Get Rich or Die Tryin'

[Brian in Mesa]

Get Rich or Die Tryin'

Release Date: November 11, 2005
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Director: Jim Sheridan
Screenwriter: Terence Winter
Genre: Crime, Drama
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Website: Get Rich or Die Tryin'

Starring: 50 Cent, Viola Davis, Terrence Dashon Howard, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Bill Duke, Walter Alza, Benz Antoine, Arlene Duncan, Omar Benson Miller, Pedro Miguel Arce

Plot Summary: A tale of an inner city drug dealer who turns away from crime to pursue his passion, rap music.

 

[Cheesebeef]

uh - didn't this EXACT movie just come out? Hustle and Flow anyone?

 

[thirty-two]

and didnt 50 make a song called "Wanksta" with the lyrics "I aint uh actah"

So would this movie make 50 cent both an actor and a wanksta?

 

[phillycard]

and didnt 50 make a song called "Wanksta" with the lyrics "I aint uh actah"

So would this movie make 50 cent both an actor and a wanksta?

 

[Brian in Mesa]

Billboards for 50 Cent Movie Coming Down

Sun Nov 6, 2005

Twenty-one billboards plugging rapper 50 Cent's movie "Get Rich or Die Tryin'" are coming down amid opposition from community groups.

The billboards show the rapper, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, holding a gun in one hand and a microphone in the other.

"The message could be 'rob to get rich.' ... It's a very offensive message that is part of a mind-set that says you can solve problems with violence," said Bilal Qayyum, a leader of the antiviolence group Men United for a Better Philadelphia.

He praised the billboard company, Clear Channel Outdoor, for agreeing to remove the signs.

"They showed corporate responsibility," Qayyum said.

George J. Kauker, president of the Philadelphia division of Clear Channel Outdoor, issued a brief statement about the decision, saying: "Based on clear and vocal negative response from local Philadelphia community groups, we agreed to remove this particular advertisement," Kauker said. He said the decision applied the Philadelphia area only.

In Los Angeles, Paramount Pictures earlier agreed to removed some billboards for the movie after activists in a south Los Angeles neighborhood rallied in protest. The movie is about a drug dealer who turns away from crime to pursue his true passion — music.

 

[thirty-two]

Today on an "L" Train in Chicago, I saw a 50 Cent billboard for some kind of water.

The sign said: "No groupies. No Love. Just 50."

It had 3 beautifual women in the background, with 50 Cent sitting in a chair reading the Wall Street Journal, with the company's water in his hand.

I don't know the point of me telling everyone this, but I guess I just thought it was really weird. 1. That he would get paid to endorse some flavored vatimin water or 2. That he actually reads the Wall Street Journal.

 

[Brian in Mesa]

He's actually doing a lot more than just "being paid to endorse water."

Smart business sense.

50 Cent Invests In Vitamin Water
By Nolan Strong
Date: 10/13/2004

50 Cent is diversifying and taking some of the money he earned from his multiplatinum album releases and investing in a beverage company.

Unlike his business counterparts who have invested in energy drinks and liquor businesses, the Queen's bred rapper bought a stake in Glaceau, the company that owns the Vitamin Water drink.

50 said he drinks the product on a regular basis, since he does not drink alcoholic beverages.

According to sources, 50 Cent will release his own line of drinks, a grape-flavored beverage called Formula 50.

Formula 50 will retail for $1.99 and while it hasn't been officially released, select stores in New York are testing the product.

Presently, 50 Cent is recording his second album, which was originally slated to be released this summer.

50 Cent scrapped the first recording of the album, fearing he hadn't outdone his major label debut, Get Rich or Die Trying.

 

[phillycard]

He's actually doing a lot more than just "being paid to endorse water."

Smart business sense.

50 Cent Invests In Vitamin Water
By Nolan Strong
Date: 10/13/2004

50 Cent is diversifying and taking some of the money he earned from his multiplatinum album releases and investing in a beverage company.

Unlike his business counterparts who have invested in energy drinks and liquor businesses, the Queen's bred rapper bought a stake in Glaceau, the company that owns the Vitamin Water drink.

50 said he drinks the product on a regular basis, since he does not drink alcoholic beverages.

According to sources, 50 Cent will release his own line of drinks, a grape-flavored beverage called Formula 50.

Formula 50 will retail for $1.99 and while it hasn't been officially released, select stores in New York are testing the product.

Presently, 50 Cent is recording his second album, which was originally slated to be released this summer.

50 Cent scrapped the first recording of the album, fearing he hadn't outdone his major label debut, Get Rich or Die Trying.

+



Formula 50

 

[Brian in Mesa]

'Get Rich' pulled after Pittsburgh shooting
Friday November 11, 2005

The Loews theater chain pulled rapper 50 Cent's new film "Get Rich or Die Tryin"' from a theater near Pittsburgh after a man was shot to death in the lobby Wednesday night.

Police said Shelton Flowers, 30, of Wilkinsburg, Pa., was shot at 11:06 p.m. and died later at an area hospital.

Gerald Barger of the West Homestead Police Department said four people were involved in the shooting but that there were no suspects. Local police plan to increase patrols at the 22-screen Loews Cineplex at the Waterfront from 6 p.m.-2 a.m.

Loews president Travis Reid said the incident occurred while most of the theater's patrons were in their seats in the complex's individual theaters.

It is not clear whether the individuals involved in the shooting had just left the screening of "Get Rich," which had started at 10 p.m., but Reid acknowledged that they had come from that direction.

While Loews will not play the Paramount Pictures release at the Waterfront until the investigation is completed, the New York-based exhibitor will continue showing the movie at its other locations around the country.

"There was a lot of preparation done for this film after Paramount's research told us that it was drawing a primarily young male crowd," Reid said. "We had taken all the precautions possible to limit any possibility of violence, but I'm skeptical that the film itself incited it. I think it was more an issue where the wrong people came into contact with each other."

A Paramount spokesperson could not be reached for comment.

Other exhibitors are watching the situation but will continue to play the movie.

"We are closely monitoring the film and the reactions of patrons in our theaters, but as of today we have no incidents," Greg Dunn, president of the Regal Entertainment Group, the country's leading exhibitor, said Thursday. Regal would not comment on its booking decisions, but sources said the chain had agreed to play the film in just 96 theaters, though Paramount had requested a significantly higher number.

AMC reported that a couple of fistfights had broken out in its theaters showing "Get Rich" but did not consider that unusual. National Amusements reported no incidents across its circuit.

"We regret this tragic incident, but we have to remind our patrons that violence at theaters is extremely rare," said John Fithian, president of the National Association of Theater Owners. "We've had 1.5 billion people come to the theaters in each of the past three years, and there were only a handful of violent incidents. Though very unfortunate, this type of incident is very rare at the cinema. At this time we don't know if there is any association of this particular incident in connection with the film that was playing. We'll let the police do their investigation."

The R-rated "Get Rich," starring rapper Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson, opened Wednesday in 1,652 theaters nationwide.

 

[phillycard]

Not a bad flick. 50 does a much better job than I thought. Good music too.