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Thomas Jacob Black (born August 28, 1969) is an American actor, comedian, and musician. He is known for his roles in family and comedy films and his voice work in animated films. His awards include a Children's and Family Emmy Award, a Grammy Award, and three Golden Globe Award nominations. After portraying supporting roles in films including Dead Man Walking (1995), The Cable Guy (1996), Mars Attacks! (1996), and Enemy of the State (1998), Black had his breakout role in the musical film High Fidelity (2000). This led to larger roles in films like Shallow Hal (2001) and Orange County (2002) before he solidified his leading-man status with his starring role in School of Rock (2003). Black has since starred in King Kong (2005), The Holiday (2006), Nacho Libre (2006), Tropic Thunder (2008), Bernie (2011), Goosebumps (2016), Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017), its sequel Jumanji: The Next Level (2019), The House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018) and A Minecraft Movie (2025). He has also voiced Po in the Kung Fu Panda franchise (2008–present) and Bowser in The Super Mario Bros. Movie franchise (2023-present). Black is the lead vocalist of the duo Tenacious D, which he formed in 1994 with long-time friend Kyle Gass. In 2015, they won the Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance for "The Last in Line." Since 2018, Black has run a YouTube channel called Jablinski Games. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jack Black, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Super Mario Bros Z is a 2018 American 3D computer-animated action-adventure fantasy dramedy film produced by Nintendo And Sega. Christopher Nolan directed the movie with Joyce and Guillermo del Toro being executive producers of the film. The film stars Aaron Taylor Johnson, Ben Barnes, Andrew Garfield, Dane Dehaan, Tom Holland, Elizabeth Olsen, Sam Witwer, Ian Mcshane, Gary Oldman, Evan Peters, Dwayne Johnson, Anne Hathaway, Millie Bobby Brown and Johnny Depp. The film was released on July 12th, 2018 and received largely positive reviews, with critics praising its animation, voice acting (Particularly Johnson, Barnes, Garfield, Dehaan and Witwer), Zimmer's musical score, action sequences, emotional depth, character development, and darker and serious tone compared to its predecessor, although the plot was criticized as a derivative of Kung Fu Panda 2. The film grossed $950 million worldwide against its $180 million budget. It is also the first Animation film to be rated R Rated as it has a lot of thematic elements throughout.

