Official poster of ‘Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian’

‘Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian’ is an upcoming adventure comedy film and is a sequel of ‘The first Night at the Museum’. It is directed by Shawn Levy, of ‘Big Fat Liar’, ‘Cheaper by the Dozen’ and ‘The Pink Panther’ fame. The script has been written by Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon and Simon Kinberg.

The film stars Ben Stiller, Dick Van Dyke, Robin Williams, Amy Adams, Owen Wilson, Rami Malek, Hank Azaria, Bill Hader, Ricky Gervais, Christopher Guest and Steve Coogan. 20th Century Fox is distributing the film and is set for release on May 22, 2009.

The movie "Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian" will bring to life the Smithsonian Institution, which houses the world's largest museum complex with more than 136 million items in its collections, ranging from the plane Amelia Earhart (Amy Adams) flew on her non-stop solo flight across the Atlantic and Al Capone's rap sheet and mug shot to Dorothy's ruby red slippers, Fonzie's jacket from "Happy Days" and Archie Bunker's lounge chair from "All in the Family".