Video-game developer/publisher Ubisoft will put out a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles title through an exclusive worldwide license agreement with 4Kids Ent. and Mirage Group. The game based on the new CG-animated feature film being produced by Imagi Animation Studios in Hong Kong. Scheduled for release in early 2007, the movie will be distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Weinstein Co.
Introduced to the underground comic-book scene by Peter Laird and Kevin Eastman more than 20 years ago, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have starred in three live-action motion pictures and a series of animated shows, but the new production will be the first completely CG-animated adventure for Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael and Michaelangelo.
Producers say the PG-rated movie will be grittier than the live action films of the ’90s, adhering more closely to the original comic books. The film will be directed by animator/comic-book artist Kevin Munroe from a screenplay he wrote with help from Laird, who will serve as exec producer along with Francis Kao, Gary Richardson and Frederick U. Fierst. Thomas K. Gray and Galen Walker are handling producing duties.
A new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series was recently launched by 4Kids TV and now airs in more than 90 territories. 4Kids Ent. Inc will handle worldwide merchandising rights for the new movie.
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