Jack Black News

This week welcomed great news of new projects in the works, featuring great music fests on the way, highly anticipated new albums and just all-around awesomeness.

The Big Year stars Steve Martin, Owen Wilson, and Jack Black as bird watchers on a quest to spot the most species of birds in North America in a single year. This informal competition amongst birders is known as a "Big Year." The pursuit the three men embark on serves as both an escape from real life and as an allegory for it.

"We could not think of a more fitting actor to play Dain Ironfoot, the staunchest and toughest of Dwarves, than Billy Connelly , the Big Yin himself," director Peter Jack son told The Hollywood Reporter.

Birding: it's a sport or hobby that treads the line between familiar and mysterious, requiring no introduction but not a subject that many will consider themselves an expert on.

Southwest winds 10-to-15 miles per hour will be accentuated with gusts up to 30.

Beyond performing theme songs for shows including "Malcolm in the Middle," "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" and "Courage the Cowardly Dog," They Might Be Giants also have an extensive discography of catchy, quirky songs such as "Birdhouse in Your Soul." Add in "Still Alive" songwriter Jonathan Super-fans of indie musician and blogger Mike Doughty ... (more)

As of late it seems as if more movies are being made either teaming up unlikely actors or trying to bring a group together to create something special that no one expected to happen.

The new tween musical-fantasy sitcom "How to Rock" proves that some stories and themes never go out of style.

Synopsis ~ Steve Martin, Jack Black and Owen Wilson portray three men from very different walks of life, facing a mid-life crisis, a work-life crisis and a no-life crisis.

Bon Iver, Beck, St. Vincent, The Shins, Feist and the newly announced solo project from Jack White will be featured at the Sasquatch! Music Festival.

When Rachel Kaplan found out that a group of North Carolina citizens could have their rights taken away due to a constitutional amendment on the May ballot, she decided to do something about it.

Not so much because it is superb or savage or sensational or some other thing that attracts audiences, because it is not.

The Big Year bombed and bombed hard. It had the worst opening weekend for a wide release all year .

Bird-watching may not seem like the most involving subject for a comedy, and ... well, this movie proves it isn't, though director David Frankel assembles an all-star trio for it.

From left, Owen Wilson, Steve Martin and Jack Black star as three birders trying to outdo one another in "The Big Year." Beware the comedy that heralds its cast as "the Dream Team." Because as good as Steve Martin, Jack Black and Owen Wilson can be, the trio doesn't elevate this tale of three birders trying to outdo one another by sighting the most ... (more)

In " The Big Year ," three fanatical bird-watchers spend an entire year competing to spot the highest number of species as El Nino sends an extraordinary variety of rare breeds flying up into the United States.

From the director of The Devil Wears Prada and Marley & Me comes the comedy film The Big Year starring Steve Martin, Jack Black, Owen Wilson, Jim Parsons, Rashida Jones, Anjelica Huston, Dianne Wiest, JoBeth Williams, Brian Dennehy, Rosamund Pike and Tim Blake Nelson.

While the audience might not have flocked to see 2011's bird-watching comedy "The Big Year" in theaters , you still have a chance to catch the film, which stars comedy greats Steve Martin , Jack Black and Owen Wilson , when it comes out on DVD and Blu-ray Jan.

In this film publicity image released by Paramount Pictures, Po, voiced by Jack Black, center, Tigress, voiced by Angelina Jolie, right, and Monkey, voiced by Jackie Chan are shown in a scene from "Kung Fu Panda 2." a Only five percent of the top 250 grossing films last year were directed by women, a new study finds.

Ben Stiller will star in and direct an HBO comedy being produced by Scott Rudin.