As of today,  Dora the Explorer and SpongeBob have four new brothers. Or four new pets, depending on how you look at it. Nickelodeon has acquired the global rights for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for $60 million. Considered one of the most successful franchises in the past 25 years, the Turtles have had a successful run in comics, cartoons, movies, toy lines, and of course video games.[nextpage]

 
You can pretty much be sure that a new game is in the works, as a new movie, produced by Scott Mendick (“Where the Wild Things Are”), and a new CG-animated cartoon are in production for a 2012 release. The Ninja Turtles have been in a string of video games since the NES, with their first game published under the Konami/Ultra label. Over the years, over 15 different

Despite a crazy Sunday, I was defiant that I was going to catch Where the Wild Things Are in the theater. To be honest, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect from the film, despite having followed the development of this project for some time. I had heard about all the set backs, and problems. It’s amazing this movie even saw the light of day due to all the issues that seemed to plague the production.

To help you better appreciate this movie, I put together all the challenges that were met in trying to bring this film to life. That in itself is inspiring.

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Troubles with finding the right studio who believed in the vision

The book was written 46 years ago, so its journey to the cinema was a long time coming. Movie talks started way back in the early 1980s, when Disney