According to Life & Style magazine, Chris Brown is still getting gigs despite his reputation as a woman beater:

Melvin James, the director and writer of Caramel, in which Chris will star, tells Life & Style, “Chris’ current situation hasn’t had any effect on things in terms of the film. We’re still planning on working with him.

“We’re still in pre-production, but we’re looking to shoot around September. We got pushed back a little bit because of other projects. [LINK]

We’ll see how long that lasts before the film’s investor’s cave in to pressure and forces the film’s producer to drop Chris from the cast.

Since we’re on the subject of Chris: I spoke with someone close to T.I. who told me T.I. reached out to Rihanna and Chris out of concern for both — but Rihanna didn’t answer her phone.

I’m told T.I. grew close to Chris on the set of his new film Bone Deep, produced by Grand Hustle Films.

Chris plays T.I.’s little brother in the film, and T.I. still views him as a little brother off the set.

Bone Deep is still in production and is scheduled for a 2010 release.