Stephen Amell, title star of The CW’s Arrow, has been cast as Casey Jones in the upcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 movie. Amell screen tested against a handful of other contenders, but was chosen because of the chemistry with Megan Fox, who will reprise her April O’Neill role. Will Arnett is also set to return.

This will be the first major film role for Amell, whose acting credits are mainly in television series and movies.

Hots on the heels of its smashing box office weekend, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles will be getting a sequel in 2016.

Paramount greenlit the sequel, which will see Michael Bay returning to produce along with his Platinum Dunes partners Andrew Form and Brad Fuller, with Galen Walker and Scott Mednick. Screenwriters Josh Appelbaum and André Nemec will also return to write and this time executive produce as well.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Director: Jonathan Liebesman
Screenwriters: Josh Appelbaum, André Nemec, and Evan Daugherty
Cast: Megan Fox, Will Arnett, William Fichtner, Danny Woodburn, Noel Fisher, Jeremy Howard, Pete Ploszek, Alan Ritchson
Paramount Pictures | Nickelodeon Movies
Rated PG-13 | 101 Minutes
Release Date: August 8, 2014

Platinum Dunes. The production company created by Michael Bay, Brad Fuller, and Andrew Form came on the scene in 2003 with The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, a remake of Tobe Hooper’s classic 1974 film. Since then, they’ve rebooted just about every popular horror franchise you can imagine: The Amityville Horror, The Hitcher*, Friday the 13th, and A Nightmare on Elm Street.

Somehow – through some sort of covenant with the Devil, I assume – Platinum Dunes obtained the film rights to Nickelodeon’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the beloved franchise created by Peter Laird and Kevin Eastman. Enter Paramount Pictures, who produced recent “name-brand” disappointments like G.I. Joe: Retaliation, World War Z, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, Transformers: Age of Extinction, and Hercules. I say disappointment not because these movies were failures at the box office, quite the opposite actually. They’re just not good films. They’re lazy, generic blockbusters in a world where movies like X-Men: Days of Future Past, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, and Guardians of the Galaxy are thrilling audiences and critics alike.

Paramount Pictures Australia uploaded to their Twitter account a poster promoting the Australian release of their upcoming film, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, but quickly pulled if after it received a wave of backlash from people thinking it inappropriate.

And what was so inappropriate about it? The poster shows the Turtles jumping off an exploding building, free-falling towards the viewer — beneath the movie title is the release date: September 11.

You can check out the poster here below.

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles want to share their love of pizza by giving away some free slices to attendees this Thursday at San Diego Comic-Con.

Snagging a free slice involves some Twitter hashtagging, which will yield a redemption code to be used at the convention’s Interactive Zone on Thursday, July 24 from 11am – 7pm PST. Full details below.

The slice, courtesy of Pizza Hut, comes in a custom TMNT-themed special edition pizza box. Here below is the box art, which was designed by Philadelphia-based illustrator/designer Scott Derby.