If you live in North America, Warner Bros. will be delivering the all-CGI feature-length "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" flick come next March. If you live overseas, your release date depends on what the Weinstein brothers decide.
From Variety: "Warner Bros. Pictures will handle domestic distribution of the first all-CGI-animated film in the popular "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" franchise, while the Weinstein Co. will take international territories. Warners will release the pic on March 30, 2007. An overseas release date was not announced.
Animation vet Kevin Munroe is directing and writing. He developed the screenplay in consultation with "Turtles" comicbook co-creator Peter Laird.
Studio and TWC said the new PG-rated film will be slightly grittier than the three live-action "Turtles" movies released by New Line more than a decade ago. Combined, those three pics grossed more than $256 million at the U.S. box office.
CGI animation is being created in Imagi’s facility in Hong Kong.
Interest in the franchise enjoyed a resurgence in 2003 when the "Turtles" returned to Cartoon Network and Fox’s 4Kids TV in the U.S. as well as on international channels."
