Will Smith

By Matt Holmes The day that Tom Hanks declared he didn't even want to read the script for a re-do of Harvey, was the day that Spielberg's odd nostalgia dream was mortally wounded. Spielberg, of course had some back-up choices. Will Smith for a little while, then he latched onto the idea of Robert Downey Jr an...

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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...

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By Matt Holmes It’s a hard story to stomach but when it’s from Production Weekly, an industry source, we have to give at least some legitmacy to it.  According to the site… Will Smith, his wife Jada Pinkett Smith and their three kids Willow, Trey and Jaden will make-up the cast of THE ROBINSONS.  The movie wo...

By Matt Holmes Originally reported as a “reliable rumor” back in September 2007 and now confirmed today by Variety, Will Smith’s 10 year old son Jaden Smith will lead a new reboot of the KARATE KID franchise at Columbia Pictures. A guy named Chris Murphy (there’s lots of Chris Murphy’s on IMDB… none of the...

By James Clayton Where would the world be without Will Smith? Having saved the globe from the scum of the universe so many times before on the big-screen (from renegade androids in I, Robot to alien invaders in both Men in Black and Independence Day), the sublime Mr. Smith stands as humanity???s last hope in...

By Matt Holmes Will Smith Kunstler (pictured above in his later days) was an American civil rights activist and a self proclaimed ‘radical lawyer’ who defended the CHICAGO 7 against charges of conspiring to incite riots in Chicago during the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

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...

By Matt Holmes source - imdb, coming soon Richard Matheson’s classic story I AM LEGEND was seen as a huge big money maker for studio execs over at Warner Brothers, who crafted the tale into the mould of a I, ROBOT or INDEPENDENCE DAY action vehicle for Will Smith. And they were right to do so. Studio estimates...

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...