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Don’t Look Up Is A Brilliant New Classic

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Back in the 1960s, Stanley Kubrick crafted the brilliant classic Doctor Strangelove to put the current political zeitgeist under the microscope. The film plays as a comedy, but the stakes are extremely high throughout, especially by the time the credits roll.

The same can be said for Don’t Look Up, a fantastic new film by Adam McKay (ViceThe Big Short) that turns its lens on current American culture as we try and survive catastrophe after catastrophe. The film takes a look at what would happen today, right now, if we knew a comet was going to wipe out all of humanity.

Most films would play it like Armageddon or Deep Impact making it look like everyone in power would do absolutely everything they would to stop it. But, let’s face it, we’re in that place anymore. COVID has shown that even when faced with certain, scientifically proven facts, many will just ignore the problem hoping that it will go away on its own.

But an extinction-level event won’t just go away. Through the eyes of Dr.  Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his student Kate (Jennifer Lawrence) both of whom made the discovery, they desperately try to get people to listen to the facts in a world that just isn’t listening anymore.

Along the way, they get sucked into the world of politics and media hype. DiCaprio, who deserves an Oscar for his performance as a Michigan astronomer, loses control of the situation and literally ends up in bed with the enemy. Lawrence isn’t so lucky and gets chewed out by the internet meme machine turning her into a pariah.

The film itself takes aim at everyone, sometimes not so subtly. Meryl Streep takes the role of the far too cavalier president that has hired her son (Jonah Hill) as Chief of Staff. It takes minutes before you realize they are meant to be stand-ins for the Trumps and they both play the role beautifully.

By the end, it is clear this is more about humanity’s response to COVID than the meteor, but the message comes through loud and clear. Unless we do something, like actually listen to scientists and drown out media hype, humanity is most likely doomed.

Adam McKay deserves a ton of credit for crafting such a masterpiece that is apparently already polarizing audiences. I get the feeling this will be seen as a cult classic years from now once we’ve had time to properly appreciate it. We’re still in the center of the madness just as Kubrick was when he made Doctor Strangelove. Time, and hindsight, will solidify Don’t Look Up as a new classic

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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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