To date 2014’s and 2016’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot films have been critically panned by critics but still managed to make some decent money at the box office. However, Producer Andrew Form spoke with Collider on the possibility of a third film. Unfortunately, it doesn’t sound like Paramount Pictures is considering a three-quel at this point-in-time: “I don’t think there’s Turtles 3, but I wouldn’t say there’s never going to be another Turtles movie.” However, the producer does go onto talk about how the second film had fell short financially then the first film:
“We were obviously surprised at the box office results. We loved the movie. We loved making the movie. From our first Super Bowl teaser to everything we launched, we felt so good about our material, and for some reason it did not find the audience that the first movie found. And we talk about it all the time, and we tried to figure it out, but we cannot put our finger on what happened. We really can’t. It’s just one of those things where we feel like we made a really great movie; we thought at the time that our release date was great, and we added all these new characters with Bebop and Rocksteady and Baxter Stockwell had a big role in the movie and Casey Jones and for some reason when it came to opening weekend…Even before the movie came out, we were feeling great. And you wake up two days before the movie opens and you go, “Wow, I don’t know if this movie is tracking as well as it should.” Then you hope, and then Thursday night happens and your midnights come in and you’re like, “That’s not what Movie 1 did,” and then sure enough your weekend comes and it’s nowhere near what anyone thought, and it’s nowhere near Movie 1, and, before you know it, it’s over. We’re still so proud of the movie; it just didn’t find an audience. We really don’t know why.”
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