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(5/16/00, 12 p.m. ET) - 'N Sync is off to Cannes, France, this week, where they will announce the details about the production of their first feature film at the Cannes International Film Festival. LAUNCH caught up with 'N Sync singer Lance Bass, who gave us the scoop, just before he boarded a plane bound for France.

"We'll be there for three days and we're going to be announcing some ideas we have for a movie," he said. "There's nothing official yet. We don't have a script written yet but we, as a group, have started a production company called Phat Free Productions, and we will be producing the movie with Total Film Group in Los Angeles."

Total Film Group is a public entertainment company that helps finance and produce feature films. The company recently revealed that Bass and his boy-band mates J.C. Chasez, Joey Fatone, Chris Kirkpatrick, and Justin Timberlake would star in fictional roles in the film.

Bass told LAUNCH he was not sure if the film would be a musical or an action flick. "We've had several movie ideas that we started out doing, but had to totally change them, so we don't know. It might be a musical; it might be an action flick," he said. "We don't really know, but we do know that it will probably start filming in January 2001."

Could it be that a musical-action flick starring 'N Sync is what fans crave? No matter what the pop supergroup decides, their millions of fans will no doubt be there to support it. 'N Sync's latest album No String's Attached has topped the charts for the last seven weeks, selling more than 190,000 copies last week alone. 'N Sync is currently at the beginning of a 41-city North American tour.

-- Jason Gelman, New York, and Margy Holland, Nashville

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