50 Cent has told US network ABC that he is 'saddened' by a fatal shooting at a Pennsylvania cinema. I'm not sure how relevant his comments are, because although one of the men involved had been to see his film 'Get Rich Or Die Tryin', it's not actually known which of the films showing at the multiplex the other three of the men involved had been to see. I can't help thinking they wouldn't go to Richard Curtis for a comment after a shoot-out at a cinema showing 'Love Actually', even though it's quite likely to make people want to kill each other. Are the American media trying to blame a fatal shooting on a movie instead of US gun laws? No, course not. Silly of me.
Anyway, Sheldon Flowers was shot three times after an argument broke out between four people at the Loews Cineplex at West Homestead, near Pittsburgh. Sheldon, who later died in hospital, had been to see the Fiddy film, I think, and was carrying an unregistered gun without a permit. A row began between him and three other people in the toilet, before spilling out into the lobby. Fiddy, aka Curtis Jackson, said "I feel for the victim's family in this situation. But, you know, these weren't kids. This was a 30-year-old man who had a dispute with three other guys."
As previously reported, the film has already caused controversy across the US, with the producers being forced to remove posters promoting the film from billboards following complaints that it showed the film's rapper star holding a gun.