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Lionsgate is moving into the world of podcasts. The studio joins the long list of television companies that have set up an audio division to respond to the increasingly booming world of podcasting. It is launching with shows from 50 Cent and Michael Nathanson (The…

Los Angeles rapper Drakeo the Ruler died Sunday morning after he was stabbed Saturday night at a show at the Once Upon a Time in L.A. concert in Los Angeles’ Exposition Park. He was 28 years old. According to the Los Angeles Times, Drakeo, born Darrell Caldwell, "was attacked by a group of people at the music festival…

The story of Snoop Dogg's murder trial and his hit single Murder was the Case are being developed as a series for Starz. The rapper, real name Calvin Broadus, has teamed with Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson, to develop A Moment in Time: Murder was the Case (w/t) for the cable network. It marks the second in Starz' anthology…

Kicking off its newly dropped trailer with the slate “Detroit, 1980-Something,” the 50 Cent executive produced BMF today reveled its ambition to take viewers on “a journey beyond our wildest imaginations” – check out the new Black Mafia Family trailer above. Part of that journey involved getting Eminem to join the…

EXCLUSIVE: Curtis Jackson, otherwise known as rapper 50 Cent, is getting back into the non-scripted business with hip-hop competition format Unrapped. The series is in development at ABC from Jackson's G-Unit Film & Television. The show is hip-hop talent format where celebrity contestants, coached by iconic hip-hop…

Starz is doubling down on shows with 50 Cent – developing two more scripted series with the rapper. The network has put into development a female sports agent drama inspired by the life of Nicole Lynn, as well as a hip hop anthology series. The untitled female sports agent drama comes from Raising Kanan and Snowfall…

EXCLUSIVE: The new ABC legal drama series For Life, from Hank Steinberg, Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson, Doug Robinson and Alison Greenspan, will have a companion podcast series, set for premiere February 11, the same day as its linear premiere. Produced in collaboration with Sony Pictures Television and  ABC, For Life: The…

Quibi and Lionsgate are teaming with rapper Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson for the animated series Trill League, an adaptation of Anthony Piper’s indie graphic novel and its anime-inflected, hip-hop-informed vision of a black superhero universe. Jameel Saleem (South Park) and Piper are co-creators and writers of the series…

EXCLUSIVE: Another key Power player has joined Starz’s Intercepted. Former Power co-executive producer Heather Zuhlke has been tapped to write and executive produce the drama based on Alexa Martin’s bestselling novel. The project, now in development, hails from Power duo Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson and La La Anthony. Inte…

50 Cent has revealed that his next series for Starz will be a drama based on the story of drug-trafficking organization Black Mafia Family. The artist, otherwise known as Curtis Jackson, is to exec produce the series, which is currently in development. It comes after Power exec producer Jackson struck a major overall…

EXCLUSIVE: The Power duo of executive producer Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson and co-star La La Anthony are teaming for a new series project at Starz. The premium cable network has put in development Intercepted, a soapy drama from 50 Cent and his G-Unit Films and Television, with Anthony attached to star and executive…

The New York Police Dept. has started an investigation into a Brooklyn commander who told his officers to shoot rapper/actor 50 cent on sight. The New York Daily News reports Deputy Inspector Emanuel Gonzalez, the commanding officer of the 72nd Precinct in Sunset Park, is the person who made the threat. Gonzalez made…