Step Up 3D director Jon M. Chu and the Magical Elves producing team of Jane Lipsitz and Dan Cutforth have joined together to direct and produce Justin Bieber’s concert film. The trio will work with Bieber’s manager Scooter Braun, Island Def Jam chairman LA Reid and Grammy winning singer Usher to give Bieber fans a behind-the-scenes look into the 16-year old pop star’s life.
In addition to the last two Step Up movies, Chu also directed the Hulu web-series The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers. Magical Elves is best known for its successful reality shows. The duo used to produce Project Runway when it aired on Bravo and currently produce Top Chef and Work of Art, among others.
Paramount Pictures will release the Justin Bieber movie on Valentine’s Day weekend 2011.
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Justin Bieber is keen to take Katy Perry and Cheryl Cole out on a dinner date, so they can give him lessons in love.
The “Baby” singer recently revealed Girls Aloud beauty Cole is his latest celebrity crush, and his ideal woman is a combination of Cole and Perry.
And Bieber, who admits he’s looking for a girlfriend, wants the stunning singers to help him land a lady by offering him advice on how to woo beautiful women.
We know many of you were probably worried to hear that Justin Bieber was head over heels for Kim Kardashian. After tweeting a photo of him and her, calling Kim his “girlfriend,” so many of you JB fans were completely outraged! Well, worry not, you guys! These recent photos from the ELLE magazine spread prove that they’re just friends and were working professionally together! It was just for the photo shoot! Justin and Kim are definitely friends in real life, but that’s it. Kim even dishes that she wanted to set him up with her little sister Kendall!
What do you guys think of the photos–Hot or Not? Tell us what you think!
Source: Bopandtigerbeat.com
Teen singer Justin Bieber has revealed that his mother gives him an allowance of just $50 (£31) a day.
The 16-year-old pop star said his mum Pattie Mallette and his agent and business manager Scooter Braun keep him grounded by making sure he only has a small daily allowance, despite having a reported $100m in the bank.
He told UK newspaper the News Of The World: ‘My mum wants me to learn how to be very smart with my money.
Last week, Justin Bieber officially announced that the newest single from My World 2.0 would be “U Smile,” a smooth track with a retro Motown vibe. It’s a sweet, straightforward song about devotion to his lady love, and it contains the line “When you smile, I smile” in the chorus. Like most of the other songs he has released to radio, “U Smile” is already gaining airplay and should make its way up the Billboard Hot 100 immanently.
What happens when two pop culture phenomenons collide? We might just find out. “Glee’s” executive producer Ryan Murphy has issued Justin Bieber an open invitation to stop by McKinley High for a cameo.
“I think he’s so phenomenally talented and I think he’s great. So, yes, if he was interested I would make that happen,” Murphy tells Access Hollywood.
David Beckham’s children have caught Bieber fever.
The soccer stud revealed that his boys – Brooklyn, 11, Romeo, 7, and Cruz, 5, are super-fans of the Canadian teen singing sensation.
“Justin Bieber’s the one for them,” Becks told AccessHollywood.com’s Laura Saltman backstage at the Teen Choice Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday night, when she asked which stars the Beckham children are fans of.
The big news out of Hollywood this past week is that Justin Bieber, he of the flash Bieber mobs, he of the delightfully tousled bangs, he who is constantly being searched on Google by legions of lovesick teenage girls is going to be coming soon to a movie theater near you….in 3-D.
The film will be a concert biopic with behind the scenes footage of Bieber’s life. Millions upon millions of fans devour any Bieber footage that YouTube has to offer. The question is will those fans pay the nearly $20 admission for a 3-D movie?
We didn’t know we’d be able to see it so soon, but we’re glad we didn’t have to wait long! Only a week after Justin’s big news about releasing a book, People snatched a sneak peek at the book cover! Check out by clicking RIGHT HERE. According to People, the book also includes a message that says: “Lots of exclusive photos just for you. Love Justin xxx.” What do you guys think of the cover? Do you love it? What sorts of things are you hoping to see in the book? Tell us!
Source: Bopandtigerbeat.com
I know some of you are split on the whole J Beebs mania, but I’ve got a confession: I’ve been a “Belieber” ever since I did this iChat (yes, an iChat—21st-century stuff for a 21st-century star) interview with him for our September issue:
For anyone not into the teen singing sensation thang, the back-story on Justin Bieber (welcome out from under that rock!), here it is: 12-year-old boy enters a local singing competition in Toronto, boy’s mom posts clips of him on YouTube, people notice, Justin Timberlake and Usher get in a bidding war to sign him, Usher wins, Biebs takes over the world. It’s all been so exhausting that the teen megastar has to get put on voice rest—a lot. But his fingers are working—so I interviewed him by IM for our September issue.
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Justin Bieber’s concert movie/bio pic still needs its director. Paramount Pictures confirmed today that Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Davis Guggenheim will not be joining the 3-D project. The director of the upcoming Waiting for Superman documentary was a name being considered for the project, but his promotional duties surrounding his film on our nation’s troubled public education system prevents him from focusing on another movie at this time. Guggenheim officially passed on the project last night.
Nick Jonas dished advice for Justin Bieber to Popstar! It’s definitely something we think about but you know, I think that with all of the other young people that are coming up, we wish the best for them. And Justin Bieber in particular, we’ve had the opportunity to meet him a couple of times and speak with him.
And he’s entering into a whole new world, and you know, really being thrown into it all, and we hope the best for him. I think he’s doing a great job so far.. I think the important part of everyone’s journey is finding their own path and doing..
**UPDATE** Justin tweeted that his book is not going to be a memoir! He said, “it isnt a memoir…i teamed up with this amazing photographer robert and he has been taking pictures behind the scenes from before the tour. so the book will include all those pics and im going to tell the story of all that led up from rehearsals until the first night of the tour. Pretty excited about it and think everyone will enjoy the story and the pics…but we can all agree im a little too young to write a memoir, but we can make a pretty great book with lots of exclusive stuff…but i just got a lot more life to live too ” Will YOU still get it?
Justin Bieber will release an illustrated memoir entitled Justin Bieber: First Step 2 Forever: My Story. This beautiful hardcover book contains exclusive, never-before-seen photos, a must-have for fans afflicted with Bieber-fever. The book will be published this October in both the United States ($21.99) and in the UK (16.99 pounds Sterling).
Justin: ‘Every day I wake up and count my blessings. My fans have played such a large part in all of this and they help me live my dreams every day. I’m excited to share just a little bit more of my world with them through this book. Between the behind-the-scenes pictures and the story I think this is going to be something they can all enjoy. This is just another way for me to say thank you to my fans.’
Justin Bieber loves making prank calls and recently called singer Akon and pretended to be his illegitimate son.
Justin Bieber pretended to be Akon’s illegitimate son.
The 16-year-old singer prank-called the music star after stealing his number from the phone of his manager Scooter.
Scooter recalled: “He was like, ‘Daddy, why don’t you love me?’ It really scared the s**t out of Akon!”
Justin was later asked about his telephone tricks by a fan on twitter and admitted making joke calls to people is one of his favourite pastimes.
You can’t make this stuff up, folks: Justin Bieber is compiling all the living he’s done in his 16 years for a new “photographic memoir,” which will be released in October by HarperCollins. The colon-heavy title: ‘Justin Bieber: First Step 2 Forever: My Story.’
“Every day I wake up and count my blessings,” Bieber said in a statement released Monday by the publisher. “My fans have played such a large part in all of this and they help me live my dreams every day. I’m excited to share just a little bit more of my world with them through this book.”
Selena Gomez may have temporarily lost her voice, but that didn’t stop her from making an appearance on “Lopez Tonight” Monday (July 26). With the help of a Dynavox voice-enhancing machine, Gomez sat down with host George Lopez to talk about her good pal Justin Bieber.





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