We know that there’s an animated spinoff series in the works, but according to Paramount’s new slate (via ComicBookMovie), the sequel to Mutant Mayhem is now eyeing a release for October 9, 2026. Jeff Rowe is expected to return as director, and we should also expect a returning voice cast which includes Micah Abbey, Shamon Brown Jr. Nicolas Cantu, Brady Noon, and Ayo Edebiri.

Let’s also not forget Jackie Chan as Splinter as well as Seth Rogen, John Cena, Paul Rudd, and more to voice the Turtles’ new mutant family.

We don’t have an official breakdown for the sequel yet, but the first movie did tease the arrival of the Turtles’ most infamous nemesis the Shredder:

And although Cynthia Utrom (Maya Rudolph) does play a supporting role, I’m expecting that she’s going to be showing her true colors by the third film in the form of the Turtles’ alien adversary Krang. Of course, they could just bring Krang into the second film and have a new enemy for the third movie, but it would be great if a character like Shredder and his Foot Clan could have the majority of the spotlight.

Until we get an official update, we’ll just have to wait and see.

For now, the sequel to TMNT: Mutant Mayhem is expected to release on Oct. 9, 2026.

Paramount has actually released a look at Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and it gives us a good feel of what the series is going to look like. Check this out:

Here’s the description for the series:

The new series Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, streams this summer exclusively on Paramount+. Reprising their roles from the film for the series are Micah Abbey, Shamon Brown Jr., Nicolas Cantu and Brady Noon as the four Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The Turtles will be challenged like never before as Leo, Raph, Donnie and Mikey each go it alone for the first time. Faced with new threats and teaming up with old allies, the Turtles will discover who they really are when they don’t have their brothers at their sides.

Though the series is going to be bringing back the original voice actors for the Turtles, it’s not clear if they’ll be able to have the other actors from the movie reprise their roles. It’s likely Jackie Chan won’t be voicing Splinter for the show, and after all the success that Ayo Edebiri has undergone since Mutant Mayhem came out, I can imagine she’ll be too busy to come back and voice April O’Neill for a series.

Then again, we’ll just have to wait and see.

I personally love the emphasis of the ‘teenage’ in TMNT, but I felt that all the characters aren’t as distinct as they are in previous incarnations. Hopefully they manage to develop them more in this series and the sequel film.

Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is expected to start streaming this summer on Paramount+.

Here’s the announcement for the TMNT x Street Fighter 6 collaboration:

Cowabunga! Scarf down that slice of pizza and get ready for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles x Street Fighter 6 collaboration on August 8.

Get radical with TMNT gear and emotes, new Titles, TMNT stamps, in-game device wallpapers, camera frames in Photo Mode, and turn your World Tour and Battle Hub custom avatar into your favorite Turtle.

Though the Turtles themselves won’t be playable characters in the game, the collab does give out some character-specific costumes, so you can customize the Turtles to fight as you see fit.

Not only will players be able to unlock costumes, but they’ll also be able to access all kinds of cosmetics like gear, emotes, and in-game wallpapers. With the positive buzz going around for TMNT: Mutant Mayhem, the announcement for this collab is perfect timing; it’s just kind of a bummer that the cosmetics are only for the classic TMNT and we don’t have anything for the latest version of the Turtles—not even anything from older shows like Rise of the TMNT.

Either way, it makes for some fun brand synergy. What fighting game do you think the Turtles could show up in next?

The TMNT x Street Fighter 6 collab launches on Aug. 8. Street Fighter 6 is now playable for Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4|5, and PC.

Talking to Collider, Rowe likens the direction of future films to high school, with Mutant Mayhem acting as the Turtles’ Freshman year. He explains:

“I had a teacher in high school that told me, ‘freshmen know nothing and know they know nothing; sophomores know nothing but think they know something; juniors know something but think they know nothing; and seniors know something and know they know nothing,’ and I think they just went through the phase where they don’t really know anything and they’re kind of aware of it, and I think they’re probably going to go into a new movie with a lot of confidence that will then be tested by the world and the social ecosystem of high school.”

Interestingly enough, the movie does end with a new teaser for a villain, and it’s possible that the producers already know what direction to take the TMNT with future movies.

It was kind of great that they managed to make a first film that doesn’t focus on characters like Shredder or Kraang; while at the same time really digging deep into the lore of the franchise and breathing new life into existing characters like Genghis Frog, Mondo Gekko, Wing Nut, and more.

So far, reception for the movie has been great, with some saying that the film is actually a contender for best animation against Across the Spider-Verse. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see until the end of the film’s theatrical run to see just how Mutant Mayhem really performed.

Catch Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem now showing in theaters.

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Though there have been multiple takes on the Turtles over the years, it has been odd how the stories don’t really engage with the ‘teenage’ element of their title. With Rogen now going for a ‘coming-of-age’ angle with the Turtles, we now have a more interesting direction to take Mutant Mayhem besides the Turtles being brothers who can do martial arts and fight all kinds of bad guys.

The featurette also goes into the art style for the film, who a lot have likened to the look of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. While Spider-Verse does embrace the comic book aesthetic, it’s neat how TMNT goes for the messier, non-symmetrical look; trying to emulate the doodles and notebooks of teenagers in school.

I didn’t really have any issue with the ‘Bayverse’ Turtles who I thought were fun on their own, but I am excited to see this whole new take of the TMNT. Though there are already some who like to stick to the original Turtles they grew up with, I think what’s great about this franchise is that it can keep reinventing itself to appeal to a whole new generation of teenagers.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem comes to cinemas on Aug. 2.

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Though we usually watch the TMNT going up against the Shredder or Krang, this will be one of the first time’s the main villain is another mutant that has the same origin as the turtles, which kind of gives the boys the hard choice of siding with their own kind of fighting for regular people — who even Splinter doesn’t trust.

What’s neat is, while characters like Mondo Gecko and Genghis Frog seem like they were made-up for the movie, Superfly’s entire gang is actually made up of characters created from the original cartoon. Technically Superfly didn’t exist until this movie, but his creator Baxter Stockman was an original character that turned into a mutant fly in the cartoon.

After Barbie taking over July, August is expected to have another movie based on a retro toyline taking over cinemas.

Watch out for the Heroes in a Half Shell when Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem comes to cinemas on Aug. 2.

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Probably the more unique takes on the origin is how Splinter was able to learn martial arts. In the original comic, he was the pet rat of a master called Hamato Yoshi who was killed by Shredder. In other incarnations, Splinter is Yoshi himself who was transformed into a giant rat.

When it comes to Mutant Mayhem, it looks like Splinter will originally be a rat, but we don’t know exactly how he’s going to teach his kids how to do martial arts. In the live-action Michael Bay movies, he learns from a discarded kung fu book, but maybe they found a more interesting way for him to learn when it comes to this film.

Here’s the official description for the movie:

In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, after years of being sheltered from the human world, the Turtle brothers set out to win the hearts of New Yorkers and be accepted as normal teenagers through heroic acts. Their new friend April O’Neil helps them take on a mysterious crime syndicate, but they soon get in over their heads when an army of mutants is unleashed upon them.

Catch Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem when it premieres in cinemas on Aug. 2.

Just in, Paramount has released a new featurette, and it has Seth Rogen emphasizing just how necessary it was to cast actual teens to play the TMNT for the first time in their cinematic history. Watch this:

“I grew up watching the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and the ‘teenage’ part was always the most underexplored part,” says Rogen, “I always thought it would be really interesting to explore them in that way, especially because from my understanding, every version of them has been performed by adults.”

Though the film has managed to nab some A-list actors for the cast including Jackie Chan, Paul Rudd, and Ice Cube, the Turtles are played by mostly newcomers Nicolas Cantu (Leo), Sharon Brown Jr. (Mikey), Brady Noon (Raph), and Micah Abbey (Donnie).

It’s actually interesting how the actors’ chemistry actually informed the characterization of the Turtles, and even the showrunners would allow them to use all the new slang that kids have been using around the internet (like the word ‘rizz’).

While pop-culture references have a tendency to age over time, I always like the idea of the Turtles getting rebooted every generation to represent a new batch of kids. I guess this TMNT is going to be for Generation Alpha.

Watch out for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem when it comes to theaters on Aug. 2.

Check the new trailer out here:

The clip gives us a very good idea of the aesthetic of the movie. Besides the comic book look that looks a lot like the Spider-Verse films, we also have some stylized scenes that show us just how playful the storytelling is going to be for this new brand of Heroes in a Half Shell.

Despite the new look, it seems that the core elements of the Turtles are still being kept, what with Leo being the leader, Mikey just looking to have fun, Raph being the ‘tough’ one, and Donny being the smart one; then again, it does look like they’ve changed the age of the Turtles, particularly with Donatello. Though Mikey is usually the young one, it does seem like they made Donny the youngest, maybe to challenge his smarts—anyone barely thinks your capable if you’re the youngest.

In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, after years of being sheltered from the human world, the Turtle brothers set out to win the hearts of New Yorkers and be accepted as normal teenagers through heroic acts. Their new friend April O’Neil helps them take on a mysterious crime syndicate, but they soon get in over their heads when an army of mutants is unleashed upon them.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is set to release in theaters on Aug. 2.

Just in, we have a new featurette for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, and it has Seth Rogen introducing everyone in the cast including the new main Turtles as well as the star-studded supporting cast. Watch this:

Though the movie did cast some smaller names for the main cast of Turtles, they definitely managed to nab a lot of talent when it comes to the secondary characters including Paul Rudd, Ice Cube, Jackie Chan, Rose Byrne, Hannibal Buress, and more.

Admittedly, I think every A-list cast member only has one or two lines of dialogue in the movie, but I am excited to see how the Turtles in the movie will bound off each other, seeing as their chemistry was based on the actual voice actors’ chemistry with each other.

The film is already looking very promising, and I can’t wait for one last trailer.

Here’s the official synopsis for the movie:

In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, after years of being sheltered from the human world, the Turtle brothers set out to win the hearts of New Yorkers and be accepted as normal teenagers through heroic acts. Their new friend April O’Neil helps them take on a mysterious crime syndicate, but they soon get in over their heads when an army of mutants is unleashed upon them.

Watch out for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem when it releases in theaters on Aug. 2.

Check out the new trailer for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem featuring Leo, Raph, Don, and Mikey with their main adversary, Superfly:

Here’s the official movie description:

In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, after years of being sheltered from the human world, the Turtle brothers set out to win the hearts of New Yorkers and be accepted as normal teenagers through heroic acts. Their new friend April O’Neil helps them take on a mysterious crime syndicate, but they soon get in over their heads when an army of mutants is unleashed upon them.

When it comes to TMNT movies, the brothers are always pitted against a human like Shredder or some kind of alien like Krang, but Mutant Mayhem is probably the first time they’ll come face to face with other mutants like them.

Though I was fine with the Michael Bay turtles, I do love the style they’re going for with Mutant Mayhem, which feels a lot like Into The Spider-Verse’s ‘living comic’ aesthetic. Plus, I’m always excited to see how they change the TMNT formula every few years to see how they appeal to kids at that time.

Watch out for TMNT: Mutant Mayhem when it comes to cinemas on Aug. 2.

The film is set to come out in August, and thanks to Empire, we have a new image of Leo, Raph, Donnie, and Mikey. Check this out:

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With the Turtles being reinvented time and again, director Jeff Rowe (The Mitchells vs The Machines) talks about how the film kind of takes inspiration from films like Stand By Me and Lady Bird. He explains that they wanted to make:

“the ultimate teenage coming-of-age film… They’ve got a lot of that inauthentic confidence that teenagers have: when you’re a teen, you don’t know any better, so you operate with this hyped-up sense of, ‘We can do anything!’”

Though the TMNT movies are all focused on fun and selling action figures, it’s actually interesting how this upcoming film is actually going to try and become a coming-of-age tale—which is kind of expected when you have a story about young teens.

With the new photo drop, I imagine a new trailer for the film is going to be dropped soon. With release set for August, a new trailer drop in June makes sense; especially since it’s also said they’ll be releasing the new toys around that time as well.

Catch Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem when it comes to cinemas on Aug. 4.

According to Polygon, Paramount Global gaming VP Doug Rosen has confirmed that there will be a game adaptation of The Last Ronin, and it will be taking inspiration from the new God of War games. We don’t have specifics, but just looking at God of War, we should probably expect a third-person action game set in a semi-open world with the Ronin getting upgrades as the game progresses.

When the story starts out for The Last Ronin, we follow a turtle in a black mask who uses all the weapons of the TMNT that we know. His identity is eventually revealed in the comic, but the setting of the world is a dark future where The Foot Clan has killed Splinter and the other three turtles.

While TMNT earned its popularity as a kids’ property, die-hard fans know that the original comic was supposed to be dark and gritty, with each turtle not even having distinct personalities. What they did have was the ninja skills, Splinter as their master, and Shredder and the Foot as their sworn enemies.

We don’t have a release date for The Last Ronin yet, but you can get your turtle fix when Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem comes to cinemas on Aug. 4.

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The official description reads:

In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, after years of being sheltered from the human world, the Turtle brothers set out to win the hearts of New Yorkers and be accepted as normal teenagers through heroic acts. Their new friend April O’Neil helps them take on a mysterious crime syndicate, but they soon get in over their heads when an army of mutants is unleashed upon them.

With Rise of the TMNT having some clear influence from anime, it looks like Mutant Mayhem is going to be embracing the stylized comic book appearance that was made popular by Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.

Though the Shredder is usually the antagonist for every new batch of turtles, it looks like the gang is going to be taking on other mutants like themselves, including Bebop and Rocksteady, as well as a bunch of other weirdos voiced by a star-studded cast which includes Paul Rudd, Maya Rudolph, Seth Rogen, John Cena, Hannibal Buress and more.

Did I also forget to mention that Jackie Chan is going to be Master Splinter? This movie is going to be off the hook.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem comes to theaters on Aug. 4.

We’ve had rumors about the film for a while, but Rogen has now officially announced the title and release date. Check out the promo for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem which is set to come out August 04, 2023.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is in theaters one year from today!!!!! pic.twitter.com/bm1jVyawa6

— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) August 4, 2022

We don’t have any official details on the story, but last year, Rogen did give us a unique teaser in the form of a page from Leonardo’s notebook:

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— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) June 1, 2021

Not only does it inform on the character of the teenage Leonardo, but we also have confirmation of April O’Neil as a character, plus a classification of mutants.

With TMNT being a kids’ franchise, we should expect a reboot every few years—the same with characters like Batman or Ben 10. While I am excited for Rogen’s take on the Heroes in a Half Shell, I do suggest that fans check out Rise of the TMNT, which has some great animation, and a very unique take on the Turtles, with them having some swapped out weapons as well as mystical powers.

We don’t know exactly how Rogen plans to embrace his versions of Mikey, Leo, Donny, and Raph, but I’m always eager for a special twist to the classic Turtle formula.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is set to hit theaters Aug. 04, 20