Andy Samberg Reveals Details About The New Lonely Island Movie ‘Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping’

Remember Hot Rod? Maybe you do, more likely you don’t. Sadly, the film — directed, produced by and starring members of the Lonely Island — was ahead of its time in 2007, a couple of years before America got hip to the viral absurdity of Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone and Akiva Schaffer. The box-office receipts were dismal and notices lukewarm, so the film faded into obscurity and has been building a cult following ever since. I count myself among the Hot Rod faithful and recommend it to anyone who will listen, though it’s not all that difficult to see what might have turned some people off. Basically, if you’re not on board with this, it’s probably not going to be for you.

But with another feature-film project coming up, the Lonely Island boys are hoping that they won’t have to wait a few years for culture to catch up with them. Andy Samberg went on Jimmy Kimmel Live last night to promote the project, newly titled Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping and reveal the official poster, which we’ve embedded below. The mockumentary spoofs such pop-star concert docs as Justin Bieber: Never Say Never and Katy Perry: Part Of Me, focusing on Samberg as a washed-up teen idol named Conner 4Real as he engineers his comeback to stardom. The film, set for a release June 3, marks a big move for The Lonely Island. In the clip above, Samberg mentions that this is a real live bona fide movie, with Apatow as a producer and a wide release in the works. Hot Rod shot on a budget of $25 million, but deliberately looked like it was made for 10 bucks. Awash in gold, mesh tank top hugging his torso, Bieber coiffure perfectly in place, the gilded poster for Popstar heralds a major re-arrival.

The Force is strong with Daisy Ridley, who has recorded a duet with Barbra Streisand

The Star Wars star, 23, referenced her “insane weekend” in an Instagram post, which included teaming with Barbra and culminated on Sunday with a first-ever appearance at the Academy Awards as a presenter.

However, she did not go into detail about the musical collaboration when she posted a photo of the Oscar-winning superstar.

Meryl Streep is transformed into a doughnut, avocado on toast and a celery stick in bizarre Instagram photos that have become an internet sensation

We've seen her transformed into everything from a nun to a witch to an terrifying magazine editor and even Margaret Thatcher throughout her acting career.
But a bizarre Instagram account that turns Meryl Streep into foods presents the legendary actress as you've never seen her before.
Taste of Streep, which has 25,600 followers, shows Meryl languishing on an aubergine with only a towel to protect her modesty, perched atop avocado on toast and emerging as a celery stick from a Bloody Mary.

With Elie Saab AWOL at the Oscars, Egypt's Farida Temraza was waiting in the wings

Egyptians, hold your head up high. We might not be the most civilized population, we might not be very smart, but we sure as hell know how to make good clothes. Designer Farida Temraza‘s gowns graced several red carpets in recent weeks. Her shining moment was when actress and beauty blogger Teni Panosian wore a Temraza dress at the 24th Annual Elton John AIDS Foundation’s Oscars


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Actress Laura Bell Bundy also wore a Temraza creation for the 2016 Screen Actors Guild awards recently, making her the first-ever Egyptian brand to make an appearance on the SAG red carpet. Will she become the next Zuhair Murad? By Malak Abdelnabi

'Black Sails' Season 3: 'Fear the beard' video released [Watch]

A new video that shows a scene from “Black Sails” Season 3 has been released by Starz. The video appears to show the first meeting of Charles Vane with Blackbeard in the next season.

Blackbeard (Ray Stevenson) is a new character in the TV series, but the story will show that the character has a history with some of the other major characters. The dreaded pirate was one of the founding members of Nassau and he will now return to the island.

The new video teases that Blackbeard may be presumed dead after his long absence from Nassau. “Man puts a dead thing in the ground. He expects it to stay there. Sometimes...it comes back,” Blackbeard says in the video.

Charles Vane (Zach McGowan) can be seen sitting with a sword to his neck by a man standing behind a screen. It is later revealed that the man who is behind the screen is Blackbeard. “Fear the beard,” the text in the video says.

“Blackbeard is the most notorious pirate in history,” Executive Producer Dan Shotz said in a previous video on the YouTube channel of Starz. A scene from “Black Sails” Season 3 in the video shows the pirate expressing his views about the Spanish gold in Nassau.

The video also shows the character searching for his “old friend” Charles Vane. Although Blackbeard threatens Vane with his sword initially, he later hugs him and tells him that it is good to see him. Vane, however, continues to be cautious of the dreaded pirate.

“Blackbeard was previously a mentor to Charles Vance,” Stevenson says in the video. The pirate will now see the opportunity to raise his own fleet in “Black Sails” Season 3, thanks to the Spanish gold that the pirates stole in the previous season. Season 3 will premiere on Jan. 24.