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‘Castle Rock’ Premiere: Welcome to the SKU!

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Most of you Stephen King and Stranger Things fans out there are also huge fans of his other works, and here we finally have a love letter of a show from the Horror man himself, to us, his forever fan-atics. A show with a bit of everything from his long history of works, mostly Horror but plenty of other drama too, has dropped and we had been needing badly to fill that King-sized hole in our lives – Castle Rock does the job nicely.

We begin in the town of Castle Rock, ME, and of course in the past, where a dear little boy went missing for eleven days and a whole bunch of strange things took off because of that. In particular the name Sheriff Pangborn (Scott Glenn), a character of King’s who’s battled in his books Needful Things and The Dark Half , is introduced right away as being in the thick of this weird incident.

Now here in the present, meet Warden Dale Lacy (Terry O’Quinn). His wife is blind but there’s no end to the loving banter between them, or so you’d think. Lacy has a loving wife and a nice house and holy crap, what is he doing?! Inevitably the Warden’s untimely demise leads us to the prison he used to manage, a place oh so familiar, yes it’s Shawshank Penitentiary.

Because Warden Lacy is now gone, there’s a lot of shakeups in Shawshank and a new boss is brought in, Warden Porter (Ann Cusack). In the process of turning over every buried stone at the privatized Shawshank Prison, a long-held secret of an actual person, a silent young man (Bill Skarsgard) in a buried cage is uncovered, and this in turn sends out feelers into the world outside Castle Rock, to Texas of all places.

The little boy who overturned too many rocks back in 1991, he’s grown into a man who tries essentially hopeless cases, a criminal death offense attorney. Henry Deaver (Andre Holland) fled Castle Rock for Texas, with some of the harshest laws in the US, just to escape whatever happened some years ago. Yet a phone call changes all that and Deaver finds himself back in Castle Rock, full of strange side-eyes and odd occurrences, and of course barred from talking to the men of Shawshank.

This is essentially where the first episode leaves us, with a mystery in the past that reaches out to the present and blankets everything in darkness, as Stephen King so often does in his stories. Tons of King-related easter eggs pepper the show, in particular the Sissy Spacek in the role of Deaver’s adoptive mother Ruth, and Castle Rock can clearly be considered the introduction to what has now been dubbed the SKU – Stephen King Universe.

King often has a tendency to shuffle beloved characters through different stories of his, like iconic bad villain Randal Flagg (oh please please please let some version of Flagg show up on Castle Rock!), so all you eagle-eyed viewers out there can play spot the reference while enjoying the show! And no, you don’t have to be a King fanatic to watch and enjoy the show, though really, if you’re not playing the “where do I know that King character from?!” dinking game, what are you even doing watching ‘Castle Rock’?

Get hunted and haunted with Castle Rock, out on HULU now!

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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.

In addition to the upcoming new series, stream all things Turtles on Paramount+.

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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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