There will be two big franchises for holiday season 2028 from Paramount: an untitled hybrid live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie set for Nov. 17 and a Sonic universe feature set for Dec. 22.
In regards to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, it’s opening the weekend prior to Thanksgiving. The project was already announced with Neal H. Moritz producing. Under Paramount, the three Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies (two live-action, one animated) have grossed close to $913 million worldwide. The brand cleared $1 billion in retail alone for Paramount in calendar year 2023, as Deadline first told you.
The Sonic universe movie will be produced by Moritz’s Original Film and SEGA Sammy Group. Last year in the pre-Christmas frame, Paramount opened Sonic the Hedgehog 3 to No. 1 at $60.1M domestic. The movie went on to make $236.1M stateside and $492.1M worldwide. All in, the Sonic trilogy for Paramount has grossed $1.2 billion. There was also a Knuckles spinoff series for Paramount+ which in its first 28 days on the streamer clocked 11 million-plus global hours and ranked as the No. 1 kids and family Paramount+ series ever in terms of hours.
Also dated by Paramount today is the 40th Anniversary cut of Tony Scott’s Top Gun on May 13, 2026. The Tom Cruise movie which started it all grossed over $180M domestic, $357M worldwide. The 2022 sequel would go on to become both Tom Cruise and Paramount’s highest grossing movie ever with close to $719M domestic and $1.495 billion worldwide.