On Thursday in Brooklyn, New York, Killa Cam was putting down the pen he uses to sign all those million-dollar deals and picking up a gun for a good old-fashioned exchange of bullets, Val Kilmer style.

"We're doing an eight-minute shootout scene similar to 'Heat,' " Cam'ron explained on the set of his movie "Killa Season," which he's starring in and wrote.

The movie won't come out until next year, about two months after his Killa Season LP hits stores in the first quarter. But in a few weeks, Cam said, he'll drop a mix DVD that encompasses videos for five or six of the records off his album and some clips from the movie.

"Everybody does mixtapes, but I'm going the video level," he explained. "The [mixtape] market got so flooded. You walk outside and a n---a's grandmother got a mixtape out like Nana's Mixtape. It's not even no more fun, you have to take it to the next level. I think this will be a good way, but [I] also may have wanted to shoot a video for it, but the song may have been too hard for an MTV or VH1 or BET programming because of the drug content or gun content. This is a good outlet. It's going to be a little more extreme."

Cam described his "Killa Season" mix DVD as a "gangsta musical." "It's more or less like what R. Kelly did, but it's not to one song, it's five or six different songs and it's not even going to be built for TV."

"Killa Season" the movie, as the king of Harlem tells it, is in the vein of "Menace II Society" or "Boys N the Hood" but takes place on the East Coast. Cam will star with a bunch of young actors he has under his wing. He said he hopes to have a full roster of thespians singed to his entertainment company just like he has rappers signed to his Diplomat Records.

Two musical artists he's eyeing right now are the Young Bloodz's Sean Paul and Mystikal.

"I been talking to L.A. Reid for Dip Set/ Def Jam South," Cam expounded. "Right now I'm talking to Sean Paul from the Young Bloodz, which may be our [next] artist if we get the paperwork right. I been talking to Mystikal the past two or three months. He goes up for parole in November. So I'm talking with Jive to get a Dip Set deal over there with Mystikal. But it's all in the works."

Cam has about 16 songs he's satisfied with for his new album and plans to record close to possibly 20 more before he wraps up.