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Now Paramount Pictures is Delaying 'Ninja Turtles' to Cut the Budget

by Ethan Anderton
June 15, 2012
Source: Deadline

It's just not a good year for Paramount Pictures. First the studio pushed back this summer's release of G.I. Joe: Retaliation all the way to March 2013 for a 3D conversion (though apparently it's also to shoot new scenes to keep Channing Tatum alive), and their adaptation of World War Z just scheduled seven weeks of reshoots along with rewrites from Prometheus scribe Damon Lindelof. Now the studio is delaying another tentpole as Deadline reports Ninja Turtles (remember they're not exactly mutants anymore) will have its start date pushed back 10 weeks to cut the budget by $10 to $20 million. But there's even more bad news.

Because of the 10 week delay, the release date has now been shifted from Christmas 2013 to May 16th, 2014. While the film might do better during the summer anyway, the fact that the budget needs to be cut isn't a good sign. That means either the studio doesn't have faith for the film to make that much money back, or perhaps these other problems on the G.I. Joe sequel and World War Z are forcing the studio to cut corners in other places. I guess it's good that Marvel switched over to Disney so we don't see Iron Man using old Ford parts to build his new suit or anything like that. Needless to say, Paramount needs help.

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From around the web:

http://j-run.ca/blog Jay Runham

Badass Digest was reporting that the film was shelved entirely, that they weren't even going to shoot it anymore. I trust Deadline over them, but still weird to see different reports coming out. Kind of glad that it's not actually getting canned. I'm interested to see what Bay does with it. Can't be any worse than that Next Mutation show.
Pringles

I just read by way of IGN.com that the project has now been fully cancelled.
- http://www.firstshowing.net Alex Billington
  
  No, that's not true. Production has been "indefinitely" halted, but all the sources state that it could be "a 10-week delay". It's only a matter of if they can work out the budget and get it to a more satisfying level. "Now Paramount tells me it’s pushed again to May 16th, 2014 — presuming that the studio’s cost target is achieved."
  - LosZombies
    
    I'd rather the project be cancelled than butchered to hell and back by that bastard Michael Bay to be honest... Aliens...REALLY!? >.<
    - Eric
      
      Ditto!
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Christopher-Philip-Cinquegrano/100000932639147 Christopher Philip Cinquegrano
  
  Thank god, if they can't do it right don't do it at all
Isildur_of_Numenor

Looks like a bad 100th anniversary to me...
- LosZombies
  
  Why do I feel like there should be some sort of clever, "CSI-type-punchline-while-slowly-putting-on-a-pair-of-shades" joke around here somewhere?... :l
  - Isildur_of_Numenor
    
    When you put it that way, I'm so embarrassed. Well you know what they say Frank, speed kills! So an accident is not an accident at all... YEEEAAAAAHHHH!!! Google magic right there.
    - LosZombies
      
      "Sir, a man runs over a woman with his car, whos fault is it?" "Why was The man driving in the kitchen?" YYEAAAAAHHHHH!
      - cornbreadthief
        
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Totylertarian

Failing studios should give control of prioritizing movies to the fans. We should be able to democratically choose TMNT (I will not accept Ninja Turtles) over GI Joe.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Brian-Sleider/1847907840 Brian Sleider

Who cares? This is a bastardization of the franchise I grew up on. Aliens or some such BS??? REALLY??? GTFO
- Akirakorn
  
  Considering Transformers and G.I. JOE this was inevitable. I weep for the day M.A.S.K. comes out.
DoomCanoe

good
http://www.jimmylove.com/ Jimmy Love

You'd think mbay would love keeping the mutant theme, He is after all a mutant himself and he just loves mutating good things into pop culture trash. But this is great news.
rennmaxbeta

What kind of monkeys do they have running that studio these days?
Carlos

Isnt TMNT owned by WB? They bought New Line and the movie was originally was made by them.
http://www.facebook.com/MikeBarretto24 Mike Snugglebum Barrett

thank f#ck for that Michael Bay is an horrendous director. Ninja Turtles is going to suck hard.
Chris

I swear that this has something to do with Bay vs Whedon, Transformers/avengers. I cant prove it but the amount of money Avengers pulled in was 'dick shrinkingly' massive and Im sure it made Bay look like a completely joke to his benefactors
http://www.facebook.com/yourmyleader Josh Welch

who cares the movie wasn't going to be good anyways they changed everything about it.
Matt

Fuck that twit Michael Bay, it's like he decided to wage a one man war on my childhood. The 2007 turtles film was so good, why would you not just do a sequel to that? It even ended by hinting that the Shredder was returning (which got turtle fans everywhere psyched). But no, now we have to put up with some crap about turtle-like aliens fighting the American military (headed by a Colonel Schraeder), and April O'Neil and Casey Jones are a teenage couple. Fucking gaaaarrrrr!
- Dashel Jupiter
  
  No one thought that 2007 crap was good. You have to be kidding me.
me

or just cancel the movies im pretty sure all of them are going to be bad.
http://www.facebook.com/michael.brown.7505468 Michael Brown

I have no sympathy for Paramount at all. They wouldn't need any help if they would actually try to put out good movies. i'm sorry but they know that the fans of TMNT, do NOT want them seen as aliens. if you want to throw in the alien stuff then fine... make the mutation canister be from space... as in Dimension X and bring Krang out as well. be a good way to throw in the origin in the mix. But no! Paramount wants to do it their way and would rather go bankrupt, than listen to the fans.
JohnnyD

They shouldn't have any faith in it. They should trash it, Flog and fire Micheal Bay for destroying the franchise then another studio should get it, hire Kevin Smith and Joss Whedon together to make what would most likely be the most badass "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" movie ever. NO ONE SHOULD GO SEE HIS MOVIE!!!!!!!!