Retire at 50?

US rapper 50 Cent has "temporarily postponed" his European tour, prompting questions over whether he has retired from making music.

The star is currently poised to lose a chart battle with rival Kanye West. He vowed to quit if his album, Curtis, was outsold by West's Graduation.

West topped the UK charts on Sunday, and he is expected to win the race to number one in the US later this week.

A spokeswoman for 50 Cent refused to comment on his retirement plans.

Computer screen to big screen

Spoof rap duo Million Dollar Strong, who became a hit on video-sharing website YouTube, are set to star in an MTV comedy film.

Comedian Mike O'Connell and actor Ken Jeong star as an aspiring hip-hop band in the viral video, What's It Gonna Be?

The MTV production will centre around the rise of a delusional rapper and his Asian foreign exchange student friend as they take on the world. O'Connell will co-write the screenplay, industry newspaper Variety reports. No director has been lined up for the big screen version as yet.

O'Connell is a stand-up comedian who recently shot a pilot show for the Fox network, called The Right Now Show. Jeong is an actor who most who most recently appeared as the doctor in Knocked Up and is currently filming comedy movie All About Steve with Sandra Bullock.


Spears chucked

Pop star Britney Spears has been dropped by her management company, one month after employing their services.

Los Angeles-based The Firm said: "We have terminated our professional relationship with Britney Spears.

"We believe she is enormously talented, but current circumstances have prevented us from properly doing our job," the statement continued.

Spears hired the company for the run-up to her comeback album, which is due out in the US on 13 November.

In other news

* BSkyB is to launch a new TV channel aimed at older women, focusing on human interest and reality TV shows.

* England reached the Women's World Cup quarter-finals after comfortably beating Argentina in Chengdu.

* It has been claimed that Britney Spears will have to face a 'secret' witness who has been lined up to appear during her custody battle in order to testify that she took drugs in front of her two sons.

* Microsoft has confirmed that all copies of the hotly-tipped Halo 3 Legendary Edition have been snapped up ahead of its September 26 release.

* Punk legends The Sex Pistols are to play a one-off concert in London in November, their first gig for four years.


Clips of the day

What’s it gonna be? – NOTE: This is very funny and newsworthy, but there is a bit of blue language in it…and it’s a bit of a rude song (about sex).

http://youtube.com/watch?v=B2v-AkSj260


Ow

http://www.fhm.com/site/content/article.aspx?ID=24623


What $207 million looks like

http://view.break.com/367052