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FantasticFest 2019 Movies: The Wave

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Gille Klabin (Director)
Carl W. Lucas (Writer)
Justin Long (Actor)

Frank (Justin Long) is having a great day at work. He’s figured out how to screw over a family at the insurance company where he’s a lawyer. It’s fine, it’s just his job. Besides, everybody has dependents, right? Besides, he’ll get to present it to the big boss himself,
tomorrow morning. His best friend and co-worker, Jeff (Donald Faison) offers to take him out to celebrate.

What follows is a misadventure somewhere between Go and John Dies at the End… a terrifying, drug-fueled rampage through reality and time, wrapped up in a sweet fairytale about consequences and who we want to be. I keep thinking about Joe Vs. the Volcano, if that entire movie happened during an acid flashback Tom Hanks had at work.

It’s a damn funny movie. Long and Faison are a great buddy team, and I want to see soemthing with them again ASAP. (C’mon, Hollywood, remake a buddy comedy and let these guys do it. You know you want to…) The sets and situations are littered with great bits, from the patron throwing up outside of the El Madrid bar, to the myriad in-jokes that become apparent on second viewing.  The realism of the drug scenes, despite the drug itself being fictional, struck me immediately upon viewing. Here is a film that presents the scary, potentially enlightening, and uncontrollable parts of psychedelics. The “expansive, educational aspects”, as writer Carl Lucas put it in our interview. Gone are the trailing hands and talking animals of “drug movies”. Instead, The Wave gives us that sense of unreality, that odd feeling that this might yield some “underlying truth” that often accompanies tripping, coupled with the tension between the your perception and the “regular world” happening around you. Watching Frank try and navigate a board meeting while time spirals out of his control and all the secret souls of his coworkers sweat out their skin… Been there, buddy.

Drugs, y’all.

There’s a lot of philosophy happening in the movie, as Frank wrestles with the consequences of his work, and the homelife and stagnant relationship he’s drifted into. Presented with the opportunity to touch chaos, he takes it. Frank finds he must, to quote writer Carl Lucas again, “go through the chaos to get to the harmony.” It’s a wonderful film, and the only thing at fest I’ve watched twice already. See it whenever you
can, and enjoy.

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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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