Reporting by Sharon Hong

In films like "Hustle & Flow," "8 Mile" and "Crossroads," Taryn Manning always seems to play morally-tenuous women finding drama through sex and drugs. For her recently-wrapped flick, Your Name Here," however, she traded tears for tech.

"It's being submitted to Sundance," she said excitedly when she stopped by MTV's Los Angeles studio last week. "It's a movie that me and Bill Pullman did, and I play Victoria Principal."

Portraying the sexpot "Dallas" star, Manning plays opposite Pullman as a doppleganger version of eccentric sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick, whose novels about time travel, androids and alternate universes have yielded such classics as "Minority Report," "Total Recall," and "Blade Runner." Read more...

Reporting by Brandy Schaefer

It's been nearly a decade-and-a-half since last we saw Terry Kiser waving limply at passers-by while a rope pully waved his hand up and down. If you're like the rest of us "Weekend at Bernie" fans, you long for the days of slapstick jokes with the dearly departed; well, get ready film fans, because your new Bernie is ... Taryn Manning?

"That was interesting when I first read the script," the "8 Mile" actress told us this week. "I was like 'Well, what do they want me to do? Because, right away, she dies!" Read more...