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This seems more like Will Smith territory to me - I immediately think of something along the lines of I, Robot or I Am Legend. Even so, I welcome the chance to see Pitt in a sci-fi action movie, and this storyline sounds tailor-made for the blockbuster treatment.

By Bridget Bland Following in the same vein as Russell Simmons' Tony Award winning turn with 'Def Jam on Broadway,' and Sean 'Diddy' Combs' big splash in Kenny Leon's revival of 'A Raisin in the Sun,' ShaFelawn 'Jay-Z' Carter, Will Smith and his wife/actress Jada Pinkett-Smith are taking on the Great Whi...

By Jenni Miller I just don't get the appeal of remaking foreign films for US audiences, especially now that services like Netflix and GreenCine can bring whatever obscure film you just read about on your friend's Twitter/Facebook/Tumblr to your home in a matter of days. Although it could have been fun to...

By Matt Holmes The Oldboy remake is done. Latino Review report from "a trusted source" that Mandate (Korean studio behind the original film) and Dreamworks were unable to see eye-to-eye during negotiations over the manga's rights and it left Dreamworks into walking out on the project, along with Stev...

By Matt Holmes The Oldboy remake is done. Latino Review report from "a trusted source" that Mandate (Korean studio behind the original film) and Dreamworks were unable to see eye-to-eye during negotiations over the manga's rights and it left Dreamworks into walking out on the project, along with Stev...

In a joint venture, Shady Talez will be produced by John Davis who created the 2004 film I, Robot starring Will Smith, and writer and producer Dallas Jackson via D.J. Classicz/Davis Entertainment label. Also enlisting the help of writer and producer of the sci-fi vampire movie trilogy Unde...

By tomoneil Will Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin be winning Oscars hosts? Why does Patrick Goldstein continue to bash Oscar bloggers? Flashback: Oscars hosts Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin on 'SNL' Missing Lynx' key to expanding animated feature Oscar race

By tomoneil Now that Hugh Jackman has officially passed on repeating as Oscarcast host, who should the new producing team of Bill Mechanic and Adam Shankman recruit for the toughest job in Hollywood?  Don't see your pick for Oscar emcee among the names below? Then post it in the comments section and p...

By Monika Bartyzel With a script and director slotted into place, naturally, the next question revolves around Will Smith. As of now, the actor has no solid plans to return, but buzz says he is interested. As for Tommy Lee Jones -- his involvement is "uncertain." Smith has nothing pressing right now, so he's wid...

By Matt Holmes God knows who's interested in sitting through a Men in Black 3 but Sony keep throwing money at the project so they obviously think someone must be. The Hollywood Reporter say that Etan Cohen (Tropic Thunder) has been hired to scribe the next outing of Agents Jay and Kay and that series direct...

By The Playlist(theplaylist@gmail.com) Why He’s a Contender: Who would’ve thought the goofy, sarcastic kid from “The Fresh Prince of Bel Air” TV show would be receiving Oscar nominations not long after? Not us, that’s for sure. Naturally, Will Smith isn’t the best thespian in the biz and sure he still makes the majority of his mon...

Simon Cowell had an unforgettable party for his 50th Pete Wentz: Death to the emo haircut! Kate Voegele will hit the road Cheryl Tweedy is electrifying in Elle Will Smith is a high school football fan Find out where Brad Pitt goes to get away from it all A suspect in the Erin Andrews peephole c...

By Elisabeth Rappe The superheroic team of Peter Berg, Will Smith, and Columbia have been bantering about a Hancock sequel since last July, so it's no surprise that it's gone and become official. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Columbia has hired Adam Fierro and Glen Mazzara to bring back the boozy imm...

The 11-year-old son of Hollywood stars Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith has been training under Chan's stunt co-ordinator for his role in the China Film Group-Columbia Pictures remake of the 1984 hit "The Karate Kid," which kicked off filming in Beijing on July 11.

By Richard Lawson Quiet indie actor Will Smith will reteam with his I Am Legend director Francis Lawrence for a movie about this: "a father and daughter living on opposite sides of the ocean whose love is so strong that it causes Manhattan to split off and float across the Atlantic." Which, I'm sorry, sounds s...

By Eugene Novikov For all that I Am Legend imploded with that awful doctored ending, it was actually really interesting for a while -- mostly because both Will Smith and director Francis Lawrence were willing to go surprisingly far in suggesting that isolation had actually driven Smith's Robert Neville...

Actress Janet Hubert is probably best known as Aunt Vivian on the Will Smith sitcom, 'Fresh Prince of Bel Air.' Hubert also vividly details her termination from 'Fresh Prince of Bel Air,' something she claims to have never anticipated.

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By Alex Billington The character Nemo in this film is more about obsession, he is obsessed and people tend to forget that when you become so obsessed you end up being the villain," McG said. "I'm trying to get Will Smith to do it, been trying to get a hold of him. I've been wanting to work with him for a long time alrea...

By noreply@blogger.com (Steven Barnes) Friend asked me what I thought about Will Smith being offered the Keanu Reeves role in "The Matrix". He turned it down for "Wild Wild West." Wow. Talk about bad choices. But he asked how I thought "Matrix" might have been different. You know, I have to answer that question differently now than I wo...

By feedback@filmspotting.net (Filmspotting) Dec. 19: We interrupt your regular podcasting program to bring you Filmspotting's 'End of the Year Holiday and Winter Extravaganza' sponsored by Braniff Airlines and featuring special guests Ruth Buzzi, Paul Lynde, and reviews of the latest Holiday offerings -- including a breakdown...

Released by Fox Searchlight, the film stars Rourke as a former wrestling champion struggling for one last taste of past glory. The comeback theme of "The Wrestler" parallels Rourke's real life, with the actor in the running for an Academy Award nomination after his bad boy behavior virtu...

By Maria The film's Italian director does achieve in his second American outing a pleasing blend of Hollywood professional sheen and European sensitivity to character details and nuances. It will be interesting to see how he maintains that balance if he chooses to move through the Hollywood sys...

By STV Also opening: The acclaimed, brutal Italian mob-novel adaptation Gomorrah; Bruce Campbell's misbegotten paean to himself, My Name is Bruce; John Leguizamo's working-class drama Where God Left His Shoes; the Southern-fried ensemble piece (led by William Hurt) The Yellow Handkerc...

By Jeremy Kay Will Smith isn't nearly as skilful an actor as Carrey but he has been marginally more successful at the US box office (he accomplised this over a shorter period of time, too) and leaves Carrey in the dust overseas, which is no mean feat. Since the former Fresh Prince shot to fame 12 years ago in...

By Ronald Fulcher EXCERPT FROM SFGATE.COM -- Will Smith is interested in emotional pain now, in the dark side of American life, in people who are sad or sick or just plain unlucky, and he's found a partner in the Italian director Gabriele Muccino. The team collaborated on "Pursuit of Happyness," a 2006 film th...

Smith waded gently into dramatic waters in 1993, in a well-received role as a con artist in Six Degrees of Separation, while Carrey leveraged his star power to make his dramatic debut, 1998’s The Truman Show, a hit. The actors have since ping-ponged between comedy and drama movies with var...

By The Playlist(theplaylist@gmail.com) Like us, the Village Voice greatly respected Muccino's "The Pursuit of Happyness," but they write: "Writing at the time, I praised the film for Smith's superb performance and for its willingness to honestly address the social and economic realities of America's underclass. Watching S...

By STV This diabetes-inducing reunion with director Gabriele Muccino (The Pursuit of Happyness) also didn't score any nods from the easily persuaded Broadcast Film Critics Association, not to mention any awards from the L.A. or New York film critics (there were lots of snickers when somebody...

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By Jason Solomons, Xan Brooks, The Observer Then, actor Eddie Marsan, fresh from winning a British independent film award for his role as the driving instructor from hell in Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky, talks about going from Leigh's set to starring with Will Smith in Hancock.

By eric Pick of the week:  Hancock (6/10):  For lack of anything better, I suppose.  A decent superhero movie, and Will Smith is always likeable, even as a mean-spirited drunk Superman. Boston Legal:  Season Three:  William Shatner laughs at himself.  James Spader continues to creep me out.  And C...

By gdaysunshine November 11th, 2008 Jaden Smith is the new Ralph Machio Will Smith and Jada Pinkett’s son Jaden Smith is set to star in the remake of the movie The Karate Kid. According to Contact Music, 10-year-old Jaden landed the role after already practicing martial arts. Little Jaden made his film debu...

By tomoneil In 2001, Billy Bob Thornton gave acclaimed performances in "Monster's Ball," "The Man Who Wasn't There" and "Bandits." He was named best actor for all three by the National Board of Review, and earned Golden Globe nominations in the dramatic category for "Man" and in the comedy category f...

By Thomas and Derrick Outta Brooklyn The Guys Outta Brooklyn spend some time waiting for the end of the world by examining the classic Richard Matheson novella I Am Legend and its three adaptations. Each of these trio of films are very different in tone and approach, and Tom and Derrick will compare and contrast them all. From th...

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By cdouglas@dvdverdict.com (Clark Douglas) This week, join Clark as he explores the diversity of music composed for the films of Will Smith; from Six Degrees of Separation through Hancock, which he also reviews. Enjoy! Email your comments, questions, or suggestions to Clark.

By Kevin Powers Despite Hancock sitting solidly in last place on the chart of superhero movies out this summer, the film will still do well. Smith has an installed base that will venture out to see Hancock, however sub-par it might be. Fans of Smith will enjoy the special effects and comedic quips, while gen...

By Casey Thank you for listening to us. This is show number 35 and we’re going to run down FHM’s 100 sexiest women for 2008 and make note of those that have an impact on Science Fiction and Fantasy. Also, in the news, Will Smith’s superhero movie Hancock, Gillermo Del Toro has news on two fronts, and [...]

By Mark Though Hitler-hating box office juggernaut Will Smith has long been cagey about whether the "introduction" to Scientology he says he received from Tom Cruise was merely a delicious, innocuous Sunday brunch at the Celebrity Centre, or a more in-depth primer including a grueling, thre...

By Andrea As Robert Neville, the last man living in New York City after a deadly virus outbreak, Will Smith looks ruggedly stylish as he patrols the streets for dangers in I am Legend. The centerpiece of his wardrobe is the Trail Master Belstaff leather jacket, made by the British-Italian designers...

By Matt Holmes It’s the classic ’show and don’t tell’ stuff and it’s the kind of thing you really appreciate as an audience. I AM LEGEND is void of the scenes in INDEPENDENCE DAY when the aliens tell us their past history and what their motives are… much of the film is left up to our imagination and it’s so much...

That’s the case with Will Smith, protean star of Hollywood and owner of the new December opening weekend box office record thanks to I Am Legend. Everyone who worked with him on his latest film marveled at his perfect family life, open celebrity personality and superhuman superstar karma....

By Peter Martin Filed under: Action, Drama, Foreign Language, Independent, Box Office, Cinematical IndieEven as Will Smith battles for his life in I Am Legend, the film is set to fight it out with Hong Kong action epic The Warlords for box office supremacy in Asia this weekend. Who will win? Will and his do...

49.9.9 'cause we're waiting for Cindy to celebrate number 50 with us.  It's only fitting, however, it's also kind of rude.  She dumped a Will Smith, black action hero flick for the Nutcracker Ballet.  Ok, so it was a Xmas gift, but that's still not right.  We have a podcast to do, and an audience to s...

By James Rocchi When I started in movies, I said, 'I want to be the biggest movie star in the world.' The biggest movie stars make the biggest movies, so (my producing partner James Lassiter and I) looked at the top 10 movies of all time. At that point, they were all special-effects movies. So Independence Day -...

By Matt Holmes I wasn’t all that keen on Francis Lawrence getting the gig to direct this classic story after failing to deliver a good HELLBLAZER movie (CONSTANTINE, for those non comic book geeks) but the addition of Will Smith gave me hope for another good sci-fi yarn in the tone of the fun I, ROBOT and IN...

By gdaysunshine Monday, December 3, 2007 Will Smith Says Scientology is Not For Him photo courtesy of PR Photos/www.prphotos.com Will Smith may have studied Scientology with his BFF Tom Cruise, he says Scientology is not for him. He insists his faith rests in his own spirituality. He says: "I don't necessar...

By Erik Davis Wanna see a bunch of pics featuring Will Smith hanging by a few wires? PopSugar now has a mini gallery of behind-the-scenes photos from the set of Smith's new film John Hancock (or is it just Hancock?). No, it's not a biopic on the first man to sign the Declaration of Independence -- instead, i...

By Stuart Heritage Not so fast, buster. Although David Beckham is set to grimace through an ankle injury for the briefest of moments tomorrow as LA Galaxy take on Chelsea, he won't be playing any kind of serious football until after Tom Cruise and Will Smith have thrown a gigantic David Beckham party at the Los...

Robert Neville (Will Smith) is a brilliant scientist, but even he could not contain the terrible virus that was unstoppable, incurable and manmade. Somehow immune, Neville is now the last human survivor in what is left of New York City and maybe the world. But he is not alone. He is surrounded...