It says something about how far Ice-T has come since his gangsta rap days that his directorial debut, the hip-hop documentary Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap, premiered at Sundance to a house packed with hip-hop heads and white older moviegoers who likely know Ice better from Law & Order: SVU than “New Jack Hustler.” And it says something about the film itself, which explores the historical landscape of hip-hop in intimate detail with over 40 of Ice-T’s fellow rappers, that even the L&O-watching grandmas in the audience were bopping their heads the whole way through.
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Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson may be pleading the indie case and fighting the unfortunate cultural fight to shore up interest in his cancer drama All Things Fall Apart, and the film's marketing may have improved since its LOLtastic first teaser last year. But in the end, as the latest trailer will attest, the film still looks about as appealing as a ham-and-chemo sandwich -- with extra ham, natch.
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"So you all know All Things Fall Apart is the kind of movie that is really hard to get studios to finances [sic]," rapper-turned-actor/writer/producer 50 Cent Tweeted to his 5M+ followers, following a screening of his upcoming cancer drama. "My partners were against the idea at first then changed there minds after they saw the movie. All the positive feed back I received makes me feel like I was right. I wrote produced and financed the film. I lost some really close to me to cancer. this film is symbol of our friend ship." And he's trying to feed the world? Start lobbying now for the canonization of Saint Fiddy. [@50Cent]
Movieline can't help but root for 50 Cent and his acting career, football cancer movies and all. In an exclusive behind the scenes clip from his upcoming DVD release Set Up -- a diamond heist thriller co-starring Bruce Willis and Ryan Phillippe -- the rapper-thespian opens up and gets personal talking about the impact he hope his latest acting endeavor makes on his career and dating life.
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Remember how rapper-filmmaker 50 Cent wrote, produced, and stars in a film about a football player who gets diagnosed with cancer? The Mario van Peebles-directed flick was set to launch Fiddy into dramatic stardom under the title Things Fall Apart until reps for Nigerian author Chinua Achebe -- who wrote a little book also called Things Fall Apart, practically the most famous African novel ever -- contacted him with a copyright infringement complaint. 50 offered $1 million for use of the title, prompting Achebe's camp to shoot back with a resounding rejection.
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