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It should be a green-tie affair at the opening night gala of this year's Tribeca Film Festival. The event, happening April 25, will be hosted by Al Gore and is set to feature some entertainment that will focus on the global warming issue. This entertainment is part of a partnership with the SOS (Save Our Selves) Campaign, which raises climate crisis awareness and will include live performances from some of the artists participating in SOS' Live Earth concert series happening on July 7. The acts set for the gala weren't revealed, but some of those involved with the Live Earth shows include Red Hot Chili Peppers, John Mayer, John Legend, Black Eyed Peas, Korn and Melissa Etheridge, who recently won an Oscar for the song she wrote for the Gore-featured documentary An Inconvenient Truth.

Also, the night will include the premiere of seven short films, each of which deals with the problems and the solutions of the crisis and each of which is shorter than ten minutes. The directors and titles of these shorts were not yet revealed either, because the seven showcased films have not been chosen yet. They will be selected by the festival's planners from the 60 shorts that were commissioned by SOS. Some of the filmmakers who participated include Jonathan Glazer, Kevin Macdonald, Abel Ferrara, Amy Berg, Ari Sandel, the doc duo Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady and someone from Aardman Animation (Peter Lord? Nick Park?). It isn't completely made clear, but it seems that all 60 of the commissioned films will be shown during the Live Earth event. So, if you can't make it to New York City for the world premiere of the seven shorts, you can see at least those if not all of them at one of the concerts (so far the only locations announced are Shanghai, Sydney, London and Johannesburg, while the cities in the U.S., Brazil, Japan and Antarctica are TBA). I probably won't be able to attend the gala or one of the concerts, so hopefully there will be another place for me to see the films. After all, this is the best news for shorts fans since Cannes' announced its own opening night compilation.

Rock stars just can't seem to say no when it comes to the acting bug. The sad truth is that rarely do musicians make good actors. Nonetheless, from Bing Crosby to Tupac Shakur, plenty of musicians have made the move to the big screen. Next in line is Jonathan Davis, of the perpetually angry rock band Korn.

Blabbermouth.net has reported that the Korn front man has signed to star in the Southern Gothic-horror flick Job. Relative newcomer Jon Grey is at the helm, and the film will begin shooting in Texas this December. Job also stars Bill Moseley of The Devil's Rejects, and will center on a serial killer with a religious obsession. This isn't Davis' first attempt at an acting career; he also had a major role in the horror film Sin-Jin Smythe. It looks like the world will have to wait to see his debut though, as Sin-Jin Smythe has yet to find a release date.

You have to wonder if it is possible to be both a great actor and a great musician -- in Davis's case, the jury is still out on both counts. I can think of plenty who have failed, but which musicians do you think have managed to succeed?

[via G4-The Feed]