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Stars in their shorts for MTV Movie Awards

Mon May 26, 2008 9:44pm EDT
Executive producer of ''The Ruins'', Ben Stiller, attends a special screening of the film in Los Angeles April 2, 2008. REUTERS/Phil McCarten

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - MTV has enlisted a slew of stars -- including Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr. and Jack Black -- to create their own short films, which will premiere during the cable channel's annual MTV Movie Awards on Sunday.

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Mike Myers, who will host the event at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, also created two shorts featuring two new characters he created.

In addition, an Adam Sandler-created promo for the ceremony is already airing. In it, he plays his character from his upcoming comedy "You Don't Mess With the Zohan." (Sandler also is receiving a special award during the show, but the details are being kept under wraps.)

Stiller hired his own writer (Mike Bender) and director (Nick Stoller) to work on the short, which is a "very funny tribute to viral films," said Robin Reinhardt-Locke, senior vp studio relations and celebrity talent at MTV. The video also will air at MTV.com and other sites after its on-air premiere.

The awards, now in their 17th year, unofficially double as a promotional platform for upcoming movies, including those released by MTV's corporate sibling Paramount Pictures.

Stiller, Downey and Black co-star in Paramount's August 15 comedy "Tropic Thunder." Paramount is also releasing Myers' movie, "The Love Guru," on June 20. Sandler's movie, from Sony's Columbia, opens June 6.

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