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‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem’ Shockingly Slays Way To No. 4 In Deadline’s 2023 Most Valuable Blockbuster Tournament
In a summer 2023 box office dominated by Barbie, Mutant Mayhem ended its run at $118.7 million stateside and $181.9 million worldwide.
When Paramount Pictures CEO Brian Robbins was looking to revive the beloved Nickelodeon-owned Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird property Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for the big screen, he got some input from Playmates executives involved in the brand’s licenses: they said the next iteration of the 40-year-old IP should be an animated film. At the domestic B.O that was a great result, well ahead of Paramount’s 2016 TMNTlive-action movie Out of the Shadows, which ended out at $82M — hence mission accomplished by the studio for reviving the IP and driving ancillary sales (Skydance boss David Ellison, take triple note of Robbins’ maneuvers here). Paramount is already prepping an animated sequel as well as an R-rated movie based on the fan-fave graphic novel Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin, with Tyler Burton Smith writing and Walter Hamada producing through his 18hz production company.
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