Last month media mogul Tyler Perry closed a deal with BET to launch new FAST [free ad supported television] channels featuring his popular content [click here if you missed that].
Now rapper 50 Cent has partnered with Lionsgate to launch his own FAST channel...
Lionsgate has inked a deal with rapper and TV mogul Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson to launch a free ad-supported channel, 50 Cent Action.
The new FAST channel will offer premium content from Lionsgate’s library, including the original Power series. Other action fare to land on the FAST channel from the Hollywood studio’s vault will include popular movies like The Expendables, The Hitman’s Bodyguard and Rambo, and over a dozen films that starred Jackson.
Power, the Courtney Kemp-created series Jackson executive produced, launched a run of hits for Starz after its 2014 debut, and the resulting Power universe spawned spinoffs like Ghost and Raising Kanan. Jackson is also behind the crime drama BMF for Lionsgate Television and Starz.
Lionsgate said it will work with Jackson to promote and curate the 50 Cents Action channel. “50 Cent’s movies and television series are synonymous with non-stop action, and we’re thrilled to extend our longstanding partnership into the FAST space,” Lionsgate president of worldwide television distribution Jim Packer said in a statement on Thursday.
Jackson will partner with the Hollywood studio via his G-Unit Film and Television and G-Unit Studios banners. “This channel will bring diverse, action-packed content to audiences everywhere, reflecting my passion for storytelling and providing a platform for fresh, dynamic voices. I look forward to working closely with all the FAST platforms to make this a successful channel,” the rapper said in his own statement.
Lionsgate has launched around two dozen FAST channels worldwide, including Ebony TV and MovieSphere. The studio sees growth potential after pointing to channels targeted at Black audiences making up just 2 percent of all available FAST channels in the U.S. market, when African Americans represent 14 percent of the U.S. population.
9 comments:
14% my a$$
Who honestly believes blacks make up only 14% of the US population? We are THE INDIGENOUS people of this land.
Wighty need to stop lying.
Fifty doing big things. Yassss. I'd rather he stand on business than be petty and childish.
14% is accurate. Our numbers would be higher if it wasn't for all the senseless murders.
We are not the indigenous people of this land — that description belongs to the American Indians (aka Native Americans). YT stole THEIR land and stole OUR labor. We should not claim that title. It belongs to the American Indians. Js.
Something else. Unfortunately, I think we only make up 14-15% of the population. Over the last 100 years YT has made a point of keeping our numbers and profits low. In the meantime, Latino/Latinas, Arabs, and Asians have been increasing their numbers on this land.
One way or another this country is turning brown and there is nothing YT can do about it.
As if the numbers lying 🤣🤣 black make up the majority in Africa not the US this is why we are called the minority our numbers would be higher if like another commenter pointed out it was t for the senseless unaliving or women and children and black men by OTHER BLACK MEN! Let’s worry more about the actual problem
9:12 AM, That part....
American Indians were Black negro. Just like the West Indians in the Caribbean. Time to stop the cap.
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