MICKEY ROONEY - ROONEY AND VAN DYKE SET TO TEAM WITH STILLER

Veteran funnymen MICKEY ROONEY and DICK VAN DYKE are set to return to the big screen to star in BEN STILLER's new comedy NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM.

The pair will play security guards at New York City's famous Museum Of Natural History.

In the film, Stiller will play a bumbling security guard who accidentally lets loose an ancient curse that causes the extinct animals and insects on display to come to life and wreak havoc.

Director SHAWN LEVY is looking forward to filming inside the actual museum.

He says, "We're going to shoot several days with Ben and several of the other cast members in New York and then we built the interior of a museum in Vancouver (Canada). This movie is a love letter to museums and museum culture."

The family film will begin shooting this week (ends27JAN06) and is scheduled for a holiday release in the US later this year (06).