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50 Cent: 'Being shot helped me succeed'
17 December 2009 12:33 PM, PST
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50 Cent has credited his business savvy on being shot during his early days as a rapper. The Get Rich or Die Tryin' star was nearly killed in 2000 after he was shot nine times by drug dealer rivals in Queens, NY. Following the near-death experience, 50 Cent revealed that he put in even more effort to make a success of his career in order to escape the tough neighbourhood in which he grew up, Angry Ape reports. "I will be the person with the (more)
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Susan Boyle's Album Continues Topping Hot 200, Chris Brown's Flops
16 December 2009 6:54 PM, PST
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For the third week in a row, Susan Boyle sits at No. 1 on Billboard Hot 200 with her debut album "I Dreamed a Dream". After pulling in more than 1 million copies only after two weeks on sale, the record adds another 582,000 units this week.
The number makes "I Dreamed a Dream" become one of the albums to sell at least 500,000 copies in each of its first three weeks of release. And, it's the only effort by a female solo artist to do so. The last set to sell around 500,000 in each of its first three weeks was 50 Cent's "Get Rich or Die Tryin'" in March 2003.
New releases blocked by Susan from the top spot of the chart are "Glee" soundtrack compilation, Chris Brown's "Graffiti" and Gucci Mane's "The State vs. Radric Davis". Despite new entries from Alicia Keys and Robin Thicke next week, she is also predicted to continue ruling the chart.
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'Twilight' soundtrack makes Billboard's 'Best of the 2000's Soundtracks'
15 December 2009 2:11 AM, PST
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Muse, Robert Pattinson, Linkin Park, Paramore . . . you know the names. These are all fantastic artists that made their way onto a little soundtrack called Twilight last year. A soundtrack which made its way to the top of the Billboard 200 list (to be followed by its certified platinum sequel New Moon), in ... r O Brother, Where Art Thou?, High School Musical, 8 Mile, Hannah Montana, High School Musical 2, and Hannah Montana 2 (okay, so no one said these were all the greatest choices), Twilight comes in taking the lead above heavy-hitters like Shrek, Chicago, Moulin Rouge, The Lizzie McGuire Movie, Mamma Mia!, The Cheetah Girls, Hannah Montana: The Movie, Coyote Ugly, Bad Boys II, Ray, Tupac: Resurrection, High School Musical 3: Senior Year, Get Rich Or Die Tryin', The Cheetah Girls 2, Walk The Line, Camp Rock, and Garden State.
So, now all we need is that Gra
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50 Cent Talks Leaks, Power And Water With Jimmy Fallon
8 December 2009 12:52 PM, PST
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50 Cent scored a triple play on Monday's "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon," where he sat in with legendary house band the Roots, sat down to chat with the host and then performed to close the show.
At the top of the show, Fallon reminisced about first meeting 50 at an MTV spring break event years ago, when he was blown away by the rapper's infamous blinged-out spinner necklace. After 50 got in a few plugs for his new album, Before I Self Destruct, Fallon asked him how he felt about the album leaking early. Fif, who has blamed the leak for the disc's soft first-week sales, explained to Fallon that the CD leaked from the pressing plant.
"At least it was leaked after it was mixed and mastered in its entirety," he said. "So people understand what my vision for the actual project was. Sometimes, [songs are leaked] one at a time, and you decide
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'Brothers' Wrenching, But the Performances Are Top Notch
5 December 2009 9:05 PM, PST
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Sibling rivalry is a common theme in films, but Brothers takes that universal subject and places it in a new context. There's more at play — and at stake — in Jim Sheridan's awards hopeful than just family interaction. Grief, guilt, and identity lie at the torn heart of this sometimes disturbing but always moving film.
At the beginning of Brothers, the family of Captain Sam Cahill (Tobey Maguire, Spider-Man 3) is reluctant to see the Marine return to Afghanistan for another tour of duty. His wife, Grace (Natalie Portman, The Other Boleyn Girl), jokingly asks to come with him, and his daughters (Bailee Madison and Taylor Geare) plead with him to stay. He has an uneasy relationship with his brother, Tommy (Jake Gyllenhaal, Zodiac), who has just been released from prison in time for Sam to leave. Trouble-making Tommy has always stood in his brother's shadow, and it's never been
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Brothers (review)
2 December 2009 3:13 PM, PST
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I hate that, because movies about the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have failed to catch the interest of audiences, I feel like I have to say, “Oh, don’t worry, Brothers isn’t really about what’s happening to our soldiers in the Middle East, and what’s happening to them once they come home.” Sure, it’s true that this is a movie primarily about family, and sure, it’s true the experiences in Afghanistan that change Tobey Maguire’s Marine and inadvertently alter the family dynamics back at home could just as easily have been the result of something other than war: it could have been a terrible crime that impacts everyone here, or a horrible accident.
But let’s not be disingenuous: Susanne Bier’s 2004 Danish film of the same name [Region 1] [Region 2], upon which this is based, sprang from the fact that Western soldiers have been deployed in the Middle East.
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50 Cent Brushes Off Soft Sales For Before I Self-Destruct
25 November 2009 9:56 AM, PST
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Rapper says online leak caused sales dip.
By Gil Kaufman
50 Cent
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For a man who has talked big about sales figures for much of his career, 50 Cent seems to have had a change of heart when it comes to his latest, Before I Self-Destruct. The rapper's fourth solo album had the lowest opening week of his career, bowing at #5 on 160,000 sales, trailing his next-smallest debut, 2007's Curtis, by more than 500,000 copies.
Self-Destruct did leak weeks before its release, causing a one-week push-up for the physical release and an even earlier release for the album's digital incarnation. And 50 doesn't appear to be sweating the sales dip.
"For myself, I'm asking myself, 'What did you expect, bro? Your fans got it when it was available, at the first available opportunity,' " he said in an interview on DJ Green Lantern's Sirius Satellite radio show earlier this week, before the numbers were official.
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50 Cent's Self Destruct Is Lowest Chart Debut Of His Career
25 November 2009 8:14 AM, PST
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John Mayer, Andrea Bocelli, Norah Jones, Casting Crowns all outsell 50's latest on Billboard albums chart.
By Gil Kaufman
50 Cent's <i>Before I Self Destruct</i>
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In a stunning turnabout, 50 Cent will notch the lowest chart debut of his career next week when his long-delayed Before I Self Destruct lands at #5 on comparatively soft sales of 160,000. After his first two albums hit #1, selling 872,000 (Get Rich or Die Tryin') and 1.15 million (The Massacre), and 2007's Curtis sold 691,000 following an infamous chart battle with Kanye West, this fifth-place finish is a major comedown.
Who bested the once-dominant G-Unit General? According to figures provided by Nielsen SoundScan, Twitter-lover John Mayer's Battle Studies took the top spot with sales of 286,000, followed by My Christmas by tenor Andrea Bocelli (185,000), the debut of Norah Jones' rock-tinged Fall (180,000) and Christian rock group Casting Crowns' Until the Whole World Hears (167,000).
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50 Cent Takes Us Through His Catalog, Album By Album
17 November 2009 3:52 AM, PST
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The New York Mc details the creative journey that led him to Before I Self Destruct.
By Shaheem Reid
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50 Cent first decided to make the Before I Self Destruct album about three years ago. Coming off the heels of 2005's mega-seller The Massacre, Fif wanted to keep slaying 'em with another assault on the streets. However, a creative surge hit him early in the process, and he decided to bench Destruct in order to make the collaboration-heavy Curtis. In the interim, a few tracks intended for Destruct hit the Internet and mixtapes, and the full album was recorded and scrapped twice before he finally settled on the current incarnation, which was released on Monday.
"Well, this record is almost a prequel to Get Rich or Die Tryin'," 50 said of the album's feel. "The content is coming from situations I've experienced prior to when I created Get Rich or Die Tryin'.
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50 Cent: Too Cool To Self Destruct
16 November 2009 2:36 PM, PST
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Of all the artists that pass through the MTV headquarters here in New York every week, there are few that bring the same level of excitement to the building that 50 Cent does. With his fourth studio album Before I Self Destruct set to hit stores, the G-Unit General is hard at work on the promo trail talking about everything from music to his rivals. Interviewing 50 never gets old. He has as much charisma as he does bottles of Vitamin Water in his fridge, so whenever he comes in for a big sit-down interview you never know what to expect.
It's an interesting time for 50. He's nearing the end of his five album deal with Interscope, and he appears to have come full circle, as the aggression of his debut Get Rich or Die Tryin' is matched only by the new album. Despite having a reported $300 million in the bank and an empire that spans clothing,
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50 Cent: 'I always knew I'd be rich'
12 November 2009 2:52 PM, PST
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50 Cent has said that he always knew he would grow up to be rich and famous. The Get Rich or Die Tryin' star runs a successful business alongside acting in movies and forging a prosperous music career. "I expected myself to be successful," Angry Ape quotes the rapper as saying. "Not this successful as fast, but I'm working, I'm ambitious and I'll always create new goals and challenge (more)
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New 'Brothers' Trailer Featuring Jake Gyllenhaal, Tobey Maguire
5 November 2009 9:05 PM, PST
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A brand new trailer for the remade Brothers war drama, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Tobey Maguire and Natalie Portman, has debuted online courtesy of Yahoo! Movies. To watch it, click on the Trailer tab above.
On his way to report for a peacekeeping mission in Afghanistan, Danish Army officer Michael stops to pick up his brother Jannik, who is getting out of jail that day. In Afghanistan, Michael's helicopter crashes and he is presumed dead. Jannik and Michael's wife Sarah discover that they don't hate each other as much as they had thought, and Jannik decides to reform and make himself useful around Sarah's house. Then Michael comes home with a full-blown case of post traumatic stress disorder because of what he had to do to survive in captivity.
Directed by Jim Sheridan (Get Rich or Die Tryin'), the film opens in theaters on December 4,
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50 Cent 'wants romantic comedy role'
4 November 2009 1:36 PM, PST
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50 Cent has revealed that he would like to star in a romantic comedy. The rapper made his big screen debut in 2005 with semi-autobiographical action film Get Rich or Die Tryin', in which he played a gun-toting drug dealer. He also featured in 2006's Home of the Brave as a soldier returning home from the Iraq War and 2008 thriller Righteous Kill. The (more)
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50 Cent And Polow Da Don Create A 'Hit Record' With 'Baby By Me'
30 October 2009 5:12 AM, PDT
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'That was the first joint I played him,' Polow says of Fif instantly loving the beat.
By Jayson Rodriguez, with reporting by Shaheem Reid
50 Cent
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If at first you don't succeed, try, try (and try and try and try) again.
It took five attempts before 50 Cent and producer Polow Da Don could finally lock into a studio session together for the G-Unit superstar's "Baby by Me" track, but once they connected, their chemistry was instant. Polow said Fif knew right away they had a hot one on their hands.
"He came in the studio, we had some time set up — we had, like, five sessions; the other four fell through," Polow told MTV News. "The fifth one, we got together, he came in and that was the first joint I played him. He said, 'That's a hit record.' "
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50 Cent Goes Hard, Not Home: The MTV News Quote Of The Day
20 October 2009 2:02 PM, PDT
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"Not particularly this song, but the entire project ... I meant for it to be a little harder and what I fell in love with about hip-hop and within hip-hop. I accomplished it. Before I Self Destruct is absolutely harder than Get Rich or Die Tryin' or other projects in between. The Massacre had some real aggressive content on it, but there were other things I wanted to do, like 'Ryder Music,' 'Baltimore Love Thing,' 'Build You Up,' featuring Jamie Foxx. This project [Before I Self Destruct], I kept all of those things out of it. I just made it what I wanted it to be. This album is my album right now. It's like the prequel to Get Rich — the things I missed on that project."
-50 Cent, talking about how hard his forthcoming album Before I Self Destruct is going to be in comparison with his other work. MTV News
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50 Cent Says New LP Will Be 'Harder,' Despite Ne-Yo Track
20 October 2009 1:37 AM, PDT
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Before I Self Destruct is 'like the prequel to Get Rich or Die Tryin', 50 says.
By Shaheem Reid
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50 Cent has often criticized the rap game for being a little too soft lately. He's openly asked, where's the aggressive content? He's also pointed out how few hit hip-hop songs from the past couple of years don't have an R&B singer on the hook. Through mixtapes such as the War Angel LP, he's served up lethal doses of hardcore rap, so it was a little surprising to see him team with R&B singer Ne-Yo on his new single "Baby by Me," for which the two shot a video last weekend.
50 said that just because he's got a song with a crooning chorus doesn't mean he's abandoned a street edge for his upcoming Before I Self Destruct LP.
"Not particularly this song, but the entire project ... I
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Daniel Craig Joins Jim Sheridan’s Dream House
28 August 2009 1:00 PM, PDT
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As soon as Get Rich or Die Tryin' was released, starring a then-hot 50 Cent, it was evident that the climb back up to respectability might be a long one for Jim Sheridan, the guy who previously impressed us with films like My Left Foot and In the Name of the Father. I'm not sure how much good Brothers, his upcoming film with Jake Gyllenhall, Natalie Portman and Tobey Mgauire, will do. (Premise is great, trailer has me worried.) But I'm now a lot more interested in his follow-up Dream House, because Daniel Craig is joining the cast.
Variety has the news, and describes Craig's character as "a New York publishing exec who relocates his family to a small New England town, only to learn that their new home was the scene of a vicious murder." Sounds like the sort of info that should really be released before buying (isn't there
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Daniel Craig Gets 'Dream House'
28 August 2009 8:55 AM, PDT
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Daniel Craig has committed to star in the psychological thriller Dream House, which is to be directed by Jim Sheridan (Get Rich or Die Tryin').
In the story, Craig plays a New York publishing executive who relocates his family to a small New England town, only to learn that their new home was the scene of a vicious murder.
Dream House was written by David Loucka (Borderline), and will be produced by James G. Robinson along with David Robinson, Daniel Bobker and Ehren Krueger.
Craig is currently preparing to star opposite Hugh Jackman in the Broadway play "A Steady Rain", by John Crowley.
Dream House is scheduled to start shooting on January 25, 2010.
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Daniel Craig to Star in Psychological Thriller
28 August 2009 6:00 AM, PDT
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Daniel Craig (Casino Royale) has committed to star in the psychological thriller "Dream House," which will be directed by Jim Sheridan (Get Rich or Die Tryin') and is set to start shooting on January 25th. Craig plays a New York publishing executive who relocates his family to a small New England town, only to learn that their new home was the scene of a vicious murder. "Dream House" was written by David Loucka (Eddie, Borderline). Craig is about to star in the Broadway play "A Steady Rain," by John Crowley. Hugh Jackman is his co-star.
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Sheridan lines up Boston mob movie
15 January 2009 4:12 AM, PST
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Jim Sheridan has started working on a film about Boston mobster and FBI informant Whitey Bulger. The Get Rich Or Die Tryin' director's latest project is based on the book Black Mass: The True Story Of An Unholy Alliance Between The FBI And The Irish Mob, which was penned by Boston Globe journalists Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill. Black Mass told the story of Bulger's rise as he took over the Winter Hill Gang, which organised (more)
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