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RELEASE DATE: November 20, 2015
STUDIO: Columbia Pictures (Sony)
DIRECTOR: Jonathan Levine
MPAA RATING: R (for drug use and language throughout, some strong sexual content and graphic nudity)
SCREENWRITERS: Jonathan Levine, Evan Goldberg, Kyle Hunter, Ariel Shaffir
STARRING: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen, Anthony Mackie, Lizzy Caplan, Jillian Bell, Michael Shannon, Mindy Kaling
GENRE: Comedy

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So, two Jewish guys and a black guy walk in to a bar on the night before Christmas (I think that’s how the joke starts ?). Anyway, that’s what three friends Ethan, Isaac, and Chris (Gordon-Levitt, Rogen, and Mackie respectively) do and have done for 14 years ever since Ethan’s parents died. It’s become a tradition with the best friends to spend every Christmas Eve running wild through the city doing things to remember for life. But alas,all good things must come to an end. As the three amigos have grown up and Isaac is starting a family and Chris has become a famous football star the tradition must fade away. This is their last night before together and it’s gonna be epic.

Now, if you’ve watched a Seth Rogen movie before and didn’t like his brand of humor… well then this isn’t for you. There’s f-bombs and weed smoking and phallic pictures galore in this one.
It’s not for everyone, but,if it’s for you this could knock A Christmas Story out as your yearly Christmas comedy movie to watch.

Rogen is hilarious as Isaac who’s high off of a plethora of drugs the entire movie. He hallucinates babies talking to him, his wife as a dragon and talks to a nativity scenes statues. It’s sounds insane but he makes it work. Gordon-Levitt is probably the least interesting character of the three as his funny isn’t so pronounced or off the wall. He’s the dramatic anchor and he does that well but, that doesn’t leave much him much room for memorable funny moment from Ethan. Mackie is funny but his best moment audiences have seen repeated on the commercial for this film repeatedly. The biggest surprise was Mr. Green the trio’s weed man from their high school days, played by Michael Shannon. He’s responsible for some of the funniest spots in the whole movie. He is superb.

There’s a giant yearly party that the buddies have always wanted to go to but never have until this year. They build up how insane this party is and it doesn’t disappoint when the movie finally takes us there. They enter on a train through a tunnel of white light and it just gets wilder from there. This the big celebrity appearance section of the film with athletes (Baron Davis), singers (Miley Cyrus), and Actors (James Franco, because no Seth Rogen movie is complete without a Franco cameo).

Through all the drugs and wild partying is a movie about change. And how your family, no matter you got it, will always be there for you. It’s got some heart behind it but not enough to bog down the comedy you came to see. It’s a good holiday film for stoners and grownups who don’t take their comedy too seriously.

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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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