However, it was a box office success, earning 4. It was also nominated at the 2. Kids Choice Awards for Favorite Movie, Favorite Movie Actor and Favorite Movie Actress. Height=450&odnWidth=450&odnBg=FFFFFF' alt='Rugrats In Paris: The Movie Online English' title='Rugrats In Paris: The Movie Online English' />A sequel, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Out of the Shadows, was released on June 3, 2. April ONeil, a local reporter for Channel 6 Eyewitness News in New York City, investigates a crime wave by a group of criminals called the Foot Clan. At a dock at night, she sees the Foot raiding cargo containers. After an unseen vigilante attacks the thieves, April notices a symbol left behind. Aprils supervisor Bernadette Thompson Whoopi Goldberg and her coworkers are oblivious to her story. Later while covering a charity event thrown by Sacks Industries, April expresses gratitude to the companys CEOEric Sacks, who was her late fathers lab partner. Frustrated by the vigilante, the Foot Clans leader Shredder has the Foot Soldiers take hostages at a subway station in order to draw him out. April, at the scene, becomes a hostage herself. Four mysterious figures arrive, take out the Clan, and free the hostages. April follows them to a rooftop and is shocked to see that the vigilantes are anthropomorphic mutant turtles, causing her to pass out. Gotta Catch Santa Claus Theater Cartoon. When she regains consciousness, they advise her not to tell anyone of them. As they leave, April hears Raphael and Leonardos names. April returns to her apartment and remembers Project Renaissance, her fathers science experiment, which involved four turtles named Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo, Raphael, and a mutated rat called Splinter. Unable to convince Bernadette of the Turtles existence, April is dismissed. Her coworker Vern Fenwick drives her to Sacks estate where she confides in him about her discovery. Sacks believes her and reveals that he and Aprils father had been experimenting on a mutagen created to cure disease, which was thought lost in the fire that killed her dad. At Splinters behest, the Turtles bring April to their sewer lair. Splinter explains April had saved them all from the fire and freed them into the sewers. The mutagen caused the five of them to grow and develop humanoid attributes. Splinter took on the role of their father, using Aprils father as an example. After finding a book on Ninjutsu in a storm drain, he proceeded to teach himself, then the Turtles, in the fighting style. When April reveals she told Sacks about her discovery of the Turtles, Splinter informs her that Sacks turned on her father and killed him. Then, Shredder and the Foot Soldiers attack the lair, defeating Splinter and incapacitating Raphael while the other Turtles are captured. April comes out of hiding and she and Raphael plan to save the others. At Sacks estate, he has the Turtles blood drained in order to create an antidote to a deadly virus that Sacks hopes to flood New York with, believing he will become rich from people seeking his cure. Raphael, April, and Vern storm the estate and free the other Turtles. The group then escapes the compound in pursuit of Sacks. On a radio tower in the city, Sacks and Shredder plant a device that will flood the city with the virus while Sacks is preparing to convert the mutagen to healing factor. April and Vern subdue Sacks in the lab, while the Turtles are battling Shredder on the roof. During the fight, the towers support beams collapse. As the turtles try to keep it from falling and infecting the city, April confronts Shredder with the mutagen. In the struggle, the tower collapses and the Turtles pull April onto it with them, while Shredder falls to the street and is confronted by police. Believing they are about to die, the Turtles confess their secrets, while Raphael gives an impassioned speech of his love for his brothers before they land harmlessly on the street. They vanish before the humans find them and return to the sewers, where they give Splinter the mutagen and he begins to recover. Sometime later, April meets with Vern, who tries and fails to ask her on a date. The Turtles appear in a special modified Turtle Van, and Michelangelo accidentally blows up Verns new car with a rocket. As police respond to the explosion, the Turtles leave, but not before Mikey tries to serenade April with Happy Together by the band The Turtles, much to his brothers annoyance and Aprils amusement. Live action actorseditVoice actors and motion captureeditProductioneditDevelopmenteditIn October 2. Nickelodeon purchasing all of Mirages rights to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles property, it was announced that Nickelodeon would produce a new film through corporate sibling Paramount Pictures with an expected release date sometime in 2. In late May 2. 01. Paramount and Nickelodeon had brought Michael Bay and his Platinum Dunes partners Bradley Fuller and Andrew Form on to produce the next film that will reboot the film series. Bay, Fuller, and Form would produce alongside Walker and Mednick. For the script, the studio originally hired Art Marcum and Matt Holloway to write the film for close to a million dollars. According to TMNT co creator Kevin Eastman, the John Fusco version was a little too edgy for what Paramount wanted. A year later, the studio turned to writers Josh Appelbaum and Andr Nemec to rewrite the script. In February 2. 01. Jonathan Liebesman began negotiations to direct the film, beating out Brett Ratner. Later in March, it was announced that Paramount had pushed back films release date to Christmas Day 2. In early March 2. Bay revealed at Nickelodeons 2. Ninja Turtles and that the turtles would be from an alien race. News of Bays creative change was met with criticism from within the fan community. In response to the announcement, actor Robbie Rist, who voiced Michelangelo in the first three films, wrote to Bay accusing him of sodomizing the franchise. Rist later remarked that he could have been out of line since Bay makes more money than he does. In response to the feedback, Bay issued a statement asking fans to calm down since a script had not been revealed, his team was working closely with the creators, and would include all the elements that made them fans to begin with. Both Brian Tochi, who voiced Leonardo in the first three films, and Judith Hoag, who played April ONeil in the first film, have voiced their support towards the creative change. TMNT co creator Peter Laird expressed his thoughts on the change asking fans to take Bays advice and wait until more of Bays plan is made available. Laird also stated that he felt the ill conceived plan could be a genius notion, as it would allow fans to have the multitude of bipedal anthropomorphic turtles that they have been asking for. He would point out that while the concept of a turtle planet backstory made for a great run of the mill science fiction story, it had no real place in the Ninja Turtles universe. Franchises co creator Kevin Eastman stated that he had been invited behind the scenes of the film, and concluded that he was officially on board with the project and that, although he could not say much, he believes it to be awesome.