Jamie Foxx is an Oscar-winning actor who has been performing in high-profile initiatives for years. Foxx can also be an completed musician and stand-up comedian. A number of years in the past, he added director to his resume, however his characteristic directorial debut was a type of films that was accomplished however by no means launched.
The film in query is a comedy referred to as “All-Star Weekend,” which initially started filming manner again in 2016. As reported by Deadline on the time, the stacked solid included the likes of Jeremy Piven (“Entourage”), Eva Longoria (“Determined Housewives”), Jessica Szohr (“Gossip Lady”), and rapper Snoop Dogg, amongst others. As for what it is about? The article included a synopsis on the time, which reads as follows:
The comedy facilities on two tow-truck drivers, Malik (Foxx), and Danny (Piven), who’re basketball fanatics and would take a bullet for his or her respective favourite gamers, LeBron James and Steph Curry. Danny’s girlfriend Abby (Szohr) is reconsidering the connection as she doesn’t wish to take a again seat to his obsession. The 2 drivers lastly get a break from their dead-end job once they win tickets to the NBA All-Star Sport.
“The jokes are all the best way on the market. I obtained everyone in it. All of us play totally different characters. Like, I play a white, racist cop,” Foxx mentioned in a 2017 interview on the “Joe Rogan Expertise” podcast, including that “We shot [it] for little-to-nothing,” suggesting it was a really low-budget affair. Foxx additionally defined how he coaxed Robert Downey Jr. into one other controversial function after “Tropic Thunder.”
“I referred to as Robert, I mentioned, ‘I would like you to play a Mexican.’ I mentioned, ‘S***, you performed the Black dude [in ‘Tropic Thunder’] and also you killed that s***.’ We obtained to have the ability to do characters.”
All-Star weekend has a number of controversial parts to cope with
“All-Star Weekend” hasn’t seen the sunshine of day as a result of it incorporates a number of controversial parts. Jamie Foxx enjoying a white cop and Robert Downey Jr. enjoying a Mexican man is a minefield of political incorrectness to navigate. Sure, RDJ performed a white man who was enjoying a Black man in a film in “Tropic Thunder,” which Ben Stiller makes no apologies for, however that may admittedly be a tricky promote as we speak. This, even if Downey was nominated for a Finest Supporting Actor Oscar for his work.
Foxx and RDJ did have a previous working relationship, having starred in “Due Date,” which Downey as soon as referred to as the “second biggest film” he is ever made. Downey does like going out on limbs for his roles. However he is now an Oscar-winning actor with so much to guard. The identical goes for many individuals on this film, together with Gerard Butler, Benicio Del Toro, and DJ Khaled. It is in all probability not price it for them to exit on a limb to assist get the film launched.
There’s additionally the matter of Jeremy Piven, who is among the lead solid members. Piven was accused of sexual misconduct by a number of girls in 2017 and 2018, per BuzzFeed. That is additionally one thing that’s tough to reconcile for anybody who would theoretically be concerned with distributing “All-Star Weekend.”
“It has been powerful, with the lay of the land with regards to comedy, man,” Foxx mentioned in an interview with CinemaBlend concerning the film’s postponed launch in 2022. “We’re making an attempt to interrupt open these delicate corners the place folks return to laughing once more. And that is why I feel, even on this movie, which is nice, is [that] the one factor we saved listening to within the screenings was how a lot folks have been laughing.”
Will All-Star weekend ever see the sunshine of day?
“All-Star Weekend” is a tricky promote and has been just about because it was accomplished. That is to not say that Jamie Foxx hasn’t tried to make one thing occur. In 2024, Foxx leaked a trailer for the film (through JoBlo), seemingly making an attempt to emulate the notorious leaked “Deadpool” take a look at footage that compelled Fox to make that film. The leak did not appear to maneuver the needle very a lot.
The film did not have a distributor forward of manufacturing. Securing distribution has clearly been tough. Whether or not or not the film will ever see the sunshine of day stays to be seen, however in a 2025 interview (through Advanced) whereas selling his Netflix film “Again in Motion,” which was Cameron Diaz’s first film in 11 years, Foxx revealed that he knocked out boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. within the film, whereas casting doubt that it’s going to ever be launched. As defined:
“I obtained an opportunity to knock out Floyd Mayweather. In my film that’ll in all probability by no means come out. It was referred to as ‘All-Star Weekend’. I am doing this factor after which I’ve to actually clock him and it is the one time you ever see Floyd Mayweather get hit.”
It will take a streaming service or small theatrical distributor who believes that the juice is well worth the squeeze to make this occur. Getting actors to put it up for sale is likely to be tough, and the inevitable backlash must be factored in. The ends will make it exhausting to justify the means. That is to not say it is unimaginable — stranger issues have occurred — however a decade faraway from the film’s preliminary manufacturing, it appears much less and fewer possible that it’s going to ever truly come out.
“All-Star Weekend” stays with no launch date, however keep tuned.
