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Sonic Movie Production Moved To Paramount Pictures

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News on the Sonic movie has been very lackluster. We now know why.

The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed that the project is no longer associated with Sony. Paramount has now picked up the reigns.

It is worth noting that the team that have been developing the movie is largely unchanged. Many are still a part of it:

Much of the team that was developing it at Sony remains: in addition to Moritz, Deadpool director Tim Miller is executive producing, while his longtime Blur Studio collaborator Jeff Fowler will make his feature directorial debut on the film. Also executive producing is Toby Ascher, while Dmitri Johnson and Dan Jevons will serve as co-producers.

So why did Sony get rid of it? The article says that Sony “put it into turnaround”.

Neal H. Moritz, whose Original Film banner recently signed an upcoming first look deal with Paramount, will produce the project, which is coming to the studio after Sony Entertainment put it into turnaround.

This is movie business lingo, but a “turnaround” or “turnaround deal” is a plan made between two movie studios that resulted for a specific reason: a project’s production costs reaching the point that it is declared a loss on that studio’s tax return. Because of this, the studio can no longer exploit the property any further. The rights can then be sold to another studio in exchange for the cost of development plus interest. The deal is where the rights are sold off to another studio. They get the rights, while the studio that used to own the rights get help with the cost of development, plus any interest.

Long story short, financing the Sonic movie was not smooth-sailing for Sony. So Paramount is taking the brunt of the project load now.

This post was originally written by the author for TSSZ News.

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  1. Well, I guess that’s good news. Paramount is better than Sony, I think? At least, I don’t know of any big Paramount blunders.

    On another note, what on Earth was Sony doing that caused them to misspend on the Sonic movie?

    1. On the other hand, there’s a bigger chance that the director is none other than Michael Bay.

      1. How is Michael Bay the director when they already got Jeff Fowler doing it and it will be the first film he directs?

  2. Well at the very least this project can begin anew with a clean slate. I’ll admit, as the delays kept piling up and I became more aware of questionable choices Sony has been making as a movie company (first 2 Smurf movies, the abrupt cancellation of Amazing Spider-Man 3, the even more out of nowhere cancellation of Popeye, THE EMOJI MOVIE…), I was starting to get concerned that the one company I thought I could trust with Sonic would end up botching the whole thing like with everything else.

    While I don’t know if Paramount has been known for any ground-breaking animated work lately, they’re still a pretty decent studio and no real huge blunders come to mind (but feel free to remind me so we remember who we’re dealing with), so if anyone else could be trusted with Sonic, I don’t see why it can’t be them. Who knows, maybe the project will take a different better direction than it would have gone under Sony, maybe it might even be entirely animated like most people have advocated. Let’s just hope whatever direction it goes in, it’ll work out well and we’ll all have a reason to celebrate.

    1. Let’s not sugar coat this. Sony Pictures has the worst track record for 3D animated movies, and their poor reputation deviates far from the mainstream. They are the one motion pictures company I do not trust in any way, shape or form.

      “I don’t know if Paramount has been known for any ground-breaking animated work lately.”

      Here is one example: The Little Prince.

      https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_little_prince_2016/

    2. Sony had a bad rep and a low budget. Think about it. Sonic was going to be animated, which they suck at, and live action, which would cost a lot in production value. That being said, Sonic isn’t an animated movie, and the animation that WILL be there is still being done by more trustworthy handlers.

      In all seriousness though, Pixar or DreamWorks…. maybe, are the only companies I’d trust with a fully animated Sonic movies. Thinking of Toy Story, A Bugs Life, Shrek, The Incredibles, Kung Fu Panda, Wall-E, Zootopia and How To Train Your Dragon. Sonic could fit right in and take away SOMETHING good from each of those.

  3. I can only see this as good news, Paramount has a better record with animated movies and the fact that they bought the rights shows some interest at the very least, and I’m still happy with the involvement of Tim Miller, Jeff Fowler and anyone else from Blur Studios that could be part of it.

    I hope that maybe now they will opt to do a full animated movie instead of a animated/live action hybrid, I’m not saying the later couldn’t work but the odds are not in its favor and I’m pretty sure they are going to shoe horn some real human characters as part of the main cast if that’s the case.

  7. Paramount Pictures really knows their stuff with 3D animated cartoons: if this movie is even half as good as the critically acclaimed Kung Fu Panda and The Little Prince, this will be one of the best VG movies of all time.

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