The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon characters—Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello, and Michaelangelo—were one of the greatest cross-media phenomena of the 1980s and early 1990s. The Turtles, ordinary pets mutated into superheroes, began as...

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles originated in an American comic book published by Mirage Studios in 1984. The concept arose from a humorous drawing sketched out by Kevin Eastman during a casual evening of brainstorming with his friend Peter Laird....

RAPHAEL, Donatello, Michelangelo and Leonardo are: (a) karate-chopping, pizza-munching reptiles known, collectively, as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; (b) central characters in an industry that grossed as much as $600m in 1989 retail sales; (c) both of the above? Full marks for picking...

Angel-ettes Turtle line out of shell LOS ANGELES -- Just one year after signing a licensing agreement for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Angel-etts of California is moving into its third season with a new line of Turtle shoes. President Steve Jackson...

Josef Stalin, Adolf Hitler and Franklin D. Roosevelt are missing their clothes and Fred Flintstone and the Teletubbies are just plain missing after a raid on wax figures owned by Ireland's National Wax Museum.At least 50 figures were stolen or wrecked several weeks ago, the...

Stars-on-ice Will Ferrell and Jon Heder took the box office gold for the weekend. Paramount and DreamWorks' "Blades of Glory," with Ferrell and Heder playing figure-skating rivals who become the sport's first men's pair, debuted as the No. 1 movie with $33 million in ticket...