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Sisqo has announced that he is leaving the tour. He is now going to be working on a movie. For more on this story check out www.nsyncstudio.com.
One by one, *NSync's Justin Timberlake, Joey Fatone, Lance Bass, JC Chasez and Chris Kirkpatrick emerge from the tiny trailer parked outside Los Angeles Center Studios.
"We wanted a theme for the album, and the best theme was the truth — we're finally free of all those strings that were attached to us." — Lance Bass The biggest pop stars in the world are instantly recognizable, even though today they look like Ken-doll versions of themselves. Molds of their hair, eyebrows and ears have been glued over their real features, and the rest of their skin is coated with a mixture of latex and paint.
"They say I look like Eddie Munster," stammers Kirkpatrick, who appears after a smiling and silent Bass. "Do I look like Eddie Munster?"
This is the second day of the Orlando, Fla., group's video shoot for "It's Gonna Be Me", the second single from their record-breaking, chart-topping third album, No Strings Attached. Set in a toy store, the clip features the group members as dolls waiting for someone to take them home — but the other toys in the store also are vying for shoppers' attention.
After Bass and Kirkpatrick comes Fatone, who holds a cell phone 3 inches from his ear, so as not to screw up the four-hour makeup job. Timberlake follows, practicing his robot moves as he tests the flexibility of his pasted-on eyebrows. Finally, Chasez emerges and marches determinedly toward the doors of the studio.
Once inside the soundstage — which is packed with life- sized toys, from a Volkswagen Beetle to a giant dollhouse — *NSync take turns shooting a scene in which each punches through plastic of his doll box and bursts out. It's the part of the video where they "become real," Chasez explains. (Sonicnet)
True to their word, the men of 'NSYNC turned up at the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday to reveal at least a few details about the film plans the group has on the table.
Messieurs Chasez, Fatone, Kirkpatrick, Bass, and Timberlake announced that they will play fictional characters, not themselves, in a music-driven feature film that's set to begin production early next year.
The production looks to be an in-house affair, as Total Film Group and 'NSYNC's own Phat Free Productions will share responsibility for the production. The group hopes that working with the two small companies will help them avoid Hollywood's controlling, creative politics.
Speaking with MTV News' Chris Connelly last month, the group talked about those concerns as 'NSYNC's J.C. Chasez said, "So far as the movie's concerned, even with this latest album, we wanted complete creative control. We wanted it to be solely to be about what 'NSYNC is about, and when we go to do a movie, we want to do it our way, that way it doesn't get cheesed out and it just doesn't feel it's not us and what we wanted to do."
MTV News caught up with the group as they were filming a trailer for the yet-to-be-filmed movie. 'NSYNC unveiled that trailer at a low-key party on a private Cannes beach overlooking the Mediterranean Tuesday night.
While the boy band moves into the film biz, 'NSYNC's Lance Bass apparently got the mogul bug as well. Bass staged a press conference on Monday at Nashville's Planet Hollywood to announce plans for his production company, Free Lance Entertainment, to sponsor a talent search to find new, promising country pop music artists (that's right, country music) for Bass' own record label.
"I've had the dream of having my own label for quite a while, and I was talking to my manager a few years go, and he was like, 'Go ahead and do it now while you're learning about it,'" Bass explained. "So me and my family decided to make it a family business and we started [the label]."
Bass and his label then inked a deal with country singer Meredith Edwards and are now on the hunt for new additions to the roster.
"Now I'm having this talent search to help find other acts and to help new artists out there try to find deals," Bass said. "It's very hard out there to have the connections, especially when you're from cities like I am where you're not near a major city. There's so much talent out there."
Bass is looking for performers 18 years of age and older, and encourages those interested to find more information online at www.getmusic.com/free_lance/. (MTV)
Armed with 27 trucks, 12 buses, and more than enough pyro to put your eye out, 'NSYNC kicked off its sold-out North American tour Tuesday night in Biloxi, Mississippi.
The evening of choreography, pyro, and costume changes kicked off with the title track of "No Strings Attached" and found Joey Fatone pausing at the end of the opening number to offer a "Hello, Biloxi."
The show at the Mississippi Coast Coliseum saw five costume changes in all as the group performed in front of sets that morphed from vaudevillian to futuristic. The show also boasted an interactive video poll hosted by MTV's Ananda Lewis that asks the audience to pick their favorite song by applause.
Apparently, amid all the madness, there was music as well. During the 90-minute performance, 'NSYNC sang such old favorites as "Tearin' Up My Heart" and "I Want You Back" as well as new songs like "Bye, Bye, Bye" and their upcoming single "It's Gonna Be Me."
The tour comes in support of the band's album, "No Strings Attached," which hardly seems to need the help. In a mere seven weeks, the album has sold 5 million copies and will remain at number one on next week's "Billboard" album chart. (MTV)
For the show (which will be taped on June 3 at Culver City, California's Sony Pictures Studios and airing soon thereafter), 'NSYNC will offer up its first-ever televised performance on "It's Gotta Be Me," the second single from its mega-selling "No Strings Attached." (MTV)
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