Britney Spears released a passel of interactive teaser images Wednesday (July 10) for the video for her "Smurfs 2" track "Ooh La La," and it looks to be a family affair for the family movie. The vid features her sons Jayden Jaymes, 6, and Sean Preston, 7.

Spears spoke about the Marc Klasfeld-directed music video, which will officially premiere at noon on Thursday, and her sons' involvement on Ryan Seacrest's radio show last month: "[My sons] were actually really, really good on set," she said. "They play themselves ... [but when] we did the actual shoot of the video I didn't see [them]. I was in hair and makeup, so later on I got to see what they actually did on camera and it was adorable."

Spears also told Seacrest that her sons were the reason she contributed to the film's soundtrack in the first place. "They're obsessed with the Smurfs," she said. "We've seen 'The Smurfs' movie a million trillion times, and they were told they could be in the video and all this cool stuff, so that's the reason why I did it."

Accordingly, the boys got ample play as Brit started building anticipation for the vid's release. Wednesday morning, she fired off the following tweet and Instagram image, featuring the pop star and her sons munching popcorn in a movie theatre ("Omg. How CUTE are my boys?!" she gushed.) The lyric video hit VEVO at the end of June.

She then followed up with even more snippets from the video — this time ...

With San Diego's Comic-Con International just around the corner, Entertainment Weekly has devoted its latest issue to the pop culture event — which includes the first reveal of Jamie Foxx's Spider-Man bad guy, Electro.

While Spider-Man is sporting a look that veers closer than ever to the character's comic-book origins, the same can't be said for Electro. There's not a single lightning-bolt-shaped mask to be found on director Marc Webb's set. The bad guy was first glimpsed way back in April when "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" visited Times Square for Electro's public debut. But while those photos revealed the biggest change to Electro's look — the bad guy's blue now — it was apparent that a few CGI tweaks were needed to finalize the charismatic actor's full turn to the dark side.

The EW cover illuminates Foxx's heavily made-up face while giving his pronounced veins an almost lightning-bolt effect. The cover also shows off part of Electro's uniform, and it's a bit different than the character's signature green and yellow tights. Here, the villain sports a high-tech and rubbery-looking jump suit, complete with a lightning-bolt symbol on the arm.

Foxx jumped at the chance to play a comic-book bad guy. As Foxx told EW, "To get to be the villain and get to say all the cool stuff? Of course!" He expressed similar sentiments to MTV News last month, saying that he enjoyed the role so much that he improvised a catch phrase on set.

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Justin Timberlake got all Bob Dylan in a teaser video Wednesday (July 10) for a brand-new track off of his upcoming follow-up to The 20/20 Experience. With a series of scrawled cue cards, Timberlake introduced us to "Take Back the Night," but left it hazy as to when exactly that jam will come to the masses.

In the black-and-white (Timberlake's signature colors) teaser, Timberlake exits a convertible and holding up a series of cue cards reading: "'Suit & Tie,' January 14," "'Mirrors,' February 11," "The 20/20 Experience, March 19," "Take Back The Night," and then, a mysteriously blurred cue card that presumably bears the release date of the as-yet to be released single.

Timberlake then swaggers into a club as the scene changes from black and white to color, and we hear the hook of the jam in question: "Take back the night / C'mon use me up until there's nothing left / Take back the night / Dizzy, spinnin', sweatin', you can't catch your breath."

The followup to The 20/20 Experience is slated to drop on September 30 and this short teaser offers up some clues as to what we can expect, in addition to the music.

For one, the vid is titled The 20/20 Experience Continues..., which could very well be the album title. Secondly, the color change at the end could hint at an aesthetic change for volume one, as the first iteration of the album saw Timberlake for the most part adopting a black and white/grayscale look -- from music videos to the majority of

J. Cole had no problem hanging out in the second position, waiting for his time to rise. And next week, the Born Sinner rapper will finally get his chance when his latest climbs into the #1 spot on the Billboard 200 album chart thanks to sales of nearly 58,000, according to figures provided by Nielsen SoundScan.

That was more than enough to push him past the three-week total for former #1 holder Kanye West, whose Yeezus shed another 40 percent of its business to hang at #3 (39,000). To date, Cole has moved 439,000 units, while West is just shy of 431,000. Last week's #1, Wale's The Gifted, slipped a spot to #2 as sales moved down 68 percent to 50,000.

The most impressive footnote to Cole's rise is that, according to Billboard, since the advent of SoundScan in 1991, only 13 percent (76) of the 583 albums that have reached #1 on the chart have done so after not debuting at #1. The bigger news is that next week, when Jay-Z's Magna Carta Holy Grail? is expected to take #1 on projected sales of 350,000-400,000?, the top four spots could be filled by Roc nation signed, managed or affiliated artists. That would be a coup not only for Jigga, but could also represent the first time in recent memory that the top four slots on the chart have been filled by hip-hop albums.

The other big story of the week was the four-spot rise of Imagine Dragons' nearly year-old Night Visions (36,000), which slid up to ...

If you were one of the many disappointed fans who couldn't download Magna Carta Holy Grail at midnight on July 4, Jay-Z feels your pain.

On Wednesday (July 10), Hov appeared on New York's Power 105 The Breakfast Club radio show and expressed his disappointment in the functionality of the Samsung phone app that was supposed to deliver his new album to one million fans as soon as the clock struck midnight on Independence Day.

"I can't even imagine waiting for Rakim's album at 12 o'clock and I couldn't get it and I downloaded — I did everything right," Jay-Z said, using the 1980s rap icon to put himself in his fans' shoes. "On the 24th I downloaded my app, I set it, I watched the clock count down and at 12 'clock I couldn't get it. For me that's not cool."

Hov announced Magna Carta and then pushed it out in a little more than two weeks, all the while shouting his "new rules" battle cry. The plan was for fans to download the MCHG app, get access to some pretty nifty pre-album content and then on July 4 all be able to experience a communal moment by downloading the album at the same time, but it didn't work out that way.

"Anytime you do something different — and you should always try to push forward in whatever you're doing — it's going to be a problem," Jay explained. "The thing that happened with Samsung is a real thing; it was 20 million hits to the app. I'm not ...