Seth Rogen refused to let animators on 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' suffer from long working hours. He told the film's director: 'We want to make sure that our people have time away from [work] and that it doesn’t become their entire lives.'
“That was the thing that was really important to us on this film, and I learned it from Seth and Evan because in getting to know Seth, I’m like, ‘He has a really good work-life balance and everyone at Point Gray does,'” Rowe said, referring to Rogen’s production company. “And I asked him about that and he is like, ‘Well, when you’re doing live action, sometimes you’re on a set for 40 days in a row and it is exhausting and tiring.
“I really took that to heart and wanted to make sure that when we made this film, we did it ethically,” Rowe continued, noting that he got feedback directly from the film’s animators about what would make them most comfortable. Some of them wanted to work “three days a week,” for instance, while others asked to work remotely.
“We’d be like, ‘Great, let’s figure that out, and let’s accommodate that because that’s your process and that’s what leads you to make your best art,'” Rowe said. “And we would often do that with most of the team and just try to make sure everyone always felt supported. I never want the team to be suffering more than I am. And I also hopefully am suffering more than the team because I’m the captain and I’m paid to absorb that, and they’re not. It’s important to preserve that.
“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem” pulled in a solid $28 million during its opening weekend. The film opened on a Wednesday and earned a five-day gross of $43 million. With a $70 million production budget, the film is far cheaper than Pixar’s $200 million-budgeted “Elemental” and Sony’s $100 million-budgeted “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.”
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