In last year’s hit comedy “Role Models,” Paul Rudd and Seann William Scott played two ne’er-do-well energy drink salesmen forced into a youth mentoring program called Sturdy Wings. There they met Augie, a medieval role-playing enthusiast and Ronnie, a dirty-minded bundle of pre-teen energy. In between the hijinks and boob jokes, all four of them end up learning a few lessons -- and the movie became one of 2008’s highest grossing R-rated comedies.

And this being Hollywood, where every success is destined to be plumbed for possible sequels, spin-offs and any sort of ancillary tie-in (videogames! breakfast cereal!), the writer/director David Wain has been discussing a second “Role Models” movie. Read more...

He is the clue finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. He was chosen for the lucky number. He comes from the end of a bag, but no bag goes over him. He is the Barrel-rider.

Bilbo Baggins goes by many names in "The Hobbit," but one that he will never be known as is Jack Black, MTV News has learned.

Three days ago, The Daily Express wrote that Scottish actor James McAvoy was in "pole" position to claim the coveted role of Bilbo in Guillermo del Toro's two prequel films, but that Del Toro and producer Peter Jackson were also looking at Daniel Radcliffe and Jack Black for the part previously played in "Lord of the Rings" by Ian Holm.

That's news to Black, the actor told MTV News during a Q&A for his new film, "Kung Fu Panda." Read more...