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Paramount+ Expands Kids Titles with More SpongeBob, Dora & TMNT

Posted: 17 Feb 2022 08:25 AM PST

 

As Brian Robbins sees it, kids and family programming is one of the major keys to the success of Paramount+.

 

The executive, who serves as CEO of Paramount Pictures and chief content officer of kids and family for Paramount+, used his time at the service's investor presentation Tuesday to announce the expansion of Nickelodeon's top franchises as part of his continued efforts to bolster the streamer.

 

SpongeBob SquarePants, already a centerpiece of Paramount+ with spinoffs Kamp Koral and the linear Patrick Star Show, is expanding with three new animated movies based on the show's original characters. The first of those will debut in 2023, with a fourth film in the SpongeBob franchise currently in development that is slated for a theatrical release after 2020 feature Sponge on the Run was moved exclusively to Paramount+.

 

 

Nickelodeon's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles will also be the subject of a series of exclusive movies for Paramount+ starting next year after Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg's previously announced theatrical feature debuts in August. While many fans are concerned regarding Seth Rogan’s virulent off camera comments and controversies, Paramount plans to release the animated movies quickly afterward on Paramount+ and each center on villains in untold tales.

 

Kneon over at Clownfish TV expressed his concerns about Rogen beginning to be associated with multiple childhood related entertainment properties like TNMT and Darkwing Duck.

 

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As for Dora the Explorer, Robbins announced an all-new CG-animated preschool series coming to the streamer in 2023. That joins the previously announced live-action, tween-focused Dora series that remains in the development stages that is inspired by the tone of the 2019 theatrical release Dora and the Lost City of God.

 

via THR

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Will Disney’s ‘Moon Knight’ be as ‘Brutal’ as Netflix’s Marvel Shows?

Posted: 17 Feb 2022 06:15 AM PST

 

According to this Empire magazine report, following up on what Kevin Feige’s said about the new direction they’re taking with the upcoming Moon Knight TV series on Disney Plus:

 

There's a harder edge to Moon Knight – aka Steven Grant, aka Marc Spector – that Marvel boss Kevin Feige isn't shying away from. "He's brutal," Feige tells Empire, citing the streaming service as a space to expand what an MCU story can be. "It's been fun to work with Disney+ and see the boundaries shifting on what we're able to do. There are moments [in the series] when Moon Knight is wailing on another character, and it is loud and brutal, and the knee-jerk reaction is, 'We're gonna pull back on this, right?' No. We're not pulling back. There's a tonal shift. This is a different thing. This is Moon Knight."

 

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Yet according to The Direct, the suitability rating is more along the lines of the MPAA’s PG-13 rating:

 

On the heels of Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige teasing Moon Knight’s “tonal shift” and its “brutal” character, some speculated that Oscar Isaac’s Moon Knight would receive a TV-MA rating. This is the rating held by Netflix’s six prior Marvel series, including that of Daredevil, whose stars recently crossed over into the MCU.

However, that no longer appears to be the case.

Following Feige’s statement and ahead of Moon Knight’s March debut, Disney+ has now listed the upcoming show with an official TV-14 rating, per the United States’ TV Parental Guidelines.

For reference, the TV-14 rating is described as Parents Strongly Cautioned and intended for children ages 14 and older in the company of an adult. Potential exists for intensely suggestive dialogue, strong language, and intense sexual situations or violence.

Now, while it’s true that Moon Knight’s “brutal” sequences and “tonal shift” are still possible given this rating, it’s also worth noting that every Marvel Studios Disney+ show – (WandaVision, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Loki, What If…?, and Hawkeye – has received a TV-14 rating.

[…] Now, in terms of violence, the difference between TV-14-rated violence and that of TV-MA is two words: intense and graphic.

Under TV-14, intense violence is allowed, while TV-MA rating television permits graphic violence. The difference? Graphic typically refers to vivid and heightened, realistic imagery, especially in terms of blood and gore. While intense violence also permits realism and the use of blood, it has limitations.

 

So what’s the use of telling us the new Moon Knight series is “brutal”? It sounds like it’ll be little different from the majority of comic movies and TV programs over the past few decades, which were anything but seriously adult in tone, when you consider how only so many rarely went beyond PG-13 for a rating, and only a handful to date have ever been R-rated. However, this does tell something about the Captain America-connected show they produced:

 

John Walker’s use of Cap’s shield in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and the imagery of that symbol dripping with blood, was something Marvel fans hadn’t seen in the MCU before, but it still fell within the TV-14 rating. It’s possible that this type of action is the norm within Moon Knight, as opposed to being a single scene.

 

Well as a matter of fact, this actually suggests they’re cheating with the ratings, recalling how, for many years, X-ratings and NC-17 ratings were unpopular with most filmmakers who apparently didn’t want to limit their movies to niche status as opposed to commercial, and there were doubtless some movies and TV shows over the years with content that could be thought bad for children that still got lower rating levels despite everything, all because commercialism is far more precious, even at artistic value’s expense.

 

But with somebody as pretentious as Feige in charge of this TV show, that’s why there’s reason to doubt it’d have any artistic value at all. Especially after the failure of the Eternals movie.

 

Originally published here.

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Paramount/Sega Announce Live Action Sonic TV Series & 3rd Movie

Posted: 17 Feb 2022 04:45 AM PST

 

Even though the second film doesn't bow until the spring, Paramount Pictures and Sega Corp are moving fast to build on their growing Sonic the Hedgehog universe with projects in both the film and TV realms, Deadline reports.

 

Paramount and Sega have commenced development on a third feature film installment to the franchise, while Sega and Paramount+ are developing the first-ever original live-action Sonic series, to launch in 2023. It will feature the character Knuckles, with Idris Elba returning to voice the role after it debuts in the sequel movie that bows April 8.

 

The announcement was made during this week's Viacom Investor Event where Brian Robbins, President and CEO, Paramount Pictures & Nickelodeon; Chief Content Officer, Movies, Kids & Family – Paramount+, delivered the news during the presentation.

 

 

Sonic the Hedgehog broke multiple box office records, including becoming the domestic top-grossing video game adaptation of all time, when it hit theaters in 2020, earning almost $320 million in worldwide box office. The success gave Paramount another franchise to dive into, and the studio quickly moved forward with development on its sequel. Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is bringing back the original cast, as well as re-teaming director Jeff Fowler with writers Pat Casey & Josh Miller. Producing are Neal H. Moritz, Toby Ascher and Toru Nakahara, with Satomi, Nan Morales and Tim Miller executive producing.

 

While the studio continues to build on a promising slate of films, Sonic is the prime example of the type of IP they want to focus on, giving them four-quadrant films that do well at the box office and a property that can be used to deliver more content for its streaming platform.

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