MTV enlists stars for awards shorts

May 27, 2008 MTV has enlisted a slew of talent -- including Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr. and Adam Sandler -- to play an even bigger role in Sunday's Movie Awards, which airs live from the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City. For starters, several stars have signed on to create their own short films to premiere during the show, including Stiller, Downey and Jack Black, who co-star in Paramount/DreamWorks' upcoming "Tropic Thunder" (Paramount is MTV's corporate sibling). "In the past, our short films have been parodies of films, where we've come up with the ideas and presented them to the studios (for their approval)," said Robin Reinhardt-Locke, senior vp studio relations and celebrity talent at MTV360.

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