#TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES 2014 BOX OFFICE MOVIE#
As Form explains:įORM: I think one thing we did learn is you really need to give-you can’t just add characters to a movie and expect that to be what’s fresh. They brought in elements that had been proven popular in past iterations. The first film was a success, and they wanted to strike while the iron was hot. This goes back to William Goldman’s old adage, “Nobody knows anything.” You can’t fault Form and Fuller for their thinking. We’re still so proud of the movie it just didn’t find an audience. And you wake up two days before the movie opens and you go, “Wow, I don’t know if this movie is tracking as well as it should.” Then you hope, and then Thursday night happens and your midnights come in and you’re like, “That’s not what Movie 1 did,” and then sure enough your weekend comes and it’s nowhere near what anyone thought, and it’s nowhere near Movie 1, and, before you know it, it’s over. It’s just one of those things where we feel like we made a really great movie we thought at the time that our release date was great, and we added all these new characters with Bebop and Rocksteady and Baxter Stockwell had a big role in the movie and Casey Jones and for some reason when it came to opening weekend…Even before the movie came out, we were feeling great. And we talk about it all the time, and we tried to figure it out, but we cannot put our finger on what happened. From our first Super Bowl teaser to everything we launched, we felt so good about our material, and for some reason it did not find the audience that the first movie found. ANDREW FORM: We were obviously surprised at the box office results.