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Paramount kicked off the proceedings in Las Vegas tonight for CinemaCon -- the annual convention for theater owners -- and among the trailers screened was the highly anticipated first glimpse of our new live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Apparently the teaser was quite short, but showed plenty of shots of the Turtles as they slid around snow-capped mountains etc. Here's a good description from Badass Digest.

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At first the trailer hides the turtles - there's voice over from William Fichtner's Shredder explaining the city has gone to shyt. We see criminals with automatic weapons and buildings exploding and maybe - just maybe! - it seems like this could be a Hobo With A Shotgun version of a city in decline. It turns out that this version of Shredder hates that crime and violence, and so he started a program to create heroes. That's juxtaposed with TCRI ooze canisters and experiments. You know, the ooze that created the turtles. The ooze that Shredder made... with April's dad. Yes, the VO is Shredder telling April he and her dad made the turtles. There's flash footage of the Turtles fighting guys in the subway and April films on her phone. Then the turtles are revealed... and they're kind of bad? Meredith Woerner of io9 was sitting next to me and said they looked like babies with penis heads, and she's right. They're not turtle-y enough and they're not anthropomorphized enough. They're a terrible middle ground. They do crack wise, though. We see the turtles sliding down a mountain and one yells "Batter up!" and is thrown into a Hummer, shell first, crushing the door of the vehicle.

The tagline for the trailer is: "Heroes are not born, they're created". Hmmm. Other reports state that these new Turtles are indeed VERY big -- much larger than a human; though we'd pretty much already figured that from those early set pics. Reactions from those in attendance were mixed..at best. Nobody outright blasted what they saw, but we haven't come across any particularly enthusiastic responses either. The overall vibe from this first short teaser is that it comes across as very much a "Michael Bay movie" anyway -- you're opinion of the man's other flicks will obviously inform your excitement levels upon hearing that. The general consensus seems to be that we'll need to see more footage before minds can be made up completely, but we may not have too long to wait for that as this teaser is expected to hit the net soon enough.

UPDATE: Soon enough is Thursday morning! The trailer will be online 3 days from now.
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Paramount Pictures screened the new trailer and exclusive footage from producerMichael Bay's upcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles at CinemaCon today. TMNT cast member Will Arnett presented attendees with the public's first look at the latest big screen incarnation of the comic book heroes.

The film, directed by Jonathan Liebesman, stars Megan Fox as TV news reporterApril O'Neil. Arnett co-stars as her colleague Vernon Fenwick and Whoopi Goldberg plays their boss, Bernadette Thompson. William Fichtner portrays the villainous Shredder and Danny Woodburn plays the Turtles' mentor, Splinter. The Turtles themselves -- played by Alan Ritchson (Raphael), Noel Fisher (Michelangelo), Jeremy Howard (Donatello), and Pete Ploszek (Leonardo) -- are brought to cinematic life via performance-capture, the method used by Andy Serkis in his roles as King Kong, Caesar in Rise of the Planet of the Apes, and Gollum in the Lord of the Rings films.

Some SPOILERS about the trailer follow:


The new TMNT movie's title logo as seen at CinemaCon.

The Turtles trailer is a very brief teaser, but it definitely establishes the tone and look of this world. The focus is on April, a TV reporter in a city where crime runs rampant. We see a series of shots of SWAT/Spec Ops-type troops getting picked off, ninja-style, as they storm a building.

The voice-over of William Fichtner's villain plays over these images of the raid and various shots of April on the job. Fichtner speaks of people's need for heroes. We see images of canisters … ooze … all as Fichtner explains to April that he and her father are responsible for the creation of the heroes we start to get quick glimpses of: the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!

We see the Turtles in action, fighting guys in a subway as April captures the battle on her smartphone. We see the Turtles sliding down a snow-capped mountainside, with one of them crashing shell-first into a Hummer. We also see Fichtner's character standing before … a suit of the Shredder armor.

So it seems the Turtles of this movie will be the result of experiments involving Shredder and April O'Neil's father. The trailer ends with April coming face-to-face on a rooftop with the much taller than you'd think Turtles (they're well over six-foot and look a lot like this) as Michelangelo removes his mask to try and allay her fears. It doesn't work and she faints.

Overall, the tone was far straighter and more serious than expected. The Turtles make a few wisecracks but those quips are kind of lost amidst the action. The Turtles are definitely presented here as the extraordinary beings who enter into April's "real" world rather than the trailer following them with April popping up as a secondary human character. We'd expect the trailer to drop very soon.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles opens August 8.
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http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/03...for-michael-bays-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles
 
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