Oct 16 2009 'Skank Robbers' Will Actually Be a Movie
Because parody movies are often our best source of ideas for actual movies, Martin Lawrence and Jamie Foxx have decided to turn Skank Robbers, a spoof trailer the two made for the BET Awards, into a real movie. Foxx apparently confirmed the news this morning on Ryan Seacrest's radio show (thanks for +Guy for tolerating Ryan Seacrest's radio show to hear this), and said shooting will begin in January.
The awards show sketch was based around Lawrence and Foxx's drag, stereotype-reinforcing television alter-egos, Wanda Reid and Sheneneh Jenkins, so this is good news if you were hoping to see those two again. Also good news if you're Jamie Foxx's arch-enemy, and you'd really been hoping he'd go from acclaimed, Oscar-winning performances to a ridiculous Gerard Butler thriller and something called Skank Robbers.
Here, for your enjoyment, is the fake trailer (which is now basically a real trailer):
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Sep 22 2009 'Valentine's Day' Trailer: Another VoltRom-Com Fuses Several Romantic Comedies Into One Powerful Monster
Can you believe that, come Valentine's Day, it will have been almost exactly one year since we last saw roughly a dozen celebrities of various caliber crammed into a single romantic comedy in which every other piece of dialogue has to reiterate the title? (See He's Just Not That Into You, web-slingers.) Thankfully, that will be the exact day that a new VoltRom-Com takes the throne, appropriately titled Valentines Day. This one manages to cram in two Roberts (Julia, Emma), two Grey's Anatomi, Bradley Cooper, Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Garner, Topher Grace, Anne Hathaway, Ashton Kutcher, George Lopez, Shirley MacLaine, Queen Latifah, and the two celebrities most noted for being "so fucking hot" before the arrival of Megan Fox (Jessica Alba, Jessica Biel).
The trailer feels like watching an Oscars montage reel for The Year in Romantic Comedy. Or, maybe more accurately, like simultaneously hearing the scream of every single ugly friend that ever had to listen to their extremely attractive friend complain about relationships that ever existed:
Aug 20 2009 'Law Abiding Citizen' Poster: Ah, That's a Familiar Sight
This poster nearly perfectly recreates what I see every morning when I stop at the local toy shoppe and covetously stare through their display window at that Lawyer Gear Jamie Foxx doll I want so desperately. I'll have you one day, Jamie Fox doll. One day.
'Law Abiding Citizen' Poster [IMPA]
Aug 14 2009 'Law Abiding Citizen' Trailer: I Get the Sense He's No Longer Law Abiding
When you're seeing a movie called Law Abiding Citizen, starring Gerard Butler doing his best "Give me back my son!!!!"-style Mel Gibson, you figure that, by the end, this eponymous citizen's convictions will be tested if not broken. His daughter was murdered, the justice system failed him, and movie conventions dictate that this means the once notably law-abiding man will now take the law into his own hands.
What you don't expect is that he'll for some reason become a makeup-less Joker, somehow pulling off ridiculously complex murder plots from the confines of a prison cell, infuriating his Batman, Jamie Foxx. Now you know to expect that:
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Sep 12 2008 The Presumed Oscar-Winning Poster of 'The Soloist'
It's true; life does have a mind of its own--and we're powerless to control it! But it's like my mom always used to say: "When life gives you Jamie Foxx ridiculously playing a schizophrenic bum savant, make Oscar bait."
The Soloist Poster [IMPA]
Sep 11 2008 If You Run Out of Oscars, It's Because 'The Soloist' Has Them All
Here's the trailer for The Soloist the semi-real inspirational story of reporter Robert Downey Jr. finding redemption by helping schizophrenic hobo Jamie Foxx play the cello. The only way this thing could be better Oscar bait is if they painted it gold, put it in a wig and makeup, and had it give some coquettish glances to the Oscar statues. "Hey, booooooys!"
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Feb 29 2008 Jamie Foxx to Play Iron Mike?
Having already taken biopic roles as Tookie Williams, Ray Charles, and Nathaniel Ayers, and with plans to play Earl Sanders and Bob Marley, Jamie Foxx has proven himself the man to get for any and every true story about a black guy. So when word spreads of a Mike Tyson film in the works, guess whose name is coming up.
That's right, if you trust Tyson (reminder: a jury didn't), he and Foxx have been in talks to collaborate on a biopic, which may or may not be titled Cannibal Rapist. Says the pugilist:
I have a movie on the verge of happening, probably in two years from now. Me and Jamie Foxx are going to do a collaboration. He's going to play me in my life story. We've talked about it many times.
Of course, if Foxx hopes to play "Iron" Mike Tyson, he will first have to play Piston Honda, Mr. Sandman, and Super Macho Man, whose Super Spin Punch is totally tough.
Jamie Foxx is Mike Tyson? [Cinematical]
Feb 7 2008 Jamie Foxx, Will Smith Compete for Hobo Savant Title
The Oscar race is sure to be tight next year, with two serious actors (assuming you ignore all the stupid shit they've done) waging a war of simulated homelessness, each playing a variation of the popular "hobo with a hidden talent" archetype.
Will Smith thought he had a lock on the Best Hobo title with his booze-swigging, superpowered bum in Hancock, particularly with his famously mismatched ski-hat and Hawaiian shirt combo (the homeless can never properly dress for a single season). But now a dark horse has emerged, with Jamie Foxx playing a homeless piano prodigy--and he's schizophrenic! In this shot from The Soloist set, Foxx answers Smith's clashing seasonal attire with several layers of jackets and an outer layer of graffiti-stained day-glo vest, plus the hair of a madman.
Who will win in the end? Probably Foxx, since I just noticed he was dedicated enough to shave his eyebrows off. You know, like homeless schizophrenics do.
On Location: The Soloist [JFX]
Oct 25 2007 Jamie Foxx Will Be Dramatic, Oscar-Worthy in 'Zebra Murders'
Always eager to show what a serious, Oscar-worthy actor he is, Jamie Foxx has signed on to star in The Zebra Murders: A Season of Killing, Racial Madness, and Civil Rights, a name that just screams serious Oscar-worthiness. Variety has the details:
Based on the 2006 book by Prentice Earl Sanders and Bennett Cohen, the story chronicles the series of racially motivated serial killings -- black on white -- that took place in San Francisco in 1973 and 1974. Jamie Foxx will play Sanders, who was one of two black police detectives who led the team that cracked the case. Amid their investigation, Sanders and his partner fought harassment within the police department and organized a union of minority policemen who brought a lawsuit against the city for discrimination, which they ultimately won. Sanders went on to become chief of police.
I hope he follows this up with playing a sassy zebra in a cute CGI movie, then a song with Kanye West about zebras representing racial strife, because, man, and let me be the first to say it, this guy can do it all, and all while looking not at all like a poser or mildly retarded. Am I right?
Jamie Foxx set for 'Zebra Murders' [Variety]
Jul 2 2007 Jamie Foxx Wants Another Oscar
Two Zimas, please.
Jamie Foxx is set to star in Blood on the Leaves, a movie that sounds just like something those shrivs at the Academy would eat up, like so many prunes and cans of Ensure.
Based on Jeffrey Stetson's 2004 novel, the story centers on a district attorney who grapples with feelings of revenge as he prosecutes a black history professor on trial for the murders of white men accused of crimes against blacks during the Civil Rights movement.
The only way this could be more Oscar-pandering is if his character were also mildly retarded and persecuted by nazis. I'm often persecuted by Walgreen's employees. "Pay for that Hot Pocket!" they're always yelling. Fascists.
