Variety, the film will focus on the origins of the sewer-dwelling Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello, Raphael and their rat mentor Splinter. Fusco, who has been practicing martial arts since he was 12, expressed his excitement about reviving the karate-loving characters. "It is always exciting (more) »
- By Simon Reynolds
John Fusco to write 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'
21 July 2009 2:09 AM, PDT | screeninglog.com | See recent screeninglog news »
As you may know already, a live-action reboot of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" is in early developmental stages, and now the project has found its writer: John Fusco.
The film is apparently expected to be ready for release in 2011, and the story will likely focus on the origins of Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello and Raphael.
According to Variety, Fusco is quite knowledgeable when it comes to martial arts. He also wrote last year's "The Forbidden Kingdom," which I personally hated. Some of his other credits also include "Hidalgo" and the upcoming "The Seven Samurai."
The turtles have already made several big-screen appearances. "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" debuted in 1990, and "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze" followed in '91. "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III" opened in 1993.
Who out there thinks it's a smart idea to bring back the crime-fighting hero turtles? Sound off below. »
- Franck Tabouring
New Tmnt writer
20 July 2009 5:35 PM, PDT | JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news »
Color-coded half-shell heroes Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello and Raphael are returning in the amphibious flesh to once again battle the Foot Clan in a new live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and their exploits now have a writer. John Fusco will dredge the sewers (hey, they live there!) for a new tale featuring the pets turned toxic ooze-irradiated humanoid heroes. The project is planned as an origin story. Fusco has experience with assembling sundry characters -- he wrote both... »
- Dave Davis
Giveaway: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Season 7 DVDs
11 May 2009 11:20 PM, PDT | BuzzFocus.com | See recent BuzzFocus.com news »
Here at Buzz Focus, there aren't many things we love more than good old fashioned 80s cartoons. So we're happy to bless one of our readers with an awesome prize package. Releasing on DVD today is the 7th Season of the amazing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Television series. It's hard to believe, but it's been 25 years since the Turtles were created and and we're giving away a set to one lucky participant of our contest. 1 Winner will receive: Tmnt Season 8, The Leonardo Slice (Part 1) Tmnt Season 8, The Michelangelo Slice (Part 2) Tmnt Season 8, The Donatello Slice (Part 3) Tmnt Season 8, The Raphael Slice (Part 4) Even better, each one of these parts is individually packaged with a Turtle figurine. Entering is simple. You’ve got to be 18 years of age, reside in the USA and provide your name and a valid email address (only used to contact winner) in the ... »
- Buzzfocus Staff
Kevin Eastman Breaks Out of His Shell with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
11 May 2009 6:14 PM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
The co-creator of the popular series talks about the series' origins, the 25th Anniversary of the creation, the newly-announced film, Heavy Metal and more.
25 years ago, Kevin Eastman's idea that he co-hatched with Peter Laird came to fruition when the first issue of radical new comic called Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles hit the comic book stands. Soon thereafter, a licensing phenomena was born that spawned into the popular Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated TV series, the popular Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles films, including 2007's Tmnt. The series that Eastman and Laird started is celebrating its 25th anniversary and, in conjunction with the anniversary, a new DVD set is being released featuring four separate sets that form the animated series' seventh season with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Season 7, Pt. 1 - The Leonardo Slice, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Season 7, Pt. 2 - The Michelangelo Slice, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Season 7, Pt. »
Cowabunga: 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' returning to big screen
24 April 2009 10:52 AM, PDT | ReelLoop.com | See recent Reel Loop news »
Michelangelo is a party dude. He also has nunchucks which automatically makes him a favorite amongst my brethren. Me? I like Donatello. He worked on machines and was the "smart" one. Plus he has mad <here it comes> bo-staff skills.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are headed back to the big screen in a live-action format. Turtle property owners, The Mirage Group, is reportedly moving forward with the project that is set to focus on the four heroes origins. »
The 10 Coolest Things in Movies: April 24
24 April 2009 7:00 AM, PDT | Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news »
Filed under: Features
Arnold will be back ... and so with the Ninja Turtles ... and 'Predator' ...
Life can be hectic, insane even -- and we here at Moviefone sympathize with that. Movie fans don't have all day to bump around from site to site digging for the newest must-see trailers, latest casting news and what not.
That's why we're making things easy: We've compiled the 10 hottest movie trailers, casting tidbits, viral videos and hilarious blog rants to make waves in the movie world over the past seven days and put them all in one spot -- just for you.
From Ahnuld's not-so-surprising cameo in 'Terminator Salvation' to the very surprising returns of live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' and 'Predators,' behold the 10 most buzzed about things in movies this week.
10 Coolest Things In MOVIESFrom Ahnuld's not-so-surprising cameo in 'Terminator Salvation' to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' very surprising live-action return, »
- Thomas DiChiara
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Returning To The Big Screen
24 April 2009 12:00 AM, PDT | toxicshock.tv | See recent toxicshock news »
Variety is reporting that The Mirage Group, which owns the rights to the “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: film franchise, is planning to go ahead with a new live-action adaptation of the classic comic, roughly scheduled for a 2011 release. This would mark the fifth big-screen appearance for the martial-arts reptiles Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello and Raphael, and their rodent sensei Splinter. This coincides with April 23rd celebrating the Turtles’ 25th anniversary celebration, which includes the first “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” film playing at the Tribeca Film Festival and the Empire State Building being lit green. Legendary Pictures’ Scott Mednick is producing alongside Galen Walker, who produced the 2007 computer-animated [...] »
- Costa Koutsoutis
Cowabunga! Another Ninja Turtles Film
23 April 2009 4:30 PM, PDT | BuzzFocus.com | See recent BuzzFocus.com news »
It's been 25 years since the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles took the comic book world by storm, making kids want to take to their local sewers with a skateboard and a slice of pizza in their hand. The success of the comic book was only trumped by the awesomeness of the animated cartoon that ran for nine years starting in 1987. Four feature films later, we find that the Ninja Turtles will be reborn again on the big screen in live-action fashion. In 2011, The Mirage Group will bring an origins story to theaters, focusing on the how Leonardo, Raphael, Michaelangelo and Donatello came about. The movie will seemingly be unconnected to any of the films release, which is a good thing. The three live-action films were of decreasing quality, with a significant drop off after the first. That 1990 film is still universally cherished as the best of the three. The ... »
- Link
"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" Karate Chops Back to the Big Screen
23 April 2009 7:31 AM, PDT | Manny the Movie Guy | See recent Manny the Movie Guy news »
Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello, and Raphael are making their way back to the big screen! This time, the focus will be their origins, including their master Splinter.
The Mirage Group is planning to release the film in 2011.
I grew up with this franchise, and I have a soft spot for the Turtles. So this is a welcomed news.
"Tmnt" released in 2007 was just okay, but I think going back to their origins can make the characters more interesting.
By the way, the Turtles are celebrating their 25th anniversary which kicks off Thursday at the Tribeca Film Festival where the first "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" will be unspooled. »
- Manny
New Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Live-Action Movie!
23 April 2009 6:35 AM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
The re-make machine is now targeting our childhood by bringing back our favorite crime-fighting mutated turtles to the big screen. The project is said to focus on the origins of the team and will bring our heroes Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello and Raphael and the wise master Splinter together for a new live-action adventure.
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles celebrate their 25th anniversary next month as we look back at their debut in the 1984 comic book that led to cartoons, a series of live-action films followed by an animated 3-D film, a pile of video games and a ton of toy merchandise (including the awesome Cowabunga Carl Party Van with built-in Pizza shooter! You know what I’m talking about).
As cool as this may be to see another live-action incarnation after 16 years, I’m not sure a modern live-action Tmnt film will fly amongst today’s audiences. Nevertheless, I’m »
- Rob Keyes
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