SUBMITTED BY Fred Hill

May 30, 2006 —

New Line Cinema has picked up the US domestic rights to Be Kind Rewind.

New Line Cinema has picked up domestic rights to writer-director Michel Gondry's newest project, "Be Kind Rewind." Jack Black is attached to star in the film, which is being produced by Georges Bermann, Gondry's partner in Partizan Prods.

Black will portray a junkyard worker who attempts to sabotage a power plant that he believes is melting his brain. But when his plan goes awry, the magnetic field that he creates accidentally erases all of the videotapes in a local video store where his best friend, Mike, works. Fearing that the mishap will cost Mike his job, the two friends team up to keep the store's only loyal customer -- a little old lady with a tenuous grasp on reality -- from realizing what has happened by recreating and refilming every movie that she decides to rent. The duo put themselves into some of the biggest blockbusters of all time to become the biggest stars in their neighborhood...

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