01/31/07 - Jim Jones shooting new movie

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The Diplomats'Jim Jones is a busy man these days. He's currently in Los Angeles shooting a movie with Elise Neal, titled Thug Passion. He told MTV.com, "It's a little different role I'm playing. I'm playing a lover-boy type. It's a little hot and steamy. I'm having sex all over the place. It'll be a different look for the ladies. No guns involved, just my charm. Elise Neal is in the movie. She's the co-star with me. ...It's my first experience. I'm learning it. It's not the regular type of role they give young black men such as myself. They give us the gangster role, the drug-dealer role. That's why I took it: because it's a stretch."

On the musical front, Jones plans to post $2 million bail for the release of his protege, Max B, who has been behind bars on murder charges for several weeks. As soon as Max is released, the duo will hit the studio to record a new mixtape, Out on Bail With a Story to Tell.

Jones is also planning on launching a tour in March. He said, "We got a tour coming up we put together -- me, Juelz Santana, Baby, Lil Wayne and Young Jeezy. It starts at the beginning of March. We got 30 dates. I'll probably shoot the video (for 'Weatherman') in the midst of the tour since we'll all be together. We gonna knock the socks off the country. We're all street n---as, all hustlas. Everybody came from the bottom. Everybody sacrificed a little bit, and we came together. A compilation album is coming with the tour. A DVD is coming with it. We are poppin'-- the people you listen to the most on your radio. We're gonna prove everybody wrong, show them hip-hop ain't dead."

Young Jeezy's reps would not confirm that he plans to participate in the tour.

source- hiphophavoc