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Latest 'All Things Fall Apart' Trailer: 50/50 Cent

Latest 'All Things Fall Apart' Trailer: 50/50 Cent

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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No 50 Cent, You May Not Name Your Football Cancer Film After Africa's Greatest Literary Work

No 50 Cent, You May Not Name Your Football Cancer Film After Africa's Greatest Literary Work

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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