The Smurfs Movie (2025)

[thechase]

In her third trimester, Rihanna showed up at Paramount Pictures CinemaCon to say she’s playing “a little blue badass”, that being Smurfette in Par and Nickelodeon Movies’ The Smurfs Movie. Rihanna is also producing the movie and providing original songs.



The Chris Miller directed movie comes out on Feb 14, 2025. Co-director is Matt Landon. Pam Brady wrote the script inspired by characters and works of Peyo. Producers also include Ryan Harris, Laurence “Jay” Brown and Tyran “Ty-Ty” Smith



The comedic, musical adventure sets out to answer one of life’s biggest questions: WHAT IS A SMURF?

deadline.com/2023/04/rihanna-smurfs-movie-cinemacon-1235339477/

[chrom]

Another one?

[Paul]

I know this is the first Smurfs movie since Nickelodeon got the rights to The Smurfs, but geez... There have been 3 movies since 2011 and one of those was already an all-CGI reboot. Can't Nickelodeon just be happy with the CGI Smurfs TV series they're doing (which seems to be quite good from what I've seen of it)?

[mrtuesday]

Nick currently owns Garfield and briefly had the rights to Alvin and the Chipmunks. But never made a theatrical film with either.

I wonder why they're going with The Smurfs.

[CMWaters]

Apr 28, 2023 7:34:10 GMT -5 mrtuesday said:

Nick currently owns Garfield and briefly had the rights to Alvin and the Chipmunks. But never made a theatrical film with either.

I wonder why they're going with The Smurfs.

Might be something like Marvel Studios had to deal with for a while with certain characters and movie rights for both properties are still tied up, even if it's been almost 20 years since the last theatrical Garfield movie and almost 10 since the last live action Chipmunks.

Weird coincidence that "Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties" came out a year before the first live action "Alvin and the Chipmunks" movie.

[ace]

Apr 28, 2023 7:34:10 GMT -5 mrtuesday said:

Nick currently owns Garfield and briefly had the rights to Alvin and the Chipmunks. But never made a theatrical film with either.

I wonder why they're going with The Smurfs.

Seems like it’s because Rihanna got heavily involved honestly.  Producing, making original music for and starring in it.

Guess she’s not a big Garfield fan