Nickelodeon Movies
Nickelodeon Movies is an American movie production company and, since 2006 a subsidiary of Paramount Pictures.
History
Originally founded in 1995 as part of Nickelodeon, the company should first produce for the television network movies with connection to Nickelodeon series. Initially, movies were produced to existing television series, later they turned then films, which emerged only after successful television series (such as Jimmy Neutron, Barnyard ). Other adaptations and independent projects have been realized, with most movies are kids movies.
To date, Nickelodeon Movies has produced a film on its own, with most projects, Paramount Pictures was involved as a producer or distributor. As part of the restructuring of parent company Viacom 2005/2006, Nickelodeon Movies was - just like MTV Films - in August 2006, part of the Paramount Motion Pictures Group.
Especially from 2004 and the appearance of SpongeBob SquarePants Nickelodeon Movies film was able to achieve some greater success at the box office. Rango received the 2012 Oscar for best animated feature film, which was always obtained in the surrounding years of Disney or DreamWorks productions. In the same year won The Adventures of Tintin as the first non - Pixar movie the Golden Globe for best animated film. The success of these films led to the decision to start with Paramount Animation own animation studio. In collaboration with Nickelodeon Movies this 2015 SpongeBob SquarePants is 2 to bring out his first film. Other planned projects include a film adaptation of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and a continuation of Tintin.