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Hulu's supernatural series, Deadbeat, which stars Tyler Labine as a stoned slacker who can communicate with the dead, has been renewed for a third season. Also in this round-up: Stung's release date and the trailer for the Kevin Bacon-starring Cop Car.

Deadbeat: Press Release (via TV By the Numbers) -- "Santa Monica, CA – May 26, 2015 – Hulu announced today that the Hulu Original series Deadbeat has been renewed for a third season with a 13-episode order. Produced by Lionsgate Television, the series is co-created by Cody Heller and Brett Konner (Wilfred, The Inbetweeners) and executive produced by showrunner Dan Lagana. Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner and Sarah Esberg from Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment are producers on the show.

The half-hour comedyseries stars Tyler Labine (Tucker & Dale vs. Evil, Reaper) as Kevin Pacalioglu, a hapless but gifted mediumwho will go to any lengths to help New York’s ghosts settle their unfinished business.

Guests at the garden party in the upcoming creature feature, Stung, will have to replace their EpiPens with swords and flamethrowers if they want to survive the giants wasps from below that are featured in the film's first trailer. Also included in our latest video round-up is a boy next door with a creepy caretaker in John McNaughton's The Harvest, as well as Helen McCrory's tour of her character's eerily decorated mansion from the upcoming second season of Showtime's Penny Dreadful.

Stung: "Mrs. Perch, an elderly, wealthy lady from rural America, is throwing a fancy garden party at her remote country villa. Same procedure as every year - except this time her illegally imported plant fertilizer seeps into the ground. Subsequently, a local species of killer wasps that usually lay their eggs into other insects mutates into 7 ft tall predators. And the celebrating upper class company provides...

Getting stung by a wasp hurts, and it can be fatal for those who are allergic. But imagine if those tiny winged insects were seven feet tall—you would have to replace your EpiPen with a sword to stand a chance against a stinger that big. In Benni Diez’s Stung, two catering staffers and a group of garden partiers take on giant mutated wasps, and we have a look at the film’s new poster that’s eye-grabbing and eye-puncturing.

“Mrs. Perch, an elderly, wealthy lady from rural America, is throwing a fancy garden party at her remote country villa. Same procedure as every year – except this time her illegally imported plant fertilizer seeps into the ground. Subsequently, a local species of killer wasps that usually lay their eggs into other insects mutates into 7 ft tall predators. And the celebrating upper class company provides just the right kind of prey.

Yup, that's Berlin based madman Daniele Rizzo clad in "Italian steel" (aka plastic) as he meets with the cast and crew of RoboCop on their German press junket and - as is typically the case with Rizzo - the results are a lot of goofy fun. Oldman seems to roll with this one the best of the lot but everyone seems more than happy to play along ... check it out below....

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Here we go, Hobbit fans ... Berlin based prankster Daniele Rizzo managed to land video interviews with stars Martin Freeman, Benedict Cumberbatch and Richard Armitage (that'd be Bilbo, Smaug and Thorin) and, as per his normal lunacy, showed up in costume to conduct the interviews in character, this time as Dandalf the Disco Wizard.The beauty of Rizzo's efforts is in watching the candid reactions of actors in the midst of a long, numbing press junket in which they're asked the same questions over and over and over again struggle to keep up with the fact that there's an obvious madman in the room and all three of the interview subjects here are great fun. Freeman and Armitage roll with it immediately while Cumberbatch at first...

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It's ain't easy being The Wolfster. Or "Sam," for that matter. Our friend, actor and comedian Daniele Rizzo, likes to dress up in full makeup and costume for his interviews with actors and filmmakers promoting their latest releases in Europe. And so he dressed up as "Sam" for Matt Damon, Sharlto Copley, and Neill Blomkamp (Elysium). For Lilly Collins and Jamie Campbell Blower (The Mortal Instruments), he appeared as "Wolfgang, aka The Wolfster." I always love the spontaneous reactions of the interview subjects when they see Daniele come walking through the door. Damon has fun with it -- note what happens near the end when he's asked if he has any message for the future Jimmy Kimmel -- and so does Copley, who turns savagely...

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The Lone Ranger continues to roll out around the world. It opened in Spain and Taiwan this weekend, and will open in Japan, France, Germany, Ireland, and the UK in the coming weeks. The film's principals have been working hard to promote the movie, but we think it's fair to say they never met an interviewer like Pronto before. Pronto -- Tonto's cousin -- sits down to talk with actors Johnny Depp, Armie Hammer, William Fichtner, and Ruth Wilson, as well as producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Gore Verbinski. They treat their interviewer (our friend, actor and comedian Daniele Rizzo, in full makeup and costume) with various levels of respect and/or bemusement. Watching Pronto's interviews actually left me with a more favorable impression than sitting...

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Finally, a man boldly went there.

Look, the beauty of the "Star Trek" franchise is how unabashedly geeky Trekkies can be. Those nerds just don't give a flying eff what anyone outside the Starship Enterprise has to say about them, so there's a ton of fun to be had with it.

Here in this "Star Trek Into Darkness" junket interview with J.J. Abrams and his cast — Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Benedict Cumberbatch, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, John Cho, and Alice Eve — quirky YouTuber Daniele Rizzo posed as Spocko, a Vulcan-slinging weirdo with no qualms about asking tough questions like who this John Harrison baddie is and how the "crew" feels about the term "V.I.L.F."

Because...sure.

And while Captain J.J. looked pretty peeved about being demoted to craft services, the thespians among the crew handled the wannabe Vulcan's pressure pretty well.

Alice Eve and Karl Urban...

Stung Clip, Photo. Benni Diez‘s Stung (2014) VFX test clip stars Daniele Rizzo. Stung‘s plot synopsis: “Mrs. Perch, an elderly, wealthy lady from rural America, is throwing a fancy garden party at her remote country villa. Same procedure as every year – except this time her illegally imported plant fertilizer seeps into the ground. Subsequently, a local [...]

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Clearly Andrew Garfield's spider-senses are defective because he never saw it coming. With The Amazing Spider-Man opening in Europe prior to the Us the principal cast - Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone and Rhys Ifans - have all been out on the European press tour. And who was waiting for them in Berlin but Twitch-favored prankster Daniele Rizzo in a home-made Italian Spider costume. Ifans and Stone have had the Rizzo experience before but Garfield appears to be a neophyte and it's definitely an interview he won't be forgetting soon. Check the video evidence below....

Daniele Rizzo is at it again. The German film geek has built a name for himself by turning up at press junkets decked out in hand made costumes to conduct bizarre interviews, on one notable occasion turning up to interview the cast of Captain America decked out as Captain Italy. Well, with the whole Avengers team passing through it was time for the good Captain to make a repeat appearance but clearly this time he needed a bit of an upgrade. Check the video below as Tom Hiddleston, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Clark Gregg and Cobie Smulders try to figure out what the hell is happening....

On Friday we introduced you to Daniele Rizzo, a German actor / comedian with something of a habit of gooning Hollywood actors on their press junkets. That initial taste featured Rizzo in character as Captain Italy interviewing the cast of Captain America and now we've got another Rizzo interview with a member of The Avengers, this time with Rizzo having a chat with Chris Hemsworth, aka Thor. Take a look below....

There's a madman on the loose in Germany and his name is Daniele Rizzo. The German actor and comedian has become something of a cult figure in his home country thanks to a hysterically bizarre series of video interviews he has been conducting with major Hollywood stars, interviews for which he arrives as one of a string of original characters and frequently breaks his subjects down into fits of confused laughter.You will hopefully be seeing a lot more of Rizzo in these pages but with Joss Whedon's The Avengers on the horizon we thought now was a good time to introduce the man by going back to an older classic: Rizzo interviewing Captain America stars Dominic Cooper and Chris Evans in character as Captain...