Project Power Review: Jamie Foxx's Pill-Poppin' Action Flick Is No Fun

Dave McNary Film ReporterJamie Foxx and Teyonah Parris have joined John Boyega in the sci-fi mystery “They Cloned Tyrone” for Netflix and Macro.“Creed 2” writer Juel Taylor is attached to direct from a screenplay he wrote with Tony Rettenmaier. The film is described as a pulpy caper, in which an unlikely trio — portrayed by Boyega, Foxx and Parris — investigates a series of eerie events.

Amanda N'Duka pmc-editorial-managerEXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Jamie Foxx and Teyonah Parris, who stars in the forthcoming Candyman reboot, have come aboard They Cloned Tyrone. The pair join previously announced lead John Boyega in Macro and Netflix’s sci-fi feature film, which will mark the directorial debut of Creed 2 scribe Juel Taylor.Taylor penned the screenplay with Tony Rettenmaier.

Jamie Foxx‘s new show is heading to Netflix!

Netflix has ordered a comedy series starring Jamie Foxx titled “Dad Stop Embarrassing Me,” Variety has learned.The multi-camera series is inspired by Foxx’s relationship with his daughter, Corinne Foxx. The series will also star David Alan Grier, Kyla-Drew, Porscha Coleman, and Jonathan Kite.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVNetflix has given a formal series green light to Dad Stop Embarrassing Me, a father daughter comedy starring and executive produced by Oscar winner Jamie Foxx.

Also Read: Lily Collins Is an Adorable, Dorky American in First 'Emily in Paris' Teaser (Video)The series marks Foxx’s return to scripted TV, where he got his start with “The Jamie Foxx Show” at The WB, which he co-created with Evans. That series ran for five seasons.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterNetflix has ordered a comedy series starring Jamie Foxx titled “Dad Stop Embarrassing Me,” Variety has learned.The multi-camera series is inspired by Foxx’s relationship with his daughter, Corinne Foxx. The series will also star David Alan Grier, Kyla-Drew, Porscha Coleman, and Jonathan Kite.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaVery few fundraising events bring together the combined talents of Zooey Deschanel and former United States Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge, but that’s exactly what’s happening Sunday with United to Save the Vote.

Superpowered people can be extremely tough to put on film.It’s really easy for them to look “cartoony”, and unrealistic to viewers. Directors of ‘Project Power’ Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman know that, so they decided to use as many practical effects as possible, and I’m always for that.In the above interview, Jamie Foxx, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Dominique Fishback take us behind the scenes and into their super-powered world.

Project Power is Netflix's newest big, dumb, seemingly algorithmically-generated action movie. It's about a drug that gives people superpowers for five minutes at a time that's sweeping the streets of New Orleans and causing a lot of problems.

Jamie Foxx is no stranger to superhero films. While he has yet to appear in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the Oscar-winning actor has played a villain in the ‘Spider-Man’ franchise (though in a terrible movie) and is a superpowered badass in the new Netflix film, “Project Power.” And, if the stars align, he’s supposed to suit up and play the protagonist in the “Spawn” film.

Dominique Fishback was flying from her home in New York City to Los Angeles for a chemistry test with Jamie Foxx when she lost her wallet. Having appeared in and HBO's, the 29-year-old was up for perhaps her largest part yet — a leading role in Netflix's summer blockbuster — and wasn't going to let the mishap distract her from this opportunity.

In “Project Power,” a new supercharged, high-concept Netflix film and oblique run at the superhero genre; 1) disposable black and brown people in New Orleans are used as guinea pigs for a new experimental street drug that gives users unpredictable and fleeting superpowers for five minutes; 2) a sympathetic cop uses those same narcotics to “level the playing field” in a city riddled with crime and corrupt superiors who pass on amplified bad guys to secretive feds or men in black without

“Project Power” gives you a superpower — invisibility, bulletproof, elastic body, fiery skin. But there are two catches: The effect lasts for just 5 minutes.

kahuna, if you will — but rather a series of suppliers and wannabe kingpins with foreign accents.

Machine Gun Kelly instantly bonded with his Oscar-winning co-star on the set of their Netflix movie “Project Power,” which premieres Friday.“I’ll never forget walking on the set my first day, and I hear [my song] ‘Rap Devil’ blaring,” Machine Gun Kelly told The Post of the New Orleans shoot. “And I was looking for the source of the music, and it was Jamie Foxx playing it out of a loud boombox in his chair … What a cool way to start off a relationship between an O.G.