JAMIE FOXX HUNTS VAMPIRES DODGES A BULLET
Foxx is Bud Jablonski, a hardworking dad and pool cleaner by day but a vampire hunter by night, in the horror-comedy
Day Shift
(Aug. 12 on Netflix), which also stars Snoop Dogg and Dave Franco. Set in a world where vampires are hunted for their valuable fangs, Bud accidentally kills the daughter of a high-ranking bloodsucker, who vows revenge. “It’s fun and the stunts that you see are amazing,” says Foxx, 54, who won an Oscar for playing Ray Charles in Ray. “This movie has ’popcorn’ moments.”
Pitt, 58, takes a thrilling ride in Bullet Train (currently in theaters) as an unlucky assassin nicknamed Ladybug, who’s just trying to complete his latest job. But fate puts him on a collision course with lethal adversaries from around the globe on the world’s fastest train—and now he’s got to figure out how to get off, alive. “This is a Brad performance that we’ve never seen him do before,” says producer Kelly McCormick. “It’s light, it’s fun, it’s crazy and he’s having a ball.”