{"id":28577,"date":"2020-11-11T05:52:12","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T05:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dinnews.in\/?p=28577"},"modified":"2020-11-12T05:56:24","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T05:56:24","slug":"jamie-foxx-to-star-in-and-produce-amazons-the-burial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/?p=28577","title":{"rendered":"Jamie Foxx to star in and produce Amazon&#8217;s &#8216;The Burial&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oscar winner Jamie Foxx is set to feature in and produce &#8220;The Burial&#8221;, an Amazon Studios drama revolving around the real-life legal battle over a funeral home chain during the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>The series is based on Jonathan Harr&#8217;s 1999 article in the New Yorker magazine and will be adapted to screen by Pulitzer Prize winner Doug Wright, reported Deadline.<\/p>\n<p>After Ray Loewen, a bankrupt funeral home owner decides to sue Jeremiah O&#8217;Keefe, a rival businessman over a handshake deal gone wrong, the owner hires Willie Gary, a flamboyant attorney to handle the case.<\/p>\n<p>Maggie Betts, who won the Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Director at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival for &#8220;Novitiate&#8221;, is attached to direct the drama.<\/p>\n<p>Producers include are Bobby Shriver, Double Nickel Entertainment&#8217;s Adam Richman and Jenette Kahn along with Datari Turner.<\/p>\n<p>Foxx was last seen in the Netflix film &#8220;Project Power&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oscar winner Jamie Foxx is set to feature in and produce &#8220;The Burial&#8221;, an Amazon Studios drama revolving around the real-life legal battle over a funeral home chain during the 1990s. The series is based on Jonathan Harr&#8217;s 1999 article in the New Yorker magazine and will be adapted to screen by Pulitzer Prize winner Doug Wright, reported Deadline. After Ray Loewen, a bankrupt funeral home owner decides to sue Jeremiah O&#8217;Keefe, a rival businessman over a handshake deal gone wrong, the owner hires Willie Gary, a flamboyant attorney to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28580,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28577"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28581,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28577\/revisions\/28581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}