Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990 film)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Theatrical release poster
Directed bySteve Barron
Screenplay by
Story byBobby Herbeck
Based on
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyJohn Fenner
Edited by
Music byJohn Du Prez
Production
companies
Distributed byNew Line Cinema[1]
Release date
  • March 30, 1990 (1990-03-30) (United States)
Running time
93 minutes
Country
LanguageEnglish
Budget$13.5 million[1][3]
Box office$202 million[3][4]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles[a] is a 1990 American superhero film based on the comic book characters created by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. It is the first film adaptation of the characters and was directed by Steve Barron and written by Todd W. Langen and Bobby Herbeck from a story by Herbeck. It stars Judith Hoag and Elias Koteas with the voices of Brian Tochi, Josh Pais, Corey Feldman, and Robbie Rist. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles follows the Turtles on a quest to save their master, Splinter, with their new allies, April O'Neil and Casey Jones, from the Shredder and his Foot Clan.

The film adapts the early Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics, with several elements taken from the animated series airing at the time. The turtle costumes were developed by Jim Henson's Creature Shop, one of Jim Henson's last projects before his death shortly after the premiere. Filming took place in 1989 in North Carolina and New York City.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was released theatrically in the United States on March 30, 1990, by New Line Cinema. It received mixed reviews, but was a box-office success, grossing $202 million on a budget of $13.5 million; it was the highest-grossing independent film up to that time[7] and the ninth highest-grossing film worldwide of 1990. It was followed by Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991) and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (1993). It is the only film in the original trilogy not to be distributed by 20th Century Fox internationally.

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