Eminem's Second Movie Put on Hold

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Rapper delays boxing film to focus on music

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Eminem performs during The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California.
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By Rolling Stone
May 10, 2012 4:55 PM ET

Eminem's boxing movie, Southpaw, is being put on hold so the Detroit rapper can focus on his music, the Detroit Free Press reports.
"While he’s in that space, he wanted to put this on hold for the time being," says Eminem's spokesman, Dennis Dennehy.
Southpaw, a film about a welterweight boxer trying to get his life and career back on track, applied for $8.9 million in Michigan film incentives earlier this year. However, organizers withdrew their application due to "talent issues," as the minutes for a Michigan Film Office meeting put it.
The film would have employed over 200 crew members plus 9,000 extras, the Free Press notes. As Dennehy explains, "When the film does get made, the plan is that the bulk of it will be shot in Michigan. That was always the understanding."
The film would mark Eminem's first starring role on the big screen since his debut in 8 Mile. Producers for Southpaw include several people close to the Shady camp, including longtime manager and Shady Records co-founder Paul Rosenberg and 8 Mile producer Stuart Parr.
In a 2010 interview with Deadline, Southpaw screenwriter Kurt Sutter said, "[Eminem] is very interested in the boxing genre and it seemed like an apt metaphor, because his own life has been a brawl. In a way, this is a continuation of the 8 Mile story but, rather than a literal biography, we are doing a metaphorical narrative of the second chapter of his life."
This isn't the first roadbump that Southpaw has hit. After being put on hold by Dreamworks in August, MGM picked up the rights to the movie in October, with Sony set to distribute it.
Last January, it was reported that Eminem was set to appear in another film, the crime thriller Random Acts of Violence. The status of that film has not been announced lately.


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MD1990

looks like Em is working on a new album

PrettyBoy

I feel like I've been hearing about this movie for at least 3-4 years..?

Shapey Fiend

He needs to set some time aside to pick some wack beats and lay down 6 vocal lines on every track.

mufcboy1999

ye was reading about this, id rather a new album over film anyday so fingers crossed.

em never had a great ear for beats, we all know that but at the end of the day the other side of the coin is that his style is very unique and only certain beats really suit him.

conor.hogan.2

He has the pick of beats. He could ask any producer and they would make him beats.

(well Jermain Durpi probably wouldn't… but besides him and a few others)

Podge2k7

Didn't Premo recently say he was in Detroit working with him?

conor.hogan.2

Hopefully! ^

Andy_rse

conor.hogan.2 wrote: »

(well Jermain Durpi probably wouldn't… but besides him and a few others)

Haha theres a name I havent heard in a while. That fool still alive?

PrettyBoy

Andy_rse wrote: »

Haha theres a name I havent heard in a while. That fool still alive?

Why is he a fool?

Andy_rse

I didnt mean it in the literal sense. I find myself calling people fools these days.

Boom_Bap

Andy_rse wrote: »

I didnt mean it in the literal sense. I find myself calling people fools these days.

Too much A-Team or snickers ads

And the JD rules, he was an awesome producer before Janet stole his mojo.

conor.hogan.2

Andy_rse wrote: »

I didnt mean it in the literal sense. I find myself calling people fools these days.

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Yeah too much a-team. I think he is alive yeah, only really know him through three dre beef.

ItsNugget

Wouldnt really be his second movie would it? He was in the wash and da hiphop witch

Sweded

Nice Plot... I hope this movie does well for him.. and opens new doors