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Audiences have been gasping every day this week as Countdown contestant Tom Stevenson broke two records on the 40-year-old show. The 21-year kept his nerve for the final Countdown Conundrum – solving a nine-letter anagram – despite the host reminding him of the significance of the occasion.  He…

2ND MONDAY UPDATE: : In the end, Disney’s Maleficent Mistress of Evil cast a spell and won the weekend with $19.37 million, inching out Warner Bros’ Joker by $122,000 after the latter studio reported their final fourth-weekend figure at $19.248M. “A virtual tie” is how one insider claimed the race, and there are…

EXCLUSIVE: STXfilms has set the cast for their horror thriller Countdown about an app which tells people when they’re going to be killed. Joining previously announced Elizabeth Lail is Talitha Bateman (Love, Simon, Annabelle: Creation), Peter Facinelli (Twilight franchise), P.J Byrne (Green Book, Rampage), Anne…

Once Upon a Time alum Elizabeth Lail has been tapped to star in STXfilms’ Countdown, a horror film written and directed by Justin Dec. John Rickard, Sean Anders, John Morris, and Zack Schiller are producing the project. Lail, who is set to star opposite Penn Badgley in the first season of Lifetime's hit psychological…