TMNT Sequel Already Confirmed For 2016

[MovieBob]

TMNT Sequel Already Confirmed For 2016

Paramount grabs June 3 2016 date for surprise-hit Michael Bay reboot

The Michael Bay-produced reboot of $65 million opening weekend, [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/escape-to-the-movies/9634-Teenage-Mutant-Ninja-Turtles-Kids-Deserved-Better-Than-This] so a sequel has already been greenlit for June 3rd of 2016.

Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes company will once again produce the film for Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon, with the same screenwriters slated to return as well. No potential story details have yet been suggested. It is not known whether director Jonathan Liebesman and (human) stars Megan Fox and Will Arnett will be asked back as well. In a statement, Paramount CEO Brad Grey praised the franchised, saying: "We are thrilled with this weekend's result, the enduring power of this franchise, and the opportunity to make another one."

The newly-chosen date places TMNT 2 to once again open one week after an expected comic-book behemoth, Fox's X-Men: Apocalypse. Though dates frequently change, the only other film currently scheduled for that date is Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg's Sausage Party, an R-rated animated comedy about a group of supermarket food items who suffer existential crises upon discovering they have been mislead about what happens to food "lucky" enough to be purchased.


Source: Entertainment Weekly [http://insidemovies.ew.com/2014/08/10/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-sequel/]

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[RaikuFA]

So the Seth Rogen comedy is Foodfight but possibly good?

 

[Burnouts3s3]

If the pigs want their slop, Bob, then Michael Bay will give it to them.

 

[wooty]

It made a bit of money, of course there was gonna be another one, probably a trilogy "in the works" as well.

 

[Micah Weil]

Let 'em have another movie.
So long as they don't try for a third movie.
God, that third TMNT movie was bad. If Bay decides to follow that path...

 

[Shiftygiant]

Sausage Fest sounds infinitely more interesting then TMNT 2

 

[Atary77]

If the pigs want their slop, Bob, then Michael Bay will give it to them.

This right here basically. The sad truth being that quality didn't have to matter. Kids wanted to see it and parents took them. Lots of parents took them. I saw Guardians of the Galaxy over this weekend and I can still remember seeing a kid wearing an orange Michelangelo mask as his dad took him in to see TMNT at my local theater. All I could think of was that kid being disappointed. But who knows maybe he loved it. We have to live in a world where Megan Fox was right. Haters gonna hate but they got their money anyway.

 

[FEichinger]

The newly-chosen date places TMNT 2 to once again open one week after an expected comic-book behemoth, Fox's X-Men: Apocalypse.

Okay, am I correct in assuming that this is just investor marketing and PR? "Hey, look, we totally crushed that cool other movie! People love it!", simply because they pick the second weekend of "that cool other movie".

 

[Scarim Coral]

Another brilliant uses of the turtle image to go with the news!

OT- I guessing it's gonna be like his Transformers franchise, two and three will be made and the fourth will try to be different by having different set of human characters.

 

[Flunk]

Keep going to see these terrible movies and Michael Bay will keep pumping 'em out. This is the sort of thing that makes me lose faith in humanity.

 

[Keiichi Morisato]

It made a bit of money, of course there was gonna be another one, probably a trilogy "in the works" as well.

perhaps an avengers style team up with Transformers as well, and don't forget the new Turtles/Transformers cinematic universe.

 

[Soulrender95]

Hmm, I wonder what the odds are that Shia Labouef will be cast as Casey Jones.
but for the true horror of this to sink in you've got to think in 10/15 years when they reboot this series of movies again, today's children will be the ones complaining that the reboot doesn't resemble this version.

I'm sure people would like to think children are smarter than that or give them the benefit of the doubt but eh, it's hard to shake off the nostalgia of youth even if it's for something terrible.

 

[Zhukov]

It would appear that Megan 'Fuck Off' Fox had a point after all.

When all is said and done, the only judgement that matters a damn is the bottom line.

 

[ryukage_sama]

The true test for a film like TMNT (2014) is the merchandising and legacy. If kids continue wanting toys from this movie over those from the television series, it would demonstrate that the movie was enjoyable for children. If children demand to see this movie again (or if parents are willing to suffer through repeated viewings), then the home media sales will tell whether the series was successful on more than a financial level.

Nobody is going to memorialize this movie as anything more than disposable schlock.

 

[FogHornG36]

remember everyone, this is not just a crap movie, its also sells ninja turtle toys and crap like gangbusters!

 

[Adam Locking]

I really don't understand how Michael Bay keeps getting work. People point to the opening weekend figure here and say "See!" but that doesn't mean anything. It means people wanted to see a Ninja Turtles movie. There are more talented teams, working to work for cheaper, and the opening box office would be just the same, if not higher if it had critics and word of mouth behind instead of against it.

Baffles me.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Why is everybody so damn surprised by this? Every studio has its cash cow. Warner has DC, Disney has Marvel, Sony has Spidey, Fox has X-Men, Paramount has Transformers and TMNT. When they don't do a sequel they just reboot the thing.

 

[Aiddon_v1legacy]

goddammit; why must the human race let me down AGAAAAAAAAIN!?!?!?!? It will be interesting to see how next week's numbers go. This has been a really crappy summer for movies.

I really don't understand how Michael Bay keeps getting work. People point to the opening weekend figure here and say "See!" but that doesn't mean anything. It means people wanted to see a Ninja Turtles movie. There are more talented teams, working to work for cheaper, and the opening box office would be just the same, if not higher if it had critics and word of mouth behind instead of against it.

Baffles me.

That is the thing; Michael Bay's name is worthless. He's not a Stephen Spielberg or a Christopher Nolan as he can't sell on his name like they can. You need only see his passion project Pain and Gain's gross to tell that as well as The Island, the last film he made before the Transformers name. His movies sell because studios hype them due to them being PAINFULLY easy to market and make trailers for.