NICKTOONS & THE DICE OF DESTINY COMES TO NINTENDO SWITCH 2 TODAY FEATURING 1240P RESOLUTION, 60 FPS & MORE!
Today, the epic fantasy-action RPG Nicktoons & The Dice of Destiny launches digitally and physically via game key card on Nintendo Switch 2 for $49.99. The Nintendo Switch 2 version of Nicktoons & The Dice of Destiny features increased resolution to 1240p and 60 FPS, as well as improved lighting, particle effects, anti-aliasing and more!
Digital and physical owners of the original Nintendo Switch version of Nicktoons & The Dice of Destiny will be able to access the same enhancements when playing on Nintendo Switch 2 with a free performance update for the game, coming soon.
Embark on a grand quest inspired by tabletop fantasy RPGs and Nickelodeon’s most beloved franchises in Nicktoons & The Dice of Destiny! Slash, bash, cast spells, and strategize your way to victory against a variety of enemies in fast-paced and fluid ARPG combat. Choose from a roster of legendary characters from across the Nickelodeon universe – such as Timmy Turner, Leonardo, Jimmy Neutron, SpongeBob SquarePants, Susie Carmichael, Katara and more – while upgrading your weapons and mastering new abilities in solo play and local co-op for up to four players!
Nicktoons & The Dice of Destiny is available now on Nintendo Switch 2, as well as Nintendo Switch, PlayStation®5, Xbox Series X|S, Steam and the Epic Games Store. The "Wardrobe of Wonder" DLC, which includes in-game costumes for each character, is also available on Nintendo Switch 2 as part of the game's Deluxe Edition and separately for $14.99.
Nicktoons & The Dice of Destiny is licensed by Nickelodeon, developed by Fair Play Labs and Petit Fabrik, and published by GameMill Entertainment.
In additional news, Fair Play Labs has been sharing early concept art for Nicktoons & The Dice of Destinyon social media, including how the game started out before its chibi-style was decided upon!:
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Classic Rugrats Comic Strip for December 6, 2025 | Nickelodeon
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Rugrats, provided to Creators Syndicate by Nickelodeon, based off the popular animated television series has been created for children and family's to laugh and enjoy together.
Follow these comics and their take on real episodes of the show and their own spin on hilarious adventures.
Embrace the detour, home wasn't built in a day after all! Emily in Paris Season 5 premieres December 18. Only on Netflix.
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Netflix unveiled the official trailer and new photos from the highly anticipated fifth season of Emily in Paris. All 10 episodes will premiere on Thursday, December 18th on Netflix.
ABOUT EMILY IN PARIS SEASON 5
Synopsis: Now the head of Agence Grateau Rome, Emily faces professional and romantic challenges as she adapts to life in a new city. But just as everything falls into place, a work idea backfires, and the fallout cascades into heartbreak and career setbacks. Seeking stability, Emily leans into her French lifestyle, until a big secret threatens one of her closest relationships. Tackling conflict with honesty, Emily emerges with deeper connections, renewed clarity, and a readiness to embrace new possibilities.
Creator / Executive Producer / Writer: Darren Star
Executive Producers: Tony Hernandez, Lilly Burns, Andrew Fleming, Stephen Brown, Alison Brown, Robin Schiff, Grant Sloss, Joe Murphy
Starring: Producer Lily Collins (Emily Cooper), Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu (Sylvie Grateau), Ashley Park (Mindy Chen), Lucas Bravo (Gabriel), Samuel Arnold (Julien), Bruno Gouery (Luc), William Abadie (Antoine Lambert), Lucien Laviscount (Alfie), Eugenio Franceschini (Marcello), Thalia Besson (Genevieve), Paul Forman (Nico), Arnaud Binard (Laurent G), Minnie Driver (Princess Jane), Bryan Greenberg (Jake), and Michèle Laroque (Yvette)
Produced by: MTV Entertainment Studios, Darren Star Productions, and Jax Media
‘Emily In Paris’ Season 5 Full Trailer & New Photos Show Lily Collins In Rome
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Emily in Paris is back for Season 5, and Netflix has dropped the full trailer of the Lily Collins-starring series, which is set to transport viewers to Rome.
In the preview for the upcoming season premiering on December 18, Emily is on a mission to open a new agency in Rome, but finds that her ideas aren’t translating to Italy.
RELATED: ‘Emily In Paris’ Season 5 Releases Teaser
What is Emily in Paris Season 5 about?
Now the head of Agence Grateau Rome, Emily faces professional and romantic challenges as she adapts to life in a new city. But just as everything falls into place, a work idea backfires, and the fallout cascades into heartbreak and career setbacks. Seeking stability, Emily leans into her French lifestyle, until a big secret threatens one of her closest relationships. Tackling conflict with honesty, Emily emerges with deeper connections, renewed clarity, and a readiness to embrace new possibilities.
Who stars in Emily in Paris Season 5?
The cast for Emily in Paris Season 5 includes star and producer Lily Collins (Emily Cooper), Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu (Sylvie Grateau), Ashley Park (Mindy Chen), Lucas Bravo (Gabriel), Samuel Arnold (Julien), Bruno Gouery (Luc), William Abadie (Antoine Lambert), Lucien Laviscount (Alfie), Eugenio Franceschini (Marcello), Thalia Besson (Genevieve), Paul Forman (Nico), Arnaud Binard (Laurent G), Minnie Driver (Princess Jane), Bryan Greenberg (Jake), and Michèle Laroque (Yvette).
RELATED: Everything We Know About ‘Emily In Paris’ Season 5 So Far
Emily in Paris was created by Darren Star, who is also an executive producer and writer. Executive producers for the series include Tony Hernandez, Lilly Burns, Andrew Fleming, Stephen Brown, Alison Brown, Robin Schiff, Grant Sloss, and Joe Murphy. MTV Entertainment Studios, Darren Star Productions, and Jax Media produce the series.
Watch the full trailer for Emily in Paris Season 5 below.
Scroll through the photo gallery below for more Emily in Paris Season 5 photos.
Bruno Gouery as Luc | Photo: Netflix
(L to R) Lily Collins as Emily, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu as Sylvie Grateau, Bruno Gouery as Luc, Samuel Arnold as Julien | Photo: Netflix
(L to R) Eugenio Franceschini as Marcello, Lily Collins as Emily | Photo by Giulia Parmigiani
(L to R) Lucien Laviscount as Alfie, Ashley Park as Mindy | Photo: Netflix
(L to R) Bryan Greenberg as Jake Campbell, Lily Collins as Emily | Photo: Netflix
(L to R) Lily Collins as Emily, Samuel Arnold as Julien, Bruno Gouery as Luc, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu as Sylvie Grateau | Photo by Caroline Dubois
Minnie Driver as Princess Jane | Photo: Netflix
(L to R) Lily Collins as Emily, Lucas Bravo as Gabriel | Photo: Netflix
(L to R) Lily Collins as Emily, Ashley Park as Mindy | Photo by Giulia Parmigiani
(L to R) Eugenio Franceschini as Marcello, Lily Collins as Emily | Photo: Netflix
William Abadie as Antoine Lambert | Photo: Netflix
(L to R) Lily Collins as Emily, Eugenio Franceschini as Marcello | Photo by Caroline Dubois
Ashley Park as Mindy | Photo: Netflix
(L to R) Lily Collins as Emily, Eugenio Franceschini as Marcello | Photo: Netflix
Ashley Park as Mindy | Photo: Netflix
Lily Collins as Emily | Photo by Caroline Dubois
Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu as Sylvie Grateau | Photo by Caroline Dubois
Lucien Laviscount as Alfie | Photo: Netflix
Samuel Arnold as Julien | Photo: Netflix
(L to R) Eugenio Franceschini as Marcello, Anna Galiena as Antonia | Photo: Netflix
(L to R) Lily Collins as Emily, Lucas Bravo as Gabriel | Photo: Netflix
Lily Collins as Emily | Photo: Netflix
Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu as Sylvie Grateau | Photo: Netflix
The Emily in Paris Season 5 Trailer Will Make You Feel Fireworks
A whole new spin around the City of Love — and Rome — is on the way.
Grab the champagne — Emily in Paris Season 5 is on the way. Or should we say, pop the prosecco? As the just-released trailer confirms, the fizzy heroine Emily Cooper (Lily Collins) is taking a detour from her beloved French city in favor of fair Rome, Italy.
Last season, Emily’s boss, Sylvie (Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu), asked her to open up a new Agence Grateau office in the Eternal City. The clip, seen above, reveals that the rom-com’s leading lady will mean business when Emily in Paris returns on Dec. 18. Emily’s got a new man (Eugenio Franceschini as cashmere mogul Marcello Muratori), new obstacles, and a dolce new outlook.
“She’s bolder, braver, stronger, and more adventurous,” Collins says. “She’s in a new city and a new country, figuring out her life, love, and work.”
While Emily applies her usual can-do attitude to her latest chapter, the trailer hints at some growing pains ahead. Marcello may be so enamored with Emily that he’s flirting in meetings, but his mother Antonia (Anna Galiena), is less than impressed by the American marketing exec’s ideas. At least Emily has a sleek new look that combines her Italian escapades and French savoir faire — and keeps her walking tall in her stilettos.
“The new look feels like her way of saying, ‘I’ve matured, I’m taking myself more seriously — so please take me seriously, too’ — while also embracing the idea of taking life itself a little less seriously,” Collins says. “There’s a sense of her letting go — literally and figuratively — of some of the weight she’s carried. She’s living life a bit more freely and carelessly, even if she still has her stressful moments.”
All of this growth has Emily in Paris creator and executive producer Darren Star calling the adventure ahead “one of [his] favorite seasons” of the series. “The story feels very fresh to me,” he says. “The relationships feel more mature this season, and I think there’s a lot for the entire ensemble to do.”
In the trailer, we get a peek at what “bigger and richer and deeper” stories Star has cooked up for Emily in Paris’s sprawling cast. Mindy (Ashley Park) and Alfie (Lucien Laviscount) share loaded glances back in Paris. Sylvie shows her soft side. And, Gabriel (Lucas Bravo) looks toward “the future.”
So what does destiny have in store for Emily in Paris? Find out when Season 5 premieres on Dec. 18 on Netflix.
Emily trades bonjour for buongiorno as she seeks to reinvent herself in Rome, but when love, career and loyalty collide, la dolce vita gets complicated.
The heroes in a half shell are back — but this time, they’re stranded across the river.
TMNT - Chrome Alone 2 - Lost in New Jersey | Paramount Pictures
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Chrome Alone 2 — Lost in New Jersey, directed by Kent Seki, takes the beloved characters out of their comfort zone and drops them into an unlikely setting. Mixing slapstick humor, gritty animation and unexpected heart, the short film follows the turtles as they attempt to navigate the Garden State after a mishap sends them far from their New York roots.
The animated short film’s premise adds a twist of intrigue: When a mysterious toy company exploits the turtles’ newfound fame with the Tubular Tortoise Karate Warriors, the brothers follow the clues to New Jersey, where they stumble upon a shocking discovery.
“We wanted to honor the Ninja Turtles’ history while asking what would happen if we put them somewhere completely unfamiliar,” Seki told Variety. “New Jersey became the perfect backdrop because it’s so close to New York, yet has its own energy and quirks that challenge the turtles in new ways.”
At its core, Chrome Alone 2 — Lost in New Jersey continues the franchise’s tradition of balancing martial arts action with outlandish comedy. Seki said the tone intentionally recalls the chaotic spirit of 1990s family movies while still appealing to a modern audience.
“I grew up loving both Home Alone and the Ninja Turtles, and this project became a way to smash those influences together,” he said. “The turtles are constantly in survival mode — but here, survival means figuring out the Jersey Turnpike.”
Seki, who has worked across both live action and animation, said directing a TMNT short allowed him to infuse personal touches while respecting the loyal fan base. “Whenever you work with characters as iconic as the turtles, you have to give fans the personalities they love — Leonardo’s discipline, Michelangelo’s humor, Donatello’s tech obsession, Raphael’s temper — but then ask, ‘How do we surprise people?’ For me, the surprise came from the setting and the way we used the animation style to heighten those contrasts.”
The animation combines stylized character design with photorealistic backgrounds, creating a world that feels both heightened and lived in. Seki credits his team of artists with pushing the medium forward: “It was about making the turtles pop against an environment that feels almost too real, so every pizza slice and sewer lid becomes a character in its own right.”
Chrome Alone 2 is already making a bit of history. The film has been selected for Variety’sPixels and Pencils, becoming the first animated short to be invited to the panel. The program highlights the year’s most innovative animated films, culminating in a directors roundtable discussion.
Though Chrome Alone 2 — Lost in New Jersey is a short film, Seki hints it may serve as a springboard for more stories that push the turtles into unexpected corners of the world. “I think audiences are hungry for new ways to experience these characters,” he said. “We’ll always love seeing them in New York, but throwing them somewhere unexpected opens the door to new humor, new stakes and new visual possibilities. If people connect with this one, I’d love to keep exploring that.”
With its inventive visuals, offbeat humor and affectionate nods to the franchise’s lore, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Chrome Alone 2 — Lost in New Jersey is poised to carve its own place in the turtles’ history — even if it has to take the long way back to New York to get there.
Fans can see Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Chrome Alone 2 — Lost in New Jersey in theaters from Friday, December 19, where it'll play with The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants.
TMNT - Chrome Alone 2 - Lost in New Jersey | Paramount Pictures
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES CHROME ALONE 2: LOST IN NEW JERSEY
Release Date: In Theatres: Dec 19th, 2025
Synopsis: When a mysterious toy company seeks to profit off the turtles’ new hero status, the brothers follow the clues to New Jersey and make a shocking discovery in this all new original short.
Director: Kent Seki
Cast: Micah Abbey, Shamon Brown Jr., Nicolas Cantu, Brady Noon, Beck Bennett, Zach Woods
‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Chrome Alone 2 — Lost in New Jersey’ Director Unmasks the Half-Shell Heroes’ New Animated Short
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Chrome Alone 2 — Lost in New Jersey [Nickelodeon Movies / Point Grey Pictures]
This article was written for the
January ’26 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 355).
The success of the pizza-loving dudes’ 2024 movie Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem provided a unique opportunity for its director, Kent Seki, to step into the director’s chair for a new short, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Chrome Alone 2 — Lost in New Jersey. (If you’re wondering how you missed Chrome Alone 1, don’t worry — there isn’t one.)
The short finds Donatello, Michelangelo, Leonardo and Raphael shopping for a Christmas gift for their mentor, Splinter, when they come across some really shoddy bootleg Turtles toys. They track down the maker of the toys to a New Jersey factory and come face-to-face with Chrome Dome, an AI machine that has incorporated into its identity just about every comic-book origin story under the sun.
Seki had always been a fan of the Turtles franchise. “I collected the comic in 1984,” he says. “I was a huge Frank Miller fan at the time, and I couldn’t believe that somebody was doing a parody of Frank Miller, and I loved that comic.”
Perhaps the most AI-like aspect of the story is the villain’s hilarious backstory, which Seki describes as “the amalgamation of a lot of backstories and the worst version of every backstory.”
But that solution came somewhat late in production, Seki says. “We actually had a different version of it for most of the movie,” he says. “There was a character named Archibald Mirthmaker … who was the toy company founder who created Chrome Dome, first as a computer, almost like he was Steve Jobs. He wore a black turtleneck and glasses, and then he changed and converted into a robot.”
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Chrome Alone 2 — Lost in New Jersey [Nickelodeon Movies / Point Grey Pictures]
Bad Robot!
But something about it wasn’t right, and it was executive producer Ramsay McBean who suggested trying a funnier approach. “What if we made the backstory like as if he was an AI, a robot made it up using AI? And I thought that was a great idea,” Seki says.
Writer Andrew Joustra ran with the idea, with the storyboard artists taking it to another level and art director Garrett Lee incorporating it into the character’s look.
“We were going to do these vector-line graphics for his face, because it was based on old-school video games like Asteroids or Tempest from Atari,” Seki says. “It was Tiffany Lam, the production designer from the feature … We asked her, ‘What do you think of AI art?’ And she said there’s one word that comes to mind: tacky. And that became a driving factor.”
Inspirations included Terry Gilliam’s classic Monty Python cutout animation, modernized with 8-bit graphics like you remember from old Nintendo games. “It was a collective thing that happened, and that’s a great example of how the theme of AI brought us together to make something that was comedic and yet said something about the thing we were talking about,” Seki says.
The look of the short builds off Mutant Mayhem. Seki says they were looking at teenage art — the kind of stuff everyone drew in high school. “That was really driven by the production designer, Yashar Kassai, as well as Tiffany Lam, the art director, and Arthur Fong, the other art director,” he says. “We were building upon that, and in order to build upon that, we had to develop new shaders and tools to do Chrome Dome and to do metallic surfaces.”
“This is, again, that reaction to AI … How do we make the unconventional choice that relies more on the human eye than the computer tool to do what we want it to do?” — Director Kent Seki
Seki was going for a more organic look, relying upon Mikros Animation’s VFX supervisor, Matthieu Rouxel. “He’s like a magician … who came up with methods to make the CG look like a hand-drawn and hand-rendered reflection, with highlights that crawl across the surface of these metal things.”
He also compliments digital matte paint supervisor Arnaud Philippe-Giraux, who came up with the idea of using Grease Pencil in Blender to hand-draw crowds they couldn’t afford to render in CG.
“And this is, again, that reaction to AI,” Seki says. “How do we make the unconventional choice that relies more on the human eye than the computer tool to do what we want it to do?”
Seki says he’s pleased with the final film, which was well received at a recent screening at SCAD. “The main thing for me was [that] we turned it into a celebration of human creativity,” he says. “I think that’s one reason why the short is resonating with so many people.”
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Chrome Alone 2 — Lost in New Jersey plays with Paramount’s The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants in theaters beginning December 19.
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Neal H. Moritz, the veteran producer behind The Fast and the Furious franchise, is in negotiations to take on the job of restarting TMNT as a live-action film franchise for Paramount Pictures. Toby Ascher, who works with Moritz at their Original Films banner, will also act as a producer. Update (12/6): A hybrid live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie is currently slated to be released on Friday, November 17, 2028!
The move occurs as the Skydance-owned studio is taking a magnifying glass to its slate and existing IP. As opposed to some other titles, namely Transformers or G.I. Joe, Paramount fully owns the TMNT brand, having picked it up from co-creator Peter Laird in 2009, and is seeking to fully unlock its potential.
There hasn’t been a live-action (or live-action/CG animation hybrid) feature since the mid-2010s, when Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows had a lackluster performance at the box office, stopping the film franchise in its tracks. The studio pivoted to animation and instead made Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, released in 2023 to great critical acclaim.
New Paramount has already been shaking up TMNT and its TV media division, and recently put Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, a spinoff of Mutant Mayhem which serves as a bridge between the first movie and its upcoming sequel, currently slated to be released in 2027, down the sewer, shutting down the series in the middle of production earlier this fall. “This is not the vision the owners want,” was the reason given to those working on the show. Showrunner Christopher Yost confirmed the cancellation on Threads, saying “the upcoming episodes of Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles will sadly be the last. Luckily, they’re our best episodes yet.” The new season streams Friday, December 12 on Paramount+, and will have its linear premiere on Nicktoons next year.
At the same time, The Last Ronin, another TMNT live-action/CG animation hybrid project that was in development, has been put back in the pizza box, according to sources. That project, based on IDW's critically-acclaimed comic series, was being developed as an R-rated feature, and had Nobody filmmaker Ilya Naishuller in talks to direct, but the new regime wasn’t keen on having the first non-animated movie in 10 years be a bloody, adult-skewing story. One insider told The Hollywood Reporter that the studio wants to leave the door open to possibly revisit it down the road.
The sequel to Mutant Mayhem, being produced by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg and directed by Jeff Rowe, is still set for a Sept. 17, 2027 release. Update (12/6): Sources have told The Hollywood Reporter that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem 3 is even being discussed by Paramount with Rogen and his Point Grey Pictures.
io9caught up with Rowe, who stated that as of now, he hasn't heard anything about impacts to his upcoming sequel and that he's confident that the two projects can coexist, citing examples of Tom Holland's MCU Spider-Man movies existing alongside the Spider-Verse films.
"No one’s called me and told me anything yet," Rowe told the site.
He continued, "It seems like we’re moving into a world where maybe multiple things can coexist. And, you know, there was a time when there were live-action Spider-Man movies being made at the same time as Spider-Verse. I love these characters and welcome as many takes on the franchise as people are willing to put out there."
With the feature film’s release still almost two years away, though, it sounds like things are in very good shape. “There are a lot of parts that are now going into animation,” Rowe said. “And I think the film will be fully animated by the middle of next year. Then we’re going to be lighting and comping and just working every day to put as much quality on screen as we can.”
As for when we might learn more about the film, like what it’s called and what it’s about, Rowe didn’t know. “We’ll see what the marketing department thinks is best,” he said. “But I think there’s some internal excitement about it. And I’m excited for the world to see it.”
Multiple sources say Paramount wants to “Sonic-fy” the TMNT franchise. Sonic the Hedgehog is a three-movie (and counting) hit franchise for Paramount that is based on the popular SEGA video game. The movies are live-action/hybrids and play very well to the all-ages, four-quadrant crowd and have become a $1 billion-plus franchise for the studio. And they happen to be produced by Moritz.
“If you want Sonic, you go to the guy who did Sonic,” one insider told THR.
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Kino Lorber have detailed their upcoming 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray release of Jared Hess' hit Nickelodeon Movie Nacho Libre (2006), starring Jack Black, Héctor Jiménez, Ana de la Reguera, Richard Montoya, and Darius Rose. The release is scheduled to arrive on the market on Tuesday, December 9, and is available to pre-order today, including on the official Kino Lorber website and on Amazon.com.
Description: Comedy dynamo Jack Black (Kung Fu Panda, Tropic Thunder) stars as the sweet-natured Ignacio, a disrespected cook at a Mexican monastery that can barely afford to feed the orphans who live there. Inspired by a local wrestling hero, he decides to moonlight as the not-so-famous Luchador "Nacho Libre" to earn money for the monastery—not to mention the admiration of his forbidden love, the beautiful nun Sister Encarnación (Ana de la Reguera, Cowboys & Aliens). Written by Mike White (School of Rock, TV's The White Lotus) and directed by Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite, Gentlemen Broncos), Nacho Libre serves up "endearingly ridiculous" (The New York Times) fun from start to finish! With music from Danny Elfman (Beetlejuice), Beck, Los Lobos, Jack Black and more!
Release: 2006
Runtime: 92 minutes
Country: U.S.
Language: English
Director: Jared Hess
Cast: Jack Black, Ana de la Reguera, Héctor Jiménez, Darius Rose, Moises Arias, Cesar Gonzalez
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Color: Color
Special Features, Extras and Technical Specs:
DISC 1 (4KUHD):
Brand New HDR/Dolby Vision Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative
Audio commentary by Star Jack Black, Writer/Director Jared Hess and Co-Writer/Producer Mike White
5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 Audio
Triple-Layered UHD100 Disc
Optional English Subtitles
DISC 2 (BLU-RAY):
Brand New HD Master - From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative
Audio commentary by Star Jack Black, Writer/Director Jared Hess and Co-Writer/Producer Mike White
Enter Sister Encarnacion: NEW Interview with Actress Ana de la Reguera
Detras de la Camara: Featurette (28:33)
Jack Black Unmasked!: Featurette (12:36)
Exterior - Hacienda - Night: Featurette (14:58)
Interior - Lucha Libre Ring - Night: Featurette (15:15)
Lucha Libre: Featurette (3:13)
Hencho en Mexico: Featurette (2:27)
Moviefone Unscripted with Jack Black and Héctor Jiménez: Featurette (9:12)
Jack Sings Behind-the-Scenes: La Cancion de Ramses | La Cancion de Encarnacion (6:17)
Nickelodeon’s CG-animated series Max & the Midknights has been renewed for a 10-episode second season! The news was revealed by Paramount Global Content Distribution! Based on the best-selling children's books by acclaimed author and cartoonist Lincoln Peirce (Big Nate), the show follows Max, a determined 10-year-old girl with big dreams of becoming a knight, as she leads her friends on epic adventures filled with excitement, bravery, and lots of fun.
Update (9/10/25) - Nickelodeon reportedly randomly premiered Max & the Midknights season two on Monday, September 8 at 3:55 a.m. (ET/PT)* on Nicktoons. It's currently unknown whether it was an error, as no more episodes are currently scheduled to air. Details of the season two premiere episode can be found below:
So Slayeth the Prophecy: Max comes face-to-face with an imprisoned dragon and is forced to decide between slaying the dragon to fulfil the prophecy, or doing the right thing and freeing him, even if it means putting her dreams of becoming a knight.
* This makes the premiere part of Sunday, September 7's broadcast day.
Max & the Midknights made its debut on Nickelodeon on October 10, 2024 following a sneak peek on YouTube in June, with the show's first 10-episode season airing weekly.
Throughout the show's freshman series, Max leads the rest of the Midknights on challenging quests filled with all-new original songs. After King Gastley steals the throne and forces an unjust rule on the Kingdom of Byjovia, Max must come to the rescue to overthrow the power-hungry foe. With her friends and Uncle Budrick by her side, Max’s courageous spirit won’t back down no matter how difficult the quest gets.
The voice cast behind the Midknights, a group of misfits each with their own unique talent, include: Blu del Barrio (Star Trek: Discovery) as Max, a brave and determined girl ready to take on any challenge headed her way; Melissa Villaseñor (Saturday Night Live) as Millie, a wacky yet super positive girl who brings the power of magic to the Midknights; Zeno Robinson (Transformers: EarthSpark) as Simon, Millie’s street-savvy and sometimes sarcastic companion; and Caleb Yen (Beyblade X) as Kevyn, the bookish genius with a photographic memory. Together, the group accomplishes nearly everything that they set their mind to achieve.
Alongside the Midknights, Jeremy Rowley (iCarly) lends his voice as Uncle Budrick, Max’s lovably silly parental figure and professional troubadour, Gary Anthony Williams (Central Park) voices Mumblin, a famous retired magician who helps guide the Midknights on their quests, Brian Stepanek (The Loud House) voices King Gastley, the nefarious ruler of Byjovia, willing to do whatever it takes to maintain his throne, and India de Beaufort (It’s Pony) voices Fendra, a dark sorceress working for King Gastley.
Produced by Nickelodeon Animation in Burbank, Max & the Midknights is executive produced by Lincoln Peirce (Big Nate) and Jane Startz (Ella Enchanted). Sharon Flynn (All Hail King Julien) and David Skelly (Toy Story 2) serve as co-executive producers and showrunners. Development and production is overseen by Claudia Spinelli, Senior Vice President, TV Series Animation, Nickelodeon, Nathan Schram, Vice President, Development, Nickelodeon Animation, and Stephanie Alpert, Vice President, Production, Nickelodeon Animation.
Max & the Midknights (Music from the Series), an album featuring songs from Nickelodeon's original animated series is available to listen to today through Republic Records: Kids & Family.
