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Everything, Everything A Fascinating Look at Young Love

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Love is in the air Friday, May 19 2017 with director Stella Meghie’s Everything, Everything, based on Nicola Yoon’s novel with the same title.

This teen romance takes the genre to a new level, with believable acting, that can attract and maintain a mature audience, while fresh enough to captivate young adults.

The movie follows the unlikely story of Maddy Whittier (Amandala Stenberg), an 18-year old who suffers from SCID (severe combined immunodeficiency disorder), which forces her to live in the protection of a hermetically sealed environment. She daydreams about the scent of fresh air, the sun kissing her face, and the waves lapping against her feet; all experiences she has never had.

Her life is routine: online classes, support group via Skype, books, and daily vitals checkup. One maybe reminded of Disney’s Rapunzel, “stuck in the same place I’ve always been.” The amount of people she engages in her real-world is limited to her mother, her nurse, and her nurse’s daughter.

Stenberg, whom some may recognize from The Hunger Games, as Rue, brings the same cleverness and silliness to this character. Although she adds a beautiful mixture of wisdom and naivety one would expect from a bubble girl. The gift audiences are given in watching Maddy live in a stifled environment is her alluring imagination.

With daydreams of vast seas, she transforms every situation into a bright technicolor glow that can only come from someone who truly hungers to appreciate the world around them. Despite having such a vibrant internal life, at first glance, people would only see the sterile appearance of uniformed t-shirt and jeans accompanied with quiet eyes.

Just as Maddy’s yearning for stimulation from the outside world grows, she finds herself falling for the pivotal boy next door, Olly Bright (Nick Robinson). The instant connection between the two is enticing thanks to a hilarious scene involving a bundt cake. This film embraces Maddy’s imagination with her virtual conversations with Olly, giving viewers more hilariously sweet and endearing moments of connectivity.

Yes this movie is a romance based around young love, and yes it’s a rather unreal plot, but this picture has created the balance between ridiculous sloppy love story and heart wrenching tragic romance. This is possible because of the source material, a young adult novel, which utilizes vibrant language to describe longing and desire, as well as disappointment and frustration. All these emotions, and more, can be found in Everything, Everything.

Fans of the novel may enjoy tracing the metaphors and symbolism throughout the movie. From a sealed-off house representative of unspoken hopes, to the mod-style primary color-blocking of Maddy’s outfits as she learns to show her true self.
The realism found in this feature, which is often lacking in love stories, is the evolution of the relationship. Although the two lock eyes, it’s attraction and interest at first sight, not love. Instead their feelings for each other grow from their lack of ability to touch one another. They share thoughts, opinions, dreams, and wishes from each other’s windows.

The honest performance of Stenberg and Robinson provide young love that is present-tense without shoving it into the public’s faces. Whether a fan of the book or looking for a sweet romance coupled with silliness and dynamically vivid cinematographer, Everything, Everything maybe the perfect choice.

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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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