Forget music<\/a>: Justin Timberlake<\/strong> is itching to get back on the big screen, a source tells Star.<\/p>\n \u201cJustin hasn\u2019t had a movie hit in years and he\u2019s desperate to change that,\u201d the source says of the Trolls star, 44.<\/p>\n But rather than trying to rebuild his serious acting career by \u201chumbling himself\u201d and \u201cslashing his asking price\u201d to make \u201csmall, interesting films\u201d \u2014 like 2021\u2019s Palmer and 2013\u2019s Inside Llewyn Davis \u2014 the \u2018NSYNC alum is thinking big, says the source.<\/p>\n \u201cJustin still thinks he has massive, blockbuster style hit left in him, and it\u2019s just a matter of leveraging his 20 years of movie business contacts,\u201d continues the source, adding that he\u2019s reached out to his Social Network director, David Fincher<\/strong>, and his Friends with Benefits costar Mila Kunis<\/strong>.<\/p>\n \u201cBut he\u2019s not going to get hired because people feel sorry for him and the cold streak he\u2019s been on,\u201d says the source.<\/p>\n \u201cAudiences have decided they don\u2019t need more Justin Timberlake movies,\u201d continues the source, \u201cand it\u2019s on Justin to change their minds and remind them, any way he can, that he\u2019s still somebody worth watching.\u201d<\/p>\n Lumeimages \/ MEGA<\/span><\/p>\n As Star previously reported, Timberlake and his wife, Jessica Biel<\/strong>, are at a crossroads<\/a> in their marriage as their respective careers<\/a> head in different directions.<\/p>\n Biel, 43, is \u201clooking forward and trying to evolve,\u201d while her husband \u2014 who she shares two sons \u2014 is \u201cstuck in the past.\u201d<\/p>\n This story Justin Timberlake Is Desperate to Revive His Movie Career Following \u2018Cold Streak\u2019 (Exclusive)<\/a> first appeared on Star<\/i><\/a>. Add Star<\/i> as a Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Forget music: Justin Timberlake is itching to get back on the big screen, a source tells Star. \u201cJustin hasn\u2019t had a movie hit in years and he\u2019s desperate to change that,\u201d the source says of the Trolls star, 44. But rather than trying to rebuild his serious acting career by \u201chumbling himself\u201d and \u201cslashing his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2131225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[334249,24509],"class_list":["post-2131224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-david-fincher","tag-justin-timberlake"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Justin-Timberlake-Is-Desperate-to-Revive-His-Movie-Career-Following.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2131224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2131226,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131224\/revisions\/2131226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2131225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2131224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2131224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2131224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/span><\/div>\n