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The Happytime Murders is a Certified Cult Classic

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The Happytime Murders was never going to be a box office smash but it is destined for midnight movie status.

Within days of its release the film was already being panned as one of the worst of the year, something not remotely true. It’s not for everyone but it’s ambitious as hell and one of the weirdest movies to hit mainstream cinema in decades.

The film is directed by Brian Henson, son of famed Muppet creator Jim Henson, so you already know you’re in good hands. In a world where puppets and humans co-exist it is puppets which have been selected for every racist and xenophobic stereotype around. Merely by being different they are treated as second class citizens by everyone from people on the street to the FBI.

The audience gets to see the world though jaded Private Eye Phil Phllips, a disgraced puppet detective in Los Angeles. From the start there are shades of Chinatown and The Long Goodbye but with puppets. Make no mistake though, this isn’t a film afraid to push the limits. Within the five minutes we get to watch puppet porn being made between an octopus and a cow, it’s that kind of movie. But in the hands of Brian Henson, who last directed Muppet Treasure Island, it still has a lot of heart.

The plot really gets rolling when Phil teams up with his former human partner Detective Connie Edwards (Melissa McCarthy) to find out who has been murdering the cast of the 90s sitcom The Happytime Gang, one of which was Phil’s brother. Along the way Henson creates a truly unique world with rules and laws that make sense in a universe where puppets and humans evolved at the same time. It’s weird, it’s outlandish, but it works.

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This isn’t the first time audiences have seen puppets go bad, but it is the first time it’s been in a movie so mainstream. Up until now there was just the very obscure Meet the Feebles (done by Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson) and Greg the Bunny, the short lived but fantastic puppet fantasy show on FOX from the early 2000s. Happytime Murders improves on both but, unlike the Muppets, was never around to win hearts.  This one is for adults that just want to have a good, weird time at the movies.

Is Happytime Murders going to win an Oscar? No, though it probably deserves one for special effects. But it is a film well worth seeing in theaters if only for its sheer uniqueness. If you are the type to complain about the lack of originality in Hollywood but don’t see this movie you’re missing out.

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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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