Many reports surfaced earlier this month that Justin Timberlake was back in the recording studio with Timbaland. The two are reportedly working together for a follow-up to “Future Sex/Love Sounds.” Producer Jim Beanz, who is close with Timbaland, gave the information away in an interview at Digital Spy. Specifically, Jim Beanz said:

“When I get back to the States, I’m going to be helping out on ‘Shock Value III’ with Timbaland and the Justin Timberlake project. It’s still in the early stages, but they have a lot of tracks. While I’ve been here in the UK, they’ve been working, so by the time I get back, they’ll have a whole load of ideas, and I’m going to have to catch up! He has some crazy, crazy stuff.”

This seemed to imply Justin was back, but unfortunately, the singer’s publicist denied it all. At least, the good news is that he is indeed recording some material for Timbaland’s upcoming release. Even though Justin may not record a new album, he is going to be pretty busy, as he stars alongside Clint Easwood and Amy Adams in the baseball drama, ‘Trouble with the Curve.’ The film tells the story of an ailing baseball scout in his twilight years, who takes his daugther with him for one last recruiting trip. The film will be released in September.

Justin will also star in the thriller entitled, ‘Runner, Runner,’ along with Ben Affleck. The film is set in the online poker world and will be directed by Brad Furman, the director of the ‘The Lincoln Lawyer.’ They have already started shooting scenes in Puerto Rico. Stone Village and 20th Century Fox will co-finance and distribute the major motion picture respectively, and Leonardo Dicaprio will have producer credits on it.

Additionally, rumor has it that the “Sexy is Back” singer may be acting in the new movie adaptation of “Baywatch,” a hit show in the ’90s. If Justin is cast in the film, he will play a former Olympic swimmer, who tries to become a lifeguard.

Finally, according to the Hollywood Reporter, the young artist will also compose the soundtrack for the film, ‘The Devil in the Deep Blue Sea,’ and he will serve as the movie’s music supervisor. The production of the film, which is to be directed by Bill Purple, will begin this fall. Set in New Orleans, the movie will present the story of an architect (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), who loses his wife (Jessica Biel) in a car accident.

Trying to deal with his grief, he befriends a young girl (Chloe Moretz) and helps her fulfill her dream of building a raft and sailing across the Atlantic Ocean.  It seems that the young singer-turned-actor is combining his three loves into one project: film, music, and Jessica Biel, to whom he is now engaged.

Timberlake has avoided the music world since 2006′s hit “Future Love/Sex Sounds,” focusing on his acting career with roles in ‘The Social Network,’ ‘Friends with Benefits,’ ‘Bad Teacher,’ and ‘In Time.’ For years now, fans have been hoping for another album, so this is an encouraging step towards music. The important thing is that Justin is going back to the recording studio, and that can only be a good thing, even if it is not for a new album.

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After a long wait, Timbaland has announced that he and fellow collaborator Missy Elliot, are both planning on releasing individual albums this upcoming June, according to the Rolling Stone magazine.

“Right now, we’re just preparing to get both our videos, our first singles, shot kinda at the same time,” Timbaland told MTV, ”We want to do it as a movement and spontaneously. I just don’t want to move too ahead of her, and she doesn’t wanna move too ahead of me.”

The duo came out with a single in 2011 titled ‘Take Ur Clothes off’. It was released in January and was offered for free. However it did not manage to make much of a splash on the market.

For Timbaland this will be his first full length release since Shock Value II, which was released in 2009. HipHop DX reviewed the album, and while it gained some respect within the Hip Hop industry, it did not live up to its predecessor, Shock Value. However, Timbaland has helped many other artists gain fame over the years and has produced numerous works that cross and exceed the labels within hip hop.

His biography states that he has worked with artists such as Jodeci, Aaliyah, Ginuwine, Destiny’s Child, Ludacris, Snoop Dogg, Jay-z, Justin Timberlake, The Fray and even Bjork. For Missy Elliot, this upcoming album will be her first since ‘The Cookbook’, which was produced in 2005, marking a seven year itch. In the meantime, however, she revealed to The Juice that she has been diagnosed with Graves disease, an autoimmune disorder.

“I’m 30 pounds lighter because I’ve been exercising.” the MC told People last year. “My thyroid is functioning, so I haven’t had to take medication in about nine months. [But] you live with it for the rest of your life.”

The femcee has since been featured with Katy Perry and J. Cole, and released a single ‘Best, Best’ in 2008 which was planned to be a taste of a following album, ‘Block Party’. The album, however, was never released. It is unknown whether the album coming out in June will be ‘Block Party’ or something new, said the Rolling Stone magazine.

Missy, much like Timbaland, has also helped keep her name in the charts by worked with a number of varying artists. According to her website, musicians such as Pink, Mya, Busta Rhymes, Lil’ Kim, Mariah Carey, and Puff Daddy (a.k.a. Sean Combs) have had the pleasure of working with the 40-year-old rapper.

One of the biggest questions currently circulating about the upcoming albums is who will Timbaland and Missy be working with and feature, since both are known to work with a range of different artists. Without a doubt, however, the albums are highly anticipated, as both artists have a knack for producing top 40 music.

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How would you cast a movie where all characters is or remains 25 years of age on the outside — but could be in their 30s, 50s, 60s, or over 100 years old? The movie In Time had to deal with this very question when looking for actors who could convey the characters of writer and director Andrew Niccol’s script.

The production team elaborated on their choice of heartthrob Justin Timberlake as the main character. “All the actors had to look around age 25 because in the story, that’s when the aging gene switches off,” Niccol explained in the film’s production notes. That specific age was not chosen arbitrarily. “It’s the age we fully mature, when the frontal lobe of the brain fully develops,” the filmmaker continues.

“It is the part of the brain that controls impulse and reckless behavior. Rental car companies know this; they will not rent a car to somebody under age 25. There are characters in the film who are chronologically 100 years old, so I had to search for ‘old souls.’ Only certain young actors have the ability to play a senior citizen in a 25-year-old body.”

One actor who jumped at the chance to play an “old soul” was Justin Timberlake. It was Timberlake’s early rise to stardom that helped convince the filmmakers of his fit for the character of Will. “I love Justin’s work ethic, which is one of the important traits he shares with his character, Will Salas,” says Niccol. “It was actually very fitting that Justin plays Will.”

“Will has to wake up every day and go to work or die, and I don’t think Justin himself has taken a day off since he was 12 years old. There is no reason he won’t be a successful action hero [as Will] because he seems to be great at anything he turns his hand to.”

Producer Eric Newman continues, “Justin has been an adult since he was 17 years old, when he was a superstar. He didn’t have a conventional childhood, and he carries that with him. The character of Will is one who probably never had a childhood either because, in this world, you are born with a clock on your wrist, spending the first 24 years of your life waiting for that clock to start.”

“And when it does, you have less than a year to figure it out; you’re constantly faced with your own mortality. I think Justin has continually worked harder than everybody else, and he brings that to his acting as well. I think Justin and Will both have a similar ‘work or die’ ethic; they’re wired the same way.”

Timberlake, a longtime fan of action films, embraced the opportunity to play a character whose heroics are grounded in reality and a contextual richness. “When I was a kid, some of my favorite movies were action pieces like First Blood, The Fugitive, and Die Hard,” says Timberlake.

“The one thing I loved about those specific movies was that the protagonists were everyday people placed into extraordinary circumstances and doing extraordinary things.” Will’s heroics are triggered by an easily relatable factor. “Will has grown up with essentially nothing,” Timberlake notes.

“He wakes up every day and goes to work to stay alive. Through a series of events, he decides that he’s not going to take it anymore, and takes it upon himself to try and change the way things work in this world.”

“Will grows up in Dayton, which is somewhat of a ghetto. It’s kind of ironic that the word ‘day’ is in its name, because most of the citizens only walk around with a day to live. So the day-to-day life in Dayton is quick. People don’t have time to walk slowly, so they run, almost all of the time, to where they are going, and they’re constantly eating and drinking on the run. They don’t have time to spare or to waste.”

“Everything’s frenetic and alive, in a kind of dangerous yet beautiful way. When your back is up against the wall and you don’t have a choice, you make revisions and you live your life the way that it has to be, to survive.” Timberlake reserves special praise for Amanda Seyfried, who portrays Sylvia, his unwilling partner-in-crime.

“There are people that see the world the same way Will does. At the end of the day, I think he just wants what is fair. I think, through Sylvia, Will discovers that there’s something bigger he could be fighting for. It becomes kind of a Robin Hood tale at that point, once they pair up; like any young people put in high risk situations, they become enamored with each other.”

“And working one-on-one with Amanda has been great. I feel like we’ve really captured something special between those two characters.”

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