Nickelodeon Movies

Not to be confused with Nickelodeon (movie theater)

Nickelodeon Movies
Type	Film production arm of Nickelodeon and family film distribution of Paramount Pictures
Industry	Film
Founded	February 25, 1995 (1995-02-25)
Area served	Worldwide
Products	Theatrical feature films Animated films
Owner	2005–2019)| Paramount Global (2019–present)}}
Parent	Paramount Pictures Paramount Players
Website	Official website

Nickelodeon Movies is the film production arm of American children's network Nickelodeon and the family film distribution label of Paramount Pictures launched on February 25, 1995 and based in Los Angeles, California.

History

Nickelodeon/20th Century Fox deal (1993–95)

In 1993, Nickelodeon agreed to a two-year contract with 20th Century Fox to make feature films. The joint venture would mostly produce new material, though a Nickelodeon executive did not rule out the possibility of making films based on The Ren & Stimpy Show, Rugrats, and Doug. None of the movies were produced due to the 1994 acquisition of Paramount Pictures by Nickelodeon's parent company, Viacom, and they would distribute the movies instead. With the creative differences with John Kricfalusi, the creator of Ren & Stimpy and an inability to market that property in a family-friendly manner instead of a "cynical and gross humor" scuttled the film. However, Paramount and Viacom would go forward and start development on The Rugrats Movie a year after the acquisition.

The Nickelodeon version of the Doug film was not made due to the acquisition of the show's production studio, Jumbo Pictures, by The Walt Disney Company in 1996. With this, the show moved to Disney's ABC network and new seasons aired as a part of its programming block Disney's One Saturday Morning as Disney's Doug. In 1999, Walt Disney Pictures released a film finale to the series, Doug's 1st Movie.

Nickelodeon Movies (1995–98)

Nickelodeon Movies was then founded on February 25, 1995. On July 10, 1996, the studio released its first film, Harriet the Spy, a spy-comedy film based on the 1964 novel of the same name.

On July 25, 1997, the studio then released its second film, Good Burger, a comedy film, starring Kenan Thompson, Kel Mitchell, Abe Vigoda, Dan Schneider, Shar Jackson, Josh Server, Lori Beth Denberg, Jan Schweiterman, Linda Cardellini and Sinbad. It was based on the Good Burger sketch on Nickelodeon's popular sketch comedy series All That.

On November 20, 1998, the studio released The Rugrats Movie, which is Nickelodeon Movies' first animated film and the first Nicktoon to be shown in theaters. It received mixed critical reception, but despite this, the movie became a box office success, earning $100,494,675 in the domestic box office and $140,894,675 worldwide. It also became the first non-Disney animated film to gross over $100 million domestically. The success of the film led to two sequels.

2000s

On February 11, 2000, the studio released Snow Day, a comedy film starring Chevy Chase, Chris Elliott, Zena Grey, Josh Peck, Mark Webber, Schuyler Fisk, Jade Yorker and Emmanuelle Chriqui. This film met negative reviews, yet it grossed $62,464,731 worldwide.

Nine months later, the studio released Rugrats in Paris: The Movie on November 17, 2000. It is the first sequel to The Rugrats Movie, and grossed $76,507,756 at the domestic box-office and $103,291,131 worldwide. The film received favorable reviews, becoming the most critically acclaimed Rugrats film to date.

On March 30, 2001, Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies partnered with Nelvana Limited and Ellipse Animation, and released Blazing Dragons: The Movie, a children's fantasy, adventure comedy film, directed by Larry Jacobs, and it is based on a television series of the same name created by Terry Jones and Gavin Scott. It stars the show's voice actors Edward Glen, Aron Tager, Suzanne Coy, Steven Sutcliffe, John Koensgen, John Stocker, Dan Hennessey, Richard Binsley, Stephanie Morgenstern, Scott Wentworth, Rick Waugh, David Hemblen, Don Francks and Jill Frappier, and grossed $35 million at the domestic box-office and $105.8 million worldwide. The film was animated using the same animation style (traditional animation) as the TV show.

On December 21, 2001, the studio released its first CGI animated film, Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius. It is based on a series of shorts that aired on Nickelodeon in 1998. It became a critical and box-office success, earning $80,936,232 in the United States and $102,992,536 worldwide. It stars voice actors Debi Derryberry, Rob Paulsen, Carolyn Lawrence, Jeffrey Garcia, and Candi Milo, and co-starred Martin Short and Patrick Stewart. On March 24, 2002, this movie was nominated for the first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, but lost to Shrek. It is the first Nickelodeon film to be nominated for an Academy Award. The success of the film spawned this film into a TV series, The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, which aired on Nickelodeon from 2002 to 2006.

On March 29, 2002, the studio released Clockstoppers, a sci-fi action film, starring Jesse Bradford, Paula Garcés, and French Stewart. This film received negative reviews and was a box office disappointment, only earning $36,989,956 in the United States and $38,793,283 worldwide.

On June 28, 2002, Nickelodeon Movies released Hey Arnold!: The Movie, starring the series' original cast members and guest starring Paul Sorvino as Scheck, the CEO of a real estate company called Future Tech Industries (FTI). The film received negative reviews and grossed $15.2 million. It was originally going to be a TV film entitled Arnold Saves the Neighborhood, but executives of Paramount Pictures decided to release this film theatrically. It was the first animated film from Nickelodeon to get a PG rating.

In 2002 and 2003, the studio, along with Klasky Csupo, released two films based on popular TV shows, The Wild Thornberrys Movie and Rugrats Go Wild, respectively. The Wild Thornberrys Movie was released on December 20, 2002, starring the show's original cast members, Lacey Chabert, Tim Curry, Jodi Carlisle, Danielle Harris, Michael "Flea" Balzary, and Tom Kane. This film received positive reviews and was a box office success. It only grossed $40.1 million domestically and $60.7 million worldwide. On March 23, 2003, this film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song.

Rugrats Go Wild, a crossover of Rugrats and The Wild Thornberrys, was released on June 13, 2003. This film met with mixed critical reception and was a minor box office success, unlike previous Rugrats movies, only earning $39.4 million in the United States and $55.4 million worldwide. This film is also the only Rugrats film to receive a PG rating.

On November 19, 2004, Nickelodeon released The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, based on the popular Nickelodeon television series, SpongeBob SquarePants. This film received positive reviews and grossed $85.4 million in the United States and $140.2 million worldwide. The success of this film led to a sequel, and it was adapted into various media, including its own video game, soundtrack, books, and toy line.

With the release of The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, Nickelodeon Movies returned to making box-office hits. The studio purchased the film rights of the A Series of Unfortunate Events book series in May 2000. Paramount Pictures, owner of Nickelodeon Movies, agreed to co-finance, along with Scott Rudin. Various directors, including Terry Gilliam and Roman Polanski, were interested in making the film. One of author Daniel Handler's, Lemony Snicket's real name, favorite candidates was Guy Maddin. In June 2002, Barry Sonnenfeld was hired to direct. He was chosen because he had previously collaborated with Rudin and because of his black comedy directing style as seen in his films The Addams Family, Addams Family Values and Get Shorty. Sonnenfeld referred to the Unfortunate Events books as his favorite children's stories. The director hired Handler to write the script with the intention of making Lemony Snicket as a musical, and cast Jim Carrey as Count Olaf in September 2002. Sonnenfeld eventually left over budget concerns in January 2003 and director Brad Silberling took over. This film was released on December 17, 2004, a month after The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie was released. It received positive reviews and became a huge box office success, earning $118,634,549 at the United States box office and $209,073,645 worldwide. This film won an Academy Award for Best Makeup in 2005.

In 2005, the studio and Paramount Classics purchased a documentary film, Mad Hot Ballroom, at the 2005 Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. It became the studios' first (and, so far, only) documentary film and their only film to have a limited theatrical release. It grossed $8,117,961 in the United States and $9,079,042 worldwide. It also was a huge critical success.

Several months later, the studio and Paramount Pictures released their first co-production with both Columbia Pictures and Metro Goldwyn Mayer and released a family comedy film, Yours, Mine and Ours, a remake of the 1968 film of the same name. This film stars Dennis Quaid and Rene Russo. This film was critically panned, but was a modest box office success, earning $53,412,862 in the United States and $72,028,752 worldwide.

On June 16, 2006, Nickelodeon released the wrestling comedy film Nacho Libre. It is very loosely based on the story of Fray Tormenta. This film stars Jack Black, Héctor Jiménez, and Ana de la Reguera. This film met with mixed critical reception, but was a box office success, earning $80,197,993 in the domestic box office and grossed $99,255,460 worldwide. A sequel to this film is being considered.

Two months later, the studio released another CGI film, Barnyard, starring the voices of Kevin James, as Otis, a carefree cow who loves throwing parties, Courteney Cox as Daisy, a kind-hearted cow, David Koechner as Dag, an evil coyote, Sam Elliott as Ben, Otis's father and the leader of the barnyard, Danny Glover as Miles, an old mule, and voice actors Cam Clarke, Jeff Garcia, S. Scott Bullock, Tino Insana, Maurice LaMarche, John DiMaggio, Fred Tatasciore, and Rob Paulsen. This film met with negative critical reception, but was a box office success, earning $72,637,803 at the United States box office and grossed $116,476,887 worldwide. Like Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, the film's success has spawned into a TV show, Back at the Barnyard, which ran from 2007 to 2011 on Nickelodeon, longer than The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius. Chris Hardwick replaced Kevin James as the role for Otis.

On December 15, 2006, the studio released Charlotte's Web, a family drama film based on E. B. White's book of the same name, starring Dakota Fanning, Kevin Anderson, Beau Bridges, and the voices of Dominic Scott Kay, Julia Roberts, Steve Buscemi, John Cleese, Oprah Winfrey, Robert Redford, Reba McEntire, Kathy Bates, with Thomas Haden Church and Cedric the Entertainer. This film became a critical and box office success, earning $82,985,708 in the United States and $144,877,632 worldwide. This is Nickelodeon's first G-rated film in five years and first live-action film rated G as well as being the studio's highest-grossing film with that rating. Dakota Fanning won a Blimp Award for Favorite Movie Actress at the 2007 Kids' Choice Awards.

Two years later on February 14, 2008, the studio released The Spiderwick Chronicles, a fantasy drama film based on the bestselling book of the same name, starring Freddie Highmore, Sarah Bolger, Mary-Louise Parker, Martin Short, Nick Nolte, and Seth Rogen. This film was released in both regular and IMAX theaters and received favorable reviews and was a box office success, earning $71,195,053 in the United States and $162,839,667 outside of the United States.

On July 28, 2008, Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies released a coming-of-age comedy film, Angus, Thongs, and Perfect Snogging, based on two bestselling British novels by Louise Rennison, Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging and It's OK, I'm Wearing Really Big Knickers. The film met with positive reviews and was a box office success. It was released in theaters in the United Kingdom, earning £8,647,770 and grossed £13,835,569 worldwide. To date, it has a direct-to-DVD release in the United States and has made its U.S. premiere on Nick at Nite on March 12, 2009. It is also the first film from Nickelodeon Movies to receive a PG-13 rating.

On January 16, 2009, Hotel for Dogs was released, starring Emma Roberts (Unfabulous), Jake T. Austin (Wizards of Waverly Place), Johnny Simmons, Kyla Pratt (The Proud Family), Troy Gentile, with Lisa Kudrow, Kevin Dillon and Don Cheadle. It is based on the 1971 novel of the same name by Lois Duncan. This film received mixed reviews from film critics, but was a box office success, earning $73,034,460 in the United States box office and grossed $117,000,198 worldwide. It is distributed by DreamWorks. This marks the first film from Nickelodeon to be distributed outside of Paramount Pictures. However, it is still distributed under Paramount.

Five months later on June 12, 2009, Paramount Pictures released Nickelodeon Movies' Imagine That, a comedy-drama film starring Eddie Murphy, Thomas Haden Church, Nicole Ari Parker, Martin Sheen, Marin Hinkle, and Yara Shahidi. The film received negative reviews, mainly criticizing Murphy's performance. It was also a box office failure, only earning $16,123,323 at the domestic box office and grossed only $22,985,194 worldwide.

2010s

On January 8, 2007, Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies announced that they had signed M. Night Shyamalan to write, direct and produce a trilogy of live-action films based on the Avatar: The Last Airbender series, the first of which would encompass the main characters' adventures in Book One. The film was later released in theaters in 3D on July 1, 2010, and was universally panned by critics, fans, and even from audiences who weren't familiar with the TV series and is nowadays often considered one of the worst movies ever made. A year later, it won five Razzies, including worst screenplay, worst director and worst picture of the year. This was the studio's first feature film released in 3-D. On its opening day in the United States, The Last Airbender made $16 million, ranking fifth overall for Thursday openings. Despite negative critical reception, the film was a box office success, and grossed $131,601,062 in the United States box office, also grossed $187,340,196 in other countries, making for a total of $318,941,258 worldwide. That planned trilogy was finally scrapped in 2018, to make way for a new, unrelated, live-action series produced by Netflix.

Logo from 2010 to 2019

On March 4, 2011, Nickelodeon Movies released Rango, a CGI-animated western comedy film, directed by Gore Verbinski and starring Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Bill Nighy, Abigail Breslin, Alfred Molina, Harry Dean Stanton, Ray Winstone, Timothy Olyphant and Ned Beatty. The film was produced by Gore Verbinski's production company Blind Wink, and Graham King's GK Films. The CGI animation was created by Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), marking its first full-length animated feature. ILM usually does visual effects for live-action films. It is also the first animated film for Verbinski. During voice recording, the actors received costumes and sets to "give them the feel of the Wild West"; star Johnny Depp had 20 days in which to voice Rango and the filmmakers scheduled the supporting actors to interact with him. Verbinski said his attempt with Rango was to do a "small" film after the large-scale Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy, but that he underestimated how painstaking and time-consuming animated filmmaking is. This film has met universal acclaim from critics and general audiences alike and was the first Nickelodeon film to win the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, ten years on since the category was introduced when Jimmy Neutron was nominated. The success of Rango led Paramount to create its own animation studio, Paramount Animation.

Nine months later, Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies partnered with Columbia Pictures once again and released The Adventures of Tintin, a performance-captured animated 3D film, directed by Steven Spielberg and produced by Peter Jackson, with the voices of Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis, Daniel Craig, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, and based on three from the comic book series of the same name by Hergé, The Crab with the Golden Claws (1941), The Secret of the Unicorn (1943), and Red Rackham's Treasure (1944). This film was released in 3D and IMAX 3D theaters, as well normal "2D" theaters, and earned $77,591,831 in North America and $296,402,120 in other territories, for a worldwide total of $373,993,951. It also was studio's first animated film to be shown in 3D. John Williams, the composer for the film, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Score. This film became the first non-Pixar film to win a Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film, and is the first Nickelodeon film to do so.

On February 28, 2012, a sequel to The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie titled The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water was announced to be in production, and was scheduled to be released in 2015.Template:Update inline Philippe Dauman, the president and CEO of the studio's parent company Viacom, told sources:

"We will be releasing a SpongeBob movie at the end of 2014, which will serve to start off or be one of our films that starts off our new animation effort."

Dauman also once again said that the Paramount animation productions will be a new opportunity for his company as they will each cost less than $100 million, and the animation unit will only have 30 to 40 people, allowing for good financial returns and profits. Thanks to modern technology, the films still look "great" despite the lower cost, he said. He also lauded his studio team for winning an animation Oscar for Rango, the studio's first fully owned CGI effort. "We're very proud of that," he said.

The sequel was directed by Paul Tibbitt, written by Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger, produced by Mary Parent, and executive-produced by the series' creator, Stephen Hillenburg. The series' cast members reprised their roles from the first film. The sequel was animated using the same animation style (traditional animation) as the TV show.

In 2012, following the news of the Viacom buyout of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise, it was announced that Nickelodeon would produce a new film through Paramount Pictures with an expected release date sometime in 2012. In late May 2011, it was announced that Paramount and Nickelodeon had brought Michael Bay and his Platinum Dunes partners Brad Fuller and Andrew Form on to produce the next film that would reboot the film series. Bay, Fuller, and Form would produce alongside Walker and Mednick. For the script, the studio originally hired Art Marcum and Matt Holloway to write the film for close to a million dollars. A year later the studio turned to writers Josh Appelbaum and André Nemec to rewrite the script. In February 2012, Jonathan Liebesman was brought into negotiations to direct the film. It was released on August 8, 2014.

On October 26, 2012, the studio released a Halloween comedy film, Fun Size, starring Victoria Justice, Johnny Knoxville, and Thomas Mann. This film met with negative reviews, and was a box office failure. It grossed $11.4 million, and is the lowest wide-grossed film ever produced by Nickelodeon Movies.

A reboot of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles opened on August 8, 2014. It was the biggest opening weekend for any movie produced by Nickelodeon Movies, grossing over $65 million in its first three days of release in the United States. It has since become Nickelodeon Movies's highest-grossing movie domestically (in North America) and worldwide, with over $191 million domestically and a total of $493.3 million worldwide.^{[citation needed]}

On February 6, 2015, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water, the second film based on SpongeBob SquarePants, was released. The film grossed almost $163 million in the United States and $323.4 million worldwide, making it the third-most successful film produced by the studio.

On June 3, 2016, the studio released Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows. The film was met with mixed reviews and grossed $240.6 million worldwide.

Nickelodeon Movies was also involved in the film Monster Trucks, though merely as a label partner as Paramount vacillated several times about including the Nickelodeon Movies vanity card within the film. It was released on January 13, 2017, as a critical and box-office flop.

On October 27, 2017, Nickelodeon Movies released The Loud House: The Louds' First Movie, starring the series' original cast members of Collin Dean as Lincoln Loud, the 11-year-old sibling and only boy of the Loud children, Jill Talley as Rita Loud, the mother of the Loud children and the wife of Lynn Sr., Brian Stepanek as Lynn Loud Sr., the father of the Loud children and the husband of Rita, Catherine Taber as Lori Loud, a 17-year-old Loud sibling and the eldest of the Loud children, Liliana Mumy as Leni Loud, a 16-year-old sibling of the Loud children, Nika Futterman as Luna Loud, the 15-year-old sibling of the Loud children, Cristina Pucelli as Luan Loud, the-14-year-old sibling of the Loud children, Jessica DiCicco as Lynn Loud Jr., the 13-year-old sibling of the Loud children who is athletic and superstitious, and Lucy Loud, the 8-year-old sibling of the Loud children, Grey DeLisle as Lana Loud, the 6-year-old sibling and Lola's tomboy twin sister, Lola Loud, the 6-year-old sibling and Lana's girly twin sister, and Lily Loud, the 1-year-old sibling and the youngest of the Loud children, Lara Jill Miller as Lisa Loud, the 4-year-old sibling of the Loud children who is a child prodigy and a gifted child prodigy who has a Ph.D. and is a Junior Nobel Prize recipient, and Caleel Harris as Clyde McBride, an 11-year-old boy who is best friends with Lincoln, and voice actors Breanna Yde, Carlos PenaVega, Sumalee Montano, Ruben Garfias, Sonia Manzano, Roxana Ortega, Carlos Alazraqui, Alexa PenaVega, Jared Kozak and Alex Cazares, and guest starring Emma Roberts, Malese Jow, Jordan Calloway, Tadhg Kelly, Molly Hagan and Markus Flanagan as the cast of Unfabulous. This film is the first Loud House film to receive a G rating. The film was animated using the same animation style (hand-drawn/traditional animation) as the TV show.

An original animated feature produced by Paramount Animation and Nickelodeon Movies in association with Ilion Animation Studios, titled Wonder Park, released on March 15, 2019, with reviews being mixed, praising the animation and voice acting while criticizing the story and tone, and performed poorly at the box office, grossing $119 million against a budget of $80–100 million. A television series based on it, which is titled Adventures in Wonder Park, is scheduled to air on Nickelodeon in the near future making it the third animated film from Nickelodeon Movies, after Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius and Barnyard, to serve as the basis for an animated series on the network.

On August 9, 2019, the studio released the first film based on the Nick Jr. animated series Dora the Explorer, titled Dora and the Lost City of Gold. Produced by Paramount Players, it is directed by James Bobin. It received positive reviews and was a box office success.

Nickelodeon Movies distributed an original feature called Playing with Fire, starring John Cena, and directed by Andy Fickman. The film was released on November 8, 2019. It received negative reviews, bu

A third SpongeBob film, Sponge on the Run, was released in Canadian theaters on August 14, 2020, and digitally on Netflix in other territories on November 5, 2020, followed by a release via PVOD and on Paramount+, in the United States, on March 4, 2021, following the COVID-19 pandemic. The film is directed and co-written by former writer Tim Hill. It is the last SpongeBob film to involve series creator Stephen Hillenburg, who died on November 26, 2018, from ALS.

On May 19, 2019, a film based on PAW Patrol—a Canadian series aired by Nick Jr. in the United States—was announced. The film was produced in Canada by Spin Master Entertainment, with Nickelodeon Movies signing on to present the film internationally. Unlike previous films from Nickelodeon Movies, the copyright to PAW Patrol: The Movie is not owned by Paramount, with Spin Master owning the copyright and Paramount/Nickelodeon only serving as distributors. The film was directed and co-written by Cal Brunker, and it was released in both Canada and the United States on August 20, 2021, and simultaneously streaming on Paramount+. The film received positive reviews and was a box office success.

Additionally, the studio also released two direct to streaming movies: The Loud House Movie, a second film adaptation based on Nickelodeon's popular Nicktoon of the same name for Netflix that is produced by British Film Institute and Nickelodeon Animation Studios, and animation services provided by Jam Filled Entertainment, like in the show, which was released on August 20, 2021, the same day as the PAW Patrol movie. The film received praise for animation, acting and songs though some criticized the plot. The other film, The J Team, a musical comedy starring JoJo Siwa was released on Paramount+ on September 3, 2021, as an original film.

Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank, directed by Rob Minkoff and Mark Koetsier and starring Michael Cera, Ricky Gervais, Mel Brooks, George Takei, Aasif Mandvi, Gabriel Iglesias, Djimon Hounsou, Michelle Yeoh, Kylie Kuioka, and Samuel L. Jackson was released theatrically on July 15, 2022 in the United States and other territories.

Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie was released on Netflix on August 5, 2022.

On July 12, 2021, it was revealed that, Blue's Big City Adventure, a live-action/animated hybrid movie based on Blue's Clues & You!, would be made to mark the 25th anniversary of the franchise. Directed by Matt Stawski and written by Angela Santomero and Liz Maccie, the film began production in summer 2021. The film was released on Paramount+ on November 18, 2022.

Upcoming projects

On January 23, 2023 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem directed by Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff, Mark Koetsier and John Stevenson and starring Jesse Eisenberg, Vince Vaughn, Pitbull, Awkwafina, Ricky Gervais, John Oliver, John Cena, John Mulaney, Aubrey Plaza, Snoop Dogg, Juicy J, Anne Hathaway, Jenny Slate, Bruce Willis, Eddie Izzard, Stephen Merchant, James Corden, Craig Robinson, Rob Riggle and Paul Giamatti was theatrically on August 4, 2023 in the United States and other territories.

The sequel to PAW Patrol: The Movie, titled PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie, is currently in development with Cal Brunker returning as director and Jennifer Dodge, Laura Clunie and Toni Stevens as producers. The film is scheduled for release on September 29, 2023.

Nickelodeon Movies is working with Avatar Studios to make a theatrical CG-animated film, alongside 2 other animated films that will be released by Paramount Pictures, with production set to begin later in 2021. It will serve as the first project from Avatar Studios and is scheduled to be released on October 10, 2025.

On March 2, 2021, Yokai Samba, a film previously in development at DreamWorks Animation, had been picked up by the studio.

On August 2, 2021, Paramount Pictures announced that a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles live-action film was in the works with Colin Jost and Casey Jost penning the script and Michael Bay, Andrew Form, Brad Fuller, Scott Mednick and Galen Walker signing on as producers.

An animated musical The Smurfs Movie was announced in February 2022 and is scheduled to be released on February 14, 2025 and three spinoff films set for release on Paramount+ were announced in February 2022, with the first of the spinoffs scheduled for release in 2023 and the fourth theatrical film scheduled for release on December 19, 2025. The Movie is called The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants

Cancelled or inactive projects

• After the box-office success of The Rugrats Movie, Arlene Klasky, Gábor Csupó and Peter Gaffney, the creators of the show decided to making a theatrical adaptation of the animated television series Aaahh!!! Real Monsters after the series finale, to be produced by Nickelodeon Movies and Paramount Pictures. The film was to be animated much like the series, but the production of the movie was shut down, due to the story being wasn't "too dark" for children.
• In 2005 or 2006, Butch Hartman considered making a theatrical adaptation of his animated television series The Fairly OddParents after the show's initial cancellation in 2006,^[vague] to be produced by Nickelodeon Movies and Paramount Pictures. The film was to be animated much like the series as well as previous Nickelodeon fare such as the Rugrats trilogy, The Wild Thornberrys Movie and The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, but was scrapped due to a management change at Paramount although the script was already written. Despite this, Hartman expressed interest in releasing the film for VHS and DVD someday, and stated that the script could serve for another TV movie of the show, named Channel Chasers. The series ended on July 26, 2017, and Butch Hartman left Nickelodeon in early 2018 before moving to Sony Pictures Animation to plan any direct-to-video sequels to the original film, seemingly ending any chances of the film happening.
• Nickelodeon was making a fourth and fifth theatrical film adaptations of The Loud House after the sixth season finale and before the seventh season, to be produced by Nickelodeon Movies and Paramount Animation. The film was to be animated much like the series as well as The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie and its sequel The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water.

Nickelodeon Movies provides examples of:

• Logo Joke: It was a tradition to have a different opening logo in the studio's early years:
  • Harriet the Spy has a rhino running and stumbling on a prop before crashing into the screen and hanging on to the Nickelodeon logo.
  • Good Burger: A cup gets filled with an orange milkshake or soda, then drives around like a race car until it stops, spills over to reveal the Nickelodeon logo.
  • Snow Day: A man is shoveling snow in front of his house with his dog when a giant ball with the Nick logo crashes on top of his house, startling the man and his dog.
  • Rugrats movies:
    • The Rugrats Movie and Blazing Dragons: The Movie features Slap T. Pooch from Oh Yeah! Cartoons messing around with an orange speck before a giant foot steps on him, leaving behind the Nick logo.
    • Rugrats in Paris and The Big Knights: The Movie has one similar to the Snow Day one, except the man is now stereotypically French, he is raking leaves instead of shoveling snow, and it's clearly set in France with the Eiffel Tower in the background. Also, after the full logo appears, his dog comes back to bark.
    • Rugrats Go Wild! (as well as Hey Arnold! The Movie): The logo is set up like three planets, to homage 2001: A Space Odyssey, followed by a sneeze turning it into the logo.
  • Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius has Goddard following the Nick ball as it bounces around, then projects the Movies ball alongside it.
  • Clockstoppers has the Nick movies logo swaying around like a pendulum in a grandfather clock to emphasize the film's theme on time.
  • The Wild Thornberrys Movie: A dog is sniffing at the camera, which cuts to the Nickelodeon Movies logo on the ground. It cuts to the dog again licking it up.
  • Danny Phantom: The Movie has Danny following the Nick ball as it bounces around, then using his ghost powers to blast the Movies ball alongside it.
  • SpongeBob SquarePants movies:
    • The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie has a colorful explosion, then a blue sphere (possibly a shout-out to the Nickelodeon Pinball logo), a rose blooms as an orange blimp flies through it, followed by kaleidoscope view of goldfish and finally has the Nick bubble and the Movies bubble floating to place in the orange sea.
    • The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water: The logo rises out of the ocean, covered in kelp and coral.
    • The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run: This variant begins when SpongeBob shouts his Catchphrase offscreen ("I'm ready!"). He then pulls down a lever after some difficulty, shooting an electrified bust of the brand's iconic green slime through a pipe attached onto the logo. The logo's lights turn on, one after the other, and the dark walls fall down to reveal a purple sky. The Nickelodeon blimp passes by, shooting a 2D green slime projectile that forms the word "Movies" below the logo. It ends when SpongeBob sings the last notes of the logo's theme. This variant was used in later Nick movies like PAW Patrol: The Movie and The Loud House Movie but it removes SpongeBob's dialogue and replaces it with a more audible "ding!" sound.
  • The logo before Nacho Libre zooms around a wrestling ring, then zooms in on a wrestling bell painted like the Nickelodeon Movies logo, which rings twice.
  • Hotel for Dogs: The Nick splat transitions into a sun, segueing into the film.
  • The Last Airbender: The logo is created by flames.
  • A Really Haunted Loud House uses a black and white variant of the 2020 logo.

Logos

1st Logo (Harriet the Spy custom variant) (July 10, 1996)

Logo: A blue rhino is shown running on what appears to be clouds (in a send-up of the first TriStar Pictures logo), as the camera slowly brightens. However, he repeatedly bumps, slips, and crashes into the "clouds" in the logo, which turns out to be cardboard cutouts with lights on a movie set. The rhino trips over the Nickelodeon logo, shaped like a cloud, and crashes into the screen. The rhino pulls himself off the screen and hangs onto the Nickelodeon cloud on a black background, causing the cloud to turn into the familiar splat design. The rhino swings a bit on it and then smiles at the screen.

Variant: On 4:3 full-screen prints, the logo is both choppier and in open matte.

Technique: 2D animation and 3D visual effects in a style called "Blendo". This logo was produced by Colossal Pictures in San Francisco on Macintosh and Silicon Graphics computers with Softimage Toonz, PowerAnimator, Photoshop (clouds and texture maps) and Flame (compositing) software.

Music/Sounds: Dramatic orchestral music that starts getting messed up as the rhino trips, along with yelping from the rhino as he bumps and stumbles around the set. The music builds up as the rhino crashes into the screen, segueing into a hip-hop-style vocal version of the Nickelodeon jingle.

Availability: Rare. Seen only on the company's first film Harriet the Spy.

2nd Logo (Good Burger custom variant) (July 25, 1997)

Logo: On a black/blue gradient background, we see orange soda being dispensed into a large cup. When it is done pouring, a lid with a straw closes the top, and the cup drives around the screen like a racecar until it brakes and falls. The lid comes off, and the soda spills out, with the Nickelodeon wordmark on it.

Trivia: This logo pays homage to a Nickelodeon Productions logo from 1995.

Variants:

• On full-screen prints, the logo is choppier.
• On 35mm film scan prints, the logo is in open-matte.
• On the trailer, the Paramount logo stretches into a still alternate render of this logo.
• On TV spots, as well as the film's making-of special, "MOVIES" is seen below in the same font as "NICKELODEON".

Technique: CGI.

Music/Sounds: Soda pouring and car sounds. The brake sounds are accompanied by the acapella jingle from the 1985 "Nick Nick Nick" ID (as sung by the Jive Five).

Availability: Rare. Only seen on Good Burger (1997).

3rd Logo (The Rugrats Movie custom trailer variant) (1997)

Logo: On a white background, an orange movie camera with the Nickelodeon wordmark is shown, with a green filmstrip reading "MOVIES" unfolding from one of the filmreels.

Technique: None.

Music/Sounds: The opening theme/voiceover of the trailer.

Availability: Rare. This logo was made specifically for the first trailer for The Rugrats Movie. However, it was used as a print logo from the company's inception until the premiere of the 5th logo.

4th Logo (The Rugrats Movie custom variant) (November 20, 1998)

Logo: We see Slap T. Pooch (a character from the short, "What is Funny?", which was aired on Oh Yeah! Cartoons in that year) walk in out of nowhere on a black background, as he spots a blob of orange goo. It then goes to a really close zoom on his face and hand as he starts fidgeting with it. It then gets stuck to his fingers and he struggles to throw it off. Once it does, it starts bouncing off the walls and then gets stuck to his foot. He then jumps around to remove it, making more orange spots on the ground. A shadow then appears over Slap, then a giant purple monster foot stomps on Slap and the goo, turning the latter into the Nickelodeon footprint as seen on the gates to the Nickelodeon Animation Studio in Burbank, CA. The camera pans to reveal it, then Slap falls off of it.

Trivia:

• The way the giant foot smashes Slap is a possible shout-out to Monty Python's Flying Circus, where sketches would often abruptly end by something like a giant foot or a weight coming down from the sky and crushing whatever was on the screen (for example, the giant foot is what ends the show's intro).
• The logo was creative directed by George Evelyn, and animated by Chuck Gammage Animation based on a character (from the Oh Yeah! Cartoons pilot of the same name) created by Bill Burnett and designed by Vincent Waller.

Variants:

• On Blazing Dragons: The Movie, trailers, and the video game versions of Rugrats in Paris: The Movie, The Big Knights: The Movie and Blazing Dragons: The Movie, a blue oval reading "MOVIES" in the Arial Narrow font accompanies the footprint.
• On full-screen prints, the logo is choppier.
• On 35mm film scan prints, the logo is in open-matte.

Technique: 2D animation produced by Colossal Pictures and outsourced to Chuck Gammage Animation.

Music/Sounds: A cartoon soundtrack accompanied by cartoon sound effects and music cues, culminating in a hip-hop version of the Nickelodeon theme accompanied with a tuba "wah-wah" sound effect. The drum sample used is from "Think (About it)" by Lyn Collins.

Availability: Rare. Only seen on The Rugrats Movie and its adaptation for the PlayStation, Nintendo 64, PC, Game Boy and Game Boy Color, and the video game adaptation of Rugrats in Paris: The Movie for Nintendo 64, PlayStation, Microsoft Windows and Game Boy Color, and Blazing Dragons: The Movie. It also appeared on trailers for Blazing Dragons: The Movie and its adaptation for the PlayStation, PlayStation 2, Nintendo 64, Nintendo GameCube, Xbox, PC, Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance, and trailers for The Big Knights: The Movie and Rugrats in Paris: The Movie, although the film themselves used the 5th logo.

5th Logo (February 11, 2000-December 21, 2001)

Logo: Depending on the movie:

• Snow Day: A man shovels the snow off the walk to his house and his dog is watching him, sitting down on the snow. Then, a giant snowball falls onto his house and completely destroys it in a very graphic manner. The dog runs off barking in a panic and the man does a double take. The snow falls off the snowball revealing a large orange ball with the Nickelodeon wordmark on it. The background turns black and the ball then bounces to the middle-left of the screen, with a small orange ball and a blue ball with "movies" on it following, and then it fades out.
• Rugrats in Paris: The Movie, The Big Knights: The Movie: There is a special Parisian variant which is nearly the same, except the regular man is replaced with a stereotypical French man raking leaves in front of his house in the fall season, and the Eiffel Tower can be seen in the background not too far from his house. The ball smashing the house is now just the big orange ball with the Nickelodeon wordmark on it, then the logo resumes like normally, and the live-action dog appears on the bottom-right of the screen, barking at the logo once before it fades out.
• Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius: We start with the orange Nickelodeon ball bouncing to the middle-left of the screen alongside the smaller orange ball. Then Goddard runs into screen with a synthesized bark. He looks at the logo and whimpers, knowing it's incomplete. He activates a laser beam on his back and creates the blue "movies" ball (with "movies" in a noticeably different font than the previous two variants). He puts away the laser and curiously looks at the audience. This variant was also used in the TV special The Making of Jimmy Neutron albeit shortened.

Variant: On the ID versions of the first two, the logo plays as normal, but the "movies" ball is removed.

Technique: Live-action with overlaid miniatures and computer animation, produced by Curious Pictures. The Jimmy Neutron variant is all CGI, produced by DNA Productions and O Entertainment.

Music/Sounds:

• The Snow Day version has a light whistling tune that abruptly stops when the house gets destroyed by the snowball, and then changes to either a tuba/whistling version of the Nickelodeon theme (on VHS and the ID variant), or a short rock tune with a choir singing at one point (on DVD, digital prints and TV airings).
• The Rugrats in Paris, and The Big Knights version has an accordion playing the light whistling tune, followed by an accordion/tuba version of the Nickelodeon theme and a "bark" from the dog.
• The Jimmy Neutron version has a funny sounding version of the Nickelodeon theme with a trombone, cartoonish sound effects, and the noises that Goddard makes, provided by Frank Welker.
• The Making of Jimmy Neutron variant has John Debney's music playing over it.

Availability: Seen on the titles listed above, with each movie having their respective variants of the logo. The first two versions were also modified as IDs for Nickelodeon to help promote the respective movies.

Legacy: First logo to utilize live action, a concept which many of the 2000s logos followed up on. It is also the first of their several logos to have a similar theme that changes each movie.

6th Logo (June 28, 2002-June 13, 2003-September 17, 2004)

Logo: On a black background, a faint, black crescent sphere (representing the moon) moves downwards to reveal a crescent Earth, the sun, and a moving starfield (parodying the opening of 2001: A Space Odyssey). As the moon moves off-screen, the Earth starts to wiggle and "sneezes", crashing into the camera. This causes the moon to bounce back onto the screen, revealing itself to be an orange ball with the Nickelodeon wordmark on it. The starfield also becomes to a plain black background as the Earth becomes a spinning blue ball with "movies" on it, and the sun becomes a smaller orange ball. The small ball flies around the screen before stopping in between the bigger balls. The blue ball then "sneezes" again, causing the orange balls to briefly pop out. The blue ball then straightens itself out.

Variants:

• A shorter version of the logo starts with the balls zooming out from the middle of the screen. Theme 1 is used and it starts off a bit delayed and as a result, part of the logo at the beginning is silent.
• On Rugrats Go Wild, the logo is slightly darker and cuts to black instead of fading out.

Technique: CGI.

Music/Sounds:

• Theme 1: A dramatic 4-note fanfare somewhat reminiscent of Also Sprach Zarathustra, the opening theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey. During the last part of the fanfare, we hear a loud sneeze, followed by a hip-hop version of the Nickelodeon theme.
• Theme 2: Space ambience with a piano note that repeats, followed by a different-sounding sneeze and an electro version of the Nickelodeon theme.

Availability: The long version is seen only on Hey Arnold! The Movie (with Theme 1) and Rugrats Go Wild (with Theme 2). The short version appeared during Nickelodeon's airings of Danny Phantom: The Movie and The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie between 2006 and 2013, despite the fact that the movie never used this logo at all originally; the movie itself used the 8th logo. It also can be seen on the trailer for Danny Phantom: The Movie.

7th Logo (The Wild Thornberrys Movie custom variant) (December 20, 2002)

Logo: We see a forest on a sunny day as if it was seen in the grass. Then, the curious nose of a white dog with brown splotches appears sniffing the screen. Then the dog sees the Nickelodeon Movies logo made by frisbees on the grass. We cut back to the dog, who licks the screen, turning it black.

Variants:

• This was also used as a network ID, but with a few differences; the "movies" ball and the small orange ball are removed. The Nickelodeon ball is moved to the middle.
• An open matte version of this logo exists on full-screen prints of The Wild Thornberrys Movie. Early full-screen prints have this logo cropped to 4:3.

Technique: A mix of stop-motion and computer animation created by Charged and 2/8/0-Design, both in New York City.

Music/Sounds: Before the dog appears, we hear a guitar tune over the sounds of children playing, followed by sniffing and grunting sounds from the dog. When the company logo appears, we hear a "country" version of the famous Nickelodeon theme. Composed by ShackedUpSound.

Availability: Rare. Only seen on The Wild Thornberrys Movie. It was also seen on a TV spot for Yours, Mine and Ours and was used as an ID in December 2002 and January 2003 to help promote the former film.

8th Logo (Danny Phantom: The Movie custom variant) (April 16, 2004)

Logo: We start with the orange Nickelodeon ball bouncing to the middle-left of the screen alongside the smaller orange ball. Then Danny (voiced by David Kaufman) walks into screen. He looks at the logo, knowing it's incomplete. Danny uses his catchphrase "I'm Going Ghost!", as he using Ghost Powers and charges a sphere of ectoplasmic energy and creates the blue "movies" ball (with "movies" in a noticeably different font than the previous two variants). He flies around and curiously looks at the audience.

Trivia:

• The logo was creative directed by Butch Hartman, and Danny Fenton/Phantom is animated by Billionfold, Inc. (from Danny Phantom) created by Butch Hartman and designed by Bob Boyle and George Goodchild.

Technique: CGI animation produced by Nickelodeon Digital Animation Studios, and Danny Fenton/Phantom was in 2D animation produced by Rough Draft Studios, South Korea, and Nickelodeon Animation Studios.

Music/Sounds: Similar to the Jimmy Neutron variant, this variant's music by Guy Moon (from The Fairly OddParents), with Danny's catchphrase "I'm Going Ghost!" and cartoon sound effects. The music is a hip-hop-style vocal version of the Nickelodeon jingle (from the Harriet the Spy variant).

Availability: Only seen on Danny Phantom: The Movie.

9th Logo (The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie custom variant) (October 27, 2004)

Logo: On a black background, an explosion occurs. A blue-colored ball emerges from the explosion as several yellow streaks form in it. We zoom through the ball as the background fades to a kaleidoscopic sky. An orange rose grows, and dissipates into petals as an orange zeppelin flies through it. The sky background ripples before fading into a kaleidoscopic view of several fish swimming. The logo then transforms into an orange bubble, which floats outward and spawns two more bubbles that form the Nickelodeon Movies logo. The finished product is in an orange underwater environment.

Trivia:

• The blue ball seen at the beginning of the logo is a possible callback to the "silver ball" logo that Nickelodeon used from 1981 to 1984.
• The zeppelin is possibly a reference to the Nickelodeon blimp used for the Kids Choice Awards.

Variants:

• There is a shortened version that starts when the logo forms.
• On 35mm film scan prints of The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, the logo is in open-matte.

Technique: CGI by Brand New School (who also created Cartoon Network's 2010 rebrand).

Music/Sounds: A bouncy, Beatles-like tune with sound effects including explosions and ripples, ending with underwater sounds when the Nickelodeon bubbles appear.

Music/Sounds Variant: On the shortened version, some bubble noises are heard.

Availability: Only seen on The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, as well as its video game counterpart for PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube and Xbox, the trailer for Unfabulous: The Movie, and the teaser trailer and video game counterpart for Danny Phantom: The Movie, Unfabulous: The Movie, and Barnyard.

10th Logo (December 17, 2004-December 15, 2006)

Logo: On a space background, we see a blue-tinted, Saturn-like planet with a shadow of the Nickelodeon wordmark on it. The camera moves away from the planet as a (somewhat rounded) 3D Nickelodeon wordmark zooms out from the bottom of the screen as the camera pans to reveal an orange moon (which resembles Venus), which the wordmark settles in front of. As this happens, two smaller blue and orange moons spin around and stop on the right side of it to form the Nickelodeon Movies logo. The word "movies" (set in Futura) spins in around the blue moon to complete the logo, and the camera pans down to start the movie.

Variants:

• There is a shortened variant on Yours, Mine and Ours that starts when the Nickelodeon wordmark settles in front of the orange moon, and the logo does not pan down.
• On the Game Boy Advance version of The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, the logo appears as a still image in print form.

Technique: CGI.

Music/Sounds: The opening theme of the movie or none.

Availability: Fairly common. Can be seen on Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, Mad Hot Ballroom, Barnyard, Charlotte's Web, and Yours, Mine & Ours. Also seen on the Hotel for Dogs game on Wii and Nintendo DS and The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie on Microsoft Windows and Game Boy Advance.

11th Logo (Nacho Libre custom variant) (June 16, 2006)

Logo: We begin by zooming across a long brown oblong shape. As the rest of the screen is gradually lit up, it's revealed that it's one of the ropes of a wrestling ring. The background shows an audience rapidly taking photographs. The camera zooms down to the bottom rope once it reaches the end of the previous one and zooms past it in a similar manner. After this, the camera takes a 180 degree turn to reveal the bottom of the ring, where we see the Nickelodeon Movies circle logo as a boxing bell. The "NICKELODEON" ball is the bell, the "movies" ball is the clanger, and the dot is the screw keeping the clanger in place, all in their usual colors (with the rest of the bell being gray). The bell rings twice and the logo fades out.

Variants:

• On the trailer, the logo is on a black background, the colors are altered, and the bell rings three times.
• On 4:3 fullscreen prints, the logo is choppier.

Technique: CGI.

Music/Sounds: Sounds of a cheering audience and pictures being taken (which actually start over the Paramount Pictures logo), page turning-like sounds for the zooming of the ropes (quieter on the second rope), a swoosh for zooming to the lower rope and to the back of the ring, and the bell clanging. The sounds were provided by Musikvergnuegen.

Availability: This was a custom variant used for Nacho Libre, and as such only appeared on said movie.

12th Logo (February 14, 2008-June 12, 2009)

Logo: Against a black background, some orange fluid-like slime swirls out from the distance toward the viewer. The camera pans around and the slime forms the Nickelodeon logo with "movies" flying out letter-by-letter on its right.

Trivia: This was the last Nickelodeon Movies logo to utilize Nick's long-lived splat logo, and one of only three that did, period (with the first two logos being the other two).

Technique: A combination of CGI and live action liquid photography by Picturemill (who also animated the 2020 20th Century Studios logo and the 2002/2005 version of the 1997 Universal Pictures logo).

Music/Sounds: The opening theme of the movie, accompanied by slime sounds.

Music/Sounds Variant: There is a variant that uses slime sounds and a quirky orchestral tune, ending with a majestic finish (which sounds similar to the first six notes of the Nickelodeon jingle), created by Musikvergnuegen. This version seems to have never appeared in any movies or video games, but it can be heard [here].

Availability: Fairly common. Seen on The Spiderwick Chronicles, Hotel for Dogs (the Wii video game uses the 9th logo), Imagine That, and Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging.

13th Logo (February 21, 2010-March 15, 2019)

Logo: We zoom out under an orange drop facing the camera, which is falling down against a white background. As the camera pans out and rotates so that the orange drop is viewed from a side perspective, the orange drop falls off-screen, and shortly afterwards splashes on top of something, which the camera reveals to be the "i" in the current Nickelodeon logo. The orange drop splashes on the "i" upon impact, with the splash quickly forming the dot. As the camera zooms out to fully reveal the finished logo, "MOVIES" in purple fades in, followed by a small TM trademark bug fading in to the right of the logo.

Trivia:

• The logo was creative directed by Butch Hartman, Scott Fellows, Michelle Bryan, Gary Conrad and Ken Bruce, and Dudley Puppy is animated by Yeson Entertainment in Seoul, South Korea (from T.U.F.F. Puppy) created by Butch Hartman (The Fairly OddParents, Danny Phantom, Bunsen Is A Beast!) and designed by George Goodchild.

Variants:

• An earlier version of the logo, used in 2010, has the Nickelodeon logo zooming out on a black background, followed by "MOVIES" in purple appearing letter-by-letter as some purple rays shine behind them.
• A variant was used on Nickelodeon airings of The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie. On a white background, the camera pans down to reveal the Nickelodeon logo and the word "MOVIES" in green. This was only used when Nickelodeon used their last-scene-of-the-show credits from 2013 until sometime in 2016, as now most current airings have no logos at all, except for the 6th logo. But it did come back one more time when Nick aired the movie on February 21, 2017, seven years after the logo debuted.
  • There's also a slightly longer version of the above variant, where it begins with the Nickelodeon logo to fall down on the ground and the word "MOVIES" is in a red color.
• Depending on the movie, the size of "nickelodeon" in relative to "MOVIES" slightly varies.
• An earlier version of the logo, used in 2010, has the Nickelodeon logo zooming out on a black background, followed by "MOVIES" in a purple color appearing letter-by-letter via some purple rays shining left to right. This version was used on trailers and promos for The Last Airbender, as well as the first trailer for Rango.
• Starting with The Adventures of Tintin, both the drop and the logo are in a more orange color, the drop looks sleeker, "MOVIES" is in a red color, and the logo's background is brighter. The camera also zooms out at a further distance to show the finished logo. The animated version also appears on the video game version of The Loud House: The Louds' First Movie for Nintendo DS.
• On The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water, the camera pans across the sea, and the logo is covered in seaweed.
• On Monster Trucks, it is shortened, beginning when the logo is just about to finish its animation.
• On T.U.F.F. Puppy: The Movie, Dudley Puppy (voiced by iCarly's Jerry Trainor) runs into screen and says "Let's do this!", then the CGI bouncing lines that forms the Nickelodeon logo (which was previously used in the 2009-2017 Nickelodeon Productions logo). He looks at the logo, knowing it's incomplete. Dudley says "HI-GEE-GEE!", as he pulls out a remote, pushing a green button, and the laser creates the pink "MOVIES". He puts away the remote and curiously looks at the audience.
• On the video game version of The Last Airbender for Nintendo DS, the logo is still and in print form.

Technique: CGI by Devastudios (who also animated the 2011 Paramount logo, the 2021 Warner Bros. Pictures logo, and the 2005 and 2013 Lionsgate Films logos). None for the still print version. In T.U.F.F. Puppy: The Movie, the Nickelodeon logo was CGI by Trollback + Company in New York, and Dudley Puppy was animated with 2D hand-drawn animation by Yeson Entertainment in Seoul, South Korea/Nickelodeon Animation Studios.

Music/Sounds: None or the opening theme of the movie.

Music/Sounds Variant: On the video game version of The Last Airbender for Wii, The Loud House: The Louds' First Movie, Bunsen Is a Beast: The Movie, and T.U.F.F. Puppy: The Movie, the 2009 Nickelodeon Productions theme is used.

Availability: Common.

• Seen on all movies produced by the company from 2010-19, starting with The Last Airbender, The Loud House: The Louds' First Movie, Bunsen Is a Beast: The Movie, and ending with Wonder Park (the next logo is on two trailers though).
• It was first seen on the Nick@Nite promo for Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging.
• It was also seen on trailers for Dora and the Lost City of Gold and Playing With Fire, with the films themselves using the next logo.
• This logo was last seen on the trailers of The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run, and makes a surprise appearance on a DVD version of the 2021 KCAs' TV spot of PAW Patrol: The Movie, while the films themselves use the 14th logo.

14th Logo (2018?-November 8, 2019)

Logo: On a white background, we see the current Nickelodeon logo from multiple angles appearing letter-by-letter in different ways (somewhat similarly to the 2017 Nickelodeon Productions logo). We cut to the finished logo, then the orange word "MOVIES" in Galano Grotesque (the font used for the current Nickelodeon branding) appears, making the letters in the Nickelodeon logo bounce for a second before settling back in their positions. The entire logo slowly zooms out before fading to black.

Alternate Descriptive Video Transcription: Bouncing orange letters tumble into a line reading “Nickelodeon Movies”

Trivia: This logo was made to fit with Nickelodeon's 2017 refresh by Superestudio.

Variants:

• On Playing With Fire, the logo is shinier and the animation is sped up, causing the fanfare to be out of sync with the logo. The logo also cuts in and out instead of fading in and out.
• A prototype version of this logo (in which the background and logo are altered) can be seen on two trailers for Wonder Park, and Bunsen Is a Beast: The Movie. It is also still. The film itselves uses the previous logo instead.

Technique: CGI.

Music/Sounds: The beginning of the 2009 Nickelodeon Productions theme, with a bombastic orchestral redux of the last five notes composed by John Debney and Germaine Franco. The prototype version just has the opening theme of the trailer.

Availability: Very rare, due to its short lifespan. It was only seen ontwo films: the Paramount Players movies Dora and the Lost City of Gold (but some trailers for that used the previous logo instead) and also appears in Playing With Fire.

15th Logo (August 14, 2020-)

Logo: On a wall, we see SpongeBob SquarePants' (from the TV series of the same name) hand grabbing a lever and trying to pull it, but struggling at first. Once the lever is finally pulled, it causes some of Nick's trademark green slime to start flowing through a tube while electric sparks fly. The lights turn on, illuminating the Nickelodeon logo in several shots. The walls, ceiling and stairs drop to reveal a Hollywood-type area with five palm trees at sunrise, while a Nickelodeon blimp approaches and the word "movies" is drawn in a slime-y green font. The blimp takes off toward the screen right before the logo cuts to black or fades out.

Alternate Descriptive Video Transcriptions:

• The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run: SpongeBob's hand pulls down on a power switch. Green electricity floods a power cable and lights up an electric sign. Green slime forms a word below it, together they read, "Nickelodeon Movies".
• PAW Patrol: The Movie, The Casagrandes Movie, No Time to Spy: A Loud House Movie: A pair of yellow hands pulls down on a power switch. Green electricity floods a power cable and lights up an electric sign that reads "Nickelodeon". Green slime forms the word "Movies" below it.

Trivia: During the lever scene, a sign is visible that reads "Bikini Bottom Electric Co." (referring to the main location from SpongeBob SquarePants) and Nathan Love's name on it, plus a pineapple keychain (a nod to SpongeBob's house).

Variants:

• A shortened version was used on international Netflix prints of The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run. The logo is faster and starts as SpongeBob starts trying to pull the lever.
• Scope and still versions exist.
• This logo is still at the end of Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie (the 13th logo is used to open the movie up).
• An in-credit version exists.
• Sometimes, the logo is shortened to its final seconds.
• Another shortened version of the logo exists, starting at the point right after the logo lights up. This is mainly seen on movies distributed exclusively to its parent company's streaming service, Paramount+, such as A Really Loud House Halloween, Good Burger 2, and at the end of Blue's Big City Adventure.

Technique: A mix of CGI and 2D animation. This was done by Nathan Love. None for the still version, and the credits scrolling for the in-credit version.

Music/Sounds: SpongeBob (voiced by Tom Kenny) grunting as he pulls the lever, then electrical noises as the slime flows, and finally, a dramatic orchestral recreation of the last five notes of the Nickelodeon jingle (similar to the previous logo), ending with a ding noise.

Music/Sounds Trivia: The Nickelodeon jingle in this logo was composed by Explosion Robinson (best known for composing the music for the current Nickelodeon branding since 2017).

Music/Sounds Variants:

• On The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run, we can hear SpongeBob yelling his catchphrase, "I'm ready!", at the beginning, and we can also hear him singing along with the jingle at the end, ending with a "Ta-da!".
  • There's a shortened version of the above variant where the blasting electric sound effect (while the lights turn on) is absent and only eight light clicks are heard, instead of twelve. The flow is also slightly sped up. This was heard on international Netflix prints of The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run.
• Sometimes, SpongeBob's grunting noises are absent. This was seen on the U.S. print of Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank and The Casagrandes Movie.
• None for the still version.
• On A Really Loud House Halloween, the music shifts to a spooky fanfare near the end of the logo's animation.
• The in-credit version just uses the ending theme.
• The shortened version has the last few seconds of the music or the ending theme.

Availability: Current and common. Unlike previous logos, this is not only used theatrically, but also on made-for-television (except certain ones) and streaming films.

• Seen on all Nickelodeon films starting with The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run (also the first film to use the Paramount Animation logo).
• The first trailer to use this logo was for Paw Patrol: The Movie. It is also seen on The Loud House Movie, The J Team, Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank, Blue's Big City Adventure, Monster High 2, Snow Day (the 2022 remake), Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie, Zoey 102, A Really Haunted Loud House, Good Burger 2, The Casagrandes Movie, The Thundermans Return, No Time to Spy: A Loud House Movie.
• This logo does not appear on the 2023-released films Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (though the in-credit version makes an appearance), Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie and Under the Boardwalk, as those use a revival of the 12th logo instead.

Planned Charlotte's Web custom variant (2006)

Logo: We see a group of blue birds flying to the right against a blue daytime sky with clouds. As the blue birds start grouping together towards the right of the screen in the distance, a group of orange birds fly to the left as both groups of birds form the Nickelodeon Movies logo. The birds eventually scatter as the camera pans down, seguing into the opening credits of the movie.

Technique: CGI animation.

Music/Sounds: The opening theme of the movie.

Availability: This was going to appear on Charlotte's Web, but it was suddenly scrapped and the 9th logo was used instead. The only way you can see this logo now is online.

Logo Variations

• Clockstoppers (2002): The 2000 logo (in the same design from the 2002 logo) swings like a pendulum before being blasted away by a soundwave, transitioning into the opening credits.
• Hotel for Dogs (2009): The logo cross-fades into a sun made of construction paper.
• The Last Airbender (2010): This was the first film to use the 2010-2019 logo. The logo appears made out of stone with fire topping it on an orange background, which then turns to black as the fire is extinguished by blue smoke and sparks fly. Done at Devastudios.
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016): The logo is given a metallic green finish on a black background with a faint green light, and the word "MOVIES" is in a green color, with the "S" partially brightened.
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023): A variant of the 2008 logo is used, in which it is green instead of orange (meant to represent the Ooze/Mutagen), shortened to its last few seconds, plays at a lower frame rate, and is redrawn and painted in the grungy style of the movie (just like the trailer variant).
• The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (2015): The logo rises up from an ocean, with the Nickelodeon wordmark covered in seaweed, moss and starfish, and the "MOVIES" text (in orange) relatively unaffected. The logo zooms in slightly before sinking back down into the water.
• Blue's Big City Adventure (2022, Paramount+): The 2020 logo plays as normal, but after it finishes, a set of dark blue curtains close on it, leading into the opening credits.
• A Really Haunted Loud House (2023, Paramount+): The 2020 logo plays as normal, but thunder strikes through the logo, turning it black and white. The last note of the Nickelodeon jingle ends into an organ sound after the rearranged version of the first four notes.
• Good Burger 2 (2023, Paramount+): The 2020 logo cuts to the opening scene.

Sound Effects

• Hollywoodedge, Crash Metal Glass PE110801 (Heard in the Snow Day, Rugrats in Paris: The Movie and The Big Knights: The Movie variants.)
• Sound Ideas, CARTOON, BOINK - VOCAL BOINK
• Sound Ideas, CARTOON, HORN - SHORT HORN TOOT, MEDIUM
• Sound Ideas, DOG, MIXED BREED - MEDIUM DOG, GROWLING, ANIMAL 02 (Whining part only heard once in The Wild Thorberrys Movie variant.)
• Sound Ideas, ELECTRONIC - MAGICAL APPEARANCE 02 (Heard in the Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius variant.)
• Sound Ideas, EXPLOSION - MEDIUM EXPLOSION 04 (Heard in the The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie variant.)
• Sound Ideas, GUN, RICOCHET - RICOCHET: SINGLE SHOT, BULLET 06
• Sound Ideas, GUN, RICOCHET - RICOCHET: SINGLE SHOT, BULLET 07
• Sound Ideas, GUN, RICOCHET - RICOCHET: SINGLE SHOT, BULLET 08
• Sound Ideas, HEAD SHAKE, CARTOON - THROAT GARBLE, MEDIUM (Heard in the The Rugrats Movie, and Blazing Dragons: The Movie variants.)
• Sound Ideas, SQUISH, CARTOON - SOFT SQUISH
• Sound Ideas, TREE FALLING - TREE FALLING IN FOREST, LOGGING (Heard once in the Snow Day variant.)
• Sound Ideas, WATER, BUBBLES - MEDIUM BUBBLES, RAPID, CLOSE UP (Heard once in the The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie variant and The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie: The Video Game.)

Awards and nominations

Academy Awards

Year	Category	Film	Recipient(s)	Result
2002	Best Animated Feature	Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius	Steve Oedekerk John A. Davis	Nominated
2002	Best Animated Feature	Blazing Dragons: The Movie	Terry Jones Gavin Scott	Won
2003	Best Original Song	The Wild Thornberrys Movie	Paul Simon ("Father and Daughter")	Nominated
2005	Best Makeup	Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events	Valli O'Reilly Bill Corso	Won
	Best Original Score		Thomas Newman	Nominated
	Best Art Direction		Rick Heinrichs Cheryl Carasik	Nominated
	Best Costume Design		Colleen Atwood	Nominated
2012	Best Animated Feature	Rango	Gore Verbinski	Won
	Best Original Score	The Adventures of Tintin	John Williams	Nominated

Golden Globe Awards

Year	Category	Film	Recipient(s)	Result
2003	Best Original Song – Motion Picture	The Wild Thornberrys Movie	Paul Simon ("Father and Daughter")	Nominated
2012	Best Animated Feature Film	Rango	Gore Verbinski	Nominated
		The Adventures of Tintin	Steven Spielberg	Won

Kids' Choice Awards

Year	Category	Film	Recipient(s)	Result
1997	Favorite Movie Actress	Harriet the Spy	Rosie O'Donnell	Won
1999	Favorite Movie	The Rugrats Movie	N/A	Won
2001	Favorite Voice from an Animated Movie	Rugrats in Paris: The Movie	Susan Sarandon	Won
2002		Blazing Dragons: The Movie	Tara Strong Daran Norris Susanne Blakeslee	Won
2004	Rugrats Go Wild	Bruce Willis	Nominated
2005	Favorite Movie Actor	Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events	Jim Carrey	Nominated
2007		Nacho Libre	Jack Black	Nominated
	Favorite Movie Actress	Charlotte's Web	Dakota Fanning	Won
2012	Favorite Voice from an Animated Movie	Rango	Johnny Depp	Nominated
2015	Favorite Movie	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles	N/A	Nominated
	Favorite Movie Actor		Will Arnett (also for The Lego Movie)	Nominated
	Favorite Movie Actress		Megan Fox	Nominated
	Favorite Animated Movie	The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water	N/A	Nominated
2017	Favorite Movie	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows	N/A	Nominated
	Favorite Movie Actor		Will Arnett	Nominated
	Favorite Movie Actress		Megan Fox	Nominated
	#Squad		Noel Fisher, Jeremy Howard, Pete Ploszek, Alan Ritchson	Nominated
2022	Favorite Animated Movie	PAW Patrol: The Movie	N/A	Nominated
		The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run	N/A	Nominated
	Favorite Voice from an Animated Movie		Awkwafina (also for Raya and the Last Dragon)	Nominated
			Tom Kenny	Nominated
			Keanu Reeves	Nominated

Saturn Awards

Year	Category	Film	Recipient(s)	Result
2005	Saturn Award for Best Fantasy Film	Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events	N/A	Nominated
	Saturn Award for Best Make-Up		Valli O'Reilly and Bill Corso	Nominated
2007	Saturn Award for Best Fantasy Film	Charlotte's Web	N/A	Nominated
	Saturn Award for Best Special Effects		Karin Joy, John Andrew Berton, Jr., Blair Clark and John Dietz	Nominated
2008	Saturn Award for Best Fantasy Film	The Spiderwick Chronicles	N/A	Nominated
	Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor		Freddie Highmore	Nominated
2012	Saturn Award for Best Animated Film	Rango	N/A	Nominated
		The Adventures of Tintin	N/A	Nominated
	Saturn Award for Best Director		Steven Spielberg	Nominated
	Saturn Award for Best Music		John Williams	Nominated
	Saturn Award for Best Special Effects		Matt Aiken, Jamie Beard, Joe Letteri, Keith Miller, Wayne Stables and Matthias Menz	Nominated
	Saturn Award for Best Editing		Michael Kahn	Nominated
	Saturn Award for Best Production Design		Kim Sinclair	Nominated

External links

• Nickelodeon Movies website
• Nickelodeon Movies at Nick.com

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