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SDAFF 2023 presents ‘Concrete Utopia’: Mine! Mine! Mine! 

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After a massive earthquake in Seoul causes the destruction of the overcrowded apartment complexes, the last standing facility becomes a battleground for the beleaguered survivors. 

So, here in real life, South Korea has been experiencing a housing crisis of its own – far too many people for nowhere near enough apartments, alleged corrupt housing lottery and business practices, and a general sense of every man for himself permeating it all. This is exactly what the film explores, in the most heartbreaking ways possible. Into the worst of humanity breaking down we dive! 

We begin, of course, with a massive earthquake hitting Seoul. Natural disasters are the absolute worst things to try and deal with, there’s no enemy to try and reason with, no person or group to try and bribe, and there’s only catastrophe that strikes everyone and everything without mercy or pity. Only the strong, those who can provide some manner of valuable service, are left to try and pick up the pieces and keep the aftermath from falling into chaos! 

Literally, the only place left standing is a single building inside Hwang Gung Apartments, and of course, that’s where everyone begins flocking to. The residents of Hwang Gung, those that survived the initial disaster anyway, immediately hunker down and try to take stock, of people and necessary supplies, to wait for the rescue services they just know have to be coming. Right? They are coming, aren’t they?! 

Well. Until then, we’re just going to have to batten down the hatches and reluctantly start turning away outsiders, despite the debilitating cold, lack of appropriate shelter, and shortages of food and drinkable water. The man with the most to hide including his name, deciding to call himself Yeong-tak (Lee Byung-hun) for the time being, uses his unique set of skills to get himself nominated as the interim resident leader of the Apartments. Our hapless civil servant Min-sung (Park Seo-joon) and his nurse wife Myeong-hwa (Park Bo-young) find themselves swept along with the sudden changes to their lives, and Ming-sung, in particular, finds himself reluctantly useful to Yeong-tak, becoming his security guard and eventual assistant. Geum-ae (Kim Sun-young), president of the women’s association of the Apartments, tries her best to give some organization to the chaos, despite overwhelming numbers and sheer human nature stacked against her. 

So, what do we do when hordes of hungry, desperate people begin flocking to the only building left standing in the devastation that was Seoul? We’ve already established that there just isn’t enough of anything to go around, it’s all of the Apartment folk for themselves, and so after we’ve come together and taken a sort of census to ensure whom is really whom, we have to set up guards. And they have to be willing, and able, to deal out violence if necessary to the usurpers threatening their kingdom. Which is initially a problem for the purportedly civilized people of Hwang Gung Apartments, but breaks down rather quickly when the outsiders start dealing violence of their own. We also have to make at least one group of men willing to go outside the relative safety of Hwang Gung, to hunt for supplies and food, but also capable of defending their cache if need be. 

While the guards and hunters are generally successful and the people of Hwang Gung are relatively unscathed, the survivors outside are banding together too, and confrontation is only a matter of time. Even inside the Apartment folk coalition things are beginning to break down, as lies and deceit bubble to the surface like impossible-to-hide poison, and internal tensions are sending everyone to their breaking point, even and perhaps especially, the man using the pseudonym Yeong-tak. 

A story of both the best and the worst humanity has to offer in the face of absolute disaster, Concrete Utopia delivers a powerhouse showing that hits far too close to home! 

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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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