Does a successful Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie mean Paramount can revive the franchise? | diagram

When audiences are fed up with reboots and sequels, that hasn’t stopped them from flocking to see the latest Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. Even as expected tent poles like “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning” and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny failed to break even at the box office, Paramount’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem managed to recoup half of its $70 million budget five days after its publication.

The success of the animated film is not entirely surprising, given its comparatively low budget and top-class cast. But considering that supposedly the last movie with this IP was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows lost