In an effort to promote the upcoming movie, Things Fall Apart, a trailer of the Mario Van Peebles-directed drama has been released. The film is the brainchild of 50 Cent, who co-wrote the script with Brian A. Miller and stars as Deon Barnes. Things Fall Apart has been drawing attention since the summer of 2010, when photos emerged of an emaciated 50 Cent; the rapper lost over 60 pounds preparing for the role.
As Barnes, 50 plays the role of a top-tier college football player who is stricken with cancer. Prior to playing the scrawny version of Barnes, who was presumably undergoing radiation treatment and/or chemotherapy, 50 portrays a dreadlocked version of the lead character. According to Fif, a personal friend with cancer inspired the story. Things Fall Apart is one of several films created under 50 Cent’s Cheetah Vision imprint—part of a $200 million joint venture with Lions Gate.
By attempting to transform himself from a 35-year-old to a Heisman hopeful in his early 20’s, can 50 Cent increase his acting profile? So far, according to Metacritic.com, which averages dozens of individual movie ratings from top critics, 50 Cent’s last three theatrical releases scored an average of 41 out of a possible 100. 50 briefly spoke about the movie at the Miami International Film Festival.
“I hope people get a chance to get to see how excited I am about challenging myself in different ways,” 50 explained. “Because it’s not an action film—it’s a family drama—I was advised not to do it.”
[March 11]
UPDATE: Image Entertainment has acquired the U.S. rights to Mario Van Peebles’ All Things Fall Apart, which stars 50 Cent and Ray Liotta. The flick, which has been screened at several festivals, will release to theaters in early 2012 followed by a home entertainment, VOD, digital and broadcast release through One Village.
[September 9]
UPDATE #2: The official DVD trailer for All Things Fall Apart has been unveiled. Watch the trailer below ahead of the DVD’s February 14th release.
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THIS IS A BIG ROLE FOR 50 CENT.
FUCK ALL THEM BITCH ASS G0UNIT HOES!!!!
FUCK ALL THEM NIGGAS!!!!
50 CENT IS A SNITCH AND A PUSSY!!!!
From the looks of that Forbes list these straight to DVD movies aint making his ass SHITTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NIGGA IS U WORTH $100 MILL? U BROKE UNEDUCATED HATING HOBIT LOOKING LAME. COUNT UR OWN POCKETS BEFORE YOU COMMENT ON A RICH NIGGA!
50 looks like a Gorilla with some clipped pit bull ears. That is one ugly ass muthafucka!!! No wonder his mom died. She was trying to miss this ugly ass mug.
She knew his daddy was that crack head from around the corner.
U are an immature hater….Get a life.
dude u fowl as fuck for his mama dying comment! Fuck does every fuckin black movie gotta be shoot em up bang bang!?
this shit is HELLA CORNY! 50 couldn’t act his way out of a pre-k christmas play lmao this HAS to be a joke
Fif looks 40 years old and he is trying to play a teenager???? smh Negro please!!!! haha
And the haters come in and comment at 5-4-3-2-1…..
-0 Stan !!!ALERT!!! !!!ALERT!!! !!!ALERT!!!
Don’t call us haters cuz we know what good and bad directing/editing/production is. this looks like garbage and you know it. get off 50’s weener.
@rererer completely agreed. Ikenna you are a complete retard. Everyone hides behind this “if you don’t like it, you’re a hater” bullshit these days. Things need to be hated on, so that people don’t go around claiming lil wayne is the greatest rapper ever, and 50 cent is a brilliant actor (both of which are so far from the truth, that its laughable). We need to get back to a time when u can call a whack mc, a whack mc cuz thats what he is, and not be labeled a “hater” for it. Are people “haters” just cuz they keep it real? If so, then myself, and every other black dude on earth are all haters (by your dumbass account). So, on behalf of every real person who actually knows good art in this world—> 50 cent is a fuckin’ hack (at both rapping and acting), this trailer is a piece of shit, and most people on the same talent-level as 50 cent are standing near the highway, holding cardboard signs…oh wait, they are probably more talented than him too (shot out to Ted Williams).
LOL…Trailer is poorly edited…wish he would actually do BIG movies with GOOD editors.
wtf this shit looked like it was made by a high school student, and fif cant act for shit
Classic case of good concept terrible execution
Nigga look like he should be on Cool Runnings in the beginning w/ those dreads. After, the nigga look like he escaped from Area 51. WOW. Acting is atrocious, stick to snow shoveling homie, because you can’t rap anymore either.
looks interesting only because he surrounded himself with big name actors. and for you out there claiming you know what good production and directing is just stop. mario van peebles is a good director and mostly all independent movies look like that, they dont have a lot of money for them duh!
mario van preebles aka faggio van faggles is not a good director at all. his skills are 1.5/5
Looks terrible. Shit quality…
why yall hatin the nigga is makin smart money! I cant front G-unit all day
ahahahaha this shit looks like a joke for real
50 cent is the worst actor ever
Most of the people commenting here are suffering from the PHD (Pull Him/Her Down) Syndrome. It’s quite pathetic.
Alot of ignorant hating going on. Ofcourse it doesn’t have the appeal of a big budget movie trailer, because it’s independant. I’m going to give it a chance and watch it, because the way i see it, best movies prolly aint in the box office or winning big awards, just like in hip-hop. So widen your damn pallet
he looks like 50 tyson
Damn son. Get some acting lessons. That said, this looks ok.
this is just sad. giving movies a bad name
Dave Chappelle was more believable in dreads
Hahaha bro thaas exactly what I thought.
I need a place to stay tonight, who can help me?
This movie is as weak as 50cent’s rap career.this movie gonna flop @ the box office.critics already gave this shit 27% fresh tomato rating.For u dumbass g unit and 50 cent FAggNots that means the movie is wack.the only good thing is ray loitta and van pebbles.other than that this movie suck.already got the pirated version.
50 has clipped pit bull ears
The movie itself might be ok. But god damn, 50 is really one of the worst actors of all time. He needs to step his game waaay up, if he ever wants to be respected as a real actor.
FIF IS KILLIN THE OSCAR GAME SON
Hilarious! “50 cent, in one of the most critically acclaimed roles of his career… and Ray Liotta.”
Damn, I mean Ray Liotta’s beens around the block in the world of acting, and they introduce him like a contender.
thats cause he getting fat as fuck and washed up now. look at his recent work. nothing big time, and most importantly, nothing good. he getting straight to dvd looks, he struggling for work right now.
im actually looking forward to this 1..Fif goin out the box. normally not his typical role in movies..which is good
Is this a joke??????
mario van peebles is a clown. and ray liotta is as old and fat as ever. the movie annoucer voice always gets me, “in his most critically acclaimed role yet”. lol
looks good to me
All movies look good to black people. You all are use to watching bootlegged movies with black actors.
^^ LMAO. WOW.
What Corey said… SMH
true dat black people think any movies good as long as its got black people in it lol
watch there be a white dude thats an a$$hole.
On a side note: why were the main characters in the Honey mooners black?
Straight to cassette tape
50 looks like a Gorilla with some clipped pit bull ears. That is one ugly ass muthafucka!!! No wonder his mom died. She was trying to miss this ugly ass mug..
She knew his daddy was that ugly crack head from around the corner.
I be afraid to do an movie with 5o cause he mite bite off my face by accident
regardless of whether or not this is gonna be good, i wont be watchin it because, quite simply, it looks depressin as fuck.
when i saw this trailer i got real curious about who produced this film. turn out 50 cent and a business partner produced the film it seems really low budget trying to sell off 50’s name i think it could of been good if a real studio picked it up and funded it correctly.
Nice to see a black film about something positive or that has a good message that is not a tyler perry film. The acting looks bad, but I have to say I kind of want to see it. For the record, I never say get rich, hopefully this impresses me
Why do black films always have th be thrown together??? This is just sad!!! As if 50 Cent playing the leading role wasn’t bad enough. smh
What is this, i cant get jiggy with this shit( *next friday voice*) HAHA…
LOL @Nelly playing in the background as a soundtrack SMDH!
For real ya’ll? I’m not even a 50 fan (rap-wise), but I have to give him credit for this. The man got rid of all his tats and dropped 60 pounds for the role! Try to see him as Curtis Jackson the actor and not 50 Cent the rapper. I respect this. This isn’t like “Streets Is Watching” or some other bootleg rapper movie. He put his heart into this and ya’ll should respect it. I’m not saying go see it, but don’t knock it off the trailer.
Agreed ^^^
THIS IS 50 CENT BEST MOVIE.
Man , Fifty is done rapping.He might as well keep acting cause Rick Ross has the rap game on lock. ” Play your Part”
rick ross sucks no he dont
Rick Ross dfoes suck…out of all of the rappers you chose to drop Ross as the guy who has the game on lock…you are a clown
AM I THE ONLY ONE IN THE HIPHOP COMMUNITY THAT SEES THAT HE CANT ACT FOR SHIT???
the title of the movie is ironic cause its like his career
if yall niggas know when somenone acts good or bad onscreen yall shoud become sucessfull actors instead of 50… but if brad pitt come here and comment saying this, maybe i’ll believe
Film looks shit.
@ brad pitt
hahahaha to easy, made my day tho.
A lot of y’all need to get your lives together, lol. If Fiddy was playing a hardcore gangster you would hate, he’s trying to play an inspirational role and y’all step on that, too? Read the article, he’s under the Lions Gate umbrella that isn’t a bad place to be. What’s the last ‘semi-original’ idea to come out of hollywood in the last 10-years? Get the hate out of your hearts people, I haven’t bought a single 50 album, catch his movies on cable but, I tryna knock a dude down just because, let him grind, let him inspire. Have you seen todays youth?
Inception, Memento, In Bruges do i need to continue??
Amen
None of what you said matters. So we should ignore the fact that the movie looks terrible, has horrible production value, an actor that appears laughable in his role as the lead, and a script that sounds like it was lifted from a straight-to-DVD Disney movie just because he has the money to fund an “inspirational” biopic that allows him to be glorified? If he truly wanted to inspire, he would have produced the film and let a real actor handle to acting duties. He can’t do that though, because he has to be the man. He doesn’t want to be behind the scenes. And as a result of his narcissism and desire for attention, the movie looks like hot baby shit.
If I make a rap album about fiscal responsibility and practicing safe sex, the message doesn’t matter if I suck at rapping, the beats are whack, and my album cover is a picture of me looking dumb as hell. It’s still a shitty album, and likewise this will probably be a shitty movie.
This movie trailer is poorly edited, it looks low budget and terrible. I aint got nothing against 50 I just feel bad for him how bad the direction looks. He needs to link up with a good director and a good script writer. Because this looks like HOT GARBAGE
He wrote the script.
SO?
This trailer is horrible. Honestly, i may never see this movie after watching this trailer. I don’t believe 50 lost so much weight for a move that looks like it is straight to dvd.
I’ll see it either on DVD or the theatre, though I’m not fond of theatre ticket prices these days…… No matter what I give 50 props for going out the box and not just playing another gangbanger, drug dealer type of character over and over.. Most other rappers do that shit..
this nigga fat
I hope this will run for the oscars cause it looks like a real masterpiece, fifty is outstanding
I got 5 on that.
LMAO this movie looks like shit! no chance it will get an oscar DUMBASS
oscar?! after boyle, aronofsky, and the coen brothers get continuously snubbed every year. and a shitty movie like this yeah…. fuck off g-unit retards.
The actual product(movie) looks like it may be pretty good and it sounds like a great theme but this is not a very good preview the audio doesnt sound very good and its just not over all a good preview
Lol 50 wit dreads, hahahhahahahahahaha
What are you saying dog. That is an authentic wig used also in 8 mile by mekhi phifer.
what are YOU saying dog. mekhi phifer makes it legit. lol i thinks not
@Real Hip Hop 1984
Done beat me to it LOL!!!
Well, I’m sorry to say that I actually SAW this movie at the Miami Film Festival… This Trailer pretty much shows you the entire film… It plays out like a bad after school special… I applaud 50 for the weight loss, but it doesn’t make his performance any better…
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA BRUTAL MOVIE 50 CENT SUCKS GAME GAME GAME GAME!!!! CHEEE BOYYY
50 deserve respect for doing something diffrent than talking shit like the fat ol copsucking muthafuck fake gangsta Rick Ross, putting out the same ol same ol music that Jay Z doing (HAM? Pigshit son), making the tired raps that nearly every muthafucking rapper doing cept for Eminem.
50s a risk taker, the nigga deserves respect. He’s moving on to the next level, acts his age unlike oldass Jay Z runnin round looking like the Village People to 3/4 empty stadiums. 50s movin on up while other rappers saying stale shit and doin shit that they need be ashamed of at their age.
acts his age? like continuously talking shit bout Oprah (the dog), taking pictures of his money stacks, and making jokes about the tsunami tragedy in japan, on twitter? just to name a few examples. fuck outta here
I don’t like that they bit the name off the classic Chinua Achebe novel. I don’t see how the themes of a clash between tradition and change in an African village can be related to this story, so therefore they should of stayed away from using that title. Come on man, don’t trivialize black culture and one of the great black novels.
The trailer looks pretty bad, but it is good to see 50 dedicated to the role. This will either launch his dramatic acting career or end it depending on his performance. Unfortunately, I have a feeling this will flop big time.
It looks like a tasteless parody trailer of a real movie. Of 50, what did you do? It seriously looks home-made.
He’s playing high school athlete? Isn’t he in his mid thirties? He’s an alright looking guy, but he is deluding himself if he thinks he could could pass for 17.
no wonder he was “dating” chelsea “tight face” handler. he had nothing to lose and some attention to gain. hear that? sounds like NADA…that’s the sound of 50’s career.
50 Fail.
ARE YOU GUYS FUCKING SERIOUS???…. I READ ALL THE THAUGHTS U GUYS HAD IN UR HEADS AFTER WATCHING THIS VIDEO BEFORE I SAW THIS AND I GOT COMPLETE TRASH TALK OUTTA THIS…..BUT THEN WHEN I WATCHED IT, I THAUGHT SOME TRUE TOUCHING MOVIE WITH A GREAT FUTURE AND MAYBE NOT OSCARS BUT DEFF A HIT MOVIE…. U GIRLS ARE PATHETIC, ALWAYS JUDGING HIS STUPID LOOKS IN THE MOVIE THAN THE WHOLE THING IN GENERALLLL …. I HOPE EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU THAT PUT EVERYONE DOWN TO GO DIE IN A WHOLE TOMARROWWW!!!!! ….ANYWAYS ITLL BE A HIT, WHILE U GIRLS ARE STILL COMPLAINING PEACE OF SHIT PPL THESE DAYSSSS
You sound like a woman. You must have a lot of sand in your pussy.
NICK YOU REMIND ME OF A WHORE CAUSE YOU SUCK!
So when are u palnning to go suck tweety “50” Cent’s dick u BITCH.i hope that u end up dying of AIDS by the end of the day.
The 50 haters just showing how they hate to see rappers doing they own shit instead of staying where they are. 50s got a brain fully functioning, not a swollen head thats been ballooned up by crackers who don’t give a fuck about niggas cept to ride on their name and empty dumb rappers’ pockets so they get involved in lame, brokeass nigga shit like the ‘J’ hotels that were shut down and left Jay Z with a loan he aint want to repay like a bitch.
On paper 50s got less money but he aint owing shit to anybody, he’s diversifying his skills by acting, and he aint 40 yrs plus getting disrespected by all but some fools in the Black community who think everybody has their stan position on Jay Z.
Jay Zs owned by the crackers, when they don’t want him around he’ll be gone. Note how 50 aint accountable to anybody but his self, Jay Z wants in on acting but he is such an ugly muthfucka and could never act in his life except when he lies to the cameras about ‘writing’ Dream Hampton’s book and pretends to be in a real muthafucking marriage with Beyonce just to get more paper.
50 gets money by his self and betcha life hes got more profit from his fortune, not the loans and bad debts that Jay Z got.
Fortune and Forbes aint give you the lowdown on that shit – they just give the paper accounting minus the reality.
50 will never go broke, Jay Zs been living beyond his lame asses means and thats why the ugly nigga been running round like the Village People opening for U2 who aint had a hit for years and won’t again.
50 Cent just laughs at y’all and he aint afraid to take acting and other artistic risks. Power to him.
I guess “Empire State of Mind” wasn’t a hit for Jay? dumbass
The movies looks cool though, minus the dreads. I like how 50 makes his own lane.
first of all if u gonna wish someone dies in a “whole” we need to know the difference between “whole, and HOLE” no one needs to wish death on the next, that can come back at ya and bite ya in da @ss. It looks like a very good movie, and yes there are some shallow individuals that miss the entire plot of the movie and focus on a charater’s looks. those peoples opinions dont matter. Actually, i cant wait to see the movie. ive been waitin for over a year! I hope he doesnt have any health problems in the future for losing the weight the way he did.
Everybody keeps saying “The plot looks deep!” and “The topic is inspirational!”, while conceding that 50 looks like an idiot in the movie.
First off, the topic IS NOT deep. It’s about an athlete that gets cancer and overcomes it. It’s sad, not deep. It’s been done about a dozen times on film, so if it seems original it’s because you either don’t watch a lot of movies or just watch a lot of shitty movies.
Secondly, if the movie is bad then what does it matter what the topic is? Movies don’t get judged based on what they’re about, they get judged based on how well they convey a story. This movie looks like a does a shit job of that.
If Martin Luther King were a white, stuttering midget with a French accent, would anyone remember his “I Have A Dream” speech? No, because nobody would have listened to it.
It doesn’t matter what this movie’s about or what the message is, because it looks like shit and most people will never watch it as a result.
why would you give 50 cent this part? everyone knows him as 50 cent so will laugh as soon as they see him with dreads.
YO WAKKA FLOCKA IS CONTROLLED BY THE ILLUMINATI, THEY TRY TO GET THE SMARTEST Nn*ggaS THEY CAN TO BOLSTER THEIR RANKS OF SERVITUDE. THEY GOT THE SMARTEST n*gga IN THE GAME TO JOIN THEM…GUCCI MAYNE. ITS TRUE MY n*gga ON THE INSIDE GOT THE TAPES, HE DONE DID IT. THEY KNEW GUCI MAYNE WAS SMART CAUSE LIKE HIS VOWEL GAME IS ON THE COME UP THAT n*gga CAN ALMOST SPELL ENTIRE WORDS AND s*** MY n*gga. THE ICE CREAM TATTO IS THE ILLUMINATI BRAND. THATS WHY THEY KILLED MALCOM X, THEY WANTED TO CONTROL HIM AND TATTOO A CHICKEN SANDWHICH ON HIS FACE BUT HE WAS LIKE NAH n*gga f*** YALL AND THEY KILLED HIM
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I got to see this sh*t!!!
I give it 2 5o he is driven. Playboy
Looking past actors and seeing the realness of the plot; awesome!!!! I will take my girl to see this one soooooooon baby!!!!
You must not like your girl very much.
This ugly ass nigga can not act.
wow a rapper besides most def taking a non drug dealer role amazing and the topic is deep
Yeah, because there’s never been a film about an athlete getting cancer before.
The movie looks like shit, so the “topic” of the movie is moot. Nobody will give a shit about the topic of a movie that they never watch.
LMAO is this actually serious?
i couldnt stop laughin throughout this trailer..
this is a true story 50 lost a friend to cancer so he made this grow the fuck up
50 rap career did fall apart bruh
really? last two albums got him a plaque
NOW THIS IS A NIGGA THAT PROBABLY BROUGHT HIS OWN ALBUM. I havent meet a 50 fan since spring of 07
that’s cause you only listen to real fags.. sorry.. real musicians like rick ross (biggest drug dealer ever), lil wayne (biggest blood ever), dj khaled (best producer ever WE THE BEST), soulja boy (best rapper ever), gucci mane (best nothing ever), waka flocka (best nothing ever 2) and so on
i don’t like fif but this is a great body of work from him way to go fif .
Female rapper Met Bronson rock climbs &talks bout her new project
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR2c1XgVV7Q
do your thing fif
why people get so emotional over people they will never know is crazy
fif getting his ricky williams on
its cool to hate on 50 cent like he fucked your bitch hahah these crackers are so funny they loved him when he got with emeinem but when he became his own boss they started to hate
for a guy who mother was killed in the streets and for him to almost have the same fate to turn that around and become one of the biggest selling rap artist in a time frame that most rappers couldnt do it in i salute and while other rappers are going in and out of jail for petty street shit he trying to always make a power move
I agree with you whole-heartedly. I was never a real fan of 50’s music. But you cannot deny this man’s hustle. Gotta love him for that. Some of these wanna-be’s should take note.
By the way this movie is good! Saw it on BET. Honestly I didn’t expect much, but it was actually a good movie.
cant wait
lmfao looks corny and low budget… This is most def a straight to dvd or a “only in select theaters” then to dvd in 2 weeks.
50 you cant act or rap so retire and leave the hiphop community alone.
Anonymous can’t comment or say decent shit so retire and leave this site community alone.
If you hate him that much, why do you pay so much attention to him! Pay him no mind is free! And at least be creative! I’ve seen the same comments for 4 years! LOL! Stop copy pasting commenting! LOL!
I hope he acts better in this movie than his past movies
The guy has to do something. He cant come back to rap cause its Wayne’s world now. YMCMB
you serious lil wayne suck lol can you imagine wayne trying to diss 50 lol
BIG UP’S TO YOU 50 I KNEW YOUR GRIND WOULD FINALLY PAYOFF IN THE MOVIE GAME JUST LIKE IT DID IN MUSIC MUCH RESPECT!!!
FLOP!
Stop It Five lol!!! First of All Dude Looks Like 50 Tyson In The Pic With The Football Gear. 50 With Dreads??? LMAO!!!
50 Cent is the most hated Rapper Ever!!!! But Yet pound for pound he is the Most Successful rapper ever
No, he a successful artist. Rapper?? GTFOH
THE HIGHEST SELLING DEBUT RAP ALBUM OF ALL TIME….OVER 12 PLATINUM PLAQUES…The Massacre, sold 1.14 million copies in the first four days-the highest in an abbreviated sales cycle…the first solo artist to have three singles on the Billboard top five in the same week…I’m NOT EVEN GOING TO MENTION THE GROUP SUCCESS….GTFOH HATER!!!!!
@M54: you fucking retard…. so in your mind a RAPPER is not an ARTIST
HATERS!!! ya’ll opinions do not matter because if it did 50 Cent would not have gotten $200 million to do 10 movies
all the movies could go str8 to DVD and he would still make back all the money and then some HAHAHA
Everybody here acting like dey didnt listen to 50 when he first came out.to da people who says hes wack are only saying it becuz der friends or anybody else is saying hes wack,dey juss being on da bandwagon.be ya on self.im not a 0 fan but hes not wack.Now Wayne is juss a different story……Hes trash
dude aint made 10 bucks on theses movies
more like 200 million bucks
I respect ANYONE who is THAT disciplined and committed……anyone! That brand of ambition is powerfull! Its a testimony. Besides, its ALL the envy and jealousy from haters that motivates anyways. Ive never seen a complete stranger have such an impact and effect on peoples lives causing them to despise him so much! Ha! LMAO!! What schmucks!
guy i have seen a lot movies but this is just wholesome.the movie is touch pls go check it out.
i so wanna see that…come out shit
What are they talking about 2012 this movie will be on BET on Saturday Dec 3 2011
Saw this movie last night. It’s a good story, but was poorly directed. Seems like all the conflicts were just randomnly thrown around in the movie. Mario Van Peebles sucked at directing this movie. Other than the fine ass character, Sharon, the movie didn’t hold my interest.