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Producers Of Tupac Biopic File $10 Million Lawsuit Against Film Studio

To the dismay of Hip Hop fans everywhere, our beloved legendary Tupac’s long awaited biopic WILL NOT be hitting the theatres anytime soon.

According to All Hip Hop:

The producers of Tupac’s biopic are about to go head-to-head in a court battle. According to Billboard, the production company Emmett Furla Oasis has filed a lawsuit against Morgan Creek Productions for setting a budget and production schedule and selecting a leading star without their approval. Emmett Furla is seeking $10 million in damages.

Randall Emmett and George Furla say the film had been stalled until they came on board in 2013. When Emmett and Furla became apart of the film, their agreement with Morgan Creek Productions stated that the production budget would not exceed $30 million, they would be included in the approval of the production schedule and would have full control over who would be the director and leading man.

Emmett and Furla claim that they arranged a deal with Open Roads Films for the biopic but Morgan Creek rejected it initially, only to return to them and sign a deal. This violated the production agreement. Morgan Creek also suddenly rushed Emmett/Furla to produce evidence that they could pay for half of the film’s budget or risk not being a part of the film after the success of Straight Outta Compton biopic. They also wanted them to agree to new terms that were not in their original agreement and brought them a budge of $34 million. Emmett and Furla also claim that Morgan Creek was meeting with an actor that they were pursuing to play Tupac without informing them, which was apart of their agreement.

Emmett and Furla are claiming breaches of contract, breach of the implied covenant and breach of fiduciary duty.

Source All Hip Hop

Brazilian Woman Becomes Drug Cartel Boss After Sold Into Sex Slavery

Raquel Oliveira headed a violent drug organization in the Brazilian slum of Rocinha in Rio de Janeiro during the late 1980s. Via Facebook

Child prostitute. Brutal drug cartel leader. Cocaine addict. Popular author.

That’s the unlikely path taken by Brazilian woman Raquel Oliveira, a former cocaine boss in the Brazilian slum of Rocinha in Rio de Janeiro.

“If you ask anyone here if I was a bandida [drug dealer], they will say yes,” Oliveira, in her 50s, told Vice. “People still respect me.”

It wasn’t always that way: when Oliveira was just a child, her grandmother sold her to a gang member who forced her to work in a brothel, The Daily Mail reported.

Oliveira, who details these events in the new semi-autobiographical novel A Número Um, wouldn’t see freedom from that life until she turned 11.

That’s when the gang member gave her a gun, setting her down a violent path.

Oliveira told the Mail that she made her first kill when she was 15 when a man tried to rape her.

“To kill a man aged 15 meant nothing,” she told the Mail. “The guy wanted to rape me.”

According to Vice, Oliveira led the organization after the 1988 death of Ednaldo de Souza, the organization’s leader and her lover, during a shootout with police.

The news outlet reported that Oliveira soon became a cocaine addict, but became disenchanted with her murderous and addictive lifestyle — leading her to quit in the early 1990s and seek therapy.

This year, Oliveira published A Número Um, the first in a planned trilogy based on her experiences.

A Facebook page associated with Oliveira appears to show significant crowds showing up to book signings and readings.

“I don’t think I could have done anything better. There were no alternatives. I had nothing, I knew nothing,” Oliveira, a mother of three, told the Mail. “I’m even impressed with things I’m learning today that are things I should have known a long time ago.”

62 Yr Old Georgia Woman Arrested For Bank Robbery Wearing Halloween Costume

Via Fox 5 Atlanta– Athens-Clarke County police arrested a 62-year-old woman in connection to an attempted bank robbery.

Charlotte Regina Hill, 62, entered the Athens First Bank & Trust on Gaines School Road just before noon wearing a costume mask of glasses with a plastic nose.

Hill handed the teller a Halloween bag with a written message: “Hand me all your money,” according to police.

The teller laughed in disbelief at Hill and handed the bag back to her. She even took video of her as she left the bank.

Hill was located by officers inside the Goodwill store on Gaines School Road.

She was arrested and charged with criminal attempt to commit robbery by intimidation.