Queen Latifah & Jamie Foxx Executive Producing ‘Mahalia!’ About ‘Queen Of Gospel’; Jill Scott To Star

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.

"This is our first thing back from the pandemic," says actor Matt Bomer (star of Netflix'supcoming The Boys in the Band) of his new gender-neutral eyewear capsule collection with actress Ashley Benson (Pretty Little Liars). Their collaboration is the latest from Benson’s Privé Revaux brand, which also has backers including Jamie Foxx and Hailee Steinfeld.

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.

Super Mario Bros. at some point.

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.

Jill Scott is ready to play the queen. The Grammy-winning singer and sometimes actress has signed on to topline Mahalia! playing the queen of gospel Mahalia Jackson in a new biopic that counts collaborators in Jamie Foxx and Queen Latifah, two stars who have navigated the moves from music and movies to critically acclaimed biopics with successful results.

Jill Scott is set to play Mahalia Jackson in the upcoming biopic Mahalia!, based on the novel Mahalia Jackson written by Darlene Donloe.As reported by Deadline, Mahalia! will also be produced by Queen Latifah, Jamie Foxx, Shakim Compere and Holly Carter.

Eli Countryman Queen Latifah and Jamie Foxx have teamed up to executive produce a new film about the life of civil rights activist and gospel singer Mahalia Jackson, starring Jill Scott.Shakim Compere and Holly Carter will also executive produce “Mahalia!.”“This is such an incredibly important story to tell and we’re thrilled to work with Jamie on the project,” Latifah said in a statement.

Jamie Foxx is remembering his late friend Kobe Bryant. During Wednesday's episode of , the 52-year-old actor joked about the «incredible cantankerous relationship» he shared with Bryant, who died earlier this year in a helicopter crash.«We would always go after each other,» Foxx recalled. «I remember he came to see my show, when I was doing a show in Los Angeles, and my whole group was Lakers fans.

Jamie Foxx can turn anything into good music with the help of auto-tune.