Seth Rogen Confesses What Holds Him Back From Working With Marvel Or DC

From Lassie and Rin Tin Tin to 101 Dalmatians, Old Yeller, My Dog Skip, Homeward Bound, A Dog’s Purpose and on and on, the canine genre has been a staple of Hollywood movies for decades. I suppose it was only a matter of time before someone got the idea to make a balls-out, foul-mouthed, R-rated subversion of it all, and finally its time has come with the irresistible Strays, a film definitely not designed as a family movie or for kids but I would bet, despite the language and nonstop dick jokes, they would love it anyway.

Sony’s Craig Gillespie-directed comedy, Dumb Money, about the GameStop meme investors isn’t going wide anymore on Sept. 22. Rather, the Culver City lot has opted to go exclusive with the ensemble movie on Sept. 15 in LA and NYC, then a limited break on Sept. 22, followed by a moderate release on Sept. 29 and a final wide on Oct. 6. You’ll remember, Sony moved Kraven the Hunter off of that first weekend of October to Labor Day weekend 2024.

While the overall quality of newer seasons of “Saturday Night Live” is debatable, most people will agree that the digital segments, primarily those from the comedy troupe, Please Don’t Destroy, are still pretty great. So, it’s exciting to see the Please Don’t Destroy guys get a chance to actually spin off into their own feature film, which they get to do this fall in the film, “Please Don’t Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain.” READ MORE: ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem’ Review: Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg’s Reboot Is Delightfully Dorky With the release of “Please Don’t Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain” scheduled for November, Peacock has gone ahead and released first-look images from the upcoming film.

EXCLUSIVE: M88 on Tuesday announced its signing of Andrew Lopez, a fast-rising multi-hyphenate who, with appearances on Apple TV+’s Platonic and FX’s The Bear, has made his mark on two of the most buzzy series in recent memory.

EXCLUSIVE: With the new animated version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, Paramount has vibrantly revived the near 40-year-old Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird-conceived comic IP for another generation: As the pic barrels toward $100M at the global box office, Deadline hears from sources that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles brand is heading toward $1 billion+ in global retail sales. 

The animators of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem were taken care of by not being overworked. Director Jeff Rowe and producers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg made sure the staff could work on the animated movie while continuing to maintain a good work-life balance.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director A Vulture report published in June claimed that animators on Sony’s “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” were extremely overworked during production. The report followed similar claims made by several visual effects workers about the brutal working conditions at Marvel Studios. For Paramount’s “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem,” it appears director Jeff Rowe wanted to buck this problematic trend.

J. Kim Murphy The summer box office season may have reached the dog days of August, but it’s hardly looked stronger over the past few months.

Variety, the dual release of Barbie and Oppenheimer led to a sizeable uptick in UK box office numbers in July. Earlier this year, meanwhile, The Super Mario Bros. Movie had the most successful global opening ever for an animated film.At the time of writing (August 4), the video game adaptation is still the highest-grossing movie of the year, earning over $1.3billion at the global box office (via BoxOfficeMojo).

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle Editor Rose Byrne jumped at the chance to voice Leatherhead in “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem” when producer-star Seth Rogen asked her to join the film. “It was ridiculous,” the “Physical” actor tells me. “Seth was like, ‘I want you to do just fully Aussie — just go for it!’ “I was like, ‘I’m going to do my best Eric Bana.’ This is an homage to Eric,” Byrne continues.

Promoting their new flick “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem”, Seth Rogen and Ice Cube sat down to devour some snacks on the rapper’s new series, “Snacked”.

, but this time there's one major difference — the titular turtles are actually played by teenagers!«They're often middle-aged men doing Teenage-Voiced Mutant Ninja Turtles,» joked Seth Rogen when he sat down with ET's Will Marfuggi to talk about how a life-long love of the titular turtles led to writing and producing the latest installment in the long-running franchise.«I was really the target audience for the first iteration of all this stuff,» he explained, noting that he watched the cartoons and movies as a kid and was «obsessed» with the toys. «My dad bought like, a big box of used toys at a garage sale when I was a kid, and so I had those and I played with them so much.»However, Rogen admitted, «I always thought that the 'Teenage' part of it was weirdly under-explored, you know?»For his movie, the star added in more details about the turtles' desire to be just regular teens, and wanted the cast to be made up of voice actors that were closer in age to their characters than past iterations.star Brady Noon, 17, is Raphael, the bravest and strongest — but also most impulsive — of his brothers, who wears a red mask and fights with two pronged sai weapons.

One of this summer’s biggest surprises is the pure entertainment to be found scene-by-scene in “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem,” an inspired take on a once-blockbuster property that had previously been collecting dust in the IP toy box.

Shay Mitchell enjoyed a workout class at Hot Pilates in West Hollywood, California. Dwayne Johnson enjoyed a filet and sushi rolls at Mastro’s Steakhouse Beverly Hills in Beverly Hills, California.

Seth Rogen has revealed why he doesn’t want to work for Marvel or DC.The actor, who recently worked on the animated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem movie and owns the production company that helps make Amazon Prime‘s The Boys, was asked in a new interview what has kept him “turned off” from joining other movie franchises like the two comic based giants.“Honestly, probably fear. We really have a pretty specific way we work; me and Evan [Goldberg] have been writers for 20 years at this point. It’s a fear of the process, honestly.

Seth Rogen knows what roles he wants to do and projects he wants to be in, and they include everything that’s not Marvel or DC Universe.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Seth Rogen is bringing the “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” franchise back to life in the upcoming animated movie “Mutant Mayhem,” which he has a story credit on and produced through his Point Grey Pictures company. During an interview with Polygon ahead of the film’s release, Rogen was ask what has kept him “turned off” from joining other movie franchises like the Marvel and DC superhero films. “Honestly, probably fear,” Rogen said.

Bill Gates is no stranger to cannabis.

interview with the New York Times, the producer said, “I have no plans to retire.”A year before that, however, he left the door open to a new phase away from Studio 8H. Michaels told CBS Morning‘s Gayle King, “I think I’m committed to doing the show until its 50th anniversary, which is in three years… I’d like to see that through and I have a feeling that would be a really good time to leave.”The 50th season of “Saturday Night Live” is coming in the fall of 2024, and during that year the all-powerful Michaels will turn 80 years old. When it wraps up, another US presidential election — when “SNL” reliably gets its best ratings — likely featuring Donald Trump will have just ended.

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic It started as a joke. Way back in the ’80s, the phenomenon we now call “superhero fatigue” was already a thing, at least among comics afficionados. Frustrated with pulp creators recycling the same old ideas, Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird hatched the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.