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If Annie flops will it kill his career?


I personally have no hate towards Jamie Foxx, unlike many people here. I was pretty annoyed at how terribly miscast he was in Amazing Spider-Man 2, which kind of ruined the movie, but to his credit the script wasn't great and he wasn't the only miscast actor (Dane DeHaan as Harry Osbourne). But other than that one mark on his resume I can just look at his talent, racist SNL joke aside.

That said, it doesn't look like Annie will be any kind of success in the box office. Bad pre-release buzz, terrible reviews (21% on RT), Jamie Foxx hatred, plus judging from the trailer it doesn't look like an Annie movie at all (and no this isn't because the actress is black). It doesn't seem to focus primarily on the title but mainly on the rich guy that adopts her, so people might not be able to tell if this is really the Annie update they might expect.

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Foxx is a talented guy, probably very wealthy already, I don't see why anyone would worry about his career going forward. It probably also depends on how good his agent is. Many very marginally talented actors (I don't put Foxx in that category) have successful careers by having good agents. Foxx will not get hurt much or helped much by this minor flick made for entertainment.

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Kill his career? He has the music and the stand up to fall back on even if the movies offers die out, which they won't. So nope, his career will remain fine.

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Wasn't his career seemed to be over and then he was offered "Django Unchained" and a villain in a mega sommer blockbuster hero movie?

And rumour has it that he is going to play Mike Tyson in a Tyson biopic directed by Martin Scorsese...

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Wow a lot of Foxx haters here on this site.Let me state that the man has talent,actor,singer and Stand-up comedy.No he isn't a racist person.Oh and his career is going fine.You racists can crawl back in your holes now! :)

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He is a racist so pull your head out of your hole.

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Oh, we can only hope!!!

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Well, it flopped and his career is still going strong. So empirical evidence says the answer to your question would be NO.

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