Paramount Pictures is shifting around its movie calendar, resulting in delays for The Legend of Aang: The Last Airbender and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem 2 that will see both Nickelodeon movies arriving months later than previously planned.
According to Variety, the highly anticipated Aang-focused Avatar movie will no longer arrive January 30, 2026, as it’s now slated to premiere October 9 that same year. On the bright side, Paramount has shared a brand-new logo for the film that you can see below.
It puts The Legend of Aang: The Last Airbender’s release date back nearly nine months later than fans were expecting. This is the second delay for the follow-up to Nickelodeon’s beloved fantasy series, with its original release date previously set for October 10, 2025.
No reason for today’s delay was announced, though it appears confirmed voice cast members Steven Yeun, Dave Bautista, and Eric Nam remain attached to the project.
The Legend of Aang: The Last Airbender is said to focus on the original Avatar protagonist in a story that takes place many years after the series came to an end. It received its official title at last month’s CinemaCon and is the first of three movies planned to take place in that universe.
Also now delayed is the release of the long-awaited Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem sequel, which was announced shortly before the first film premiered in 2023.
Those eager to see how Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, and Michelangelo’s story will continue now have a much longer wait in store, as today’s delay pushes its premiere from October 9, 2026, all the way to September 17, 2027.
That nearly one more year of waiting to see how that tantalizing mid-credits scene from the first movie pays off. Details about its plot and cast remain under wraps for now, but fans do at least have the Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series to help fill the gap in the meantime.
While we wait for any updates, you can read up on all the news surrounding Netflix’s live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender show, which is expected to arrive sooner than the animated movie.
As for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem 2, you can click here to check out why director Jeff Rowe thinks Shredder will be “100 times scarier than Superfly.”
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