Category: Movies

Turtles Forever Update


TvShowsOnDVD.com has given us our first look at the cover art for the upcoming Tv movie and a few details about the release.

The recent telefilm, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Forever, comes to DVD on August 24th from Nickelodeon and distributor Paramount Home Entertainment. This TV movie served as the post-series finale for the 2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, where the modern Turtles crossed dimensions and met the Turtles from the original ’80s series! Poking gentle (and loving) fun at the differences in the styles of the shows, we also see how these incarnations of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles must fight together for survival against their ultimate enemy, with the ultimate plan for eliminating ALL of the Turtles. And we DO mean ALL of them!

Information that these studios have provided to retailers show that the DVD will be a single-disc release, running approximately 70 minutes long, and presented in full screen video. We know fans are curious about widescreen home videos for this production, and even high-def Blu-ray Disc releases. We can only say that the studios are ONLY announcing a full screen DVD here. The cost for this title is $16.99 SRP, but you can pre-order it from Amazon at a discount using the button link below. Audio format for this has not been revealed, nor extras (if any). It is, however, going to be closed captioned.

Mikey’s two cents: While I am happy that this is getting released, I’m not happy that they didn’t use the amazing poster art for the box art and that it is not in widescreen. Also this is the tv edit and not the 78 minute uncut version.

Turtles Forever Coming to DVD August 24th.

According to Best Buy, Turtles Forever is finally coming to DVD August 24th. If you have not done so already, you should go preorder it to show Viacom what a good start they are off to.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Teenage+Mutant+Ninja+Turtles%3A+Turtles+Forever+-+DVD/18667496.p?id=2120665&skuId=18667496&st=Teenage%20Mutant%20Ninja%20Turtles&lp=1&cp=1

Thanks to Michele Ivey for the tip off.

(Rumor) Bay to Head Up TMNT Re-Launch?

I’m labeling this a rumor because it is new news, and I don’t want to get you guys all crazy if this turns out to be nothing. Via The Deadline

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon have brought Michael Bay and his Platinum Dunes partners Brad Fuller and Andrew Form on to produce Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the live-action film that reboots the film series launched by New Line in 1990. Bay, Fuller and Form will produce with Galen Walker and Scott Mednick.

The producers will begin meetings with writers in the next few weeks. The deal puts Bay in the center of two Paramount franchises, as he started production May 17 on Transformers 3, and is zeroing in on Rosie Huntington-Whitely to replace Megan Fox as love interest for Shia LaBeouf. TNMT, a co-production between Paramount and Nickelodeon, is an outgrowth of the $60 million acquisition made by Nick last October for global rights to the entire Turtles franchise. Right around the same time, Paramount made a first look deal with the Platinum Dunes partners, who will generate genre projects but also want to expand their scope. While they’ve already set up several projects including a Rob Cohen-remake of Fright Night, the Turtles film puts them into new territory.

Thanks to Ioz of thetechnodrome for the tip off!

Random Legal Battle!

Something weird popped up in my tmnt news filter the other day…thought I’d share it! via Courthousenews.com.

LOS ANGELES (CN) – Two writers and the estate of the producer of “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” say Singel Films owes them a total of $280,000 for their share of profits from the hit movie.

Todd Langen and Bobby Herbeck were the two credited writers on the film. They are joined as plaintiffs by Anna Cottle and Peter Jacovich, co-executors of the estate of Graham Cottle, producer of the first “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” film.

Defendant Singel, of the Netherlands, is successor in interest to Golden Harvest Films, and in 2004 was assigned all money payable by New Line Pictures, the original domestic distributor of the film, according to the Superior Court complaint. New Line’s rights and obligations have been assumed by its corporate parent, Warner Bros., from whom the plaintiffs demand an accounting and money.

Langen says his contract gave him 2.5 percent of the film’s net profits; he says he rewrote Herbeck’s first draft. He says the defendants have refused to pay him since the early 1990s. He believes he is owed about $200,000.

Jacovich’s estate says it is owed $80,000.

Langen and Herbeck say the Writer’s Guild was awarded $110,000 on their behalf in arbitration. They want that too.

The plaintiffs are represented by Richard Rosen of Woodland Hills.

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Weird huh? Something tells me if nothing has come of this for the last 20 years…nothing probably will.

-Steph

Update on the Mystery Mask!

Just got an e-mail from Kevin Coll, Executive Editor over at Fusedfilm.com, which is one of the sites that got ahold of the alleged new turtle sculpt (Go Check them out!)

I wanted to let you know i just got an email from someone who claims thatthis image belongs to someone that did as a design for his for make-upschool. Here is a quote from the email we got.

“Has NOTHING to do with the next TMNT reboot. It is in fact a student’sclass-project, done at Tom Savini’s make-up school, in South-WesternPennsylvania. If you’d like to contact the actual artist who made thismask, you can contact him here: (edited, sorry, I don’t release e-mails without permission -Steph)

Please! Next time, do some basic fact-checking, before posting “Anonymous”photos claiming it to be something it’s not. It will save you a TON of liability, and embarassment.”

Thanks for sharing Kevin!

So there you have it folks. Looks like a false alarm. Sorry…or…you’re welcome….depending on who you are 😉