ICarly: The Movie

iCarly: The Movie is a 2010 film adaptation from the hit TV show iCarly from Nickelodeon. Filming begins on August 2009 and ended in October 2009, and took place in Los Vegas, and production is officially shot in Los Vegas for scenes where Carly, Sam, Freddie and Spencer goes on vacation. It was confirmed by Miranda Cosgrove states that the film is a theatrical release. The film features with guess stars of Justin Bieber, Ludacris, Demi Moore and Kendra Wilkerson.

The movie forces on Carly getting carried away and tired out of spending way too much time filming episodes of iCarly, as Spencer took her and her friends on their relaxing vacation to Los Vegas where they need to spend time off from iCarly. This will prove that Carly and friends are leaving iCarly for good. It was shot in Los Angeles and Los Vegas for the entire movie till production returns to Los Vegas at the end of the film.

From Nickeldeon Movies and Paramount Pictures, the film was released worldwide in theaters on July 30, 2010, within some on this weekend and in a month. As the reviews are positive, it made a successful $50 million, setting a new record for biggest opening for a G rated movie comparing to High School Musical 3: Senior Year and Nickelodeon Movies' biggest opening to date. Grossing $232 million worldwide, it became Nickelodeon Movie's most successful movie to date.

Plot
After filming an all-day-marathon of their popular webshow, iCarly, Carly Shay, Sam Puckett and Freddie Benson grow tired and goes way too far and briefly attacked by out-of-control fans. Meanwhile, Spencer realizes that they are getting too carried away, so he decided to took their vacation to Las Vegas, where they're never forget and spend time with their mother Mariah Shay and her mother Dorothy Shay. Mariah explains to Carly that she lived in Las Vegas following her divorce from husband, and said that she will always be here for both of them.

There in Las Vegas, within to enjoy two weeks of their vacation, Carly ended up falling in love with a boy name Kyle, where she spend a great time with him. Also, Spencer fell in love with a girl name Lisa, where Spencer didn't get romantic for her. Therefore, Sam and Freddie began to set them out to date. Meanwhile, with a discusion about leaving iCarly between Sam and Fredie where they enjoyed themselves, Carly overhears and became furious that they're trying to make themselves to quit iCarly after enjoying their fun time, and forgets everyting about iCarly. After arguing with Sam, Carly declines friendship with her and Freddie as she decided to go home herself leaving Sam and Freddie. Before leaving Los Vegas, Carly kissed Freddie one last time before she can broke up with Freddie as his girlfriend, before leaving him and Sam as she leaves the appartment. Before heading home, Carly began to spend time with Kyle on last time as they hang out together and enjoy themselves.

While asking Kyle to come to Seattle with her and do iCarly, but he decided to stay and enjoy this place eversince he was born. Thus, it leaves Carly to choose if she wants to stay or go back to iCarly, while her new love interest has been living in Las Vegas ever since he was born. After too much fun, Sam gets into chaos and gets arrtested for stealing money from the bank, cheating on games, and attacking and violating people. While Spencer and Freddie leads her not guilty, they as well got arrested. Carly has now changed and decided that she will stay in Los Angeles forever, where Sam, Freddie and Spencer must let Carly to go back home again. Meanwhile, Carly gets a call from Sam and eventually led her to escape and leave Las Vegas as soon as possible. Before leaving Kyle gave her and kiss for good luck and said that they will met each other again sometimes. Meanwhile, she lead her friends and her brother escape from jail, pack up and quickly head home.

With the flight back home closed, they decided that they can quickly took a road trip home instead, where police officers in their cars chasing after them to catch up to Sam and arrest her again. They eventually blocks them from a truck and drives home safe. Carly feels upset about Spencer feeling hurt for ending his relationship with Lisa, where she find someone else. Therefore, when they got back, one of Carly's classmates, teacher and Miss. Benson surprises them for returning where they kept iCarly alive. Meanwhile, everthing is back together, iCarly is now and officially back together, with audiences were back in peace. During the ending credits, Carly, Sam and Freddie filmed episodes of iCarly. And in the final scenes, Carly, Sam and Freddie joins in random dancing.

Cast

 * Miranda Cosgrove as Carly Shay
 * Jennette McCurdy as Sam Puckett
 * Nathan Kress as Freddie Benson
 * Jerry Trainor as Spencer Shay
 * Noah Munck as Gibby Gibson
 * Mary Scheer as Marissa Benson
 * Jesse McCartney as Kyle Anderson
 * Demi Moore as Mariah Shay
 * Kendra Wilkinson as Lisa
 * Greg Mullavy as Granddad Shay
 * Justin Bieber as himself
 * Ludacris as Himself

Characters

 * Kyle Anderson (played by Jesse McCartney), a 18-year-old from Los Vegas. He is Carly's new love interest. Carly refuses him to come to Carly's hometown, but Kyle wants to stay and enjoy his life there and is where he is born, so Carly will have to stay if she want to see him through the rest of her life.


 * Lisa (played by Kendra Wilkinson), Spencer's new love interest. She likes to pole dance, but, Spencer seems that he's not going through too good with Lisa. Carly sets him and Lisa out on a romantic date night.


 * Mariah Shay (played by Demi Moore), Carly and Spencer's mother, who moved to Los Angeles to live with her husband, as Carly stays to her hometown to live with her brother.


 * Dorothy Shay (played by Ellen Roberts), Carly and Spencer's gross grandmother, who usually farts most of the times, who helped her daughter Mariah move to Los Vegas following her divorce from her husband, as Carly lives with Spencer.

Development
On March 2009, Jennette McCurdy confirmed on her Twitter page that there will be an iCarly movie to be released. The film adaptation for iCarly was planned by Miranda Cosgrove and Jerry Trainor on December 12, 2009. Spinning between the third and fourthcoming fourth season, it will be about Carly switching schools and switching to new webshows, which is iCarly will come to an end. They plan on having release dates between April 8, 2011 and August 27, 2010, but reported an earlier release date of July 30, 2010, which was four weeks away from another Paramount and Nickoldeon Movies production of The Last Airbender. It is also the same day the fourth season of iCarly premieres, where the series premiere will be about Carly's bedroom.

iCarly will be interducing as the only live-action film to be in that production, for the film planning to release it in theaters, instead of premiering it on Television. Only iCarly: iGo to Japan is the only movie into the franchise to premiere on TV. Also on June 30, 2010, director of the film stated that he will release True Jackson, VP: The Movie in 2011, with production beginning in late 2010. With this plan, it decided that the film will take place in Los Vegas where the main characters are taking their vacation to get their biggest adventure yet. It is scheduling to start on August 2009, in Los Angeles, and took four months to film iCarly: The Movie, with filming finishing on November 2009.

From Nickeldeon Movies and Paramount Pictures, this is the and only first live action movie that is based on Nickelodeon. The other movies that were based on that channel were animated, such as The Rugrats Movie on November 20, 1998, it's sequel, Rugrats in Paris: The Movie on November 17, 2000, Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius on December 21, 2001, although was not the only one that is based onto Nick, but a TV series is a spin-off were based onto the film, Hey Arnold!: The Movie on June 28, 2002, The Wild Thornberrys Movie on December 21, 2002, and The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie on November 19, 2004.

Although, Rugrats and The Wild Thornberrys have their crossover movie, Rugrats Go Wild, which was released on June 13, 2003. iCarly will be interducing as the only live-action film to be in that production, for the film planning to release it in theaters, instead of premiering it on Television. Only iCarly: iGo to Japan is the only movie into the franchise to premiere on TV. Also on June 30, 2010, director of the film stated that he will release True Jackson, VP: The Movie in 2011, with production beginning in late 2010. Miranda Cosgrove, Jennette McCurdy, Nathan Kress and Jerry Trainor, the stars of the TV Series, iCarly will reprise their roles as Carly Shay, Sam Puckett, Freddie Benson and Spencer Shay. Other cast that will be in the movie were Mary Scheer and Noah Munck as Marissa Benson and Gibby Gibson. Aria Wallace will also return as well as the role of Mandy Valdez.

Casting
Miranda Cosgrove, Jennette McCurdy, Nathan Kress and Jerry Trainor, the stars of the TV Series, iCarly will reprise their roles as Carly Shay, Sam Puckett, Freddie Benson and Spencer Shay. Other cast that will be in the movie were Mary Scheer and Noah Munck as Marissa Benson and Gibby Gibson. Aria Wallace will also return as well as the role of Mandy Valdez. But, she is is originally about to, like she was in the TV show, but the child actress didn't gotten a script and the plot, where she is yet to drop out. Also it also can feature with recurring character appearances of Reed Alexander as Nevel Papperman, Nathan Pearson as Jeremy (aka Germy), and Tim Russ as Principal Ted Franklin.

Demi Moore is set to play as Carly Shay's mother. Greg Mullavy, who played Carly's granddad from the TV series, will return as Granddad Shay. Jesse McCartney and Kendra Wilkerson were set to play as the love interest to Carly and Spencer. Justin Bieber will also appear into the film for the scene where he performs a song live.

Filming
Within production of season 3 wrapped with at least 20 episodes, making that season the shortest, the film officially begins filming in Los Vegas beginning between July and early October 2009. The rest of the filming went to Los Angeles for scenes of Carly, and her brothers and two best friends going for their vacation, where Spencer and Granddad decided to give them a break from iCarly and see Carly's mother and spend time with her as well. The film will have scenes of Carly and Kyle kissing, as well as Carly and her new co-worker fighting each other because of her new co-worker thinks that she's the only one becoming more famous than Carly. Also, Nathan Kress confirmed that they will be scenes of McCurdy's character Sam getting arrested fighting and stealing in the casino. Within, Kress and Trainor also filmed their scenes there. The film will also be seen Justin Bieber and Ludacris performing "Baby" at the Casino. As of May 2010, the film has finished filming and is in post-production.

Soundtrack
iCarly: The Movie motion picture soundtrack was released on July 13, 2010, two weeks before the film's release. It debuts in first place at the Billboard 200 with 225,000 copies sold, becoming the first and only iCarly soundtrack that debuts in first place at any charts, within the latest soundtrack that didn't debut in first place, ending the run of Eminem's Recovery where it was in first place for the next three weeks. However, on it's second weekend, the album fell to No. 3 behind new album release, Nightmare and Recovery. Making 158,000 copies, collects it's total of 383,000 copies in two weeks. However in the UK Album Charts, it debuts in second place behind Recovery, until it bumped to first place a week later. So far, it reached a total of 528,000 copies worldwide.

Karaoke Version
iCarly: The Movie karaoke version is set to release in late 2010.

Release
The film was released in cinemas on Friday, July 30, 2010 in the United States and Canada. The film's budget is a estimated $35,000,000 to cost for the movie to be successful, as of the most expensive movie for a movie based on Nick. A teaser poster was released on Friday March 19, 2010. Also in front of How to Train Your Dragon, a teaser trailer was released, and than screened at the 2010 Kids Choice Awards on Saturaday March 27, 2010, and online Sunday March 28, 2010. It will show a first look for the film, during a premiere of a new episode of iCarly, on May 8, 2010.

The film's trailer was released on Friday, May 14, 2010, along with it's official poster, which is Cosgrove's 17th birthday. The film is rated G for all ages admitted to see this movie. Tickets for the film are on sale as of Friday, June 25, 2010. Beginning on Friday, July 2, 2010, McDonalds will be promoting the film. Midnight showings for iCarly: The Movie will held on Thursday, July 29, 2010 at 12:01 am, which is suspectingly July 30, 2010. A US world premiere of iCarly: The Movie will be held on July 22, 2010.

When iCarly: The Movie opens on July 30, 2010, it will play in at least 6,000 screens across 4,000 theaters nationwide, becoming the widest release for an G rated movie (both live action and animated, putting Toy Story 3's 4,028 theaters number record in danger of surprising it. It also said that the early predation of the box office said that it will gross anwhere from $40-50 million in three days, putting High School Musical 3: Senior Year's $42 million in danger of breaking it as the biggest opening for an live-action G rated movie. However, this is not including animated movies. During it's midnight showings, it will premiere in 1,800 theaters, set to break a record as biggest midnight opening for a G rated movie.

Again, the film will open in an ultimate 4,057 theaters, to become the widest release for a live-action G rated movie, surprising High School Musical 3: Senior Year with the releases of 3,623 theaters and midnight showings in 1,800 theaters.

Critical Response
iCarly: The Movie generally got positive reviews. It scored a truely successful 65% based on 120 views from according to Rotten Tomatoes. For top critics, it gave the film a rating of 40% based on 116 views, and Metacritic also has a "favorable" score of 51% on 80 views. Before the film's release, Roget Ebert gave the film a 3.5/4, where he praised for the movie, acting, directing and plot. It than describes the film: this could be the perfect movie for kids. Robert Ebert gave the film three out of four stars. He wrote: "This is an interesting thing to watch for young kids. Especially there wouldn't have been some violence in this, kids should not watch." William R. Wilkerson of The Hollywood Reporter describes the film: "it's the year's best family movie". Richard Desmond for UK newspaper The Daily Telegraph praised and describes: "Thrilled to see one of my favorite characters returning and heading to the big screen at this time. Me and my watch watched the movie and we've enjoyed it. I desrbe the film as the most charming, funny and romantic movie of the year, and New York Daily News publisher Mike Lupica describes the film: "kids love the show. They will love to see this movie. It's a very wonderful family movie. The prison scene in iCarly: The Movie will be the best part." Jayson Blair of The New York Times praised: "A movie. Than a brand new season of iCarly? Kids are expecting to see more iCarly." Lester Cole of The Hollywood Reporter stated: "This movie will shock all of the kids and make them laugh and cry. iCarly: The Movie is perfect for the entire family. Jess Cagle Entertainment Weekly states: "a very fun movie". Timothy M. Gray of Variety states: "Hannah Montana to iCarly, girls are excited. No Hannah Montana to iCarly, boys are also excited. It also said that "Jesse McCartney is the perfect boyfriend to Miranda Cosgrove. And Kendra Wilkerson is sexy for Jerry Trainor."

Box Office
From it's midnight premiere, iCarly: The Movie grossed with an estimated $4,000,000 from 1,800 theaters. The film opened with $19,630,010 on it's opening day in 4,057 theaters, and made a total of $50,325,710 over the weekend, becoming the highest weekend opening for an live-action G rated movie defeating High School Musical 3: Senior Year with $42,030,184 and is also Nickelodeon Movie's biggest movie weekend opening to date. With that it ranked #1 at the box office, making it Nickelodeon Movie's third movie to debut at #1 at the box office since The Rugrats Movie and Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, and it's second live action movie to open at #1 since Lemony Snicket: A Series of Unfortunate Events. Meanwhile, the film lost 58 percent on it's second weekend with $15,909,062 and #3 at the box office gaining 3 theaters.

With an #2 overseas opening of $44,000,000, gives the film's worldwide total of $94,325,710. However, it did manage to bump Inception next wekeend up 25 percent with another $57 million for a total of $101 million in two weeksn, meaning that it's worldwide total went up to $182 million. As of August 26, 2010, the film's total gross is $100,230,000, and $232,230,000 in total worldwide, making it a box office success and Nickelodeon Movie's most successful movie to date so far. It's overseas total is $132,000,000.

Sequel
It was reported that the sequel is coming, but the movie must ordered by Nicekodeon Movie that it must gross $100 million domestically by August 22, 2010 in order to get a sequel. Therefore, Paramount Pictures says that it will not make it and doesn't want to disappoint fans. So it than decided to take $10 million away to gross at least $90 million to make it by August 22. Therefore, Nickelodeon Movie does not except that report. When the film finally made it to $90 million what Paramount told, Paramount Pictures and eventually Nickelodeon Movie put a sequel in greenlight. That film is to be titled iCarly: The Sequel where it means that this is the second installment after the first one. On August 23, 2010, Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies confirmed the film's July 27, 2012 release date, two years after the previous film.