Jermaine Dupri x Nu Pop Movement. Readers know we tend to hate on Jermaine Dupri…but that’s all in the past now. First I give him mad props for hitting the press circuit and really pushing how much social media has helped his own business and hip-hop in general. He’s becoming a positive spokesperson for the industry and we like he even more now because his watch company Nu Pop Movement is pretty legit and the designs are fresh.

And what better way to promote your own watch company than to get artists like Bow Wow and Nelly on board. Here are two new “casual” promo shots of them showing off the goods. Check the official Nu Pop site here. See Nelly’s pic after the jump…

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• Video: Nelly in partnership with the Olympics’ Team USA
• Jermaine Dupri launches official TAG Records site

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.

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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.

• Exclusive: Lil Wayne’s movie “Hurricane Season” will hit theaters
• EXCLUSIVE: Lil Wayne movie “Hurricane Season” runs out of $$$
• Lil Wayne gets top credits over Bow Wow in “Hurricane Season”
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• Bow Wow insists “Acting is my #1 priority”

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.

• Bow Wow & Ice Cube on the set of “The Lottery Ticket”
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• The official “NOTORIOUS” DVD art

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.

• EXCLUSIVE: Lil Wayne movie “Hurricane Season” runs out of $$$
• EXCLUSIVE: Lil Wayne’s movie “Hurricane Season” postponed again
• Lil Wayne gets top credits over Bow Wow in “Hurricane Season”
• Exclusive first look photos of Bow Wow in “Hurricane Season”
• Bow Wow insists “Acting is my #1 priority”

• Jermaine Dupri launches official TAG Records site
• Video: TAG Records artist Q debuts new TV ad with JD
• The Game beats Bow Wow 55-23 in Madden 2009 challenge
• T.I. launches label partnership with Amare Stoudmire
• Exclusive: Jermaine Dupri’s TAG Records in financial trouble

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.¬†

• Exclusive first look photos of Bow Wow in “Hurricane Season”
• Exclusive: Lil Wayne’s movie “Hurricane Season” will hit theaters
• EXCLUSIVE: Lil Wayne’s movie “Hurricane Season” postponed again
• Video: Lil Wayne talks about role in “Hurricane Season”
• Lil Wayne gets top credits over Bow Wow in “Hurricane Season”

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.

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• EXCLUSIVE: Lil Wayne movie “Hurricane Season” runs out of $$$
• VIDEO: 50 Cent on HBO’s “Entourage”
• Kid Cudi to star in HBO series “How To Make It In America”

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 the Starbury pricing model.

In the official press release Bow Wow states what attracted him to the Starbury business model:

“I think families should have a real choice. I want my fans to be able to wear nice shoes and clothing and to also have money in the bank. The smart consumer can have both.”

The Starbury brand faced obstacles this past year as their lone distributor Steve & Barry’s closed their doors. Right now Starbury is available in various discount stores and online. No word yet on how Bow Wow’s line will be distributed when it comes out in November.

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• Master P launches plus-size women’s fashion line “Miller Peaches”
• First look at Clipse’s new Play Cloths Spring 2009 line
• Rihanna set to launch fashion line

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.

• Exclusive: Lil Wayne’s movie “Hurricane Season” will hit theaters
• EXCLUSIVE: Lil Wayne’s movie “Hurricane Season” postponed again
• EXCLUSIVE: Lil Wayne movie “Hurricane Season” runs out of $$$
• Bow Wow insists “Acting is my #1 priority”
• 50 Cent replaces Forrest Whitaker in movie “Expendables”

Deez nuts!

• Bow Wow makes sex scene appearance tonight in premiere of “Entourage”
• VIDEO: Performances of the Beatnuts “Deez Nuts” play
• Bow Wow in “Entourage” sex scene w/ pornstar
• The Beatnuts’ “Deez Nuts” stage play flyer
• PICS: More new pics of 50 Cent filming “Entourage”

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.

• EXCLUSIVE: Lil Wayne movie “Hurricane Season” runs out of $$$
• Video: Lil Wayne talks about role in “Hurricane Season”
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• Lil Wayne gets top credits over Bow Wow in “Hurricane Season”
• Exclusive first look at Ludacris in “Rocknrolla”

“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)

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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.

• Video: Bow Wow challenges The Game in Madden for $100K
• I Want That: Madden 2010 cover
• Madden ‘09 soundtrack full of rising hip-hop stars
• VIDEO: Snoop Dogg challenges The Game & JD to NBA 2k10
• PICS: Jermaine Dupri’s Nu Pop Movement watches get Nelly & Bow Wow on board

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• PICS: NFL Madden 10 Event in ATL
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• I Want That: Madden 2010 cover