Jack Black in new Ghostbusters film?

Jack Black is desperate to star in the new Ghostbusters sequel and lobbied original star Harold Ramis when the pair worked together on new movie Year One.

After directing Black in the neanderthal comedy, Ramis is preparing to reprise his role as Dr. Egon Spengler in the third Ghostbusters film.

The veteran is also on the shortlist to direct the sequel, and Black admits he used his time with Ramis to campaign for the chance to hunt ghouls with him.

Black tells Moviefone, "Could I see myself in it? Yeah, I can bust some ghosts! I ain't (sic) afraid of no ghosts! Buster."

Ghostbusters III will star the original line-up of Ramis, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Ernie Hudson, as well as a new batch of younger spook chasers.


* Article pinched from IMDb news, 16/06/2009

Jack Black at the MTV Movie Awards

"Write your captions on the back of a postcard and send it in to the usual address!

After describing Robert Downey Jr as "the greatest actor of all time, forged in a cauldron of his own genius", Jack Black asked the Iron Man star to autograph his chest so he could "sell it on eBay".

* Pinched from BBC Entertainment News, 02/06/2008

Be Kind Rewind (2008)

Be Kind Rewind is an original comedy about an old run down video (yes, VHS) rental shop on the brink of closure.

Whilst the manager (Danny Glover) takes a short break he leaves the shop in the capable hands of Jerry (Mos Def). Jerry is pestered constantly by his conspiracy theorist friend Mike (Jack Black) who owns the local scrap yard. Through some idiotic scheme (you'll have to watch it to see, its very funny!) Mike gets magnetized and accidentally erases the entire VHS collection in the shop.

In a desperate attempt to keep the shop running and to fool the customers Mike & Jerry re-shoot the films with the aid of a really old video camera, toys, tin foil, scrap metal and tonnes of enthusiasm! The re-made films (or 'sweded' films as the story refers to) become surprisingly popular with the customers in the neighbourhood, often running at a fraction of the time as the original but so much funnier. Business soon picks up after the public find out about the homemade movies.

The sweded version of Ghost Busters is simply fantastic, trailers for all the sweded films can be found here or the official (sweded) site - www.bekindmovie.com/youtube.

Theres more to the story than just sweded films but I don't want to spoil things any further.

The film itself has a nice low budget indie look to it, directed by Michel Gondry who's previous films include The Science of Sleep and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.