EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winner Jamie Foxx has teamed Cinema Libre Studio and Hong Kong-based Fight to Fame Films to develop When We Pray, a faith-based feature, which Foxx plans to direct. He’s co-writing the script with Donald Ray “Speedy” Caldwell. The pic marks Foxx’s sophomore directorial outing following his debut film…
The first full trailer of Disney/Pixar’s Soul hit the internet today. Oscar-winner Jamie Foxx leads the pic, which marks the first time a Black character is at the center of a Pixar movie. Tina Fey Daveed Diggs, Phylicia Rashad, and Questlove are also part of the voice cast.
Directed by two-time Oscar winner Pete…
Netflix is about to serve a flood of funny in Los Angeles with its Netflix is a Joke Fest, set for April 27-May 3. For one week, the streaming giant is partnering with Live Nation to bring over 100 live shows and events to various venues in L.A. with recorded shows available on the platform later this year.
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Leonardo DiCaprio perhaps pulled off the biggest surprise of the night at the 4th annual American Black Film Festival (ABFF) Honors, which was held last night at the Beverly Hilton hotel. The Oscar-winning actor was on hand to present his Django Unchained co-star Jamie Foxx with Excellence in the Arts award.
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Oscar winner Jamie Foxx, currently being lauded for his performance in Warner Bros’ Just Mercy, will receive the Excellence in the Arts Award at the upcoming 2020 American Black Film Festival Honors, set for February 23 in Los Angeles. The award honors a contemporary artist whose stellar work has received critical…
Fox is bringing back interactive music game show Beat Shazam for a fourth season. Jamie Foxx will return as host and executive producer, along with EPs Mark Burnett, Jeff Apploff, Barry Poznick and Lauren Zalaznick. Foxx’s daughter Corinne Foxx, also will return as deejay.
Beat Shazam has been solid ratings-wise. The…
Jamie Foxx picked up another award for his performance in Just Mercy as Walter McMillian, a black man in Alabama wrongly condemned to death row for a murder he did not commit.
On Wednesday night, Foxx was awarded the Best Supporting Actor honor at the African American Film Critics Association Awards in Los Angeles…
UPDATED with Lego Masterspromo: In a synergistic move, Beat Shazam host and executive producer Jamie Foxx will join the Season 3 post-Super Bowl premiere of The Masked Singer on Sunday, February 2 on Fox. Foxx will join host Nick Cannon and panelists Ken Jeong, Jenny McCarthy, Nicole Scherzinger and Robin Thicke in…
Kobe Bryant is teaming with the cast of Just Mercy to help promote Warner Bros’ critically acclaimed death row drama.
The NBA champion, who won an Oscar for producing the 2017 animated short Dear Basketball, will host a screening for guild members January 6 in Los Angeles, an individual attached to the film told…
Just Mercy isn’t easy to watch at times, but it is an admirable film about one lawyer’s efforts to free prisoners on Alabama’s Death Row who have been served up a heap of injustice and an impending date with the grim reaper for crimes they didn’t commit. It is all the true story of Bryan Stevenson, a Southern lawyer…
The just-released trailer for the Warner Bros. drama Just Mercy shows Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Fox, and Brie Larsen leading an ensemble that’s locked-in on the intense project’s compelling true-life tale about Walter McMillian, a wrongly convicted inmate on Alabama’s death row.
Just Mercy premiered at the Toronto…
Based on Bryan Stevenson's book of the same name, Destin Daniel Cretton’s film Just Mercy stars Jamie Foxx as wrongly-convicted death row prisoner Walter McMillian—a man without hope who is facing the electric chair when idealistic young lawyer Stevenson (Michael B. Jordan) takes on his case. It's a harrowing and…
