Paramount’s CinemaCon presentation kicked off with the studio unveiling its future plans for animated movies on the big screen, with films based on “Transformers,” “The Smurfs,” “Spongebob Squarepants” and “Avatar: The Last Airbender” now in the works.
The films were announced by Ramsey Naito, president of Paramount Animation and Nickelodeon Animation, who kicked off the show with a preview of her division’s first feature film “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem,” which is co-written by Seth Rogen and tells the story of how the Ninja Turtles step out of hiding to become accepted by the humans of New York. The movie is set for release on August 4.