50 Cent has vowed to quit music if Kanye West outsells him.
The two hip-hop stars new albums - 50's 'Curtis' and West's 'Graduation - are both released on September 11 and 50 is so confident he will win the sales war he is willing to gamble his future.
50 Cent said: "Let's raise the stakes.
"If Kanye West sells more records than 50 Cent on September 11, I'll no longer perform music. I'll write music and work with my other artists, but I won't put out any more solo albums.
"They would like to see Kanye West give me a problem because I've worked myself into a space where I've become the favourite. Everybody roots for the underdog when he goes against the favourite."
West's last album 'Late Registration' has so far sold 2.8 million - far less than 50 Cent's 'Get Rich or Die Tryin'?' which has sold almost 8 million.
50 went on to claim West's record label will even buy his album to bolster sales.
He told SOHH.com: "And I bet this: When Kanye West's sales come in, he's gonna have a 70 per cent decrease cause Def Jam is gonna buy records to keep him closer to 50 Cent.
"So watch the first week and then watch the second week. Watch his a** drop off the planet."
The Queens-born rapper - real name Curtis Jackson III - has also challenged West to a live TV debate, but his rival snubbed the showdown.
50 Cent said: "I accept the challenge. Kanye, he's not going to want to show up."
When asked about the challenge at the MTV Video Music Award nominations, West said: "What am I going to debate about? I thought it was the stupidest thing. When my album drops and 50's album drops, you're going to get a lot of good music at the same time."
Action star Jackie Chan was devastated to miss a telephone call from pop superstar Michael Jackson- because his assistant decided not to wake him up.
Chan has never spoken to Jackson, who is a friend of his Rush Hour co-star Chris Tucker.
And the Asian action star was upset to find out he'd missed Jackson's call.
Chan says, "He called me one time, but I was sleeping. My assistant answered the phone.
"In the afternoon, I woke up and my assistant said, "Michael Jackson, he phoned." I said, 'Why didn't you call me?!'"
The actor has found success in Hollywood and is currently starring in the third installment of the Rush Hour franchise with Chris Tucker.
But the movie has been banned in China despite Chan being a big star in the country resluting in the first two movies doing well at the box office.
The actor is due to stat work on The Forbidden Kingdom with fellow chinese actor Jet Li he also has Shinjuku Incidentin the pipeline.
Chris Noth will reprise his role as Mr. Big in the 'Sex and the City' movie.
After weeks of speculation, Noth has delighted fans of the hit US TV show by signing a deal which will see his character reunited with his on-screen love Carrie Bradshaw, played by Sarah Jessica Parker.
The film's writer-and-director Michael King said: "I am happy to report that Mr. Big is alive and well and living in New York City!"
It was previously reported the big screen adaptation of the TV show would focus on Mr. Big's death, rather than his marriage to the newspaper columnist.
The final series of 'Sex and the City' ended with Mr. Big flying to Paris to declare his love for Carrie and taking her back home to New York
Last month, it was confirmed the show's main stars - Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon, Kristin Davis and Cattrall - had all agreed to reunite for a film.
The movie is scheduled to begin shooting in September in New York.
Parker recently revealed she can't wait to start filming the movie "very soon".
She said: "I really wanted it to happen a few years ago and it was a bitter pill to swallow that it didn't.
"But now it's happening, it's fantastic."
A two-hour video of buxom stripper-turned-heiress Anna Nicole Smith undergoing breast augmentation surgery has been blocked from distribution by a California judge.
The estate of the late tabloid celebrity, who died of an accidental overdose of prescription drugs in February aged 39, won a court order barring a plastic surgeon in Texas from selling or circulating videos of procedures he performed on Smith in 1994.
Court documents from the case, including the judge's ruling made on Friday, were posted by the website CelebTV.com. Smith's death, and the legal haggling over custody of her baby daughter, sparked a media frenzy in the United States.
A lawsuit filed by her estate's executor, Howard K Stern, accused the Houston physician, Dr Gerald Wayne Johnson, of taping the surgery without Smith's consent and sending copies to a Los Angeles-based memorabilia dealer, Thomas Riccio.
The suit says Johnson's wife and Riccio agreed to share in proceeds generated from a planned release of the footage to various media outlets.
The exact nature of the surgery was not specified in the lawsuit. But a June 2007 letter signed by Johnson and attached as an exhibit said he performed "breast augmentation reconstructive surgery" on Smith in October 1994, the year she married billionaire oil tycoon J Howard Marshall.
The letter also says his office "routinely records all such procedures with the knowledge of the patient" and that he retains "all rights to this video which is our policy to keep confidential during the patient's lifetime".
If the patient dies, Johnson wrote, "it is then up to my sole discretion as to how and when I will disseminate or make public any or all of the images within the video we have produced."
Johnson's lawyer could not immediately be reached for comment.
Last month, Stern won a separate court order barring Riccio from distributing the surgery video, and Riccio has complied, Stern's lawyer, Vivian Thoreen, told Reuters.
She said the Johnsons were believed to have retained copies of all the footage and Friday's court order requires them to turn over all the material to Stern.
"We believe it's an estate asset," Thoreen said.
Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie have inspired a jail-based porn film.
X-rated movie 'Paris and Nicole Go to Jail' will feature characters based on the law-breaking 'The Simple Life' stars who serve time in jail together.
Paris and Nicole will be played by porn stars Sindee Jennings and Aubrey Addams in the film which is out in September.
The pair learn "that life is different on the inside, and at first have trouble adapting, but soon learn how to get things in prison by becoming friendly with the warden, the guards, the inmates."
Paris, 26, recently served 23 days at Lynwood's Century Regional Detention Facility for driving with a suspended licence.
Nicole, 25, has been sentenced to four days behind bars after pleading guilty to DUI (driving under the influence).
Nicole, the adopted daughter of Lionel Richie, is four months pregnant with Good Charlotte frontman Joel Madden's baby and has chosen to serve her time at the same jail which housed Paris.
She must complete her sentence before September 28.
Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin want to adopt a child.
The couple - who have a three-year-old daughter, Apple, and a 16-month-old son, Moses - would like a bigger family, but Gwyneth is not sure she can cope with having another baby naturally.
The Oscar-winning actress told W magazine: "I have a dream version where I think, maybe in four years I'll have two in a row really quickly again - how fabulous to have a whole bunch of them!
"But then at that point, when everyone's potty-trained and sleeping through the night, are you really going to go back?
"My husband really wants to adopt. So I don't know - I'm sort of open for anything."
Gwyneth, 34, is currently filming action movie 'Iron Man' with Robert Downey Jr.
Her comeback movie - the first since she took a break to become a mother - is due for release in October.
Romantic comedy 'The Good Night' - in which Gwyneth plays the girlfriend of a washed-up pop star - is written and directed by her brother Jake.
Britney Spears allegedly snubbed Victoria Beckham after being offered a table next to the Spice Girls singer in a Hollywood restaurant.
But other sources claim it was Beckham doing the snubbing.
The Toxic singer is said to have stormed out of the restaurant at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont hotel when she was offered a table next to the Spice Girl and her husband David Beckham last Tuesday.
A witness told the New York Daily News newspaper: "Britney Spears turned up at the Chateau and the only table available was the one next to Posh.
"But Britney didn't want to sit next to her, so she and her friend stormed off to Il Sole instead."
But another diner told Closer magazine: "Britney walked in and sat next to Victoria and David. Victoria was fuming and got up, practically dragging David with her.
"She told staff it was ridiculous to think she'd want to be near 'that mess' Britney.
"It's not a good move for anyone."
Victoria is said to have angered staff at the hip Los Angeles hangout - who do their utmost to keep the star-filled venue private and paparazzi free.
A source said: "She always lets the paparazzi know when she'll be arriving.
"The Chateau Marmont tries to give celebrities their privacy, and they hate her there. They like David though."