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Jack Black takes on PewDiePie in YouTube channel debut
Jack Black has launched a YouTube channel dedicated to "games, food, and life". For now, "Jablinksi Games" features just one upload: a 29 second intro vid in which the Hollywood actor jokes that he'll be bigger than Ninja and PewDiePie, two of the site's biggest creators. The clip has already racked up almost 2 million views, while the channel has more than 582,000 subscribers at the time of writing. Black is promising a new video every week to be shot, directed and edited by his son.
Tenacious D created a YouTube series to accompany their new album
If you're wondering what Jack Black's been up to lately, other than starring in box-office-conquering movies, he's drawn every single frame of a YouTube show starring himself and Tenacious D bandmate Kyle Gass. The comedy-rock duo's web series is called Post-Apocalypto, which shares a name with their upcoming record.
Caption contest: Gulliver's iPhone makes it big in Hollywood
So apparently the hidden island of Lilliput has cellular coverage, but who cares -- it's still gonna be another crap movie. Way to ruin Gulliver's Travels with Jack Black. Joe: "Finally, Angry Birds the way it was meant to be played." Darren: "That's a big iPhone." Josh T.: "The monolith taught the monkeys to kill, also, how to make conference calls." Paul: "Time-traveling Jack Black plants hidden iPhone reference in Jonathan Swift novel." Thomas: "It's holding you wrong." Tim: "Eighteen months ago, the first evidence of intelligent life off the Earth was discovered. It was buried forty feet below the lunar surface, near the crater Cupertino." Vlad: "It's just a jumbo iPhone, I don't see what all the fuss is about." Sam: "What does this mean? It's so bright, so vivid." Sean H.: "And so did the tiny scholars toil for decades to unravel the mysteries of the blue block, and the significance of its question marks." Richard Lai: "Paul Miller makes a cameo appearance in this scene, tut-tuts at the low pixel density." Myriam: "I'm crushing your head! I'm crushing your head!"
The Wii gets a taste of Jack Black
One of the most recognized comedians in the world took the Wii for a test drive and the results are hilarious. Jack Black, best known for his band Tenacious D and several outlandish movie appearances, approached the Wii with a twinkle in his eye. He was ready to sweat with Wii Sports. He did let it slip that his newest film, The Pick of Destiny, is better than the Wii, but we'll let that one slide for now Jack. [Thanks JC!]
Nacho Libre DS-bound, courtesy of Majesco
Majesco has announced it will release a Nacho Libre wrestling title for the Nintendo DS. The title will be developed by Budcat Creations, who did a pretty good PS2 port of Psychonauts (albeit the load times are abysmal). Majesco is promising ten playable characters, four-player gaming (not through Nintendo WiFi), and touch-screen minigames.Nacho Libre came out in theatres today to a mixed (yet mostly negative) critical response. From the trailers, I'd conjecture that the only people who will enjoy this movie also think it is incredibly funny to excessively quote Napoleon Dynamite ad infinitum.In January of 2006, Majesco announced that it would be focusing only on handheld games.
Jack Black video podcasts in iTunes
Fresh from slaying Kong (beauty didn't kill the beast, Jack, you did), Jack Black is busy filming his next movie, Nacho Libre. If you can't wait until the movie opens on June 2nd to see what Jack is up to, you may want to check out his video podcast, Jack Black's Nacho Libre Confessional [iTunes link]. Starting on March 15th, Jack will upload two weekly, iTMS-exclusive video podcasts (every Tuesday and Thursday) that are all about the making of the film. The first one is mildly amusing. If you're a Jack Black fan, check them out.
