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Halloween A Fun And Surprising Direct Sequel To The John Carpenter Original

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Director David Gordon Green, working from a script by Danny McBride, has crafted a fun and surprising direct sequel to the John Carpenter original. What they present here owes much to the fact that attitudes toward mental health have changed since the original, while still reveling in the relentless, violent menace of the original’s killer.

In 1978’s Halloween, Laurie Strode thought she dealt with escaped killer Michael Myers. Played by Jamie Lee Curtis, Laurie went through a harrowing ordeal, stalked over an entire day by a lunatic in a white mask, surviving only after committing her own act of violence against him. Over the following decades, the Halloween film franchise sprawled and rebooted, meaning that technically Green’s film is the “Second Halloween 2”. Thankfully, we skip all those sequels as if they never happened. You need nothing from them to enjoy this film.

The setup is simple again: In 1978, Michael stalked and attacked Laurie, and she fought back.

But, in 1978 there would have been limited (if any) mental health support for Laurie after the events of the first film. In the 2018 movie, Green and McBride give us a Laurie who has lived in a paranoid, survivalist fear these last 40 years, estranged from her daughter and unable to function in society without constant worry about when Michael would return for revenge.

Of course, everyone says she’s crazy to consider it. Of course, they are wrong.

In the new movie, the kills are relentless, almost methodically vicious, with an excellent sound design. The effect is to make Michael an unstoppable, inevitable threat. From the moment you see him, mask-less and obscured, there is a sense that nothing else could happen but the carnage that follows. Where the film finds its best footing is in the twist on the narrative provided by Curtis’ Laurie, a powerful and prepared fighter who has done nothing but ready herself for this movie’s third act. References to the original abound but aren’t in front of the present story.

By skipping all the middle story, Halloween (2018) provides an efficient, incredibly violent but wildly enjoyable ride through action/horror territory. It’s a welcome continuation of a classic franchise that requires little in the way of a learning curve.

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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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