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Did Cancellation Culture Kill Jamie Foxx's Comedy All-Star Weekend?

Is this the funniest comedy you've ever seen? Thanks to cancel culture.

In 2016,Jamie Fox, 54, and Jeremy Piven, 57, made a movie about his two friends who are into the NBA. Filming for 'All-Star Weekend' has begun. Indiana. Piven's character is Stephen Curry's biggest fan, while Fox's character worships LeBron his James. The pair score tickets to his NBA All-Star Weekend in Los Angeles, stumble upon a cast of wacky characters on their way west, and end up in a dangerous situation in Hoops with his idol.

The premise and cast, which includes Robert Downey Jr., Benicio del Toro, Gerard Butler, and Eva Longoria, is like a slam-dunk. And Fox, who made his directorial debut with this film, gave a number of impassioned interviews about the project.

"It's very important right now," Fox said. told his reporter in Hollywood in 2018. And one you've never seen before.

Jeremy Piven and Jamie Foxx, who play NBA obsessed friends in comedy "All Star Weekend." They filmed the comedy in 2016.
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The film was originally released during the2018 NBA All-Star Weekend, but post-production delays pushed it to the 2019 Whoop Extravaganza. It never made an appearance after that, and now the film appears to be shelved indefinitely.

Landed in hot water for jokes that touched the rails of the 2000s, suggesting that humor is too far out of bounds for today's tense comedy atmosphere.

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Fox said last week when asked about "All-Star Weekend," CinemaBlend .

"We're trying to break the delicate part where people come back to laughing again," he said, remaining vague about the film's status. In the movie that pressesRobert Downey Jr.plays a Mexican man and Fox plays a "racist white cop".

"If I read all the comments, I would never joke again," he said. The jokes are all over the place... Read the comments and you'll be able to squeeze it in," he said. Project "Brilliant".

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In the same interview, he defended Robert Downey Jr.'s portrayal of blackface in the 2008 Vietnam War satire Tropic Thunder, and Downey Jr.'s portrayal of a Mexican in All-Star Weekend. He said he suggested acting.

"I called Robert and said, 'I want you to play the Mexican role.'" He initially agreed, but the "Iron Man" star cooled down and asked the Oscar-winner for the role. I sent an email saying that I was nervous.

"I said, 'S–t, you played a black man and you killed that s–t.'

In 2008, Robert Downey Jr, played a character doing blackface in "Tropic Thunder" and in a 2017 interview, Jamie Foxx defended the controversial performance.
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In the role of "Tropic Thunder" Downey Jr. was nominated for Best Supporting Actor. Actors — and tons of blowback. But he has no regrets. In a 2020 interview with Joe Rogan, Downey Jr. acknowledged the sensitivity of the part, and Sean Penn "perhaps wisely" turned it down.

"And 90% of my black friends said 'Hey that was great' I can't disagree with [the remaining 10%] but I know where my heart is I think it's never an excuse to be out of place and out of hours but for me it blew up the [problem] ceiling.I think it's a job to have moral psychology.Sometimes you just have to go, ``yeah i was offended''. increase.

Co-star Piven seemed to suggest that the delay was Fox's perfectionist tendencies rather than potentially offensive material. When he appeared in "Get Some with Gary Owen," Piven was candid about the future of cinema.

In "All-Star Weekend" Jeremy Piven (left) and Jamie Foxx play two NBA obsessed friends. Eva Longoria also stars in the comedy while DJ Khaled (right) makes a cameo. Above, the cast with producer Deon Taylor, who is between Foxx and DJ Khaled.
In "All-Star Weekend," Jeremy Piven (left) and Jamie Foxx play two of his NBA-obsessed friends. Eva Longoria also appears in the comedy, with a cameo from DJ Khaled (right). Pictured above is the cast of producer Deon Taylor, who sits between Foxx and DJ Khaled.

"I did a movie with Jamie Foxx, Robert Downey Jr., Benicio Del Toro, Jerry Butler, and you never see it. Jamie doesn't want to let it go.

"And Foxx is probably one of the most talented people I've ever met, known or heard of." He's the funniest man in the room, he can sing. Nothing Foxx can't do.

"I had the best time of my life...Fox I'm really hard on myself, he's one of these guys, which means he's been holding onto this thing for five years because he wants it to be perfect.

perfect Religious or not,comedian Luenell also appeared in"All-Star Weekend," giving the film and Foxx a strong following in 2017.

Jamie Foxx and Jeremy Piven on the set of "All-Star Weekend."
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"It's more than a cameo. And it's really funny. Jamie doesn't junk," she told The St. Louis Dispatch.

Another potential wrinkle is timing. When it was originally slated for release, the film had a perfect real-life basketball peg: then-Cleveland Cavaliers star LeBron James and Golden State guard Stephen Curry played a role in the NBA Finals. fought for four years.

Releasing a finished film is a rarity in Hollywood, especially with such a big star cast. Warner Bros. made headlines earlier this month when thePost reported that the studio had dropped "Batgirl" after it was poorly received by audiences at test screenings. Similarly, Jerry Lewis claimed that the 1972 film The Day the Clown Cried would never see the light of day. The story of a clown imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp was also poorly received at screenings 

Eva Longoria is also in the star studded comedy.
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Deadline According to Deadline, the film raised money, but it is unclear if investors have been repaid by Foxx. is.

When asked about the mysterious delay, "All-Star Weekend" producer Avram "Butch" Kaplan replied "no comment," and a Fox rep declined to comment.

"It will be a period piece by the time it's released," Piven added.