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Will Ferrell (The Shrink Next Door, Spirited), Jamie Foxx (Soul, Just Mercy) and Will Forte (MacGruber, HouseBroken) will star in Strays, an animated comedy that Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar director Josh Greenbaum is helming for Universal, Deadline has confirmed. The film combining CGI and live-action elements…

EXCLUSIVE: Tommy Lee Jones is being set to star alongside Jamie Foxx in Amazon's The Burial, with Maggie Betts directing. Jones plays a lead role that was going to be filled by his The Fugitive co-star Harrison Ford, until he had to drop out. Doug Wright penned the screenplay. Amazon Studios, Bobby Shriver Inc. and…

Jamie Foxx has broken his silence with regard to his friend, Michael K. Williams, who died at his Brooklyn home on September 6, aged 54. The Oscar winner remembered the Lovecraft Country star in an Instagram post published Friday, explaining that it took him “a minute” to gather his “thoughts and emotions,” after…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has opted not to proceed with a second season of Dad Stop Embarrassing Me!, a father-daughter comedy starring and executive produced by Oscar winner Jamie Foxx. The series, inspired by Foxx's relationship with his daughter, Corinne Foxx, who produced alongside Alex Avant, debuted its eight-episode…

Apple Original Films continues its expansion of its award-winning documentary slate with Number One on the Call Sheet, two documentary features from Jamie Foxx, Kevin Hart, Datari Turner and Dan Cogan that will celebrate Black achievement in the film industry, and explore what it takes for Black actors to find success…

EXCLUSIVE: Dave Franco, Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Oliver Masucci, Steve Howey and C.S. Lee are set to join Jamie Foxx in Netflix’s Day Shift. J.J. Perry, best known for his work as a second unit director and stunt coordinator on films like The Fast and the Furious and Bloodshot, will make his directorial debut on the…

Jamie Foxx is getting into business with ViacomCBS MTV Entertainment Group. The Oscar winner and his producing partner Datari Turner have signed a deal to develop and executive produce original movies across MTVE's portfolio with BIPOC filmmakers focused on diverse storytelling. "Jamie Foxx and Datari Turner are…

A second biographical TV series about Mike Tyson is in the works – this one starring Jamie Foxx as the boxing legend and exec produced by Antoine Fuqua and Martin Scorsese. Foxx, who won an Oscar for his portrayal of Ray Charles in 2004 biopic Ray, will star in and exec produce Tyson, a limited series directed and…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a hot one. Oscar-winner Jamie Foxx (Ray), Emmy-nominee Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game Of Thrones), Golden Globe-nominee January Jones (Mad Men), Maika Monroe (It Follows) and Andrew Dice Clay (Entourage) are set to star in action-thriller God Is A Bullet, we can reveal. Written and to be directed by…

While there were several double Golden Globe nominations this year for actors and actresses, Sacha Baron Cohen is in rare form earning three noms, tying with Helen Mirren and Jamie Foxx for the most ever by a performer in one year at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association ceremony. Cohen earned Golden Globe noms as a…

EXCLUSIVE: Pixar’s Soul takes viewers to The Great Before, a world where souls find their quirks and passions before manifesting on Earth. The colorful realm rife with pastel-hued spirits was 23 years in the making, when director Pete Docter wondered how his son came into the world with a personality. “Where did that…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Jamie Foxx is set to produce and star in Amazon’s The Burial, with Maggie Betts on board to direct. Foxx joins the two-handed drama and will star opposite a legendary role currently being cast. Pulitzer Prize winner Doug Wright penned the screenplay. Amazon Studios, Bobby Shriver Inc. and…