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Before the tabloids get themselves all in a twist, this exclusive photo is of Cameron Diaz and Justin Timberlake dancing together in a movie — namely, Bad Teacher, which started shooting just nine days ago. (The comedy is due in 2011.) “They obviously know each other really well,” director Jake Kasdan (Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story) says of his stars. “They’re good friends, and they’re both incredibly funny people. I couldn’t be more excited about it.”

According to Kasdan, Diaz is playing no less than the worst 7th grade teacher ever. “She’s usually hungover when she gets to school,” he says. “She’s kind of foul mouthed. And she’s completely fixated on trying to afford breast augmentation surgery, and very open about it. She believes it will help her find the right man who will take care of her for the rest of her life.” Enter Timberlake, as a substitute teacher “who happens to be the heir to a watch-making company,” says Kasdan. “She thinks he seems like a good target.” (Jason Segel rounds out the cast as a gym teacher who pines for Diaz’s character.)

Kasdan says Diaz was the first to come aboard the production, and happily signed off on the idea of playing opposite Timberlake. “They have a shared sense of humor,” he says. “It’s easy for them to be funny together. You know where the jokes are.”

So, PopWatchers, what do you make of Justin and Cameron’s on-screen reunion?

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More Glee news! from E online’s  Kristin Dos Santos

Get ready for the best Glee scoop ever…and no, it’s not that boss Ryan Murphy just told me he’s working toward getting Justin Timberlake on for season two. Or even that Hugh Jackman and Queen Latifah’s names are also being tossed around.

You Gleeks are gonna freak when you hear that Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch) is gonna make out with…

Spoiler Alert: Neil Patrick Harris!

As for Justin Timberlake, Ryan tells me he’s “in the plan”: “[Justin] is the one the kids jump up and down about every day and beg me to meet with him. I’m a huge fan of his music. I think he’s so talented. And he’s a true triple threat: He can sing, dance, and act. So yeah, we’d love to have him on. We start shooting the second season in July and I think I will work some magic around that time for him if I can.”

Matthew Morrison had this to say about that other curly-headed triple threat coming on the show: “I don’t think he could handle this. But if he wants to go toe to toe with Mr. Schuester, bring it on, J.T.! He’s amazing; I have so much respect for that guy. What a talent. I would love for him to be on the show.”

Morrison, who by the way is straight-up adorable in person, not only busts a few moves and talks about his “broke dancing” in this video clip (love), but you can also hear him explain why he’s not doing the Glee tour

Amber Riley (Mercedes) joked she thinks J.T. is behind the casting: “I think J.T. has been trying to put a little buzz in people’s ears, too. [Points to camera.] I hear you on these interviews that you want to be on Glee. I’m pushing for you 100 percent.”

Source: Eonline

Click here to see the clip of Matthew Morrison talking about Justin’s possible cameo on Glee

It’s not easy being the woman behind “Glee”’s Terri Schuester.

Playing a lunatic is tiring, especially when there’s a fake pregnancy involved. And on top of that, it turns out poor Jessalyn Gilsig (Terri) is being kept away from the show’s high-profile guest stars too.

When KTV got some quality time with her this week, we asked if she had worked with Neil Patrick Harris or Joss Whedon on the “Glee” episode they’re currently filming, but she told us she wouldn’t really be crossing paths with either of them.

“It’s so hard when you’re Terri — for a lot of reasons — but one is them is that I’m kind of isolated,” Gilsig says in the clip below. “So unless I go to set and stalk [Neil]… I really should, actually. I kind of was really upset, I was there one day and they were like, Oh you just missed Olivia Newton-John. And I was like, Come on, guys!… Listen, apparently I’m trouble. They keep me far away and then bring me in when no one they need to impress is around.”

Gilsig is of course joking. For the most part. And she did have better luck when it came to a certain “Wicked” actress who will appear in the second half of the season. 

“I did meet Idina [Menzel], thank you,” she says. “But Kristin [Chenoweth] was the same thing [as Olivia Newton-John]. I remember coming to set and saying i can’t wait to meet her, and they were like, She just left. I feel like there’s a conspiracy. I’m getting really freaked out.”

Well, freaked out or not, we feel like a famous love interest for T. Scheuster could make up for what she’s missed.

“Oh my gosh!” Gilsig exclaimed when we proposed the plan. “Do you mean Justin Timberlake? Okay!… [Justin] should play Justin Timberlake… Excellent. Done. Make the call.”

I mean, it would be kind of perfect, right?
              

she talks about Justin at the 3:52 mark

After successful stints on SNL and even as host of the ESPY Awards, you’d think that Justin Timberlake would oh-so-naturally achieve greatness in the world of film. But au contraire, JT-lovers. If his track record — including Alpha Dog and Black Snake Moan — is any indication, he’s still got some work to do transitioning from TV to film. You can’t help but hype the movie career of a guy who created magic using a box and his male appendage, but without a new “Sexy Back” or “Dick in a Box” to keep us interested, what does a fan have to look forward to?

Well, in his newest role in Jake Kasdan’s Bad Teacher, Timberlake joins Jason Segel and Modern Family’s Eric Stonestreet for a comedic romp that could serve as a pretty good tutorial for young Timberlake — not to mention providing interesting on-set chemistry with Timberlake’s former girlfriend, Cameron Diaz. I may not love Segel on How I Met Your Mother, but I couldn’t deny the genius script behind Forgetting Sarah Marshall, which the actor co-wrote. As for Stonestreet, can you say, best-part-of-Modern-Family? I think so!

Let’s put the negativity aside and cross our fingers for JT.
by : Archana Ram / entertainment weekly magazine

Justin Timberlake was there when his pal Kenna decided to climb Mount Kilimanjaro. In fact, he encouraged him to do it, and is “bummed” that his schedule didn’t allow him to join his friend on the trek.

“Kenna and I, every winter, we find a place to go snowboarding, and we were up on a mountain somewhere, snowboarding,” Timberlake told MTV News. “We got onto the lift, and Kenna was talking about how, before, he had tried to climb Kilimanjaro.” And there, the idea for “Summit on the Summit” was hatched.

Unfortunately, due to work conflicts — the trek up Africa’s highest peak was rescheduled several times and ultimately collided with Timberlake’s filming for “The Social Network” — Justin didn’t actually get to make the climb with Kenna Instead, the likes of Lupe Fiasco and Santigold and actors Jessica Biel, Emile Hirsch and Isabel Lucas made the climb up Kilimanjaro), but he remained close to the action, getting daily updates on the trek.
                  

“I was getting sort of a texting diary from day to day,” Timberlake recalled. “And the one thing I heard was … the hardest part was the last day, obviously, because not only were they climbing from 16,000 to 19,000 feet, but that extra 3,000 was really brutal, because of the altitude. And on top of that, I think they woke up at 2:30 in the morning and had to climb the last 3,000 feet. I heard from all of them that the last 3,000 feet, every breath counted. Every single time you could conserve oxygen, you could feel it. It really counted. … I’m in awe that they did it. I’m really impressed.”

Timberlake did record an introduction to the film that documents the climb — and highlights the global issue of clean water — called “Summit on the Summit: Kilimanjaro.” The 90-minute doc premiered Wednesday night in New York and will air Sunday at 9 p.m. ET on MTV. And just because he didn’t actually climb the mountain this time around, don’t count him out just yet.

“I was bummed that I wasn’t able to do it, because I thought it would be a cool thing to do. Maybe one day I will,” he laughed. “But it’s really an inspiring idea and an inspiring task, and I was very proud of everyone who was involved with it. … It says a lot about all the people who were involved in the climb, that they were sort of willing to put themselves out there … to have cameras on them 24/7 and to say, ‘Well, if this has any effect on anyone who’s watching it, or creates any type of awareness, and gets $10 from one person, well, that’s amazing.’ “

The star’s William Rast label won’t include animal pelts, his CEO confirms.

The fur won’t be flying in the latest batch of items from Justin Timberlake’s William Rast clothing line.

Colin Dyne, CEO of William Rast, confirmed to animal-rights group PETA that the label will not include any animal furs when the new collection hits retail shops.

Timberlake came under fire in February, when clothes in the William Rast show at New York Fashion Week featured genuine fur tails; in the past, the label had only used fake fur.

“Your animal-friendly young fans need to know where you stand.,” PETA’s Senior VIce President wrote to Timberlake in a letter. “Selling fur is an endorsement of unimaginable cruelty.”

Not that Timberlake’s creations aren’t animal-inspired: some of the shoes in his new spring collection will sport fake fur fringe.

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Documentary airs Sunday at 9 p.m. on MTV. Earlier this year, Jessica Biel, Emile Hirsch, Lupe Fiasco , Santigold and others banded together to climb to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro to raise awareness about the global clean-water crisis.

Now Justin Timberlake has pitched in to support the effort. The singer is set to provide a personal introduction to “Summit on the Summit: Kilimanjaro,” the 90-minute documentary about the celebrities’ climb that will air on MTV on March 14 at 9 p.m. ET/PT.

Masterminded by Grammy-nominated musician Kenna, the team took a six-day, 50-mile trek to the peak of the tallest mountain in Africa. “It was a combination of the mental and the psychological aspects of the mountain, of the slow-but-steady pace that you had to go up it, and that sometimes made your brain just want to explode, because you just wanted to get there so badly,” Biel told MTV News Wednesday. “But then you’d get this rush of inspiration of ‘I’m not doing this for me. I’m doing this for something bigger than me, for people who don’t have a voice, for people that need water around the world,’ and then you’d power through.”

In addition to raising awareness about the clean-water crisis, the “Summit on the Summit” raises funds for P&G’s Children’s Safe Drinking Water Program , United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and Water For People’s PlayPumps Technology . During the MTV broadcast, viewers will be able to text SEND to 90999 to donate $10 to the U.N. Foundation on behalf of “Summit on the Summit.”

Each donation will send 1,000 liters of clean water to people in need. “MTV has a long history of educating its audience to raise awareness on issues that are important to them,” said Dave Sirulnick, Executive Vice President, News and Docs. “More than 1 billion people worldwide do not have access to safe, clean drinking water. By airing this documentary, MTV hopes to mobilize a new generation of young people who may not be aware of this global cause and take action to get involved in helping find solutions to the water crisis.” Don’t miss “Summit on the Summit: Kilimanjaro,” airing Sunday at 9 p.m. ET on MTV.

GABOUREY Sidibe claims singer Justin Timberlake has been bombarding her with text messages.

The actress — who was nominated in the Best Actress category at the recent Academy Awards — says the SexyBack hitmaker, who’s currently dating actress Jessica Biel, hasn’t stopped pestering here since she announced him as her celebrity crush.

“He’s always calling and texting me,” says Gabourey. “I don’t mind but sometimes I’m like, ‘Don’t you have a girl?’ And he’s like, ‘I’d leave her for you!’”

Sidibe, 26, has also revealed she finds Scottish actor Gerard Butler “kinda sexy”.

“He’s kinda sexy,” she said. “I’d hit that. I’m not ashamed! I’d hit that. I’m sorry.”

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Coming hot off the seven year process that was getting their first film, CHRISTMAS ON MARS, to some sort of a release, it looks like Wayne Coyne, front man of The Flaming Lips, isn’t at all afraid to get back into the filmmaking machine.

Coyne, in a recent interview with Billboard (via Pitchfork), said that he is already working on another film, “and this one might not even take as long.”

The artist plans on filming the project in Oklahoma City, and is set in someone’s house, a backyard, and a slaughterhouse, instead of being shot on a space station-style set as MARS was.  However as interesting as that may be, Coyne has some intriguing ideas for who he would like to cast in the film:

“I’m gonna try to get real actors, too, celebrities to show up and have fun with us for a couple of nights. I’m in the process of begging Justin Timberlake to be part of it; if I’m lucky I’ll be able to wear him down in another year.”

Timberlake does have a history of appearing in mind-bogglingly weird feature films; he did, after all, hold down starring roles in both Southland Tales and The Love Guru. And he appeared with the Lips on “Top of the Pops”, while wearing a dolphin suit.

Coyne says that he’s beginning work on the film, and that he and bandmate Steven Drozd have started work on the film’s music. But this one could also take a while: “Because I get to do it with people I love and it’s my art, I don’t care how long it takes.”

Meanwhile, Coyne will be busy with his regular frontman duties this year. The Flaming Lips will tour the U.S. in the coming months.

Source: Pitchfork and Gordonandthewale.com

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By Krista Angela M. Montealegre Reporter

American RnB superstar Justin Timberlake will rock for a cause when he guests on Grammy-winning record producer, singer and rapper Timbaland’s Shock Value Tour II concert on March 27.

Lives will definitely change when Timberlake, Timberland and Jojo perform at the SM Mall of Asia concert ground because the proceeds of the concert will be donated to the PLDT Smart Foundation Inc. (PSF).

The PSF is the social outreach arm of the country’s oldest and largest telecommunications conglomerate, the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co., and its wireless subsidiary, Smart Communications Inc.

“I know Justin [Timberlake] will donate a portion of it so I’m confident that we’ll get something although it may not be a huge amount,” said PSF President Butch Meily during a roundtable with editors and reporters of The Manila Times on Monday.

The concert will benefit the music department of a public school in Angono, Rizal, and about 100 orphans who lost their families when Typhoon Ondoy ravaged the country’s Metro Manila region, causing the worst flooding in more than four decades.

“There are also suggestions to include the children of heroes who died saving other families. We think that should count as well,” Meily said.

The PSF has worked in partnership with nongovernment organizations, schools and other groups in a number of diverse causes—education, microfinance, sports, juvenile rehabilitation, disaster response, the environment, poverty alleviation and the arts.

It has supported Cinemabuhay, an effort to discover future filmmakers and give them the opportunity to display their talents. The foundation recently awarded a P1-million grant to Slow Fade, a digital movie directed by Rommel Sales starring Diether Ocampo and Lara Quigaman.

The PSF is focusing on one or two priority projects every year. In 2009, it bankrolled the construction of a four-story school at the heart of Smokey Mountain in Tondo, and Bahay Pagasa, a P15-million juvenile rehabilitation facility in Dasmarinas, Cavite.

Meily was also named the executive director of the Philippine Disaster Recovery Foundation (PDRF), which was formed to aid the government in the rehabilitation of damaged areas after typhoons Ondoy and Pepeng battered the country last year.

The PDRF said that Dutch expert Tjitte Nauta, who has conducted a study on the Laguna Lake, will hold a workshop on Thursday on how to solve the country’s flooding problem.

Before the end of the month, it is expected to come up with its assessment report of the damage caused by the disastrous typhoons, which will determine the cost of rehabilitation.

“We’ll have to fix the damage before the rain comes again,” Meily said.

The PDRF has received overwhelming support for the rehabilitation project from all walks of life. Meily said the foundation even received a check donation worth P6,549 from students of The Learning Tree school in Metro Manila.

“This [check] was given to us by 10 to 11-year-old students. The outpouring of support for this project was overwhelming,” he added.

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Cameron Diaz couldn’t be happier to have ex-boyfriend Justin Timberlake join the cast of her new comedy, “Bad Teacher.”

“We’re thrilled to have him,” Cameron told Access Hollywood’s Billy Bush on the Oscars red carpet on Sunday night. “He’s the best person for the job. He’s going to be hilarious.”

Justin might not be best known for his comedic work, but Cameron says he’ll be able to keep up with her and their co-stars.

“He’s clearly a very talented comedian, look at his ‘Saturday Night Live’ [skits],” she continued. “He’s fantastic, he’s going to be so great.”

Cameron told Access she had just finished her first day working on the comedy – which also co-stars Jason Segel, Lucy Punch, Molly Shannon and “Modern Family’s” Eric Stonestreet – on Saturday.

“We just had our first day of shooting yesterday with Jason,” she said. “And we just laughed all day. It’s so wonderful, I’m so excited.”

Click here to watch the video of Cameron talking about Justin and Bad Teacher

Jermaine Jackson has apparently gathered an all-star cast, including Prince, Justin Timberlake and Santana to pay tribute to his late brother Michael Jackson at a show in June in London.

The Tribute By Jermaine show is expected to take place on June 8, 2010 at Wembley Arena in London.

Other participants include Shakira, Earth Wind and Fire, Usher, Nelson Mandela, Jennifer Hudson, Whitney Houston, Jabbawockeez, Seal, Neyo and a performance by the Jackson 5 with Janet Jackson.

“The best way and most suitable way is to assemble the world’s largest tribute in history that is only fitting to a man who moved the hearts and souls of an unimaginable amount,” Jermaine said in a statement.

The show will be filmed with 12 HD cameras and air globally on June 25, 2010.

From the NYPost

What do Justin Timberlake, Madonna, Tom Cruise, Lady GaGa, Johnny Depp, Beyonce, Leonardo DiCaprio, Janet Jackson, Hugh Jackman and Jennifer Lopez all have in common aside from the fact there isn’t a person alive who doesn’t know their names? They have all been shot by photographer Tom Munro.

Now, as the legendary lensman prepares to release his first book (aptly titled “Tom Munro”) featuring these star snaps (among countless others), a California art gallery will play host to his work for an exclusive one-week engagement. Open to the public from March 7-14, the Moet & Chandon sponsored event (with proceeds going to Raising Malawi and M.E.A.K) will give everyone an opportunity to lay their eyes on Tom’s best work

From Billboard.com

THIS JUST IN …: Timbaland’s “Carry Out” lifts 12-9 on Billboard’s Pop Songs radio airplay chart, pushing featured artist Justin Timberlake past Akon and Nelly for most top 10s among solo males.

The song is Timberlake’s 13th top on the chart and first since T.I.’s “Dead and Gone,” on which Timberlake guested, reached the top 10 a year ago this week.

Among all artists, Timberlake is now tied with Rihanna for third-most top 10s. The pair trails only Mariah Carey (17) and Madonna (14), the latter of whom notched her most recent top 10 with the Timbaland and Timberlake collaboration “4 Minutes” in 2008.

Here is a look at the male soloists with the most top 10s since the Pop Songs chart launched in 1992:

13, Justin Timberlake
12, Akon
12, Nelly
11, Usher
10, Ludacris
8, Eminem
7, 50 Cent
7, Kanye West
7, Sean Paul
6, Diddy
6, Will Smith

With the climb of “Carry Out,” Timberlake passes his top 10 output with ‘N Sync, which collected a dozen top 10s from April 1998 through May 2002. Timberlake earned his first top 10 with “Like I Love You” in October 2002.

Congrats to JT!