Justin Bieber is reportedly on the shortlist to play a pop star in a movie titled Uber Girl, but will only take the role if the film re-writes a scene that requires him to have sex with another man.
“He won’t take the part unless the sex scene with him and one of the male backup dancers is taken out of the final script,” the film’s co-writer, Pete O’Neill, told Page Six.
O’Neill also said he wants to cast Selena Gomez, Ariana Grande, and Mad Men’s Kiernan Shipka in the millennial coming-of-age story. We wonder how Gomez and Bieber would feel about working together given their complicated past. Of course, they are both professionals, and the casting would likely cause their fans to break the internet in excitement and would easily translate into filled theater seats come opening night. Well-played.
The movie wouldn’t be Bieber’s first entry into the big screen world. Previously, Bieber appeared in Zoolander 2 where he played the role of himself for a quick cameo at the beginning of the film.
Cinema Epoch—the independent production company behind the film—?is still reportedly searching for a major studio to co-produce the project so there’s a possibility this movie will not receive the greenlight. We reached out to a rep for Bieber for comment and will update when available.
According to reports from Page Six, A$AP Rocky and Kendall Jenner are dating. The article, which to be fair only cites an unnamed source, claims Jenner attended Rocky’s show during Panorama Music Festival this Saturday. On Sunday, the source claims Rocky and Jenner slipped out together to Harlem, where he showed her around his neighborhood. They later got dinner together and “were coupled up at the restaurant .?.?. hugging, flirting and acting like a couple. His friend said that was his girl.”
Rihanna will appear on the final season of Bates Motel, producers announced Friday at the show’s Comic-Con panel in San Diego. Rihanna will play Marion Crane, a character from Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 classic Psycho, according to The Hollywood Reporter. This marks her biggest step into acting so far. It will happen in somewhat comfortable territory: Rihanna said she is a loyal Bates Motel follower in a November 2015 Vanity Fair story.
Lil Wayne was set to headline High Times Cannabis Concentrates Cup Show in San Bernardino, Calif. on Saturday, but that performance was reportedly cut short of its expected run-time. Fans packed the Nos Events Center in Southern California with high hopes of hearing one of the most prolific rappers in the game spit some of his fiercest tracks. Their expectations were severely dashed, however, after Weezy walked out on the show after spending only 3 minutes onstage.
Last night, Drake found himself in Missouri to perform for the latest stop on his Summer Sixteen tour with Future. Midway through the show, he paused to address the crowd (as he often does). In between thanking the KC audience for making him feel like a part-time resident of the city and advising them to “spread love, spread good energy,” he also revealed that he’s plotting out his next mixtape.
It’s no secret that Fetty Wap’s career exploded out of nowhere last year, but sometimes it’s easy to forget that just a year ago, he was a little-known guy from Paterson, N.J. Thankfully, we got an amazing reminder of this over the weekend when Fetty posted a reaction video after he met Gucci Mane. “Yesterday I met Gucci Mane. I met motherfucking Guwop,” he exclaimed. “My life is fucking finished. Life goals. I’m done.”
What up Facebook commenters? We have something truly dire that needs your expertise. Rob Kardashian has apparently erased all signs of Blac Chyna from his occasionally poppin’ Instagram account, as noted by E! News early Monday morning. SMH. Devastating! Rob briefly had a lone solo ‘gram remaining, though he has since deleted it and opted instead for a completely blank Instacanvas.
Rihanna is keeping it intergalactic for her next major film invasion. Luc Besson just wrapped shooting on his highly anticipated French sci-fi film Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, starring the one and only Rihanna as what Cinema Blend has described as an “alien stripper.” Besson, know for his previous work on confirmed classics like The Fifth Element and Lucy, brought some footage to San Diego Comic-Con that somehow hasn’t found its way online just yet.
According to Cinema Blend, the footage teased at SDCC involved dancing, chairs, and a reliably great Ethan Hawke:
“The club owner, played by Ethan Hawke in a garish and colorful suit, is telling a patron that he has a great show lined up. There’s a dancer. She’s out of this world. The dancer, facing a light to create only a silhouette, walks across the stage. She’s all legs, until she puts down a chair. She straddles the chair, turns to face the camera… and we see that she’s played by Rihanna!”
Besson also hit Twitter to take questions from understandably hyped fans, revealing that he picked Rihanna for the role “as an actress, not as a singer” and was totally blown away by her performance.
It’s a big day for Zaytoven, who co-produced Gucci Mane’s first post-prison album, Everybody Looking, that dropped today, but he says there is already more Gucci on the way in the form of collaborative EP with Drake.
“It’s in the works right now,” Guwop told our family over at Pigeons and Planes. As we might have guessed, the whole thing came together when Drake stopped by Gucci’s house in June to hang out while he was filming the “Guwop Home” video. “When Drake came over to the house to shoot a video, him and Gucci got to talking about making something. It will be a small EP.”
The project also has a working title that connects both rappers to their hometowns. “I think it might be called 6’ers. You know, because Gucci is from Zone 6 and Drake is from Toronto, the 6.” The pair had already released their joint track, “Back on Road,” which was a clear indication of their musical chemistry.
It also sounds like Mike WiLL Made-It, who co-produced the majority of Everybody Looking with Zaytoven, might also be involved. “We sat and talked about it. Me, Gucci, Mike WiLL, and Drake…It’s going to be on fire,” Zay told fans on Twitter during a Q&A Friday.
On Twitter, Zaytoven answered any question about Everybody Looking, including who his dream collaboration for the project would have been (“Rihanna, to offset everything”), his method for making beats, and revealed his favorite song on the album (“Waybach”).
Hours before he was scheduled to take the stage at Friday’s One Africa Music Fest, Wale announced he had to cancel his performance. Why? Because he just became a first-time father.
According to TMZ, the D.C. rapper’s longtime model girlfriend, Chloe Alexis, gave birth to a baby girl in NYC Friday afternoon—about two days after she reportedly went into labor. Though the delivery sounds like it was a long and, uh, challenging one, it seems everything went just fine. Wale quickly went to social media to announce the birth and to express his happiness.
Becoming a father for the first time is a big deal for any man, but it seems especially significant for Wale. Over a year ago, he gave a candid interview to MTV News and spoke on his girlfriend’s devastating miscarriage that inspired the songs “The Middle Finger” and “The Matrimony.”
“I’ve accomplished a lot at a young age and I was ready for that peace. I’m mentally prepared for it. I’ve got so many friends with kids and I see the transformation it does for them,” he told MTV. “[…] My family and my fans [are] really all I have, and it’s not to really supposed to be like that. I’m supposed to have something else at this point in my life—to love me unconditionally and for me to love unconditionally, and I’ve never had that.”
There’s no word yet on what Wale and Chloe have named their child, but we’re sure it won’t be long before they announce it. Our congratulations go out to the happy couple.