Bow Wow x Ice Cube x The Lottery Ticket. We were one of the first on the net to break the news about the urban comedy Lottery Ticket (full synopsis) starring Bow Wow and Ice Cube and now here is a set pic from Bow Wow’s Twitter. Film is shooting in Atlanta and set for a 2010 release.

The Weinstein Company, the studio home of Lil Wayne and Bow Wow’s Post-Katrina basketball film Hurricane Season, has just announced their 2009 – 2010 film slate. Unfortunately for those involved in making Hurricane Season and those Wayne fans hoping to get a glimpse of him playing a punk high school kid, the movie has been dropped from the schedule…again. Many involved with the film were optimistic that it would get a proper release but due to major financial issues facing the Weinstein Company including recent layoffs, the film has been shelved indefinitely. In a recent interview with the Times Picayune – New Orleans, Hurricane Season producer Raymond Brothers still hopes for the best.

“We’re very grateful to the Weinstein Co. and (sister company) Dimension for making the movie in New Orleans — we spent $50 million in New Orleans. The movie tested extremely well, and we’re very hopeful that in a very short period of time we’ll come to some resolution about the release date.”

Considering the multi-million dollar budget, urban appeal with Lil Wayne and Bow Wow and major star appeal with Forest Whitaker, one hopes this movie will not get the dreaded straight-to-DVD treatment. Some Wayne fan out there needs to start a petition and get this movie in theaters.

Ice Cube x Bow Wow x Lottery Ticket. Bow Wow gets his first lead role in a movie since 2005’s Roll Bounce in the urban comedy Lottery Ticket co-starring Ice Cube. In the film, a young man (Bow Wow) living in the projects has to survive a three-day weekend of crazy antics after his neighbors find out he’s holding a winning lottery ticket worth $350 million. Ice Cube plays a former boxer who lives in the basement of the project where the young man lives and other cast members include Brandon T. Jackson from Tropic Thunder and Naturi Naughton from Fame and Notorious. Movie is currently filming in Atlanta and set for a 2010 release.

Lil Wayne x Hurricane Season. Back in June we exclusively reported that Hurricane Season, the basketball film starring Bow Wow, Forest Whitaker and Lil Wayne was being shelved by the Weinstein Company because the film studio could not afford to market and distribute it. At that time, The Weinstein’s were facing dire financial hardship and had invested a big part of their theatrical marketing spend in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Bastards. If Tarantino’s film failed, films like Hurricane Season would go from shelved to sold off in a matter of months….luckily for the studio, Inglorious Bastards will turn a profit as it already has grossed over $140 million world-wide and cost $70 million to make.

So what does this mean for Hurricane Season? It means The Weinsteins will have replenished funds to release and market a select few of their upcoming titles and we have the exclusive drop that Hurricane Season is one of them that will be resurrected. In other words you, yes you, will have the opportunity to watch Lil Wayne play a seventeen year old high school student who hates his school’s basketball team AND you will get to see Bow Wow play a star player on the team. Now that is definitely worth the wait…and the $12 ticket.

“It’s official, I’m a Cash Money Millionaire” as Bow Wow broadcast the news to his thousands of followers on Twitter. Since his last album “New Jack City II which sold 73,000 copies Bow Wow has departed ways with Columbia Records. He was deciding between signing with T.I’s Grand Hustle or relaunching So So Def with mentor Jermaine Dupri. But Bow Wow chose to join the Young Money roster where he will also join Omarion, the two collaborated on The Face Off album.

Lil Wayne x Bow Wow x Hurricane Season. I’m sure you Wayne fans remember this movie being filmed last year and Wayne hyping it up to MTV and the press. Movie is based on the true story of a Post-Hurricane Katrina high school basketball team made up from five different schools and the coach that led them to the state championships.¬†Bow Wow plays Gary, a 5 ft. 7 guard for the team and Weezy plays a high school punk named Lamont who bets against his own high school. Heck we even dropped the first exclusive pics of Bow Wow from the movie way back in the day.

Well now we got more exclusive news for you. Our sources here in Hollywood are telling us that the studio that owns the marketing and distribution rights to Hurricane Season¬†literally has run out of money and will not be able to release it anytime soon. The studio is the Weinstein Company, and it all makes sense since it’s very public knowledge that they are going through big-time financial issues. Hurricane Season finished filming in mid 2008 and was set for a late 2008/early 2009 release date. Instead, it has been pushed back indefinitely.¬†

So what does this all mean? Well you won’t be seeing Wayne playing a high school kid or Bow Wow playing a basketball player anytime soon. Either that or the producers try and buy back the rights so they can sell them to another studio….or it ends up going straight-to-DVD 50 Cent style.¬†

Bow Wow x Entourage. Bow Wow makes good on his promise so far to quit the hip-hop game to concentrate on acting. He recently stated in his Twitter he’s making the full-time move to Los Angeles as well:

Reading scripts all day 2mar then moving into my new place! Ready to start that grown man life! New city, New attitude! Time 2 take ova Hollywood..

According to CL, Bow Wow begins filming for his reprised role in HBO’s “Entourage” this week as well. Bow Wow’s next movies are Hurricane Season with Lil Wayne and the drama Happy Together where he plays a thug named T-Boy.

Bow Wow, the self-proclaimed “Jordan King” just a couple of months ago, will now be re-focusing his sneaker efforts on building up the Starbury brand. Bow Wow becomes the first musician to join Stephon Marbury’s sports apparel company as he will develop a soon-to-be-named brand that will charge low prices which are in line with Continue Reading…

So what does that really mean in English you say? Well when you look at a movie poster, the studio always lists the main actors at the top of the poster…this is top billing credits. In Hollywood, getting top billing credits is HIGHLY political, especially when there are too many actors but not enough space on a movie poster.

So Lil Wayne will be making his major movie debut in the upcoming basketball movie Hurricane Season. See exclusive pics here. The movie also stars Forest Whitaker, Isaiah Washington and Bow Wow. Although Bow Wow has more screen time and experience in movies and film, Lil Wayne has managed to steal the spotlight and is given top billing credits over Bow Wow. So in the popularity contest of rappers, we now know what the studio thinks. Shad can’t be too thrilled about that.

That’s right. Hurricane Season is now the movie starring Forest Whitaker and Lil Wayne. An Academy Award winner with the winner of who can use the most Styrofoam cups. I didn’t believe it at first…until I saw the official title shown below. Props to Weezy and his agent. Now he can be top billin’ with an Academy Award winner.

For those 18 and up also NSFW. I swear I didn’t go looking for this. Readers send me this stuff. So Bow Wow had his much hyped sex scene with a pornstar in HBO’s “Entourage” last night. You can check out the video below (if you are 18). But apparently during the sex scene, Bow Weezy showed a little more than viewers bargained for. I’m not going to explain. Just look at the second video and see for yourself.

Deez nuts!

As many of you already know, Shad Moss (aka Bow Wow), Lil Wayne and Forrest Whitaker are starring in the sports movie Hurricane Season. Movie is based on the true story of a Post-Hurricane Katrina high school basketball team made up from five different schools and the coach that led them to the state championships.

Bow Wow plays Gary, a 5 ft. 7 guard for the team and Weezy plays a high school punk named Lamont who bets against his own high school. Movie comes out Christmas Day but WoooHa, Inc. drops another exclusive with these first look pics of Shad from the movie. Still waiting to get our hands on the Weezy pics though so stay tuned.

“Entourage” is finally back on the air with the season premiere tonight on HBO. Vince, Eric, Turtle, Ari and Drama are all back for a fifth season that kicks off with a guest appearance by Shad Moss AKA Bow Wow. Earlier last month Bow Wow told the press that his scene in the TV show is actually a sex scene with a pornstar.

“It was with a porn star. I don’t know her name,” stated Bow Wow. “She probably watching this like, ‘What?! I did a scene with him, and he doesn’t remember my name?!’ I was cool…”

For Bow Wow this is just one of many attempts at staying true to his word of retiring from the rap game to become the next Will Smith of acting. Here is a shot of Bow Wow on the set of “Entourage” with Vince’s manager E. “Entourage” premieres tonight on HBO 10pm. (Source)

For the past month, Bow Wow and The Game have been trading online disses and straight up beef all for the sake of Madden 2009. Both artists claimed they were the kings of Madden which led to the inevitable showdown last night in Los Angeles. The Konsole Kingz hosted the much publicized Bow Wow vs. The Game Madden challenge, which even included a dedicated website hosting all the trash-talking clips between the two.

Madden 09 was played on the X-box 360, 5 min. quarters on All-Madden level but in the end it wasn’t even close. The Game had shut down Bow Wow 21-0 by the first quarter when Jermaine Dupri came by. But it was too late for Bow Wow to seek any inspiration from his former mentor and The Game ended up defeating Bow Wow 55-23. Now that the challenge is over what’s next? I say a 50 Cent vs. Young Buck Wii Bowling challenge is just what hip-hop needs next.

The Game and Bow Wow have both been known to talk trash on fellow hip-hop artists, but this time they are turning on each other. But they aren’t talking trash on each others lyrics, albums or even career success. This time it’s personal…this time it’s Madden 2009. Konsole Kingz, the undisputed champion of collaborating video games with hip-hop is hosting a Madden show-down between The Game and Bow Wow for $100,000. Konsole Kingz has developed a nice niche for themselves in the hip-hop space as they show hip-hop’s growing influence in the gaming industry. Check out the Bow Weezy vs. Game challenge video…

Bow Wow recently told MTV again that he plans to record one more album and then will “retire” from the rap game to focus on acting. Bow Wow stated “I wanna be the next Will Smith. After the eighth album, I’m done. I already feel it. I love acting.” Or maybe he loves the perks that come with it. Bow Wow will be guest starring in the next season of HBO’s “Entourage” where he shot a sex scene with an unnamed pornstar. “It was with a porn star. I don’t know
her name,” stated Bow Wow. “She probably watching this like, ‘What?! I did a
scene with him, and he doesn’t remember my name?!’ I was cool…”

Will anyone care that Bow Wow “retires” from rap? As cocky as he is these days Bow Wow does have a decent film resume and will star in the upcoming basketball film Hurricane Season with Lil Wayne will also be in the indie comedy Driving Lessons where he plays a thug.