She returns to her apartment and remembers a project her father was working on in 1999 "Project Renaissance" involving four turtles named Leonardo, Donatello, Michaelangelo, Raphael, and a rat she called Splinter. As they leave, she manages to hear Raphael and Leonardo's names. When she comes to, she finds that they had wiped her phone and advise her not to tell anyone of them before leaving. April tracks them to a rooftop, and manages to take their picture, but she passes out when she is confronted with four Anthropomorphic mutant turtles. The lights go out, and four figures appear, taking out the clan and freeing the hostages. April goes to the scene for evidence, but ends up becoming a hostage herself. At a charity event she is covering for the company Sacks Industries, she expresses her gratitude to her father's lab partner before he died, Eric Sacks.įrustrated by the vigilante, the Foot Clan's leader Shredder has them hold a subway station of people hostage in order to draw him out. However, April's supervisor Bernadette Thompson and her co-workers are oblivious to her beliefs of the vigilante's existence. They are attacked by an unseen vigilante, which April fails to capture on her phone's camera but notices a symbol left behind. After her latest lead a dock worker, refuses to give her information, she returns to the dock at night only to witness the Foot raiding the cargo containers. Īpril O'Neil is a news reporter for Channel 6 Eyewitness News in New York City investigating a crime wave by a clan of thieves called the Foot Clan. A sequel is scheduled to be released on June 3, 2016. It was nominated for five Golden Raspberry Awards at the 35th edition, including Worst Picture and Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-off or Sequel, with Fox winning for Worst Supporting Actress. It was a box office success, however, grossing over $485 million worldwide, and becoming Nickelodeon Movies' highest grossing film. The film was released on August 8, 2014, and received generally negative reviews, with critics commenting on the unoriginal plot, characters, acting performances, and lack of focus on the titular characters, though the depiction of the Turtles, visuals, and Arnett's performance were mildly praised.
It was produced by Nickelodeon Movies and Michael Bay's production company Platinum Dunes, and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film was announced shortly before Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles co-creator Peter Laird sold the rights to the franchise to Nickelodeon in 2009. A reboot of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film series, the film is directed by Jonathan Liebesman, and stars Megan Fox, Alan Ritchson, Jeremy Howard, Pete Ploszek, Noel Fisher, Will Arnett, Danny Woodburn, William Fichtner, Johnny Knoxville, and Tony Shalhoub. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a 2014 American 3D science fiction action comedy film based on the franchise of the same name. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film July 2014 poster.jpg