Victorious: The Movie

Victorious: The Movie is a 2013 musical film adaptation based from the TV series with the same title from Nickelodeon, scheduling for theatrical release date to April 12, 2013. It will mark as the end of the Victorious series, despite the TV show being canceled.

Plot
Taking place right after the series finale of Victorious, Tori and her friends missed their class trip on a cruise to New York City for their high school graduation. So they take a small boat to catch up with them until they get attacked by the storm and ended up being stranded on an island where it is full of camping and music. They seem to enjoy it, but they fear that they must catch up with the students otherwise they will miss graduation. However, things at camp island goes wrong threaten to tear Tori and the gang appart, so they are attempting to escape madness on an island to get to New York City on time before missing graduation.

Cast

 * Victoria Justice as Tori Vega
 * Leon Thomas III as Andre Harris
 * Matt Bennett as Robbie Sharpio
 * Elizabeth Gillies as Jade West
 * Ariana Grande as Cat Valentine
 * Avan Jogia as Beck Oliver
 * Daniella Monet as Trina Vega
 * Justin Timberlake as Joseph
 * Alison Brie as Wendy
 * Jim Pirri as David Vega
 * Jennifer Carta as Holly Vega
 * Marilyn Harris as Andre's grandmother
 * Rihanna as Herself
 * Eric Lange as Erwin Sikowitz
 * Raquel Castro as Linda
 * Allie Grant as Brandi
 * Logan Miller as David
 * Chris Massoglia as Ben
 * Alexis Jordan as Crystal
 * Daryl Sabara as Dustin
 * Melanie Amaro as Brianna

Development
On her Twitter account, actress Victoria Justice reports that the film adaptation of Victorious is in the works, but she does not know if it's going to be a television or theatrical release. Director Dan Schnider will be directing the film, who previously directed iCarly: The Movie, True Jackson, VP: The Movie and iCarly: The Sequel. Like the last films, Nickelodeon Movies plans for a theatrical release, making it the fourth live-action Nickelodeon Movie based on the Nickelodeon TV series to have a theatrical release based on a huge box office success of iCarly: The Movie. In 2010, Omar Camacho began writing the scripts for the film and will be finished in second quarter 2011. Filming will start right after Camacho and the staff has finished filming iCarly: The Sequel, which hit theaters July 27, 2012.

The film was to take place during the third season of the show, but on August 2012, it was announced that the show has been canceled. In which it was only going to have three seasons, the third season has been divided into two season, making the next season the fourth one. The means that the film adaptation will be the colcusion to the Victorious franchise.

Filming
Victorious: The Movie began production by the time director Dan Schnider has completed directing iCarly: The Sequel starting in the following November. Production for Victorious: The Movie was shot back-to-back alongside the third season of Victorious. Filming for the film began on December 16, 2011, and was completed on March 15, 2012.

The TV series itself has been canceled, so the film will mark as the series finale for the series in order to end the franchise properly. In the film, the events of it will take place after the series finale of Victorious and the events before the beginning of its spin-off Sam & Cat where Cat signs up for babysitting business with Sam Puckett (Jennette McCurdy) from iCarly.

Casting
Victoria Justice, Ariana Grande, Matt Bennett, Elizabeth Gillies, Danielle Monet, Leon Thomas III and Avan Joiga will all reprise their roles for the film. Justin Timberlake signs up to star into the film as a new character. Dan Schnider confirmed that Ellen Page would be starring into the film as Tori and Trina's counsin. Rihanna will be the special guess star into the film as herself.

Musical numbers
The Victorious: The Movie soundtrack will be released worldwide on March 26, 2013, two weeks before the film's theatrical release.

Release
Victorious: The Movie will be released in the United States on April 12, 2013, and in the United Kingdom on April 11, 2013. It's original release date is November 16, 2012, but has moved up a month to avoid competion against Breaking Dawn: Part 2 to October 12, 2012. On July 24, 2012, it was confirmed by Nickelodeon Movies that the film's release date has been pushed back to April 12, 2013, to avoid being release with Justice and Nickelodeon Movie's other project Fun Size they are working on, which was set to release on October 26, 2012.

On Victoria Justice's Twitter page, it was confirmed that the trailer for the film will be released sometimes in October by the time Justice's new project Fun Size hits theaters. But the announcement for the trailer has been delayed. Although, Justice did confirmed that the film's sneak peek will premiere when iCarly: The Sequel is released on DVD. On January 10, 2013, the film's trailer was released on the web.

On her Twitter account, Elizabeth Gillies confirmed that the preview for the film will premiere during the premiere of the 2013 Kids Choice Awards on March 23, 2013. As of February 2013, the film received a G rating for all ages admitted. On April 4, 2013, the film was held in New York City.

Criticial reception
Critics says that the film is a very stunning series finale to Victorious, despite critizims saying that the final episode of the show was the "worst ending ever", in which Victoria Justice also says that as well. As of April 10, 2013, Rotten Tomatoes score the film 41%.