Entertainer Jamie Foxx Tells Fans he is Recovering from an Illness

FILE -  Jamie Foxx smiles during an NBA basketball game between the Washington Wizards and Dallas Mavericks in Dallas, Saturday, Nov. 27, 2021. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)
FILE - Jamie Foxx smiles during an NBA basketball game between the Washington Wizards and Dallas Mavericks in Dallas, Saturday, Nov. 27, 2021. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)
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Entertainer Jamie Foxx Tells Fans he is Recovering from an Illness

FILE -  Jamie Foxx smiles during an NBA basketball game between the Washington Wizards and Dallas Mavericks in Dallas, Saturday, Nov. 27, 2021. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)
FILE - Jamie Foxx smiles during an NBA basketball game between the Washington Wizards and Dallas Mavericks in Dallas, Saturday, Nov. 27, 2021. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

Academy Award winning actor, singer and comedian Jamie Foxx said in an Instagram video that he is recovering from an undisclosed medical condition.
“I went to hell and back, and my road to recovery has some potholes as well, but I'm coming back,” Foxx, appearing thin and wearing a dark pullover shirt, said in the three minute, 15 second video. “I'm able to work.”
Foxx, 55, was hospitalized in April with what his daughter, Corinne Fox, described at the time as a “medical complication” and Foxx did not disclose the nature of his condition in his first public comments since being hospitalized.
“I just didn't want you to see me like that ... I didn't want you to see me with tubes running out of me and trying to figure out if I was going to make it through,” Foxx said, thanking his daughter, sister, God and medical professionals for saving his life.
“I went through something that I thought I would never, ever go through,” Foxx said.
“Every once in a while I just burst into tears ... because it's been tough, man, I was sick ... but now I've got my legs under me so you're going to see me,” Foxx said.
Castmates of Foxx's recent “They Cloned Tyrone,” David Alan Grier, Teyonah Parris and Tamberla Perry told The Associated Press at the Los Angeles premiere of the movie on June 28 that they miss the star.



Stars Strive to Dispel Tariff Gloom at Cannes Film Festival 

Actor Tom Cruise attends a British Film Institute (BFI) event to receive BFI Fellowship, at the BFI Chair's Dinner, at the Rosewood Hotel, in London, Britain, May 12, 2025. (Reuters)
Actor Tom Cruise attends a British Film Institute (BFI) event to receive BFI Fellowship, at the BFI Chair's Dinner, at the Rosewood Hotel, in London, Britain, May 12, 2025. (Reuters)
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Stars Strive to Dispel Tariff Gloom at Cannes Film Festival 

Actor Tom Cruise attends a British Film Institute (BFI) event to receive BFI Fellowship, at the BFI Chair's Dinner, at the Rosewood Hotel, in London, Britain, May 12, 2025. (Reuters)
Actor Tom Cruise attends a British Film Institute (BFI) event to receive BFI Fellowship, at the BFI Chair's Dinner, at the Rosewood Hotel, in London, Britain, May 12, 2025. (Reuters)

Movie legends from Tom Cruise to Denzel Washington will gather in Cannes this week for the 78th incarnation of its film festival, as the industry tries to shake off worries over dwindling audiences and threatened US tariffs.

Cruise will be launching what is touted as the last in his "Mission: Impossible" franchise and scores of others will be hoping to follow the path that last year's top prize winner "Anora" took to Oscar glory.

Alongside them, Robert De Niro will be getting a lifetime achievement award, and star actors Scarlett Johansson, Kristen Stewart and Harris Dickinson will all be trying their hands as directors with films competing in the smaller categories.

Just a week ago, US President Donald Trump shook the global film industry by announcing a 100% tariff on movies produced outside the country - a statement that left many studio executives alarmed and baffled about when such levies might be applied or how they might come into force.

In Cannes, those worries have dominated backroom conversations, but made no dent on the frontline announcements.

"Nobody wants to be talking about tariffs and Trump here," said Scott Roxborough, European bureau chief for The Hollywood Reporter. "In the industry, everybody's going to be talking about it."

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The festival kicks off on Tuesday evening. The decisions of its jury - chaired by France's Juliette Binoche with "Monster's Ball" star Halle Berry with her on the panel - will be closely watched.

"Anora", the winner of Cannes' top prize the Palme d'Or in 2024, went on to take home five Oscars. Cannes' top film in 2023, "Anatomy of a Fall", later won one Academy Award. Its pick in 2019, "Parasite", memorably became the first non-English-language film to win the best picture Oscar.

This year, US director Wes Anderson will be launching his new movie "The Phoenician Scheme," which will be competing against independent films including the likes of Joachim Trier's "Sentimental Value" and Julia Ducournau's "Alpha".

Films screening outside the competition include the new "Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning", as well as Spike Lee's "Highest 2 Lowest", starring Denzel Washington.

Hollywood's travails might not be center stage, but world politics has made it into the program.

Three films about the war in Ukraine will be shown as part of a "Ukraine Day" event.

All screenings are sold out for "Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk", which follows 25-year-old Palestinian photojournalist Fatma Hassona, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza in April, one day after it was announced that the documentary had been chosen for the festival's ACID program.