TMNT

Thanks to the inexplicably popular cartoon and its extremely catchy theme songs—one of the catchiest of all time—the Turtles were already household names by their live-action movie’s debut in 1990. Even though the franchise was already one of the biggest names in children’s entertainment, the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie was seen as a significant risk for movie studios… …so much so that the movie failed to secure a distribution company until it was well into the production process....