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DC Fandome Kicks it Off with Wonder Woman 1984 Panel

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Right off the bat, the DCFandome experience is something unique and different. The 24-hour, totally free live-streaming experience is as much about DC’s upcoming announcements as it is about the company’s true love for their fans.

Unlike SDCC’s online event which sectioned things off into pre-recorded Youtube videos DC has instead chosen to organize it as a series of curated Zoom calls to talk about a variety of topics and make some rather big announcements over the course of the next two days.

That love fest started out with a bang with the event’s first panel: Wonder Woman 1984. Led by director Patty Jenkins the panel included Chris Pine, Gal Gadot, Kristin Wiig, and Pedro Pascal. While the panel itself may have been short it more than accomplished its goal of showcasing the team’s love for each other, the film, and its fans.

It’s amazing how much that makes a difference to the larger pop culture community. Since the world is unable to meet in public many of the high profile events of the summer have had to be scaled down and can longer be held in front of an audience. That means announcements cannot be held in the massive halls of San Diego Comic Con or in huge convention centers to the roar of a few thousand people. Many companies have had to pivot because of that and not everyone has done it successfully.

That spark you feel from being in a convention center surrounded by friends and the rest of the fandom, it matters, it adds another layer to the experience. Somehow DC’s Fandome has managed to capture that and rather than scale down they have gone international. Over the course of the panel, and indeed over the course of the entire event, fans from all over the world were brought in to ask questions of the cast and crew. It provided a connection between those that make the product and those that appreciate it. Pop culture is very much a give and receive event that cutting out the fans can easily backfire.

Instead, DC and Warner Brothers embraced their fans from all over the world and it created such a great feeling. Watching at home it was hard not to feel the electricity between the cast as they interacted, shared stories and shared the experience of a surprise guest together. The surprise guest for Wonder Woman 1984 was none other than original Wonder Woman Lynda Carter and the mutual admiration everyone felt interacting with her, even if it was over Zoom, was amazing.

Much of the panel was devoted not so much to the upcoming movie but to what Wonder Woman means to society as a whole. With almost any other superhero that might be a bad thing but with Woman Woman and what she represents it felt like something that needed to be done.

At the end of the rather short panel Jenkins debuted the second full trailer for Wonder Woman 1984 and it was glorious. Fans got their first look at Kristin Wiig as Cheetah and they did a fantastic job on the CGI. Warner Bros had been holding that reveal close to their chest for a while now (probably to get the CGI right after the Cats debacle) but it was well worth it.

Wonder Woman 1984 hits theaters (hopefully) next year and we all can’t wait to see it.

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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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