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New York's Black Attack

Production company/art collective Partizan recently announced that they are planning to unleash Jack Black on Manhattan.

Set to begin filming on September 6, Be Kind Rewind is an offbeat comedy written and directed by Michel Gondry. A sometime music video director (White Stripes in Legos, anyone?), Gondry also gave us the eternally awesome Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. And who can forget the nod to NYC insiders in that film: A scene shot live during the midnight Barnum & Bailey elephant walk through midtown.

In this movie, shooting for under $20 million (so don't expect much security on set, Jack Stalkers...) Black plays a junkyard worker whose brain is magnetized, destroying the tapes in his friend's video store. The pair then goes on a tear through the city, trying to quickly re-make each of the ruined films (which include The Lion King, Rush Hour, Back to the Future and Robocop).

So for those of you enjoying autumn in New York, keep your eyes peeled for a cute chubby guy with a camcorder. You might just end up in his movie.