Did cancel culture kill Jamie Foxx’s comedy ‘All-Star Weekend’?
nypost.comJamie Foxx, 54, and Jeremy Piven, 57, started filming “All-Star Weekend,” a movie about two NBA-obsessed friends in Indiana.
Piven’s character is Steph Curry’s biggest fan, while Foxx’s worships LeBron James. The pair win tickets to the NBA All-Star Weekend in Los Angeles and on their way out west, they run into a cast of wacky characters and find themselves in a dangerous situation with their hoop idols.
The premise and the cast, which includes Robert Downey Jr., Benicio del Toro, Gerard Butler and Eva Longoria, seem like a slam dunk.
And Foxx, who was making his directorial debut with the movie, gave many glowing interviews about the project.“It’s so relevant right now,” Foxx told the Hollywood Reporter in 2018. “Comedy, right now, needs a movie like ‘All-Star Weekend’ and something you haven’t seen before.”The movie was originally slated to be released during the 2018 NBA All-Star Weekend, but was pushed to the 2019 hoops extravaganza because of post-production delays.
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