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Here's a round-up of today's news:

• Warner Bros. and Leonardo DiCaprio's production company are looking to bring us a feature-length Twilight Zone. This one, however, won't be episodic. Instead, they hope to stretch one out into a feature. THR
• Pretty, Baby, Machine is going to hit the big screen by Landscape Entertainment and bring Al Capone down. THR
• The MPAA goes viral. Variety
• Richard Dreyfuss is narrating a new doc called America Betrayed, which will be "a scathing look at the way out government contributes to and profits from disasters both here and abroad." Variety
• Harold and Kumar are coming back... again! John Cho and Kal Penn will reprise their roles; story is being kept under wraps. Variety
• Rupert Grint is bloody in Cherry Bomb. Just Jared
• New German doc -- Hitler on Trial. AP/Yahoo
• Trailer for The Brothers Bloom. Coming Soon
• More Repo! footage. MTV

Harry Potter has got to end sometime, and by "sometime" I mean in less than three years when the second cinematic half of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows sees release. And some people would like to still have a career when that happens, thank you very much. To that end, Rupert Grint -- a.k.a. Ron Weasley -- has taken a role in an indie film called Cherry Bomb, which sounds about as far from Harry Potter as you can get without developing an erotic fixation on horses.

The film, written by acclaimed playwright Daragh Caville, focuses on three teens who set out for a wild weekend of drugs, sex and crime only to see it escalate into something far more serious than they imagined. It co-stars relative unknowns Robert Sheehan and Kimberley Nixon, and is set for release next year.

While Daniel Radcliffe has tried more extreme methods of branching out (mainly by taking that infamous role in Equus, which is coming to Broadway per the above link) and Emma Watson hasn't done very much at all (she voices a character in this year's The Tale of Despereaux, but that seems to be it), Grint has spent what spare time he has toiling away in indieville. Cherry Bomb was preceded by the reasonably well-received and much less racy Driving Lessons, about a troubled boy's friendship with a retired actress.