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Bohemian Rhapsody Rocks the House

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Where do I begin? I guess the best place to start is how much of a vast and intense endeavor this project was! That being said, what an AMAZING job they did!!! Bohemian Rhapsody is one of the best pictures of the year.

 
The film moves along at a pretty good pace. We are privy to a little of very Freddy Mercury’s beginnings. We see the foundations of who he was, his family life, his relationship with his father, and (of course) how he got into the band that would become Queen.

 
The beginning of the film focuses on his relationship with family, specifically with his father. His father is much more traditional in his points of view. He wants Freddy to get a regular job, work hard, the usual thing you would expect from everyday life. Freddy, however, already has a much larger plan for himself, and while he’s attending a local bands show he comes to find out that the group has lost their singer.
So he takes advantage of the situation, and even though the band initially ridicules him he’s able to promote himself in such a way where the group takes him on as their singer. It is after this that we see the band go from everyday local gigs to recording their first single. We understand that from the beginning Freddy was on a whole different channel! It was like he knew there was something much, much, bigger out there for him.
The way he almost pranced around while on stage reminded me a little of a hybrid of Mick Jagger and Steven Tyler. It is easy to see that Rami Malek did his homework for this role! Many of the attendees commented that it was as if Freddy Mercury was alive again, if only for a short time.
The film brought to life the era of the 70s in fantastic fashion! From the clothes to the backdrops, to the attitudes they covered it all.
They way they followed the bands  rise from clubs to Live Aid was not without its struggles and I appreciated that! This film DID show the interpersonal struggles of these four members as they tried to make their own way in the field saturated by the familiar pop scene. Of course, in addition to that, we see Freddy struggle with and eventually give in to who he believes he is. We are shown the struggles to be loved by people, fans, record producers, and most importantly, his father. In this film, they do jump from the club scene to area fame reasonably quickly, but again, not without showing the challenges they had to face.
Of course one of those problems showcased what’s Freddie Mercury’s inner struggle with who he was. In the midst of the battle, we see how one of his friends became his lover, but also how this person was very conniving and controlling, how he pushed the bands to break up, and it was revealed that this person ended up stabbing Freddy Mercury in the back.
There are several large character arcs in this film which intertwine most beautifully like a rose bush grows together but still has the thorns. In the end, however, the thing I appreciated most was how Freddy really stuck to his guns and how he would square off with important people in the industry knowing that his band was set to have a solid place in music history!
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Paramount+ Reveals Official Main Title Sequence for the Upcoming Series TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES

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During the TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES panel earlier today at San Diego Comic Con, Paramount+ revealed the official main title sequence for the series. The sequence is composed by EMMY® nominee, Matt Mahaffey, known for his work on Sanjay and Craig, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie and much more. 

From the studios of the Mutant Mayhem film, the all-new Paramount+ original series TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES explores the adventures of everyone’s favorite pizza-loving heroes as they emerge from the sewers onto the streets of NYC. Leo, Raph, Donnie and Mikey are faced with new threats and team up with old allies to survive both teenage life and villains lurking in the shadows of the Big Apple. The series is produced by Nickelodeon Animation and Point Grey Pictures.

TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES is executive produced by Chris Yost (The Mandalorian, Thor: Ragnarok) and Alan Wan (Blue Eye Samurai, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles [2012 Series]). Production is overseen for Nickelodeon by Claudia Spinelli, Senior Vice President, TV Series Animation, Nickelodeon, and Nikki Price, Director of Development and Executive in Charge of Production.

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DISNEY+ CASTS DANIEL DIEMER AS FAN-FAVORITE ‘TYSON’IN SEASON TWO OF “PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS”

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 in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con, Rick Riordan and Disney+ revealed that Daniel Diemer (“Under the Bridge”) will star as fan-favorite cyclops “Tyson” in the epic adventure series “Percy Jackson and the Olympians.” Diemer joins Walker Scobell (Percy Jackson), Leah Sava Jeffries (Annabeth Chase) and Aryan Simhadri (Grover Underwood) as a series regular. The Disney+ Original series from Disney Branded Television and 20th Television will start filming its second season next week in Vancouver.

Season two of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is based on the second installment of Disney Hyperion’s best-selling book series titled “The Sea of Monsters” by award-winning author Rick Riordan. In the new season, Percy Jackson returns to Camp Half-Blood one year later to find his world turned upside down. His friendship with Annabeth is changing, he learns he has a cyclops for a brother, Grover has gone missing, and camp is under siege from the forces of Kronos. Percy’s journey to set things right will take him off the map and into the deadly Sea of Monsters, where a secret fate awaits the son of Poseidon.

Diemer stars as Tyson – a young Cyclops who grew up all alone on the streets, and finds it difficult to survive in the human world.  Shy and awkward, with a heart almost as big as he is, Tyson soon discovers that Poseidon is his father, which means Percy Jackson is his half-brother… and that Tyson may have finally found a home. 

Diemer recently starred in the Hulu limited series “Under the Bridge” based off the critically acclaimed book of the same name and a tragic true story of a missing teen girl in Vancouver in 1997. He will next star in the indie “Thug” opposite Liam Neeson and Ron Perlman for director Hans Petter Moland. Daniel was recently seen as the lead in the indie “Supercell” opposite Alec Baldwin and Skeet Ulrich and the lead in the film “Little Brother” opposite Phil Ettinger and JK Simmons. Daniel can also be seen in the Netflix series “The Midnight Club” and recently starred as the male lead in the breakout hit Netflix feature “The Half Of It” from producer Anthony Bregman and director Alice Wu. He is a graduate of Victoria Academy of Dramatic Arts in Vancouver.

Created by Rick Riordan and Jonathan E. Steinberg, season two of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is executive produced by Steinberg and Dan Shotz alongside Rick Riordan, Rebecca Riordan, Craig Silverstein, The Gotham Group’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Bert Salke, The Gotham Group’s Jeremy Bell and D.J. Goldberg, James Bobin, Jim Rowe, Albert Kim, Jason Ensler and Sarah Watson.

The first season of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is available on Disney+

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