50 Cent's football film gets picked up

50 Cent has landed a big movie deal - his football drama All Things Fall Apart has been picked up by movie bosses at Image Entertainment.

In the film, which also features Ray Liotta and Mario Van Peebles, 50, using his real name Curtis Jackson, plays a sportsman battling a health crisis after doctors find a tumour inches from his heart.

The movie, which Van Peebles also directs, is scheduled to hit cinemas early next year (12).