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Kevin Costner Joining Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Django Unchained’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday July 18, 2011 @ 12:04pm PDTTags: Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained, Jamie Foxx, Kevin Costner, Leonardo DiCaprio, Quentin Tarantino, Samuel L. Jackson
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Quentin Tarantino never has trouble putting together good casts for his films, but his Sergio Leone-style Spaghetti Western Django Unchained is turning out to be quite something. Kevin Costner is in negotiations to join a cast that is headed by Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Samuel L. Jackson and Leonardo DiCaprio. Costner is in talks to play Ace Woody, and it’s a real surprise turn for an actor most associated with good guy roles. He’s the sadistic trainer of the male fighting slaves who entertain the white patrons of Candyland as well as the female slaves who are forced to be prostitutes. The club and ranch are owned by Calvin Candie (DiCaprio) and Ace Woody is the one who pits the “mandingo” fighters against one another, and has little qualms about mistreating and even killing the slaves who don’t measure up. The roles that DiCaprio and Costner will play are every bit as sadistic as the one that Waltz played in Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds, and while Costner is still doing fine work, this could shine a light on him the way that Pulp Fiction did for John Travolta.

Foxx will play the title character, a slave-turned-bounty hunter who must take on those villains to free his slave wife. It’s looking like Tarantino might make a discovery on that role, a character named Broomhilda. The Weinstein Company will put the picture into production in the early fall, with Sony Pictures taking foreign.  Costner will take the role after playing Pa Kent in the Superman reboot Man Of Steel, and prepping to star in the miniseries The Hatfields and McCoys for History, which he’s also producing. Costner’s repped by WME and One Talent Management.

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‘King Of Kong’ Director Seth Gordon Ready To Play ‘War Games’ In MGM Reboot

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday June 23, 2011 @ 5:27pm PDTTags: Ally Sheedy, Colin Farrell, Gary Barber, Horrible Bosses, Jamie Foxx, Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis, Jennifer Aniston, Jose Padilha, Kevin Spacey, Matthew Broderick, MGM, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Roger Birnbaum, Seth Gordon, War Games
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: MGM will reboot the 1983 thriller War Games, and the studio has set Seth Gordon to develop the film to direct. Gordon, who made his breakthrough with the gaming documentary The King of Kong, most recently directed the New … Read More »

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Jamie Foxx Looming Large In ‘Django Unchained’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday June 22, 2011 @ 2:51pm PDTTags: Django Unchained, Film Casting, Jamie Foxx, Quentin Tarantino, Sony Pictures, The Weinstein Co
Mike Fleming

BREAKING: Quentin Tarantino has made his choice and negotiations will begin for Jamie Foxx to play the title character in Django Unchained. Tarantino’s next film will be distributed domestically by The Weinstein Company and overseas by Sony Pictures. Production begins … Read More »

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Leonardo DiCaprio In Early Talks For Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Django Unchained’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday June 7, 2011 @ 8:03pm PDTTags: Chris Tucker, Christoph Waltz, Clint Eastwood, Django Unchained, Harvey Weinstein, Idris Elba, Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio, Pilar Savone, Quentin Tarantino, Samuel L. Jackson, Sergio Leone, Stacey Sher, Will Smith
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Talks are about to get underway for Leonardo DiCaprio to play the role of villainous ranch owner Calvin Candie in Django Unchained, the Sergio Leone-style spaghetti Western that Quentin Tarantino wrote and will direct as his next film. DiCaprio … Read More »

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BET Looking To Revive ‘Showtime At The Apollo’ With Jamie Foxx & Don Weiner

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday May 16, 2011 @ 12:10pm PDTTags: BET, Jamie Foxx
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Long-running syndication variety show Showtime At the Apollo is staging a comeback, this time on BET. The cable network is finalizing a deal for a pilot order to a Showtime at the Apollo revival executive produced by Jamie Foxx … Read More »

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Fox’s Jamie Foxx/Affion Crockett Sketch Comedy Series Gets Title, Premiere Date

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday April 26, 2011 @ 6:19am PDTTags: Affion Crockett, Fox, Jamie Foxx, premiere date
Nellie Andreeva

Fox has scheduled In the Flow with Affion Crockett, the half-hour sketch-comedy series hosted by and starring comedian Affion Crockett and executive produced by Jamie Foxx. The series, previously Untitled Jamie Foxx/Affion Crockett Project, will have a one-hour premiere on … Read More »

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Hot Trailer: ‘Rio’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Saturday January 29, 2011 @ 7:32am PSTTags: 20th Century Fox, Anne Hathaway, George Lopez, Jamie Foxx, Jesse Eisenberg, Movies, Trailers, Video
Mike Fleming

20th Century Fox has shared a two-minute scene from Rio, the 3D animated film by Carlos Saldanha, the guy behind the Ice Age films and Robots. The film, about a macaw that leaves the cold of Minnesota for the warmth of Rio, has a voice cast that includes Jesse Eisenberg, … Read More »

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NBC Picks Up Jamie Foxx’s ‘Girl’ That Could Star Selma Blair And Scot Armstrong’s ‘Life’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday October 25, 2010 @ 5:00am PDTTags: Jamie Foxx, Jamie Foxx Tommy's Little Girl, Paul Sorvino, Selma Blair, Tommy's Little Girl, TV, TV Deals, UMS
Nellie Andreeva

After lengthy negotiations, NBC has closed a deal for Jamie Foxx’s drama project Tommy’s Little Girl based on the trailer Foxx shot with Selma Blair, Paul Sorvino, Tony Sirico and James Russo. The network also has picked up Life Is Good, a comedy from Unhitched creators Chris Pappas and Mike Bernier and Hangover 2 writer Scot Armstrong. Based on Foxx’s idea, Girl is described as Le Femme Nikita meets The Sopranos and centers on a young girl (Blair) raised in a mafia family who is hidden away in an orphanage after her family is murdered by a competing mafia crime boss. She grows up to become an attorney by day, and a deadly, well trained killer by night, as she avenges her family’s murder and attempts to locate her last living relative. Jorge Zamacona has been tapped to write the script and executive produce. Read More »

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Fox Orders Jamie Foxx Sketch Comedy Series For Midseason

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday September 1, 2010 @ 8:45am PDTTags: Affion Crockett, Eric and Kim Tannenbaum, Fox TV Studios, Jamie Foxx, The Jamie Foxx Project
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Fox is prepping a primetime sketch comedy series for midseason from Oscar winner and In Living Color alum Jamie Foxx. The network has handed out a 12-episode order to the half-hour comedy, tentatively titled The Jamie Foxx Project. Foxx, … Read More »

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Jamie Foxx Forms Funded Specialty TV/Pic Shingle With Deon Taylor

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday August 11, 2010 @ 5:44pm PDTTags: Jamie Foxx, Tommy's Little Girl
Mike Fleming

Jamie Foxx has partnered with Deon Taylor to form No Brainer Films, a shingle that will generate films and TV series at under $10 million. The projects will be financed by Robert Smith, founder and managing principal of the private … Read More »

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Kevin Spacey: Another Horrible Boss Turn

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Sunday June 27, 2010 @ 5:20pm PDTTags: Casting, Colin Farrell, Horrible Bosses, Jamie Foxx, Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis, Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Spacey
Mike Fleming

spacey-headshot2Now here is perfect casting. Kevin Spacey has joined the roster of Horrible Bosses, the Seth Gordon-directed New Line comedy that stars Jennifer Aniston, Jamie Foxx, Colin Farrell, Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis. Donald Sutherland has also joined the cast–playing a nice … Read More »

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Jamie Foxx Preps Mob TV Drama Project

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday June 22, 2010 @ 3:36pm PDTTags: Jamie Foxx, Movie Trailers, Paul Sorvino, Selma Blair, Tommy's Little Girl, TV
Nellie Andreeva

jamie_foxxEXCLUSIVE: Jamie Foxx is getting entrepreneurial with a new drama TV project. I hear the Oscar winner over the past two weeks shot a trailer for a potential drama series entitled Tommy’s Little Girl. Selma Blair and Paul Sorvino star in … Read More »

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