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Jamie Foxx To Write, Direct & Produce Syfy Horror Anthology Series For October Debut

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday April 10, 2013 @ 12:47pm PDTTags: Big Deals TV, Jamie Foxx, Syfy
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Jamie Foxx Syfy SeriesEXCLUSIVE: At its upfront presentation this evening, Syfy will unveil a high-profile new scripted series from Jamie Foxx and his Foxxhole Prods. The Oscar winner will executive produce, write and direct the five-episode horror anthology series, which will debut during Syfy’s annual 31 Days Of Halloween programming marathon this October. Foxx might also appear on the yet-untitled series, which is produced by Universal Cable Prods.

In the vein of horror classics like Tales From The Crypt and The Twilight Zone, the contemporary series tells creepy morality tales with themes such as envy, jealousy and superficiality. “This is a project that I’ve wanted to do for a long time and I’m so happy to see it come to life,” Foxx said. “Get ready to lose it when some special friends and I bring the scares this October, and who knows… maybe I’ll make a guest appearance or two along the way!” Added Syfy/UCP’s Mark Stern, “Jamie Foxx’s passion and unique perspective will transform these universal insights on the human condition into emotionally potent and truly scary cautionary tales.” READ MORE »

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More Oscar Presenters: Jennifer Aniston, Jamie Foxx, Michael Douglas, Paul Rudd

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday February 19, 2013 @ 6:05am PSTTags: Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Aniston, Michael Douglas, Oscars, Paul Rudd

Academy Awards show producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron announced today that Oscar-winning actors Michael Douglas and Jamie Foxx will join Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd as presenters on the Oscars telecast Sunday.

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SNL: Jamie Foxx Spoofs Tyler Perry-Madea

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Sunday December 9, 2012 @ 6:05am PSTTags: Alex Cross, Jamie Foxx, SNL

This Jamie Foxx send-up of Tyler Perry in the bomb Alex Cross is deliciously mean since it’s hard for Perry to escape his Madea alter ego:

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TNT Developing Buddy Crime Drama From Jamie Foxx And Robert Port

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday December 4, 2012 @ 5:13pm PSTTags: Big Deals TV, Jamie Foxx, TNT
Nellie Andreeva

Jamie FoxxEXCLUSIVE: TNT has put in development drama Hit based on an idea by Jamie Foxx. Co-written by Foxx and former Numbers co-executive producer Robert Port, Hit centers on two former high school football teammates and best friends — one a QB, one a WR -– who years later are “drafted” by the Miami P.D. and assigned to HIT (High Impact Team). The same shorthand that made them unstoppable on the gridiron makes them great partners taking down the most dangerous criminals in the city. Foxx and Port are executive producing with Foxx’s producing partner Jaime King. Read More »

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Hot Trailer: ‘Django Unchained’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday November 28, 2012 @ 11:28pm PSTTags: Jamie Foxx, Quentin Tarantino

Here’s the latest theatrical trailer for Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained. With an all-star cast led by Jamie Fox, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington plus Christoph Waltz, Don Johnson and many others, The Weinstein Company release rolls out December 25th:

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Jamie Foxx In Talks To Play Bad Guy In ‘Spider Man’; Is It Electro?

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday November 1, 2012 @ 12:50pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Jamie Foxx, The Amazing Spider-Man

Jamie FoxxUPDATE, 12:50 PM: JFoxx might have given away his new role on his Twitter feed, posting, “Dressed up as Electro for Halloween last night. Costume fits well.”

PREVIOUS, 12:28 PM: Discussions are in the early stages for … Read More »

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Roland Emmerich’s ‘White House Down’ Adds Jason Clarke To Cast

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Thursday August 2, 2012 @ 9:03pm PDTTags: Jamie Foxx, Jason Clarke, Maggie Gyllenhaal, White House Down

Sony Pictures’ White House Down has added Jason Clarke to its cast. The actor will play Stenz, the leader of the mercenaries who break into the Executive Mansion in the Roland Emmerich-directed thriller. Maggie Gyllenhaal stars in White House Down, as does Channing Tatum. The Magic Mike star plays the Secret Service agent who tries to stop the mercenaries’ takeover. Jamie Foxx plays the President. Sony bought the James Vanderbilt spec script for $3 million earlier this year. Read More »

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‘Django Unchained’ A ‘Shaft’ Prequel? So Says Quentin Tarantino: Comic-Con

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Saturday July 14, 2012 @ 1:42pm PDTTags: Comic-Con, Comic-Con Wrap-Up, Django Unchained, Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington, Quentin Tarantino

Luke Y. Thompson is contributing to Deadline’s coverage of Comic-Con.

Django UnchainedDjango Unchained a Shaft prequel? Really? There’s one more week of shooting on Django, and they just did scenes with Jonah Hill as a member of the Regulators (the pre-Civil War version of the KKK). Quentin Tarantino said it turned into one of the funniest scenes he’s ever done, which he says is up there with the name-colors conversation in Reservoir Dogs. There is one character in the movie that ties into the larger Tarantino-verse which he’s keeping a surprise, but he says Kerry Washington‘s character Brunhilde von Shaft is, in his mind, an ancestor of John Shaft – this prompted QT to start singing the theme song out loud. The panel was moderated by Anthony Breznican from Entertainment Weekly, who said he needed a whole new level of grandiloquent profanity to describe Django, a “twisted, bloody fairy tale,” before introducing Jamie Foxx, Walton Goggins, Don Johnson (with Jeff Bridges-looking facial hair and gray ponytail), Christoph Waltz (long hair and a bushy white beard that almost looks false, like Santa Claus), Washington, and Tarantino (in a leather jacket, dorky felt fedora, and a T-shirt depicting many of his characters as kids playing in a sandbox).
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Quentin Tarantino, Jamie Foxx, Tyler Perry Join BET Awards

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Wednesday June 27, 2012 @ 10:17am PDTTags: BET Awards, Django Unchained, Jamie Foxx, Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Tarantino Jamie Foxx Django UnchainedStraight off Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino and Jamie Foxx were announced today as presenters for Sunday’s BET Awards. The director and the star join Tyler Perry and Laz Alonzo, who … Read More »

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Jonah Hill Joins Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Django Unchained’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday June 15, 2012 @ 10:30am PDTTags: Jamie Foxx, Jonah Hill, Leonardo DiCaprio, Quentin Tarantino
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: The Weinstein Company has set Jonah Hill to play a role in Django Unchained, which is in production. I’m trying to find out who he’ll be playing, but am told it won’t be Scotty Harmony, the kid who loses … Read More »

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FIRST PHOTOS: DiCaprio, Waltz & Foxx In ‘Django Unchained’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday April 26, 2012 @ 10:43am PDTTags: Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained, Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio

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Here’s a first look at still photos from Quentin Tarantino‘s slave drama Django Unchained, which the Weinstein Co is releasing on Christmas Day. Above, Leonardo DiCaprio plays evil plantation owner Calvin Candie. … Read More »

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Michael Kenneth Williams In Talks For ‘Django Unchained’ and ‘Snitch’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday November 16, 2011 @ 10:52am PSTTags: Django Unchained, Dwayne Johnson, Jamie Foxx, Quentin Tarantino, Ric Roman Waugh, Snitch
Mike Fleming

UPDATE: Insiders on Django Unchained said that the talks with Michael Kenneth Williams just won’t work out because of his schedule on Boardwalk Empire. They are scrapping that role completely.

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Kenneth Williams, best known for his work … Read More »

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Mel Gibson, Jamie Foxx, & Garry Shandling Brainstorm About Robert Downey Jr. Before American Cinematheque Tribute: Video

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Tuesday November 15, 2011 @ 7:30am PSTTags: Garry Shandling, Jamie Foxx, Mel Gibson, Robert Downey Jr.

This un-PC video was shown at the start of last month’s American Cinematheque tribute to Robert Downey Jr and features Mel Gibson, Jamie Foxx, and Garry Shandling brainstorming. It’s very inside Hollywood:

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Anthony LaPaglia Joins ‘Django Unchained’, Laments Hardships Pushing Film Actors To TV

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday October 31, 2011 @ 8:29am PDTTags: Anthony LaPaglia, Christopher Plummer, Django Unchained, Film Castings, Jamie Foxx, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Liev Schreiber, Quentin Tarantino, Toni Collette
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Anthony LaPaglia has joined Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained cast. LaPaglia will play the leader of a group of greedy Australians who encounter slave-turned-bounty hunter Django (Jamie Foxx) as they are escorting a group of slaves recently purchased as fighters. LaPaglia said he and Joseph Gordon-Levitt will play mean brothers, and LaPaglia said he was bowled over by the script. “It’s wildly ambitious and imaginative, deals with that subject matter in a way it hasn’t been dealt with before,” LaPaglia told me. “The way the cast has shaped up, it’s exciting to be involved.” It will be the second film in a row where LaPaglia can readopt the Australian accent he grew up with but dropped for many of his Hollywood roles and the series Without A Trace. He wrapped the PJ Hogan-directed Mental with Toni Collette and Liev Schreiber, a film that LaPaglia said is partly based on the filmmaker’s own experiences. “I play the father, who in real life had committed his mother to a mental institution, who had five kids, picked up a hitchhiker [Collette] on the way back and said, you’re taking care of the kids now.” LaPaglia said Hogan got rights to tunes from The Sound Of Music, and uses them in unexpected ways. “I absolutely assassinate “Edelweiss,” just tear it to shreds so badly that I’m sure Christopher Plummer would have a fit. It was meant to be terrible, and it is.” Read More »

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Kerry Washington Lands ‘Django Unchained’ Lead

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday October 26, 2011 @ 8:29am PDTTags: Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained, Film Castings, Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington, Leonardo DiCaprio, Quentin Tarantino
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Kerry Washington has won the role of Broomhilda in Django Unchained. Director Quentin Tarantino made his choice and The Weinstein Company began exclusive negotiations with her CAA reps last night. She’ll play the long-suffering slave wife of Django (Jamie … Read More »

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Quentin Tarantino Setting Don Johnson For ‘Django Unchained’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday October 11, 2011 @ 3:38pm PDTTags: Christoph Waltz, David Carradine, Django Unchained, Don Johnson, Jamie Foxx, John Travolta, Kurt Russell, Leonardo DiCaprio, Quentin Tarantino, Samuel L. Jackson
Mike Fleming

Django Unchained director Quentin Tarantino has offered the role of wealthy plantation owner Spencer Bennett to Don Johnson, and they are negotiating for Johnson to join a cast that includes Leonardo DiCaprio, Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Samuel L. Jackson and … Read More »

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Obama Steps Up 2012 Hollywood Fundraising

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Tuesday September 27, 2011 @ 11:58am PDTTags: Aaron Sorkin, Barack Obama, Danny DeVito, Eva Longoria, Jack Black, Jamie Foxx, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Jon Landau, Judd Apatow, Modern Family, Rhea Perlman

GOP Candidates Seeking Hollywood Help

“We were discussing the new season of Glee,” tweeted Modern Family‘s Jesse Tyler Ferguson about what he and President Obama said to one another last night at the Sunset Strip’s House of Blues. It’s where the actor emceed one of two Hollywood fundraisers for Obama’s re-election campaign Monday. According to a White House pool report, Obama greeted Ferguson, turned to the microphone, and said, “I was telling him that Michelle and the girls love them some Modern Family.” Some in the crowd chanted “Four more years”. Roughly 900 people paid ticket prices starting at $250 and as much as $10,000 (to secure a photo with the president).

The second fundraiser cost $17,900 for each of the 120 people in attendance at Melrose Avenue’s Fig & Olive restaurant. The private event’s co-hosts included Hollywood producer Jeffrey Katzenberg, his longtime political adviser Andy Spahn, and Tennis Channel CEO Ken Solomon. “I’m going to need your help, so don’t get tired on me now,” Obama was quoted by a pool report as telling showbiz attendees like Judd Apatow, Aaron Sorkin, Jamie Foxx, Jack Black, Eva Longoria, Danny DeVito, Rhea Perlman, and Jon Landau (producer of Avatar and Titanic). “I urge some of you to watch the Republican debates,” Obama added.

Obama received a standing ovation from the industry types seated at round tables with white table linens. But news of the president’s impending Hollywood fundraising was punctuated by several media articles proclaiming that Tinseltown support for him had eroded greatly since 2008. Recently Democratic activists like Robert Redford, Matt Damon, and Michael Moore have criticized Obama’s inability to stay the liberal course. Katzenberg seemed to address that disappointment when he introduced Obama by saying, “We must keep fighting for him so he can keep fighting for us.” Katzenberg also noted, “I have a dependency on President Obama. He inherited a crashing economy and two wars and opponents who questioned if he was even born (in the U.S.). Yet he kept us moving forward. He was dealt adversity on all fronts, but he maintained his stature.” Read More »

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Kevin Costner Exits Mandingo Trainer Role In Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Django Unchained’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday September 26, 2011 @ 4:11pm PDTTags: Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained, Jamie Foxx, Kevin Costner, Leonardo DiCaprio, Quentin Tarantino, Samuel L. Jackson, Sergio Leone
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Kevin Costner has dropped out of Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained, an exit I’m told is due to a combination of scheduling and personal reasons. Costner had agreed to play the supporting role of Ace Woody in the Sergio … Read More »

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What’s Really Happening With Mike Myers And ‘Austin Powers 4′?

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Saturday August 13, 2011 @ 4:08pm PDTTags: Cameron Diaz, Chris Tucker, Jamie Foxx, Jay Roach, Jim Carrey, Mike Myers, New Line Cinema, Quentin Tarantino, Sacha Baron Cohen, Seth Green, Steve Carell
Mike Fleming

After the Hitfix website reported that Mike Myers had signed a deal to do a fourth Austin Powers film, other websites are running wild with it. What’s really going on? Well, I wouldn’t necessarily dress for the premiere just yet. No deal has yet been signed, and top New Line brass are surprised the whole thing has reared up after they made Myers an offer six months to a year ago, and hear nothing. Forgive New Line for being skeptical: The film company thought it was well on the way to another Austin Powers installment when it made a deal in 2008 with Myers to collaborate with Mike McCullers for a Dr. Evil film that was to focus on his relationship with son Scotty (Seth Green), meant to be an unabashed homage to Myers’ father, whose Brit influence basically prodded Myers to create the British agent Austin Powers character in the first place. Then, Myers’ screen creation, The Love Guru, opened to $13 million in June 2008 against the nearly $40 million that Steve Carell’s Get Smart grossed with Steve Carell. Myers went AWOL, surfacing only for a small role in Inglourious Basterds. McCullers never moved forward with the script. Read More »

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