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Horrible Imaginings 2021 presents ‘Charon’: If its Skyped, is it real?

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A woman stuck in house arrest endures censure for her crimes, isolationist desperation and a growing feeling of impending doom!

It’s near impossible to give a review for this micro Indie hit without giving away a ton of delicious spoilers that really do make the movie great, but I’m gonna try. Some interesting trivia beforehand, the film was shot entirely on an iPhone and edited on a videoshop mobile app while filmmaker Jennifer Zhang was enduring complete self-isolation in her apartment during Covid lockdown. With performances from her co-star Eric Radic literally Skyped in, Zhang chose to use only what she had locked in with her during quarantine, for eight long lonely weeks.

So Charon (Jennifer Zhang), whose name is pronounced like “Sharon”, is in a lockdown of her own making – Charon is a notorious computer hacker who apparently did some very very bad things that negatively affected a lot of angry people, and she’s now under house arrest, pending her subsequent outside judgment. Her only lifeline to the outside world is her boyfriend Jerry (Eric Radic), the only one she’s allowed to talk to, on her computer on a regularly scheduled basis. Not a single one of Charon’s neighbors want a thing to do with her and indeed, many of them appear to be moving out of her apartment complex, in apparent protest.

Charon’s world is very small, encompassing her apartment and little else. She works out, she does martial arts too, she collects Batman fandom things, she cleans, she reads, she waits. Oh, and she talks to Jerry on the computer every evening at a predesignated time. Charon’s current existence, not life because this is far from living, is full of routine and interminable waiting, absolute starvation when it comes to other human contact, and is an excellent commentary on the mood and feel the whole globe endured during the recent Covid lockdowns. Jerry has become Charon’s entire universe pretty much, her only lifeline to the outside world, so when Jerry informs Charon that money has run out and starts making all sorts of getting-darker requests for her to “perform” on camera for funds, Charon begins to suspect all is not as it seems in her tiny microcosm.

The film is very well-made and edited, the creepy score from Korean American composer/mixer Diana Cha is entirely atmospheric, and the ending I did not see coming (which is very rare). A fine ending to the slate of enjoyable films from Horrible Imaginings 2021, Charon is an Indie hit that lovers of irony will all 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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