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‘The Meg’: You Call Me Crazy Like it’s a Bad Thing!

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Bad summer blockbusters are back with a prehistoric vengeance! Most of the Horror community, every last person who loved all the Sharknado movies, and of course your average legion Jason Statham fan, are all eagerly awaiting to be devoured whole by The Meg!

So right away we learn Statham’s character Jonas Taylor has a marked past, when his disastrous decisions as a professional rescue diver left him a broken man some five years previous. But the good folk at Mana One, the most expensive underwater undertaking currently undertaken according to the main investor Morris (Rainn Wilson), need Jonas’ help to rescue some of their people.

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Caption: LI BINGBING as Suyin in Warner Bros. Pictures’ and Gravity Pictures’ science fiction action thriller “THE MEG,” a Gravity Pictures release for China, and a Warner Bros. Pictures release throughout the rest of the world.

There’s a bunch of fun science-y nonsense about hidden underwater layers and never-before-discovered species of aquatic creatures at Mana One, as they penetrate into the deep under-dark, but this innocent little exploratory jaunt is about to get interrupted very abruptly, by an ancient, we’re talking prehistoric y’all, shark on the attack!

Of course getting the original exploratory vessel back allows the ancient Megalodon shark to emerge from the deep dark, which means this mega-monster is now Jaws-ing its way around Chinese coastal waters, and the Mana One station itself. This requires a whole bunch of ill-advised heroism on everyone’s part, often in the best Sharnknado-believability range, so it’s back into the scary depths for us all!

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Caption: A scene from Warner Bros. Pictures’ and Gravity Pictures’ action adventure “THE MEG,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release.
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All the choice humanizing interactions between everyone – the precocious Mei-Yun who calls Jonas ‘Crazy’, the somehow charmingly standoffish Ruby Rose as Jaxx, for once the lone ranting black guy DJ actually survived to the end, and of course the burgeoning if strange relationship between Suyin and Jonas – are adorable and heartfelt and we love them, but of course the Meg is the real star of the show. The scenes where it goes chompity-chomp on the rafts in the Chinese bay studded with colorful inner-tubes of tons and tons of tourists, are well done in a fine ‘Jaws’ tribute of shark terrorizing movies, and no one took themselves far too seriously.

You want Jason Statham action-style heroics, prehistoric shark mayhem and all the underwater adventure you can swallow, ‘The Meg’ is absolutely for you. Do yourself a favor and see the movie on the best screen available, them underwater scenes are spectacular.

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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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