Booty Call (1997)
Comedy | Romance
A planned night of love turns into a double-date from hell when two friends attempt to "get close" to their dates.
Starring: Jamie Foxx, Tommy Davidson, Vivica A. Fox, Tamala Jones, Art Malik, Bernie Mac
Director: Jeff Pollack
Shade (2003)
Crime | Thriller
The hand is quicker than the eye in LA's underground gambling scene, hustlers get hustled and fortunes ride on every deal. Three small-time grifters devise a plan to beat the ultimate card mechanic – The Dean. But a seat at The Dean's table doesn't come cheap. Stuart Townsend (Queen of the Damned), Gabriel Byrne (The Usual Suspects), Thandie Newton (Mission: Impossible II), Jamie Foxx (Any Given Sunday), Melanie Griffith (Crazy in Alabama) and Sylvester Stallone (Cop Land) star in this stylish film where quick maneuvers and shady alliances keep you guessing until the last hand is revealed.
Starring: Gabriel Byrne, Jamie Foxx, Sylvester Stallone, Thandie Newton, Stuart Townsend, Melanie Griffith
Director: Damian Nieman
Annie (2014)
Comedy | Drama | Family | Musical
A modern retelling of the story, an orphan is adopted by a wealthy politician.
Starring: Jamie Foxx, Quvenzhané Wallis, Rose Byrne, Bobby Cannavale, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, David Zayas
Director: Will Gluck
Horrible Bosses 2 (2014)
Comedy | Crime
Fed up with answering to higher-ups, Nick, Dale and Kurt decide to become their own bosses by launching their own business. But a slick investor soon pulls the rug out from under them. Outplayed and desperate, and with no legal recourse, the three would-be entrepreneurs hatch a misguided plan to kidnap the investor's adult son and ransom him to regain control of their company.
Starring: Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis, Jennifer Aniston, Jamie Foxx, Chris Pine
Director: Sean Anders
Horrible Bosses 2 (2014)
Comedy | Crime
Fed up with answering to higher-ups, Nick, Dale and Kurt decide to become their own bosses by launching their own business. But a slick investor soon pulls the rug out from under them. Outplayed and desperate, and with no legal recourse, the three would-be entrepreneurs hatch a misguided plan to kidnap the investor's adult son and ransom him to regain control of their company.
Starring: Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis, Jennifer Aniston, Jamie Foxx, Chris Pine
Director: Sean Anders
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Jarhead (2005)
Biography | Drama | War
Set during the Gulf War, the episodic tale follows Anthony Swofford (a.k.a. "Swoff"), a third- generation enlistee, from his sobering stint in boot camp to active duty, where he's sporting a sniper's rifle and a hundred-pound ruck sack on his back, while moving through Middle East deserts with no cover from the intolerable heat. As well, he advances with no protection from the Iraqi soldiers–and there's always a potential enemy sighting, just over the next horizon. Swoff and his fellow Marines sustain themselves on humor and camaraderie as they tread the blazing desert fields in a country they don't understand, against an enemy they can't see, for a cause they don't fully fathom.
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard, Lucas Black, Jamie Foxx, Brian Geraghty, Jacob Vargas, Chris Cooper
Director: Sam Mendes
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)
Action | Adventure | Fantasy
For Peter Parker, life is busy – between taking out the bad guys as Spider-Man and spending time with the person he loves, Gwen, high school graduation can’t come quickly enough. Peter hasn’t forgotten about the promise he made to Gwen’s father to protect her by staying away – but that’s a promise he just can’t keep. Things will change for Peter when a new villain, Electro, emerges, an old friend, Harry Osborn, returns, and Peter uncovers new clues about his past.
Starring: Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Dane DeHaan, Jamie Foxx, Sally Field, Colm Feore
Director: Marc Webb
Rio 2 (2014)
Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family
Blu, Jewel and their three kids are living the perfect domesticated life in the magical city that is Rio de Janeiro. When Jewel decides the kids need to learn to live like real birds, she insists the family venture into the Amazon. As Blu tries to fit in with his new neighbors, he worries he may lose Jewel and the kids to the call of the wild.
Starring: Anne Hathaway, Jesse Eisenberg, Jamie Foxx, Rodrigo Santoro, Leslie Mann, Jake T. Austin
Director: Carlos Saldanha
The 56th Annual Grammy Awards 2014 (TV 2014)
Awards | Music
The 56th Annual Grammy Awards was held on January 26, 2014, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. The show was broadcast on CBS at 8 p.m. ET/P. The show was moved to January to avoid competing against the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. The eligibility period for the 56th Annual Grammy Awards was October 1, 2012 to September 30, 2013. The nominations were announced on December 6, 2013 during a live televised concert on CBS, The Grammy Nominations Concert Live – Countdown to Music's Biggest Night. Jay-Z received the most nominations with nine. Justin Timberlake, Kendrick Lamar, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis and Pharrell Williams all got seven nominations. Daft Punk and Pharrell Williams were nominated twice for both Album of the Year and Record of the Year. Sound engineer Bob Ludwig received the most nominations by a non-performing artist, with five. At the awards ceremony on 26 January, Daft Punk won five awards including album of the year, while Macklemore and Ryan Lewis won four trophies and led an industry show of support for gay marriage. Carole King was honored as MusiCares Person of the Year on January 24, two days prior to the awards ceremony. On June 4, 2013, the Recording Academy approved a number of changes recommended by its Awards & Nominations Committee: A new category for Best American Song has been added to the American Music field. It is a songwriter's award, which will encompass all the subgenres in this field such as Americana, bluegrass, blues, folk and regional roots music. The Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance category will be renamed Best Metal Performance and becomes a stand-alone category. Hard rock performances will now be screened in the Best Rock Performance category. The Music Video field will become the Best Music Video/Film field. Its two categories will be renamed: Best Short Form Music Video will now be known as Best Music Video and Best Long Form Music Video will change into Best Music Film. These changes bring the total number of categories at the 2014 Grammy Awards to 82, up from 81 at the 2013 Grammy Awards.
Starring: Marc Anthony, Black Sabbath, Zac Brown, Gloria Estefan, Jamie Foxx, Ariana Grande, Neil Patrick Harris, Olivia Harrison, Juanes, Cyndi Lauper, Jared Leto, Bruno Mars, Martina McBride, Miguel, Yoko Ono, Smokey Robinson, Ryan Seacrest, Steven Tyler
Director: Louis J. Horvitz
White House Down (2013)
Action | Drama | Thriller
While on a tour of the White House with his young daughter, a Capitol policeman springs into action to save his child and protect the president from a heavily armed group of paramilitary invaders.
Starring: Channing Tatum, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Richard Jenkins, Jamie Foxx, James Woods, Rachelle Lefevre
Director: Roland Emmerich
Django Unchained (2012)
Adventure | Crime | Drama | Western
With the help of his mentor, a slave-turned-bounty hunter sets out to rescue his wife from the brutal Calvin Candie, a Mississippi plantation owner.
Starring: Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, Samuel L. Jackson, Don Johnson
Director: Quentin Tarantino
The 70th Annual Golden Globe Awards (TV 2013)
Awards
The 70th Golden Globe Awards honoring the best in film and television of 2012, was broadcast live from the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California on January 13, 2013, by NBC. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler co-hosted. Nominations were announced on December 13 by Jessica Alba, Megan Fox and Ed Helms. The Cecil B. DeMille Award, honoring the lifetime achievements of actors and filmmakers, was announced on November 1, 2012 with Jodie Foster being the latest recipient of that trophy. The ceremony was produced by Dick Clark Productions in association with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The awards show was held on 13 January 2013.
Starring: George Clooney, Jennifer Garner, Jennifer Lopez, Kristen Wiig, Will Ferrell, Jason Statham, Adele, Jessica Alba, Rosario Dawson, Nathan Fillion, Megan Fox, Jeremy Irons, Lucy Liu, Debra Messing, Robert Pattinson, Dennis Quaid, Jeremy Renner, Amanda Seyfried, Taylor Swift, Kerry Washington, Christian Bale, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jason Bateman, Kristen Bell, Halle Berry, Josh Brolin, Bradley Cooper, Robert Downey Jr., Jamie Foxx, John Goodman, Jonah Hill, Kate Hudson, John Krasinski, Eva Longoria, Tony Mendez, Lea Michele, Julia Roberts, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Kiefer Sutherland, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Jodie Foster
Miami Vice (2006)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Ricardo Tubbs (Jamie Foxx) is urbane and dead smart. He lives with Bronx-born intel analyst Trudy (Naomie Harris) as they work undercover transporting drug loads into South Florida to identify a group responsible for three murders. Sonny Crockett (Colin Farrell), who may seem unorthodox, but is actually procedurally sound, is charismatic and flirtatious until he gets romantically entangled with Isabella (Gong Li), the Chinese-Cuban wife of an arms and drugs trafficker. The intensity of this case pushes Crockett and Tubbs out onto the edge where identity and fabrication become blurred, where cop and player become one–especially for Crockett in his romance with Isabella and for Tubbs in the provocation of an assault on those he loves. Working deeply undercover is dangerous and alluring…especially when Crockett and Tubbs go where their badges don't count…
Starring: Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx, Li Gong, Naomie Harris, Ciarán Hinds, Tom Towles
Director: Michael Mann
The Truth About Cats & Dogs (1996)
Comedy | Romance
Janeane Garofalo plays Dr. Abby Barnes, the "Truth About Cats and Dogs" radio question-and-answer show host who unwittingly entices a listener over the radio with her soothing voice and personality. This listener, Brian, tries to meet the Abby from the radio, but Noelle, played by Uma Thurman, is mistaken for the real thing when Brian comes to the studio. Instead of clearing things up right away, the self-conscious Abby allows her best friend, Noelle, a tall, stunning blonde, to take her place for a while. Abby takes on the made-up persona of Donna, while thinking Brian would never go for her, a short, cute, brunette, who thinks she's unattractive. As the real Abby woos Brian over the phone and radio, Noelle, the pseudo-Abby, takes her place in the flesh.
Starring: Uma Thurman, Janeane Garofalo, Ben Chaplin, Jamie Foxx, James McCaffrey
Director: Michael Lehmann
Ali (2001)
Biography | Drama | Sport
The life story of heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali, following the champ's early days as Cassius Clay and his rise in sports and politics, including his controversial refusal to fight in the Vietnam War and his infamous comeback battles against Joe Frazier and George Foreman.
Starring: Will Smith, Jamie Foxx, Jon Voight, Jeffrey Wright, Mario Van Peebles, Ron Silver
Director: Michael Mann
Valentine's Day (2010)
Comedy | Romance
Valentine's Day follows the intertwining storylines of a group of Los Angelinos as they find their way through romance over the course of one Valentine's Day. Couples and singles experience the pinnacles and pitfalls of finding, keeping or ending relationships in a day in the life of love.
Starring: Jessica Alba, Jessica Biel, Kathy Bates, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Garner, Jamie Foxx, Taylor Lautner, George Lopez, Topher Grace, Shirley MacLaine, Anne Hathaway, Emma Roberts, Eric Dane, Ashton Kutcher, Julia Roberts, Patrick Dempsey, Queen Latifah, Taylor Swift, Hector Elizondo
Director: Garry Marshall
Collateral (2004)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Vincent is a cool, calculating contract killer at the top of his game. Max is a cabbie with big dreams and little to show for it. Now, Max has to transport Vincent on his next job – one night, five stops, five hits and a getaway. And after this fateful night, neither man will ever be the same again. Tonight everything is changing…
Starring: Tom Cruise, Jamie Foxx
Director: Michael Mann
Law Abiding Citizen (2009)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Clyde Shelton is an upstanding family man whose wife and daughter are brutally murdered during a home invasion. When the killers are caught, Nick Rice, a hotshot young Philadelphia prosecutor, is assigned to the case. Over his objections, Nick is forced by his boss to offer one of the suspects a light sentence in exchange for testifying against his accomplice. Fast forward ten years. The man who got away with murder is found dead and Clyde Shelton coolly admits his guilt. Then he issues a warning to Nick: Either fix the flawed justice system that failed his family, or key players in the trial will die. Soon Shelton follows through on his threats, orchestrating from his jail cell a string of spectacularly diabolical assassinations that can be neither predicted nor prevented. Philadelphia is gripped with fear as Shelton's high-profile targets are slain one after another and the authorities are powerless to halt his reign of terror. Only Nick can stop the killing, and to do so he must outwit this brilliant sociopath in a harrowing contest of wills in which even the smallest misstep means death. With his own family now in Shelton's crosshairs, Nick finds himself in a desperate race against time facing a deadly adversary who seems always to be one step ahead.
Starring: Jamie Foxx, Gerard Butler, Colm Meaney, Colm Meaney, Bruce McGill
Director: F. Gary Gray
Ray (2004)
Biography | Drama | Music
Born in a poor town in Georgia, Ray Charles went blind at the age of seven shortly after witnessing his younger brother's accidental death. Inspired by a fiercely independent mother who insisted he make his own way in the world, Charles found his calling and his gift behind a piano keyboard. Touring across the Southern musical circuit, the soulful singer gained a reputation and then exploded with worldwide fame when he pioneered incorporating gospel, country, jazz and orchestral influences into his inimitable style. As he revolutionized the way people appreciated music, he simultaneously fought segregation in the very clubs that launched him and championed artists' rights within the corporate music business.
Starring: Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington, Regina King, Clifton Powell, Harry Lennix
Director: Taylor Hackford
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Horrible Bosses (2011)
Comedy | Crime
For Nick, Kurt and Dale, the only thing that would make the daily grind more tolerable would be to grind their intolerable bosses into dust. Quitting is not an option, so, with the benefit of a few-too-many drinks and some dubious advice from a hustling ex-con, the three friends devise a convoluted and seemingly foolproof plan to rid themselves of their respective employers…permanently.
Starring: Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis, Jennifer Aniston, Colin Farrell, Kevin Spacey, Jamie Foxx
Director: Seth Gordon
