Tag: Jamie Foxx

Why Should White Guys Have All The Fun

Status:  Development Status Unknown as of May 13, 2014
Release Date: TBA
Genre:  Biography/Drama
Rating:  Not Available
Studio: BroadcastUrban Filmworks
Director: TBA
Cast: Jamie Foxx (Reginald Lewis, rumored)
Story:  Biopic of Wall Street titan Reginald Lewis who was the world’s first African-American to own a billion dollar empire.

Details:  Reginald Lewis’ inspiring story of how he would grow out of poverty to become the wealthiest black man in American in the 80s, building a billion dollar multinational company in Beatrice International (a food, beverage and grocery store conglomerate – the largest African-American owned and managed business in the USA at the time), and accumulating a personal fortune of over $400 million at the time of his death in 1993 from brain cancer. (Source(s): Movie Insider; Indiewire Shadow and Act).

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Annie

AnnieRelease Date: December 19, 2014
Genre: Musical
Rating: Not Available
Studio: Columbia Pictures (Sony)
Director: Will Gluck
Cast: Quvenzhané Wallis (Annie)
Rose Byrne (Grace)
Cameron Diaz (Miss Hannigan)
Jamie Foxx (Benjamin Stacks)
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (Nash)
Bobby Cannavale

Story:  Adaptation of the Broadway musical which was based upon the Harold Gray comic strip “Little Orphan Annie”. (Synopsis taken from Movie Insider).

Details: Jay-Z will “re-imagine” the music, much as he did when he re-fashioned the Broadway show’s “Hard Knock Life” into an anthem of urban poverty.

Jamie Foxx will play a character named Benjamin Stacks, a variation of Daddy Warbucks, who takes in the orphan girl being played by Quvenzhane Wallis.

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