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‘Maze Runner The Death Cure’: Together to the WICKED end

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Warning: Spoilers lurk in the Maze!

The third movie in the Maze Runner film series, The Death Cure finds hero Thomas and his band of misfit kids and outcast adults fighting the government agency WICKED, the apocalyptic virus known as The Flare, and sometimes even each other!

So Minho (Ki Hong Lee) was one of the original Gladers, the kids who were forced to run through the Maze of the very first film, just like rats in a giant Tryon-like experiment. And Thomas (Dylan O’Brien), with Newt (Thomas Brodie-Sangster) and Brenda (Rosa Salazar) and Jorge (Giancarlo Esposito) and several other Flare survivors, are about to rescue Minho from a WICKED transport train – or so they think.

Even after all that, admittedly some very cool action sequences, the survivors still haven’t managed to get ahold of Minho, and he’s fully on WICKED’s radar now, so nothing would do but for Minho to get dropped back into the government’s experimental programs again, but with a twist – all that Maze and monster technology is being used to fry directly into Minho’s brain, who cares how it affects him so long as there are results in a working cure for the Flare.

Teresa (Kayla Scodelario), that traitorous girl who rejoined WICKED when she learned the truth about the Maze and the Glade and the Flare, is now working on the cure in the last surviving human city left on earth (so they claim), alongside Ava Paige (Patricia Clarkson), who is still sadly employing Janson (Aidan Gillen), also known to the Gladers as the Rat Man, to do her necessary dirty work. Time is running out even for the people behind high city walls, as the virus known as the Flare is now airborne, and Paige estimates only a months time before every single last one of them is infected. Such news wipes the smirk right off Janson’s face and he plows into finding Thomas and his crew with renewed vigor.

Thomas meanwhile, is actually headed right for the unnamed last city, but to get in there first he would need a guide who knows the place. This guide also happens to know the Flare world of the infected known colloquially as Cranks, and indeed, though he admits he deserved to be punished for his part in the Glade betrayals, Gally (Will Poulter) managed to survive, somehow.

Time is running shorter than anyone realizes, especially when Newt is forced to reveal to Thomas the black veins climbing his arms, and meanwhile over there is WICKED central tower, Janson is preparing to basically de-brain Minho entirely, for the sake of getting a working cure for the Flare right now. A whole bunch of fiddling with various tags, marks, electronic sensors and spies has gone on by this point, but none of that seems to matter in the face of the stunning realization that Thomas, basically the Chosen One, the little rebel WICKED has been trying hard to take out for some time now, will be the one whose blood saves literally everyone. But there’s always time for a few last zinging reveals that won’t land quite right unless you’re a true fan of the entire Maze Runner series, and give a flip about things like character motivation and backstory.

This third film of the series is actually pretty good, certainly better than Scorch Trials, which was effectively a whole lot of nothing in the burned desert with wanna-be zombies. The action scenes are terrific without sliding into Michael Bay overkill territory, and all the actors deliver fine performances for their characters, who seem to have gotten a bit of an upgrade, in both tone and depth. It’s as though the filmmakers kind of went, ‘Oh yeah, we still make these Maze Runner movies, don’t we? Can we please make a new one that’s better than the last one?’ It actually worked, and if you’re any kind of fan of the Maze and its kids, you should see Death Cure in theaters right now!

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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.

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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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