Jamie Foxx Strikes Multiyear First-Look Deal With Fox Entertainment Studios

Jamie Foxx and his production company, Foxxhole Productions, have struck a multiyear first-look deal with Fox Entertainment Studios.

As part of this partnership, Foxx will serve as an executive producer and content originator for scripted projects across comedy, drama and animation. When it comes to unscripted projects, Fox Entertainment Studios will also have exclusive rights to Foxx’s projects and producing services. Foxx and his team will start developing projects for the network immediately.

“We are ready and excited to kick-start this very promising new creative partnership with Jamie as we build on Fox’s longtime association with him — initiated by our CEO Rob Wade and network president Michael Thorn,” Fernando Szew, President and Head of FOX Entertainment Studios, said in a statement to press. “Jamie is a renowned multifaceted talent, so as a studio, we want to support his tremendous creativity with access to the full scope of our genres, formats and brands.”

Foxx has a long relationship with the network, dating back to his breakout role in the early ’90s on the sketch comedy series “In Living Color.”

Currently, the celebrity hosts Fox’s music game show “Beat Shazam” alongside his daughter Corinne Foxx. He also co-created and executive produces the police procedural “Alert: Missing Persons Unit.”

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