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Wonder-Con 2018: Warner Bros. Television and Warner Bros. Animation Unleash Their Heroes On Wonder Con

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Warner Bros. Television (WBTV) and Warner Bros. Animation (WBA) unleash their heroes, DC Super Heroes and antiheroes (both animated and live action), as well as a fully sparkled Unikitty, when four WBTV series and three WBA series attend the fan fest in Anaheim March 23–25. Special Video Presentations, panels and Q&A sessions with The 100 (premiering Tuesday, April 24 at 9/8c The CW), DC Super Hero series Teen Titans Go! (Fridays 6/5c Cartoon Network) and Unikitty! (Fridays 6:30/5:30c Cartoon Network) take place on Friday, March 23. Fans will be treated to the exclusive world premiere screening of the new animated digital series Constantine, followed by an out of-this-world session for the new super series Krypton (premiering Wednesday, March 21, at 10/9c on SYFY) on Saturday, March 24. The weekend finishes with electrifying sizzle on Sunday, March 25, with exclusive sneak peek screenings of upcoming episodes of Lucifer (Mondays 8/7c FOX) and Black Lightning (Tuesdays 9/8c The CW).

Stars and producers scheduled to attend WonderCon 2018 include:

The 100 stars Eliza Taylor, Bob Morley, Christopher Larkin, Lindsey Morgan, Richard Harmon and Tasya Teles along with executive producer Jason Rothenberg.
Krypton stars Cameron Cuffe, Georgina Campbell and Shaun Sipos along with executive producer Cameron Welsh and DC Entertainment’s Dan Evans.
Black Lightning executive producer/showrunner Salim Akil with series writers Jan Nash, Pat Charles, Adam Giaudrone and Lamont Magee.
Constantine star Matt Ryan, along with series writer J.M. DeMatteis and Blue Ribbon Content & Warner Bros. Animation’s Peter Girardi.
Teen Titans Go! producers Michael Jelenic and Aaron Horvath, along with Beast Boy voice actor Greg Cipes.
Unikitty! producers Ed Skudder, Lynn Wang and Aaron Horvath, along with art director Andrea Fernandez, animation director Anna Hollingsworth and voice cast Eric Bauza, H. Michael Croner and Roger Smith.

The cast and producers of all series will be signing autographs. For more information about participating, please visit https://www.comic-con.org/wca/exclusive-signings

For more information about the Studio’s plans at WonderCon, please follow us on Twitter at @warnerbrostv.

Following are the WBTV panel dates and times for WonderCon 2018 (panelists and panel times may be subject to change).

Friday, March 23

2:30–3:30 p.m. Unikitty! Special Video Presentation and Q&A — WonderCon attendees will be transported to a joyous kingdom full of sparkle matter, happy thoughts and the occasional rage-out when Unikitty! takes the stage.  Bring your positive vibes and join our panel of producers and members of the voice cast for a behind-the-scenes look at the hit animated series starring your favorite character from The LEGO® Movie.  Produced by Warner Bros. Animation, Unikitty! airs Fridays at 6:30/5:30c on Cartoon Network. Follow Cartoon Network on Twitter at @CartoonNetwork.  Room: North 200B

3:30–4:30 p.m. Teen Titans Go! Special Video Presentation and Q&A — The Titans are back at WonderCon and they’re bringing all the fun, laughs and hilarious hijinks that are part of every Teen Titans Go! panel.  You only need to bring your questions (and maybe some waffles and pie) for producers Michael Jelenic, Aaron Horvath and voice actor Greg Cipes who will answer your questions about all things Titans.   Produced by Warner Bros. Animation, Teen Titans Go! airs Fridays at 6/5c on Cartoon Network.  Become a fan of the show on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TeenTitansGo, and follow Cartoon Network on Twitter at @CartoonNetwork.  Room: North 200B

6:00–7:00 p.m. The 100 Special Video Presentation and Q&A — With season five premiering on Tuesday, April 24 at 9/8c on The CW, The 100 makes its return to Anaheim for a special appearance at WonderCon with a sneak peek into the new season. More than six years have passed since Praimfaya has ravaged the planet and killed most of the human race. As Clarke waits to hear from the group on the Ark, or in the bunker, a prison ship drops from the sky. Are they friend or foe? And what do they want? Join us for a special video presentation followed by a Q&A with series stars Eliza Taylor, Bob Morley, Christopher Larkin, Lindsey Morgan, Richard Harmon and Tasya Teles and producer Jason Rothenberg. From Bonanza Productions Inc. in association with Alloy Entertainment and Warner Bros. Television, The 100: The Complete Fourth Season is available on Digital, Blu-ray™ and DVD. Become a fan on Facebook at www.facebook.com/CWThe100, and follow the show on Twitter @CWThe100. Room: North 200A

Saturday, March 24

10:00–11:00 a.m. Constantine World Premiere Screening — A WonderCon Anaheim exclusive! Don’t miss the world premiere screening of the first episodes of the animated Constantine series for CW Seed!  This new series from Blue Ribbon Content and Warner Bros. Animation follows DC’s popular comic book character John Constantine (voiced by the live action series star Matt Ryan), a seasoned demon hunter and master of the occult.  Constantine is executive produced by David S. Goyer (The Dark Knight trilogy, Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, Constantine, Krypton), Greg Berlanti (The Flash, Arrow, Supergirl, Black Lightning), and Sarah Schechter (Blindspot, Riverdale, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, Black Lightning). Join series star Matt Ryan, plus series writer J.M. DeMatteis (Justice League Dark, Batman vs. Robin) and Blue Ribbon Content & Warner Bros. Animation’s Peter Girardi for a Q&A session after the screening.  The first season of Constantine begins streaming March 24 at http://www.cwseed.com.  Room: North 200A

2:00–3:00 p.m. Krypton Special Video Presentation and Q&A — The never-before-told story of Superman’s ancestors, set two generations before the destruction of his home planet, Krypton follows Superman’s grandfather, Seg-El (Cameron Cuffe) as he’s faced with a life or death conflict – to save his home planet or let it be destroyed in order to restore the fate of his future grandson. Join showrunner and executive producer Cameron Welsh (Ash vs. Evil Dead), DC Entertainment executive Dan Evans, and stars Cameron Cuffe (The Halcyon), Georgina Campbell (Black Mirror) and Shaun Sipos (Melrose Place) as they provide exclusive insight into this highly-anticipated new series from executive producer David S. Goyer, Warner Horizon Scripted Television, DC Entertainment and SYFY. Krypton premieres March 21 and airs Wednesdays at 10/9c on SYFY. Room North 200A

Sunday, March 25

10:30–11:15 a.m. Lucifer Exclusive Screening of Brand New Episode — Consider this your deal with the devil! Lucifer fans will not only have the opportunity to screen an upcoming episode of the devilish drama, but also a special video message from series stars Tom Ellis, Lauren German, Tom Welling and Aimee Garcia. From Jerry Bruckheimer Television in association with Warner Bros. Television, and based upon the characters created by Neil Gaiman, Sam Kieth and Mike Dringenberg for Vertigo from DC Entertainment, Lucifer airs Mondays at 9/8c on FOX. Become a fan on Facebook at www.facebook.com/LuciferonFOX and follow the show on Twitter @LuciferonFOX. Room: Arena

12:45–1:45 p.m. Black Lightning All-New Episode and Q&A — Where there is darkness, there is…Black Lightning. Jefferson Pierce made his choice: he hung up the suit and his secret identity years ago. But with crime and corruption spreading like wildfire, and those he cares about in the crosshairs of the menacing local gang, The One Hundred, he must return as Black Lightning — to save not only his family, but also the soul of his community. Join series producers and writers to watch the electrifying never-before-seen “Sins of the Father” episode of Black Lightning, followed by a Q&A session. Based on the DC character created by Tony Isabella with Trevor Von Eeden, Black Lightning is produced by Berlanti Productions and Akil Productions, in association with Warner Bros. Television. Black Lightning airs Tuesdays at 9/8c on The CW. Become a fan on Facebook at www.facebook.com/CWBlackLightning and follow the show on Twitter @blacklightning. Room: Arena

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Tales of Herding Gods (Mu Shen Ji) : Destiny will find you!

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What is a donghua? In essence, a donghua is an animated series similar to an anime, but hailing from China. About 90 percent of donghua I’ve watched have been cultivation-based, which was originally a Taoist concept that’s described as extending ones lifespan through the study of martial and mystical arts. Donghua have a whole library of sub-categories too, Wuxia and Xianxia and Xuanhuan and all sorts of others, but for the purposes of reviewing Tales of Herding Gods, we will stick to Xuanhuan, which is a Chinese fantasy-world setting often including elements of Chinese folklore, mythology, and even science-fiction. Armed with fresh cultivator vigor, lets dive into this!

The show is based on the popular xuanhuan novel Mu Shen Ji by Zhai Zhu. So Qin Mu was found as an infant by the disabled Elders of Disabled Elderly Village, with only a strange amulet and nothing else, not even a name, left to him. Picked up by the complicated Granny Si and one-armed Old Ma, Qin Mu was a strange child and would have certainly died if Granny Si hadn’t taken matters into her own hands. But a great destiny, and donghua are very big on Destiny, was determined for Qin Mu, and so all the Elders of Disabled Elderly Village are determined to help Qin Mu in their own, definitely unique, ways.

Qin Mu grows up strong, trained by the village Elders whom he grows to love – mask-faced Apothecary, feared by all for his poisons but the one Qin Mu’s believes is actually the nicest amongst the Elders; the half-man Butcher with literally no lower body but the blade skills of a Berserker, who teaches Qin Mu his extraordinary knife ways; the one-leg-missing Cripple who of course teaches Qin Mu his astounding movement and leg skills; the prayerful Blind who nonetheless teaches Qin Mu Eye techniques along with the staff and spear; Deaf, as one can imagine has no ears, passes on his methods of exceptional painting and proper etiquette; Mute is a Divine Blacksmith and makes all the specialized weapons for Disabled Elderly Village; Old Ma is missing an arm, and is the master and instructor of the ironic Thousand-Armed Buddha and Eight Thunderclap Strikes to Qin Mu; Granny Si was the Saintess of the Heavenly Devil Cult in her previous life, and her powers of blood and manipulation strings save Qin Mu’s butt on more than one occasion; and finally, the Village Chief is a former Sword God and human Emperor besides, who now nevertheless governs the Village from his wheelchair, in sheer grit and utter refusal to just die already.

A great deal of emphasis is placed on Qin Mu’s early training, for as he was determined for some kind of destiny, sooner or later he’d have to leave the Village to go find it (no-one wants a Destiny to come looking for them instead), and the Elders all determine that Qin Mu will be as well-armed in mind, body and spirit as they can possibly make him. All the Elders have pasts and each their own distinct training regimen that would certainly kill lesser mortals if they tried it, but Qin Mu is special, and quite determined. And all the Elders, despite any initial misgivings

they may have had when Qin Mu the infant was first found, come to love the precious boy that is the son of all of them.

The show is an incredible visual treat, with CGI animation the likes of which really hasn’t been seen anywhere, all painstakingly rendered to within an inch of its life, detailed and fully realized and totally immersive. The fight scenes, and there are of course many, are gorgeous and actually remind one of The Matrix if it were set in one of the many Chinese underworlds.

Everything has a gloriously dark gothic feel to it, especially the various monsters Qin Mu has to fight and the Disabled Elders who raised him, but also practically everywhere our

villain-in-training goes looks dark, dreadful, and gleefully ready to rend you to shreds at any given moment.

Fight on before fearsome destiny comes looking for you too, in Tales of Herding Gods which can be found on Bilibili.com now!

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The Too-Perfect Saint: Tossed Aside by my Fiance and Sold to Another Kingdom

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In a world infested by monsters and demons, women who wield Holy Powers known as Saints are the main line of defense, and the show begins as the title suggests, with the strongest Saint Philia Adenauer being rejected and sold by her former fiance to a neighboring kingdom!

Welcome to the Kingdom of Girtonia, where honestly, the people and especially their Royals are far too concerned with appearances. Philia Adenauer may be the strongest Saint in living memory and she serves Girtonia well and faithfully, but because she never smiles, whispers and recriminations follow her, rather than thanks and accolades. On the other hand, her younger sister Mia, also a Saint, is beloved by everyone in Girtonia, for she’s bright and kind and has a ready smile for everyone, even her awful parents and the main Prince of the Kingdom, the selfish and arrogant Julius.

The show goes on to mercilessly demonstrate just how badly Philia is abused by the folk of Girtonia, how she works continuously at all of her Saintly duties daily and people still take advantage of her giving nature by demanding yet more of her, her time, her efforts, her magic, and all without a smidgen of gratitude. It’s all the expected duty of the strongest Saint, after all, and if Philia ever dared to think about shirking all that she’s expected to carry on her slim shoulders, it would bring shame to the entire Adenauer family, plus the Kingdom of Girtonia besides. Nevermind that her dreadful parents are only using Philia’s prestige as the Saint of the Kingdom and her engagement to Prince Julius to boost their status in high society, and nevermind that Prince Julius himself is a brainless greedy little twit who resents Philia for her power as the strongest Saint even as he tries to use her prestige to in theory boost his own.

Philia’s own wishes have never mattered, the only one who even thinks Philia might have feelings of her own is her sister Mia, and she’s had to keep mum about them for both their sakes.

So one day Prince Julius takes it into his tiny little head to, conspiring with Philia’s own parents no less, break their engagement, marry sister Mia instead, and oh yeah, sell Philia as a Saint to the neighboring Kingdom of Parnacorta, whose Saint had died recently. All of this is done very quickly and in the most underhanded way possible, so much so that neither Philia nor Mia have the chance to protest, and now Philia’s gone and Mia’s expected to take her place in literally everything – all Philias Saintly duties and the engagement to Prince Julius besides.

Parnacorta isn’t exactly a next-door neighbor of a Kingdom, it takes a fair far carriage ride for Philia to get there and she’s even forced to walk the last few leagues or so, but compared to her treatment in Girtonia on the reg, that’s small potatoes. Fearful she won’t be able to live up to the reputation she strived so hard for in Girtonia, Saint Philia Adenauer squares her poor shoulders

and prepares to meet this new life of slavery, just in a different Kingdom, without even her beloved sister beside her.

What Philia didn’t expect, what completely floors her, was to be greeted in the capital city of Almburg in Parnacorta by Bishop Bjorn himself, at a party thrown in her honor. She sure didn’t expect earnest apologies from Second Prince Osvalt for outright buying her, but with the unfortunate death of their previous Saint Elizabeth, the Prince brothers of Parnacorta were desperate, and since Elizabeth had been Crown Prince Reichardt’s fiance, he wasn’t in much state to take care of things just then. She also did not expect to be given an actual mansion to live in, complete with servants of her own, in the form of butler Leonardo and maid Lea, who both cluck like worried hens over their new Mistress as she goes about her Saintly duties with the beaten-down countenance of someone already severely broken. In fact, damn near everyone in Parnacorta is pretty horrified at how Philia was treated in her home Kingdom of Girtonia and determine that she should never come to feel that way in Parnacorta, Second Prince Osvalt even takes it upon himself to tell Philia he hopes she will come to love his Kingdom as much as he and his subjects do.

Things have taken a remarkably upward turn for Philia, but everything comes to a grinding halt when it turns out that not only did Prince Julius not use any of the money he got for Philia’s sale in defense of Girtonia, but that Saint Mia is considerably less skilled than her sister in Saintly magic, and demons and monsters are beginning to overrun the borders of Girtonia. Of course somehow Prince Julius determines this is all actually Saint Philia’s fault, once again, and begins plotting ways to get her back to Girtonia, to fix the mess she somehow created.

Over in Parnacorta, even amidst genuine and kind folk who come to love her quickly, Saint Philia finds herself overwhelmed with the oncoming demon and monster tide, even after she takes on the inexperienced Saint of Bolmern, Grace Mattilas, for training. Philia contacts the Saints of neighboring Kingdoms to pool their magics and resources, while trying desperately to get word of the goings-on in Girtonia and the state of her sister Mia. And as outright war approaches, buoyed by the confidence of the people of Parnacorta and the always-faithful love of her dear sister Mia, Saint Philia who never smiles gathers power to her and prepares to defend all the good things in her new world!

The anime is done almost entirely in softly shaded pastels, mostly greys and violets for the Saints, with the harsher colors being left to the actual antagonists, the demons, monsters, and the belligerent folk of Girtonia who made Philia’s life miserable. The tale of an overlooked woman who gathered love and family not of her blood around her is a beautiful one, that anyone can appreciate.

Cheer on Saint Philia and her genuine new friends in The Too-Perfect Saint: Tossed Aside by my Fiance and Sold to Another Kingdom on Crunchyroll now!

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Jurassic World: Rebirth — A Promising Premise Buried Beneath Chaos

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The Jurassic franchise has always balanced on the razor’s edge between spectacle and cautionary tale, and Jurassic World: Rebirth certainly attempts to recapture that original magic. Set five years after Jurassic World Dominion, the film shifts from global chaos to localized suspense, asking a familiar, urgent question: When will humans stop f**king with nature?

It’s a bold new direction—on paper. Dinosaurs are no longer overrunning cities or frolicking in snow. What’s left of them survives in isolated, equatorial environments eerily similar to their prehistoric origins. And within the DNA of three of the most massive creatures across land, sea, and air lies the key to a revolutionary medical breakthrough—because of course it does. That idea, ambitious and morally gray, sets the stage for what could have been a taut sci-fi thriller. Instead, Rebirth struggles to find its footing.

Scarlett Johansson leads the charge as Zora Bennett, a covert ops specialist contracted to recover the critical genetic material. Johansson brings intensity and gravitas to the role, but even she can’t hold together a plot that seems to unravel faster than a velociraptor attack. Her team, including the always-excellent Mahershala Ali as Duncan Kincaid and Jonathan Bailey as conflicted paleontologist Dr. Henry Loomis, is well-cast, but the film bounces between character arcs and action set pieces with a pace that feels more chaotic than compelling.

Zora’s mission collides with a shipwrecked civilian family stranded on a forbidden island that once hosted a secret Jurassic Park research facility. It’s here, amidst overgrown ruins and long-forgotten experiments, that the movie starts to echo the tension and wonder of the 1993 original. Gareth Edwards (Rogue One) brings his signature scale and atmosphere to some genuinely impressive sequences, particularly a misty jungle standoff that had the audience audibly holding its breath.

But even stunning visuals can’t mask a story that jumps around like a spooked compy. The plot is fragmented, the character motivations murky, and a key third-act twist—while thematically rich—feels rushed and underdeveloped. There’s a fascinating idea buried beneath the surface about how humans continue to exploit nature under the guise of saving themselves. It’s pure Jurassic DNA. But the film never quite gives that theme room to breathe.

The ensemble cast—including Luna Blaise, David Iacono, and Audrina Miranda—tries their best to inject heart into the narrative, and there are emotional beats that land, particularly between Garcia-Rulfo’s Reuben and his daughter. But overall, the film never slows down long enough for audiences to invest deeply.

In the end, Jurassic World: Rebirth feels like a movie caught between two eras—trying to honor the intelligent suspense of the past while chasing the blockbuster chaos of the present. It’s not a total misfire; there are moments that genuinely thrill, and it does reawaken some of the series’ foundational questions. But it’s a bumpy ride, and one that ultimately left me wondering how many more times we need to learn the same lesson.

Final Verdict:
(5/10)
Rebirth brings back some of the feel of the original, but it’s a messy, uneven installment weighed down by its own ambition. A missed opportunity dressed in T. rex-sized potential. Let’s hope, next time, they learn to let nature speak for itself.

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