But the funding was for low-budget, high-sensation, straight-to-video crime film.
Eddie Gonzales and Jeremy Haft, who wrote the 2011 direct-to-video crime drama "Street Kings II," are currently working on a script about the influential rapper, who has sold more than 75 million albums.
Ministers hope it will result in live video from crime scenes, HD images to enable hospital consultants to provide remote diagnosis for crash victims, and real-time 3D maps of burning buildings.
Fox Network, the first network to run regularly scheduled, prime-time repeats by showing "Cops," its video verité crime series, at 8 30 Saturday nights right after each new episode of "Cops," is planning to do the same this year.
Like today's video games, crime is depicted in a more realistic way, at least conceptually.
Like its predecessor, the video for "Crime" features manipulated images of sexy models looking sexy and whatnot.
An entire network of true-crime entertainment exclusively made up of lurid reenactments, courtroom footage, 911 calls, pan-and-scan video technology, crime-scene photography, ghoulish hosts, news clips, dubious interviews, home video, and family albums full of mementos.
The Scooby Doo of video game crime-solving is back after five years.
The men used cell phones to video their crimes, with those videos playing crucial roles in the convictions. .
It was a time of low-rise jeans, big sunglasses with suits, and music videos with crime drama lighting.
