September 20, 2024

Review Category : TMZ Music News

Beyonce Thinks Blue Ivy ‘Needs Company’

Beyoncé might be a superstar, with a thriving music and acting career, but no job is as important as being a mother to Blue Ivy. And she likes being it so much that she's thinking of the expanding the Carter-Knowles clan... someday.

"I would like more children. I think my daughter needs company. I definitely love being a big sister and at some point when it's supposed to happen. My biggest job in the world is to protect my daughter and I am very protective," she told "Good Morning America" on Monday (May 6). "I just want to make sure that she can have a healthy, safe, normal life. I feel really, really just lucky that I can still do what I love and now have a way bigger meaning, and that's to be her mother."

Blue Ivy joined her mama onstage Friday night during a tour stop in London. At the end of "Irreplaceable," BIC held Beyoncé's hand as she closed out the track. In a little dress and protective headphones, she got the room hyped just by standing there, proving she inherited the superstar genes from her parents.

In addition to kicking the "When will she have another kid?" rumor mill into high gear, Queen Bey also addressed all the criticism surrounding her anniversary trip to Cuba with Jay-Z. And instead of courting more controversy, she just brushed it all off her shoulders.

"You know, it was such a beautiful trip and I met some incredible children, visited some incredible entrepreneurs," she said. "I learned so ...

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Justin Timberlake Reveals <I>The 20/20 Experience</I> Sequel Album, Solo Tour Dates

In keeping with the viral roll-out of his rebooted musical career, Justin Timberlake took to Instagram on Sunday to announce the release date for the second part of his The 20/20 Experience album.

In a photo of him playing guitar in a recording studio, Timberlake posted the information on a computer screen in the foreground that read, "The 20/20 Experience (2 of 2) Sept. 30th." And, a month later, he will kick off a solo world tour in support of both albums, taking the stage on October 31 in Montreal at the Bell Centre. With more shows to be added later, the current slate of gigs include stops in Nashville, St. Louis, Las Vegas, Dallas, Orlando and Denver through February 10.

No track listing, or official title, has been announced for the 10-track sequel album, but Timberlake confirmed it was coming out during an interview
 with Ryan Seacrest in March, saying, "Let me clear a rumor up. The news that this is only the first half of the album, that's true. That's all I'm going to say!"

After a six year break between new albums, this will be Timberlake's second new disc in seven months. The first 20/20 album debuted at #1 and fell just short of crashing the million mark when it sold 968,000 copies. It has moved more than 1.6 million copies in six weeks on the charts and has stayed in the top three the entire time.

Producer/songwriter Jerome "J-Roc" Harmon recent spilled a bit of information about the second album to Billboard, telling ...

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Will Iron Man Return In <i>Another</i> Movie?

This article discusses the ending of "Iron Man 3" and its implications, so SPOILER ALERT.

You may have noticed something strange about the ending of "Iron Man 3," namely that it had one at all.

It's not the style of a superhero movie — especially ones that were predicted to take in between $150 and $175 million in their domestic opening weekend — to close the doors on its main character like "Iron Man 3" does with Tony Stark, but that's exactly what it did. He doesn't need the arc reactor anymore, and he destroyed all of his Iron Man suits. It's like if Batman burned down the batcave without finding a replacement at the end of "The Dark Knight Rises."

So what does the ending of "Iron Man 3" and the conclusion of Tony's story mean for Marvel Studios and the character's role in "Avengers 2"? Since the after-credits scene didn't toss out a tease for a future film, all the audience has to rely on is a vague text-on-screen promise that "Iron Man will return."

To that effect, Iron Man certainly will return in "Avengers 2," but "Iron Man 4" is far from a sure thing. Unbeknownst to the rest of the world, Marvel and director Shane Black made "Iron Man 3" the conclusion to a trilogy. The story of Tony Stark that started in a cave is now over, and so is, at the very least, this leg of Iron Man's standalone films.

n an interview with SuperHeroHype, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige explained what the near future ...

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‘Now You See Me’: Watch The ‘X-Men’ Of Magic On Set Now!

Magicians often insist there's nothing up their sleeve, but the illusionists in are so good that they fill up their audience's pockets.

Jesse Eisenberg, Isla Fisher, Dave Franco and Woody Harrelson play a performance troupe that uses its skills for a little Robin Hood-style wealth redistributing — and MTV News is giving you the first look behind that magic curtain.

"I've always been attracted to magic," Fisher told MTV News during a visit to the set last year. "It keeps a part of your childish optimism alive to see someone do something like that. And actually Jesse [Eisenberg] has gotten really good. He can actually do genuine magic now, and so can some of the other cast."

As Michael Atlas, Eisenberg is the ringleader of the group in more ways than one. But he said the film gave him a unique opportunity to learn about art forms and develop talents he never knew he had. "You get to learn such a specific skill you would never otherwise probably come in contact," Eisenberg observed. "Because magicians and actors ... you know, like skateboards and bicyclists, we don't interact, but we're doing the same thing, compete for the same audience."

Eisenberg previously worked with Harrelson on the buddy-horror-comedy "Zombieland," but he said the cast has really bonded over the course of filming, especially since they all have so many interesting things to do. "The cast is amazing," he said. "You read the script, there's like 10 great roles here, everybody's got something to do. And when they put together the cast, you saw that ...

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‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ Plot: Even Benedict Cumberbatch Was In The Dark

Is he John? Or Khan? Actor Benedict Cumberbatch, who plays the mysterious villain in isn't telling.

But he says that when he first agreed to take on the role, he didn't even know everything about the character.

"I had a very good pitch from J.J. on the phone," he told MTV News of director J.J. Abrams at the film's London premiere. "I didn't have time to read the whole script before I began."

Cumberbatch is popping up everywhere lately. After making waves as Sherlock Holmes on BBC's television series of the same name, he landed choice roles in films by Steven Spielberg ("War Horse"), Peter Jackson ("The Hobbit") and Steve McQueen ("Twelve Years a Slave"). While all the "Star Trek" footage released so far has kept his identity — and motives — mostly secret, Cumberbatch's character threatens to throw the crew of the Enterprise and all of Starfleet into chaos.

The "Star Trek" Crew — Even J.J. Abrams! — Are Bringing An Exclusive Clip To MTV On Wednesday!

While Cumberbatch was eventually able to find out what was in store for his character, Abrams delivered a script to him that was suitably protected to preserve its secrets.

"I did ask for it, and it was then brought to me by a human being with a copy locked to his wrist," Cumberbatch said, laughing. "And it was interesting — I loved the story. It was so complex and intriguing and funny."

Another filmmaker Cumberbatch is set to collaborate with is Guillermo del Toro, whose new film "Pacific Rim" seems poised to smash its summer competition. ...

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In ‘Iron Man 3,’ Ben Kingsley Never Took His Eyes Off Robert Downey Jr.

If there's one thing Robert Downey Jr. does best as Tony Stark, it's delivering his superhero lines as if he's making them up as he goes along.

But despite the actor's spontaneous, scenery-chewing demeanor, co-star Sir Ben Kingsley said Downey is always working with his fellow actors, not against them.

"I think that as in any collaborative event, even if people are opposed to one another, like tennis players, you have to keep your eye on the other player," Kingsley told MTV News. "You have to anticipate and joy in the movements and twists and turns. Robert never strays off dialogue. His gift is to make the written word look utterly spontaneous."

Kingsley plays the Mandarin, a mysterious figure who aspires to destroy America's decadent Western values. A sort of "super-terrorist" created almost from the iconography of the worst leaders in history, Mandarin dons a bin Laden-like beard and extensive visual representations of his exoticism — his otherness.

The actor's responsibility was to remain placid, certain and resolute in his authority, a challenge he said was less difficult than one might expect when pitted against Downey's quick wit and febrile intelligence. "Very little if anything is thrown at the actor that isn't in the script," he said. "So we do have a map, and we can stick to the map.

"I think he calls it the box," Kingsley continued. "You play inside it, you don't play outside of it. So he's a very stimulating and wonderful comrade to work with."

Watch Kingsley and Downey share the screen in "Iron Man 3," which is ...

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