Jamie Foxx To Lead Hostage Actioner ‘Deadlocked’ For Amazon MGM

EXCLUSIVE: Academy Award winner Jamie Foxx has found his next starring vehicle in Deadlocked, an action film that has landed at Amazon MGM Studios for worldwide distribution.

Directed by Nikhil Bhat, the Indian filmmaker behind the Hindi-language action-thriller Kill, Deadlocked follows a grieving former Marine serving jury duty who is forced back into action when the trial of the century turns into a deadly hostage situation as the defendant’s daughter seizes the courthouse to free her father.

Set to stream globally on Prime Video, the film stems from a script by Eric Scot Anderson (The Black Fox) and Matt Takejiro Bosack (CBS’s NCIS: Hawai’i), based on their original idea.

Producers include Brian Kavanaugh-Jones and Fred Berger for Range and Dave Caplan for C2 — companies that previously collaborated on Oz Perkins’ Longlegs and The Monkey — along with Foxx for Foxxhole Productions. AJ Bourscheid, Liz Destro, Paul Currie and Corinne Foxx will serve as executive producers.

Foxx’s recent credits include Back in Action, the 2025 action-comedy with Cameron Diaz, which scored Netflix’s biggest English-language movie debut since 2022 with 46.8 million views in its first weekend. Next up, he returns to Netflix with the Olympic boxing drama Fight for ’84, based on a true story. Foxx also currently exec produces and hosts the game show Beat Shazam for Fox. He is repped by CAA, LBI Entertainment and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole.

Bhat’s breakout feature Kill sold to Lionsgate in a mid-seven figure deal after premiering at TIFF and had a wide theatrical release in 2024. Subsequently directing the survival thriller Apurva for Disney+/Hotstar and Cine1 in India, he is repped by Untitled and WME.

Anderson is repped by Gersh, Kaplan/Perrone and Myman Greenspan Fox; Bosack by Gersh, Marathon Management and Myman Greenspan Fox.