This may be old news to some of you but in the faboulus life of the rich and famous there is no such thing as old news, just cover stories and column one articles. In my oppinion this is definatley a over story. It has been the talk of the town that the reason for the over population of Denzels Washingtons latest Oscar Nomminated film American Gangster has Jay Z to balme. During the films early pre production Jay Z was speculated to have his eyes on the leading role of Franc Lucas. Once the studio chose Denzel, Jay Z dusted his million dollar shoulders off and said "Whatever..I got 99 problems and Denzel aint one!"
He used the movies creative design, premise, and attitude as his inspriation for his same titled album American Gangster. Once the film finished shooting and reested in the can while publicity did their absolute best to pump it up, close sources to the matter are claiming that Jay Z obtained a studio copy and disributed a bootleg movie in effors to sink films profits.
Unfortunatley for Jay Z, but fortunatley for Denzel, and the studio, the distrbutions of perfect studio copies did not hinder sales at all. In fact some might argue it helped. According to the studio's financial summary, American Gangstar's domestic gross was $130,164,645. Which is fairly good, considerimng the studio was working with a budget of 100 million dollars. Now its Oscar season and American Gangter has nabbed two spots, one for Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role (Ruby Dee) and the other for Achievement in Art Direction(Arthur Max and Beth A. Rubino). Sorry J, better luck on the next one.
An interview with Jay Z discussing his influences of the film, American Gangster, on his (then) upcoming album, American Ganster:
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