• The press is acting like Wesley Snipes' trial is the trial of the century. It is pretty amusing, though. [People]

• 50 Cent was allowed to feel "normal" when he was shooting a movie with Al Pacino and Robert De Niro. How marvelous for him. [CST]

• Advertisers spend $805 million a year targeting black radio stations and $600 million on black magazines. In total, advertisers spent $2.3 billion on ads targeted toward African Americans. [MW]

• More on the Black List, a documentary that premiered at Sundance. [HR]

Struggling actors out there surely felt like killing themselves when they found out that 50 Cent's ass is going to be co-starring alongside icons Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino in a new film, instead of, say, an actual thespian. In the movie, Righteous Kill, 50 Cent will play a drug dealing police informant. In other words, he'll be the type of guy everybody hates. Hmm. Maybe he will do a good job.

In other casting news, Ludacris is set to appear in a new Guy Ritchie (aka Mr. Madonna) flick, which will also star Thandie Newton and Idris Alba. He'll play an American rapper.

Wow. The two of them are stretching themselves thin with these very ambitious, completely foreign roles.

[BB, Jam]