50 Cent’s transition from rap famous person to a really profitable govt producer of a few of right now’s hottest tv exhibits is one which’s unmatched by many. His enterprise into the movie trade started again in 2003 when he launched the movie firm G-Unit Movies. In 2008, he launched Cheetah Imaginative and prescient which produces low-budget motion thrillers for movie markets internationally. G-Unit Movies folded momentarily, however in 2010, 50 Cent revived it G-Unit Movies and Tv Inc. Underneath it, 50 Cent has teamed with STARZ and different TV firms to launch nice tv exhibits which have grown to be favorites in households throughout America.
Because the 2010 re-launch of G-Unit Movies and Tv Inc., maintaining with the varied exhibits that fifty Cent has produced might be fairly a activity, particularly if you happen to’re new to all of it. The next checklist will embrace all of the exhibits that he’s govt produced beginning along with his trademark sequence Energy, which as many people now know, has expanded into its own universe. There are additionally different exhibits on this checklist that didn’t have the lengthy life that Energy did, and we’ll give some insights into some future releases that fifty Cent & Co. have on the way in which. This checklist will even be up to date as new data comes out. So with out additional ado, here’s what has existed, presently does, or will exist in 50 Cent’s cinematic universe.
Dream College
12 months: 2013 — 2014
Starring: 50 Cent,
Style: Actuality TV
Score: TV-14
Runtime: 2 seasons, 10 episodes
Created By: Jamie Oliver
The primary TV present that fifty Cent helped to supply beneath the G-Unit Movies and Tv Inc. umbrella was a remake of the 2011 British documentary. 50 Cent watched chef Jamie Oliver’s Jamie’s Dream College, a seven-part sequence that took a bunch of struggling youngsters into his “dream college” the place classes can be taught by celebrities that have been specialists in sure topics. 50 Cent noticed this documentary and knew he wished to assist carry the American model of the sequence to life, and that he did. “It’s a possibility to make the most of your superstar and affect in a optimistic means,” he stated in a 2013 interview with The Grio. “Jamie Oliver’s individuals reached out to me, and the present was beforehand a hit. I knew it could be a hit right here additionally. “ Dream College launched in 2013 and went on to have two seasons and a complete of ten episodes that featured civil rights activist Jesse Jackson, rapper Chuck D, rapper, producer, and DJ Swizz Beatz, chef David Cheng, astronaut Mae Jemison, and extra as superstar lecturers.
The place To Watch: Amazon Prime Video
Energy
12 months: 2014 — 2020
Starring: Omari Hardwick, Joseph Sikora, Lela Loren, Naturi Naughton, Curtis Jackson, Michael Rainey Jr., Shane Johnson, Jerry Ferrara, Larenz Tate, Rotimi Akinosho, Gianni Paolo
Style: Crime, Drama
Score: TV-MA
Runtime: 6 seasons, 73 episodes
Created By: Courtney A. Kemp
Energy is against the law drama tv sequence that fifty Cent created and produced with Courtney A. Kemp. The present launched its first season in the summertime of 2014 and went on to have six profitable seasons earlier than coming to an finish within the winter of 2020. Energy adopted the story of James St. Patrick, performed by Omari Hardwick, who was a sensible and quick-on-his-feet drug vendor who glided by the road title “Ghost.” The sequence follows his need to exit the drug sport and keep and law-abiding life as a businessman who’s the proprietor of a nightclub, Reality. All through the present’s six seasons, we watch St. Patrick’s makes an attempt to stability his road life and enterprise life with the hope of exiting out of the previous. Nonetheless, the pressures of road and enterprise enemies, a crumbling marriage, grief, and extra make that exit tougher than anticipated. Ultimately, it results in a tragic conclusion that sparks the start of three spin-offs of the unique Energy sequence.
The place To Watch: STARZ
50 Central
12 months: 2017
Starring: 50 Cent
Style: Comedy
Score: TV-14
Runtime: 1 season, 12 episodes
Created By: 50 Cent
50 Central was launched within the fall of 2017 on BET. It was a sketch comedy sequence hosted and introduced by 50 Cent that went on to have only one season and 12 complete episodes. 50 Central was a sketch comedy sequence that featured a solid of up-and-coming comedians on the time. Over the present’s 12 episodes, J.B. Smoove, Michael Blackson, Tiffany Haddiish, Alonzo B. Slater, Vivica Fox, and extra appeared.
The place To Watch: Amazon Prime Video
The Oath
12 months: 2017 — 2019
Starring: Ryan Kwanten, Katrina Regulation, Cory Hardict, J.J. Soria, Arien Escarpenta, Sean Bean, and Christina Millian
Style: Crime, Drama
Score: TV-MA
Runtime: 2 seasons, 18 episodes
Created By: Joe Haplin
Within the spring of 2017, Crackle introduced that The Oath had been green-lighted for manufacturing on an inaugural season that might include 10 episodes. The present was created and written by Joe Haplin who additionally served because the sequence’ showrunner alongside 50 Cent who would govt produce the sequence. As defined in an official synopsis, The Oath explores “a world of gangs made up of these sworn to guard and defend and sheds mild on corrupt and secret societies which are practically not possible to affix.” It’s against the law drama sequence that’s on-brand to most exhibits that fifty Cent has helped produce beneath G-Unit Movies and Tv Inc.
The place To Watch: Crackle
For Life
12 months: 2020 — 2021
Starring: Nicholas Pinnock, Indira Varma, Pleasure Bryant, Mary Stuart Masterson, Dorian Crossmond Missick, Tyla Harris, Brandon J. Dirden
Style: Drama
Score: TV-14
Runtime: 2 seasons, 23 episodes
Created By: Hank Steinberg
For Life might be one of many extra underrated entries in 50 Cent’s cinematic universe. Launched in 2020, the ABC drama sequence went on for 2 seasons and 23 episodes with Hank Steinberg because the creator. For Life was impressed by the true story of Isaac Wright Jr. who was wrongfully imprisoned for against the law he didn’t commit. Wright Jr. is portrayed by Nicholas Pinnock who performs a person named Aaron Wallace. Identical to Wright Jr., Wallace turned an legal professional throughout his time in jail and helped to overturn the wrongful convictions of a number of inmates earlier than doing the identical for himself. After his launch from jail, Wallace would proceed to assist inmates have their convictions overturned. “I have a look at producing like discovering essentially the most important tales, and then you definately come to a degree the place the information are higher than fiction,” 50 Cent stated in a 2020 interview with Billboard. “For this, it wasn’t simply the saying ‘one in one million.’ He actually is simply the one one.”
The place To Watch: Hulu
Energy E-book II: Ghost
12 months: 2020 —
Starring: Michael Rainey Jr., Gianni Paolo, Shane Johnson, Lovell Adams-Grey, Woody McClain, Technique Man, Mary J. Blige, Berto Colo, Alix Lapri, Larenz Tate
Style: Drama, Crime
Score: TV-MA
Runtime: 3 seasons, 30 episodes (8 yet-to-be-released)
Created By: Courtney A. Kemp
After the unique Energy sequence concluded in 2020, 50 Cent, the Energy staff, and STARZ introduced 4 spin-offs of the unique sequence. Whereas considered one of them was finally canceled, the remaining three have efficiently continued the Energy story and universe. Power Book II: Ghost was the primary spin-off launched and this sequence is predicated on the lifetime of James “Ghost” St. Patrick’s son, Tariq, and the occasions that adopted after the demise of Ghost (sorry for the spoiler). In Energy E-book II: Ghost, Tariq is making an attempt to navigate his new life as a school scholar whereas additionally making an attempt to create a brand new legacy for himself and develop as much as be a lot completely different than his father. Sadly, pressures to help his household in unimaginable methods end in Tariq being extra much like his father than he would’ve preferred. Nonetheless, he tells himself that his choices and actions are carried out to carry him one step nearer to a life out of the streets.
The place To Watch: STARZ
Energy E-book III: Elevating Kanan
12 months: 2021 —
Starring: Mekai Curtis, Patina Miller, Omar Epps, London Brown, Malcolm Mays, Joey Bada$$, Hailey Kilgore, Toby Sandeman, Antonio Ortiz
Style: Drama, Crime
Score: TV-MA
Runtime: 2 seasons, 20 episodes
Created By: Sascha Penn
Power Book III: Raising Kanan is the second spin-off within the Energy sequence. Not like the opposite two, this one goes again in time to inform the story of Kanan, the mentor-turned-rival of James “Ghost” St. Patrick. Kanan launched Ghost into the drug sport, however because it was revealed within the authentic Energy sequence, Ghost’s relationship with Kanan soured when he and his spouse Tasha set him as much as be put in jail on a ten-year sentence. Energy E-book III: Elevating Kanan hasn’t re-enacted the primary interplay between Ghost and Kanan, however within the sequence’ first two seasons, we see how Kanan (performed by Mekai Curtis) was launched into the drug sport. We see that Kanan’s expertise within the streets is rooted in a household group that was in place earlier than him, as we see in Energy E-book II: Ghost. Although Energy E-book III: Elevating Kanan has been billed as a fictional story, 50 Cent has said that he drew on his childhood experiences in Queens to form a few of the present’s tales.
The place To Watch: STARZ
BMF
12 months: 2021 —
Starring: Demetrius Flenory Jr., Da’Vinchi, Michole Briana White, Russell Hornsby, Eric Kofi-Abrefa, Myles Truitt, La La Anthony
Style: Drama, Crime
Score: TV-MA
Runtime: 2 seasons, 18 episodes
Created By: Randy Huggins
Although BMF is just not part of the Energy Universe, it does make use of the identical qualities that make a 50 Cent-produced crime drama so pleasing. The present is loosely based mostly on the Black Mafia Household, the Detroit drug group that was based in 1985 and grew to be a nationally profitable empire by the 2000s. Based and led by Demetrius “Meech” Flenory and Terry “Southwest T” Flenory, BMF was a well-oiled drug empire that had hubs in Atlanta and Los Angeles earlier than they have been taken down in 2005 with the Flenory brothers’ arrest. Demetrius “Meech” Flenory Jr. performs his father whereas Da’Vinchi takes on the position of Southwest T. Along with displaying the brothers’ begin within the drug sport, BMF additionally exhibits how values like household, loyalty, and performed into the BMF’s rise and the way different components got here in to foreshadow their eventual fall.
The place To Watch: STARZ
Energy E-book IV: Power
12 months: 2022 —
Starring: Joseph Sikora, Isaac Keys, Lili Simmons, Shane Harper, Kris D. Lofton, Anthony Flemming, Lucien Cambric, Tommy Flanagan
Style: Drama, Crime
Score: TV-MA
Runtime: 1 season, 10 episodes
Created By: Robert Munic
Power Book IV: Force is essentially the most lately launched spin-off of the unique Energy. This sequence is concentrated on the lifetime of Tommy Egan (performed by Joseph Sikora) after the demise of James “Ghost” St. Patrick. Egan initially deliberate to drive from New York to California to begin his new life, however a cease in Chicago introduced him new alternatives and new details about his previous. Within the present’s inaugural season, Egan discovers the reality about his household, meets members of the family he was unaware of, finds love, and will get his palms soiled within the metropolis’s drug sport whereas ruffling some feathers. All the pieces about Tommy Egan in Energy E-book IV: Power is on-par with the quick-tempered particular person we have been launched to and acquired to know in Energy. Solely this time, Tommy is answerable for every thing which ends up in each good and unhealthy outcomes.
The place To Watch: STARZ
Hip Hop Homicides
12 months: 2022 —
Starring: Van Lanthan Jr.
Style: Documentary
Score: TV-MA
Runtime: 1 season, 11 episodes
Created By: 50 Cent & Mona Scott-Younger
Final fall, 50 Cent teamed up with Van Lathan for a brand new sequence that was tied to his musical roots, in an unlucky means. Hip-Hop Homicides debuted in November 2022 as an unscripted weTV sequence that seemed into the unsolved murders of hip-hop rappers from current historical past. Within the season’s first 8 episodes, the deaths of Pop Smoke, Chinx, XXXTentacion, King Von, and extra have been all examined with commentary from Lathan and others that goals to uncover how these murders occurred and hopefully present new particulars that would remedy their circumstances. The sequence’ first season concluded in the beginning of 2023, and whereas there’s no phrase but on a second season, the hope is that the present returns to precisely cowl extra of the current deaths that occurred in hip-hop.
The place To Watch: WE tv
Vice Metropolis
12 months: TBA
Starring: TBA
Style: TBA
Score: TBA
Runtime: TBA
Created By: TBA
For the early components of 2023, 50 Cent teased a undertaking that many believed was tied to the subsequent launch within the GTA sequence. He later revealed that the undertaking was really a brand new sequence referred to as Vice Metropolis, which can also be the rumored location of the subsequent GTA installment. Vice Metropolis will likely be launched by way of Paramount+ and be govt produced by Darnell Metayer (Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts) and Josh Peters (Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts) with Chad Stahelski (John Wick franchise) serving as govt producer/director. In response to Deadline, Vice Metropolis “follows three associates, and former troopers, who return to their house metropolis of Miami within the mid-80s after being dishonorably discharged from the army for his or her involvement within the Iran Contra scandal.” The article provides, “Disgraced, displaced, and forgotten by the nation they served and with no good job prospects, the three associates associate with a mysterious Colombian immigrant, uniting their monetary wants and felony ambitions to kind a heist crew.”
Woman Hazard
12 months: TBA
Starring: Nicki Minaj and others to be named at a later date
Style: TBA
Score: TBA
Runtime: TBA
Created By: Alex de Campi & Darkish Horse Comics
Nicki Minaj and 50 Cent will be part of forces and it’s not for a brand new music. The 2 are co-executive producers for Lady Danger, an upcoming animated sequence from Amazon Freevee that Minaj will star in. The sequence is predicated on the two-part comedian guide sequence created by Alex de Campi that debuted in 2015 by way of Darkish Horse Comics. Paul Younger and Mike Griffin from Make Good Content material and Brian Sher will even govt produce whereas Carlton Jordan and Crystle Roberson are the sequence’ writers. Woman Hazard is ready within the 12 months 2075 and it follows a authorities agent who’s left for useless by her staff, all to be resurrected as Woman Hazard, performed by Minaj. She’s an afro futuristic agent of B.O.O.T.I (Bureau of Organized Terrorism Intervention) who hides her identification whereas taking up villains which are destroying Earth.
FOX Deal
In February 2023, 50 Cent signed a non-exclusive, broadcast direct deal with FOX. With the deal, 50 Cent and G-Unit Movies and Tv Inc. will develop each live-action and animated scripted sequence for the community. The deal is non-exclusive which permits him to supply different exhibits wherever he desires, just like the aforementioned Vice Metropolis sequence. FOX will personal any sequence greenlit by way of this deal and its in-house Fox Leisure Studios will produce the releases alongside G-Unit Movies and Tv Inc.
“I’m excited to formalize a partnership with Michael Thorn and Fox that may enable G-Unit Movie & Tv to give attention to placing a number of sequence on Fox, an ideal broadcast vacation spot for G-Unit Movie & Tv content material whereas our premium, streaming, scripted, and non-scripted slates proceed to develop in all instructions,” 50 Cent stated concerning the new deal.
This checklist will likely be up to date with information about 50 Cent’s present and future productions.
