Hollywood Shuffle: Tyrese In Death Match; Jamie Foxx Goes Solo; Eddie Murphy Is Back! Bokeem Woodbine Takes On Thailand

It was all about the flicks last night in Hollywood. MTV Movie Awards rolled out the red carpet and we were excited to see some of the movies we’ve covered this year in the lineup of the chosen few.    Transformers kicked butt this year scoring “Best Movie” and Will Smith made his mark with “Best Male Performance” for I Am Legend. Other winners included Ellen Page for “Best Female Performance” in Juno and “Best Summer Movie So Far” went to Iron Man. In reinventing and evolving programming for the upcoming year, MTV is focusing on adding more spinoffs and genres to the mix of the coming year’s lineups.  As AllHipHop.com News announced last week, both 50 Cent and T.I. have new reality shows coming to the network. We also announced the new anti-gang film I.E., which will star Daz, Kurupt, Sticky Fingaz, Fredro Star and Bad Azz alongside Bokeem Woodbine. It’s good to see Hip-Hop and Hollywood coming together. This week’s Hollywood Shuffle highlights a few actors who whose careers are fledging forward with no signs of slowing down. Tyrese Going For The Gold  It may be a while before we hear anything on the music side from Tyrese Gibson, or even Black Ty. Why? The R&B singer/model/actor has vowed not to step back into the recording studio until his acting prowess has earned him Hollywood’s golden statue. In his words, “you can just call me Tyrese Oscar Gibson.”    As for his quest for the gold, Gibson has signed on to do Transformers 2 with original cast members Shia Labeouf, Meagan Fox and Josh Duhamel. He’s also confirmed to reunite with director John Singleton in the upcoming film Luke Cage, and nabbed the elusive B.A. Baracus role in The A-Team.    Gibson’s new film Death Race, a futuristic thriller by Paul WS Anderson hits theaters August 22. In It, Gibson takes on the role of prisoner Machine Gun Joe, originally played by Sylvester Stallone in the 1975 original cult film, Death Race 2000. The film’s story line traces prisoner Jensen Ames (John Statham of Crank), who’s forced into a brutal race car game orchestrated by the warden of a notorious prison (Joan Allen).   Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey, Jr. In The SoloistIt was announced in 2007 that Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey, Jr. were taking on roles in the film The Soloist, which tells the true tale of schizophrenic musical prodigy Nathaniel Ayers (Foxx) with a dream, who is discovered by an L.A. Times journalist (Downey Jr.). The studio has been leaking out official photos from the set since the beginning of ’08, and it looks very intense.  The Soloist is slated to be in theaters on November 21. With the box office success of these two stars in the past year, the film should be a shoe-in for big opening weekend numbers!   Eddie Murphy Back On The Beat  Eddie Murphy is back on the beat as the Detroit detective Axel Foley in Paramount’s upcoming fourth installment of the Beverly Hills Cop franchise. According to Variety, Murphy came to Paramount with plans of reviving the franchise that claimed his status as a box office powerhouse. Reportedly, the three “cop” films grossed $712.9 million worldwide since the release of the first one in1984. Powerhouse indeed!   Jerry Bruckheimer, producer of the original Beverly Hills Cop trilogy plans to sit this one out.  There’s no word yet on who will step in, but X-Men and Rush Hour director Brett Ratner is currently in negotiations with Paramount to do the film.   Bokeem Woodbine’s Caught On Tape   As we mentioned, Bokeem is starring alongside Sticky Fingaz and several other rappers in the upcoming film I.E. It turns out that Bokeem is working on yet another project with the former Onyx member – a movie that Sticky Fingaz wrote and directed called Caught On Tape.   The movie stars Vivica Fox, Kel Mitchell, Cedric The Entertainer, Keith Robinson, Malik Yoba, Angie Stone and Joe Torry, and revolves around the story of a young boy who catches his mother’s boyfriend plotting a crime. The truly interesting thing is that it’s listed on IMDB.com as a musical… No set release date as of yet though.   On another note, Bokeem is appearing in The Poker House, a film co-written by In Living Color alumni David Alan Grier. Grier also stars in the diverse cast, which includes Clarke Peters of The Wire fame. Woodbine also has a role in the August ’08 release The Fifth Commandment, which takes us to Thailand for some serious action. Check out the trailer: