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Victoria Pedretti was not well known before her role in The Haunting of Hill House. Before then, she had mainly appeared in short films. However, since Haunting, she has been one of the fastest rising stars out there. Her portrayal of Nell in Mike Flanagan’s anthology series was so good that it got her spotted for her largest role to date as Love Quinn on another hit Netflix Original series You, which just released its third season and has been renewed for a fourth....

United Artists has set Tom Cruise to star for director Bryan Singer in the untitled WWII thriller that will begin production in the summer, says Variety. Chris McQuarrie wrote the script with Nathan Alexander. Singer and McQuarrie will produce, and Alexander will be co-producer. United Artists partners Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner made a deal last week for the film which is the first original project teaming Singer and McQuarrie since The Usual Suspects....

Tom Waits has had a highly successful music career for half a century and became the voice of a generation who’d never heard of him. For those who have, he’s arguably the greatest songwriter who’s ever lived, and for the uninitiated, he’s the guy who wrote Downtown Train for Rod Stewart. Also, the musician starred in almost 50 movies; most of them are small roles, but even Waits’ few lines of dialogue can be a highlight of a film....

The Good A very entertaining look at parts of the world that amazingly allow life to exist there. The Bad Flimsy packaging. True-Life Adventures, Vol. 1: Wonders of the World is a look at some of the coldest and wettest places on earth and the amazing creatures that not only live there, but also have managed to carve out a highly successful life for themselves. This DVD gives us a glimpse at the strikingly cold climate that certain animals exist in, as well as valleys and other areas that miraculously prove themselves to be conducive to spawning life....

A smitten convenience store clerk and his stoner best friend conspire to rob the Quality Mart’s ATM on the eve of Y2K. Turbo Cola is an indie coming-of-age dramedy about wanting to escape the confines of a small town. Based on the play “New Year’s Eve at the Stop-N-Go” by Samantha Oty, the listless characters face high school graduation with different expectations. Their hopes and dreams cross paths with reality as the plan does not go smoothly....

It sounds like a cruel April Fool’s Day joke for hardcore Twilight haters across the globe. But it’s true. Stephenie Meyer, creator of the novel series which the popular films are based on, has hinted that she is writing a new Twilight spin-off series that will focus on Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner) and his relationship with Renesmee (Mackenzie Foy), the daughter of Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) and Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson), whom Jacob ‘imprints’ upon at the time of birth, marking the newborn as his life mate (or life protector, however you want to look at it)....

USA Network is building on its 2006 original programming slate with an 11-episode order for the one-hour series Psych, starring James Roday (“Dukes of Hazzard,” “Miss Match”), Dule Hill (“The West Wing”) and Corbin Bernsen (“Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang,” “LA Law”). Series is executive produced by Steve Franks (Big Daddy), in association with Tagline Pictures’ Kelly Kulchack and Chris Henze and NBC Universal Television Studio. The announcement was made today by Jeff Wachtel, USA’s executive vice president, original programming....

According to The Hollywood Reporter, MTV Networks’ VH1 is launching the first programming initiative to result from the company’s $49 million purchase of online video aggregator iFilm in October. Web Junk 20 is a weekly show based on clips and shorts that will be shown on VH1 and on-demand via VH1’s broadband network VSpot. Set to premiere January 13th, Web Junk 20 is a countdown of the strange and humorous videos being spread virally around the Internet....

Comcast’s Xfinity X1 Voice Remote is a self-proclaimed state-of-the-art device, but it wouldn’t let users search for The Dick Van Dyke Show. Apparently, the remote deemed the title to be offensive and would not handle the aforementioned search request. When one thinks of Dick Van Dyke, the last thing that anybody thinks of is the word offensive, though his name may have been funny for obvious reasons when you were in third grade and didn’t know any better, which is where the Xfinity X1 Voice Remote may be stuck....

Production has been under way on The Walking Dead Season 8 since early May, although there still isn’t much revealed about the story quite yet. One of the series regulars, Tom Payne, who plays the Hilltop Colony survivor Jesus, teased that Season 8 will be unlike anything else fans have seen before. Here’s what the actor had to say about how this season will be different from Season 7. The survivors of The Walking Dead were largely separated throughout various different areas, but in the Season 7 finale, soldiers from the Hilltop Colony and The Kingdom showed up just in time to help Rick and the Alexandrians drive back Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and his Saviors, marking the beginning of a story line in the comics known as All Out War....

WandaVision finally pulls back the curtain to reveal the truth behind Westview. Episode Three, “Now in Color”, updates the sitcom format to the groovy seventies. Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen) is heavily pregnant. Vision (Paul Bettany) wonders how the baby has grown so quickly. They fetch Dr. Nielsen (Randy Oglesby) and do their best to hide the pregnancy from the neighbors. But Herb (David Payton) and Agnes (Kathryn Hahn) are acting strangely. There’s something different about Geraldine (Teyonah Parris)....

Warner Bros. Pictures has picked up the rights to M. William Phelps’ upcoming biography on American Revolutionary hero and spy Nathan Hale. The bigscreen adaptation of Phelps’ For the Sake of Liberty: America’s First Spy follows the last years of his life. Variety reports the final words he spoke before being hung by the Brits was, “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”...

“If you believe in a god, gentlemen, start praying to him.” Watch the story of man hunting man in the first trailer for The Most Dangerous Game. The film is co-produced by North American home entertainment firm Mill Creek Entertainment, marking their first co-produced scripted feature-length film. The trailer for the film can be found below: The Most Dangerous Game stars Chris ‘C.T.’ Tamburello, known for MTV’s The Challenge, before starring in the T....

When Wheel of Fortune viewers cried foul over a contestant missing out on a prize, Audi made things right. On Tuesday night’s edition of the popular game show, contestant Charlene Rubush had been doing great when she headed into the Bonus Round with $16,500. Things took a turn when she was solving a “What Are You Doing?” puzzle, as Rubush took a pause while delivering the correct answer. At first, Rubush said the wrong phrase, but was able to figure it out in the nick of time....

Netflix has reportedly added one more member to its Avatar: The Last Airbender live-action series. This time Netflix’s choice has been Prey’s Amber Midthunder, set to play Princess Yue in the Avatar series. The actress plays the young Native American Comanche warrior, Naru, in the Dan Trachtenberg-directed Prey. A prequel to the ’80s classic Predator. The trailers for Prey and Midthunder’s performance have been received very well by fans. Midthunder has also been reputed for her performances in the TV series Legion....

The Fantastic Beasts franchise was supposed to kick-start a new era of Harry Potter, now dubbed the Wizarding World franchise. A prequel to the Harry Potter series and based on one of the textbooks assigned to Hogwarts students, the franchise follows Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne), a magic zoologist who specializes in the care of the magical creatures of the wizarding world. What began as a simple spin-off of the Harry Potter franchise quickly morphed into a prequel saga bringing in characters like Dumbledore and Grindelwald....

Welcome to MovieWeb’s daily DVD announcement column, The Daily Spin. Everyday at 9:00AM PST we compile a list of titles which have been recently announced by the studios and have been given or rumored with a release date. Click a title below to see the full press release info attached to the release. Enjoy and stay tuned to MovieWeb for the latest home video announcements, 9:00AM PST, on the dot, Monday through Friday....

Welcome to MovieWeb’s daily DVD announcement column, The Daily Spin. Everyday at 9:00AM PST we compile a list of titles which have been recently announced by the studios and have been given or rumored with a release date. Click a title below to see the full press release info attached to the release. Enjoy and stay tuned to MovieWeb for the latest home video announcements, 9:00AM PST, on the dot, Monday through Friday....

Last week there was a report that Universal Pictures might possibly put their multi-platform endeavor The Dark Tower into turnaround because the budget was spiraling out of control. Now it seems that Universal is holding onto the property, although the production has been delayed. Production was scheduled to start sometime this summer, although Universal has pushed the start date to February 2012. The producers and studio are currently working out a plan to bring the budget numbers down on this sprawling adaptation, which includes three movies and two TV seasons, which will air between the movies....

Warner Bros. is going for some early scares with the October 10 release of The Exorcist: The Complete Anthology! For the first time ever, every movie in the Exorcist story will be available in one six-disc, must-have DVD box set – The Exorcist: The Complete Anthology – available from Warner Home Video on October 10. A true cinema landmark, The Exorcist re-defined the modern horror movie, and has been acknowledged as one of the scariest movies ever made....