Jamie Foxx and Martin Lawrence made the above trailer, Skank Robbers, featuring their characters Sheneneh and Wanda, as a bit for the BET awards. Audience reaction was said to be huge, and I imagine a lot of black women got out of their seats and pumped their fists and screamed because that’s what black women do at stand up shows. They’re the best audience, easily. Anyway, they’re going to make the fake trailer into a movie (a la Machete) for Screen Gems, because Screen Gems is basically Fox on a smaller scale.
Foxx will write the script for “Sheneneh and Wanda”, and he and Martin will produce together through Foxx’s Foxxhole and Lawrence’s Runteldat production banners. In the comedy, Sheneneh and Wanda are modern day independent women trying to make it on their own, one bank robbery at a time. [Variety]
As a sketch it’s a decent concept — “I know the baby’s Chris Brown’s ’cause it keep tryin’ to kick me” — but can you really stretch a few one liners and funny makeup into an entire movie? Who do they think they are, the Wayans brothers? Also, when I was researching this, I started to type “Sheneneh and Wanda” into Google, and it suggested “Sheneneh and Wanda Sykes.” Which means either Google is racist, or someone’s already gotten a head start on writing the next BET Awards parody trailer.
The Valentine’s Day trailer starts with that new Black Eyed Peas song and quickly transitions to a scene in which Anne Hathaway’s character refers to the crazy sex she just had with TOPHER GRACE. “Last night was amazing. Did I hurt you? I used to be a gymnast.” Wow. You guys are really trying to make me vomit, aren’t you? How dare you degrade my girlfriend like that. Did you know Topher Grace used to be in an a capella group back in high school? The Pussies, I think they were called.
On September 17th, watch the famous peoples’ lives intersect in horribly saccharine, unrealistic ways! Oh hey look, another boy in elementary school who’s in love! They should take a picture of him holding a red rose bouquet, then make all of it black and white except for the roses, and then I’ll frame it and hang it on my wall when I get to community college. God I want to curb stomp this movie.
“Lava Tacos were a bad choice.”
Gerard Butler took a break from awful chick flicks (I mean really awful) to play against type as a revenge-seeking, car-bombing madman in Law Abiding Citizen. His wife and daughter are murdered in front of him, but the D.A. (Jamie Foxx) accepts a plea bargain that sets one of the killers free. So Butler’s character does what any of us would do if we found out Jamie Foxx is going to represent our case in a court of law: start killraging, Death Wish style.
Directed by Gary Gray (Friday, The Negotiator, The Italian Job) and written by Kurt Wimmer (The Thomas Crown Affair, Equilibrium, The Recruit).
(You might not have to keep chugging water all night if you didn’t wear a wool-lined overcoat indoors, genius)
Let’s get one thing clear, I’m reporting this because I admire the balls it takes to print it, not because it’s the least bit true. That said, Jamie Foxx is reportedly a “potential contender” for the lead role in Martin Scorsese’s Sinatra. You know, the biopic about ‘Old Blue Eyes.’
Foxx, who won a Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of Ray Charles in the 2004 film Ray, reportedly considered to be “perfect” for the role. If he is chosen for the part, it will be one of the most prominent examples of “colour-blind” casting in Hollywood history.
Also in the running are George Clooney, Leonardo di Caprio, Harry Connick Jnr and Justin Timberlake. [And anyone else whose name is a popular search term! -Ed.]
An unnamed source [Fibby McLiemouth, perhaps?] told the Daily Express: “Cool is colour-blind. Jamie would seem to be born to the role [...in opposite land.]. Magnificent singing voice, totally convincing acting ability, like Frank himself, born the wrong side of the tracks, rags to riches, makes it big against the odds, has his brushes with authority. The guy’s a gift.” [Telegraph]
Another similarity is that Jamie Foxx is often called ‘Old Brown Eye’ (because he’s an asshole, you see). But yeah, they should definitely make Sinatra a black guy. Italians are notoriously good sports about this kind of stuff.
On his Sirius radio show recently, Jamie Foxx talked about how awesomely-deep actor Terrence Howard had supposedly dissed Foxx’s music career. Surrounded by his yes-men, Foxx then proceeded to rip on Howard for four minutes, saying Howard’s album “went plastic,” and telling this story:
“I know one thing, he’s really about his music. ‘Cause we was at a club at the W one time when we were shooting Ray, and 50 was out. You know, “In the Club”? And Terrence had his guitar – and the song was playin, and he had his guitar out in the club. And the song was playing and he was trying to serenade… And I’m like, ‘Dude… We in the club!’”
Terrence is a really cool cat and I’m sure he’s above petty stuff like this. Besides, man, deep down inside, we’re all made up of the same molecules. The atoms in you - they jump around, and sometimes they’re part of me and sometimes they’re part of the trees, or the wind, or a go-cart. The particles dance, man. they dance to the bongo drums of the universe. They love freely. And that’s what you and I should do, because we’re all part of the same energy force, man. And if you came down to the poetry slam this Friday, I think you’d really dig it.
