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Screen Gems has made a three-picture deal with T.I. that will launch with the crime drama "Bone Deep," in which the hip-hop star will join Matt Dillon and Idris Elba.

The move amounts to a long-term investment in the rapper, who faces a yearlong prison stretch for weapons possession that begins next spring. The second Screen Gems film will be "Boulevard," a drama in development in which T.I. will star; the third picture will be determined later.

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