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Exclusive: Oscar Winner Jamie Foxx to Make Directorial Debut with “All Star Weekend”

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Jamie Foxx can act, he can sing, and he can dance. There’s pretty much nothing he can’t do. So now?

I’m told that Foxx will direct his first feature from a script he’s been working for some time. “All Star Weekend” was a rumored project four years ago with Foxx as the lead actor. But now he’s decided to make it his directorial debut.

Four years ago, “All Star Weekend” was about two basketball superfans– one supported LeBron James and the other Kobe Bryant. Well, times have changed. In the updated version, Bryant is still on board but Steph Curry may be involved. Presumably the players will make appearances in the film.

Still undetermined is who will play Foxx’s frenemy fan. Offers are out. Plus, you can bet Jamie will have written the theme song for the film, and maybe even sing it. A soundtrack is planned for Epic Records.

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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