50 Cent's billboards pulled down after protests

Billboards advertising 50 Cent's new film, the Jim-Sheridan-directed Get Rich Or Die Tryin', are set to be removed in Los Angeles communities, following complaints that they glorify gun violence.

One poster shows the In Da Club rapper stripped to the waist in a crucifixion-like pose with his tattooed, bullet-scarred back to the camera and arms outstretched, holding a microphone in one hand and a gun in the other.