Will Smith news

Sony calls on 'Interpol': Studio takes comedy pitch for Overbrook to produce

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:40:53 +0000

Sony is looking for the funny in "Interpol," snapping up a comedy pitch by the writing team of Jonathan Keasey and Brant Boivin and setting it up with Will Smith's Overbrook Entertainment.

Keasey and Boivin are scripting "Interpol," centered on a group of desk jockey Interpol agents turn over their research to seasoned law enforcement agents who do the actual arresting of criminals. The groups are forced to switch roles when a cache of information outs the field officers.

Sony-based Overbrook, operated by Smith, James Lassiter and Ken Stovitz, is producing. Overbrook is also producing sci-fier "1000 A.E." for Sony with M. Night Shyamalan directing and Smith and son Jaden starring. Studio's set a June 7, 2013 release date.

Keasey and Boivin have been working on another project at Overbrook. Scripting duo is repped by Paradigm managed by Kaplan Perrone.

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118049850

Turbo - Just The Two Of Us (with Will Smith) Korean Version

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:13:39 +0000

Just wanted to share this track with all the people who hadn't heard of it before.. Nice version :)

New willsmith.com coming soon?

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:59:07 +0000

Looks like the site's been updated with a new design..

http://www.willsmith.com/

Russell Crowe and Will Smith Save Akiva Goldsman�s Directing Debut, Winter�s Tale

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:05:07 +0000

Oscar-winning screenwriter Akiva Goldsman (A Beautiful Mind, I Am Legend) had been trying to get his directing debut off the ground for years: An adaptation of Mark Helprin's 1983 magical-realism novel Winter's Tale. Vulture has learned that things finally seem to be moving ahead on the stalled project at Warner Bros. (news of which broke exactly one year ago today) after, our spies say, Goldsman "called in every favor he had" and landed Russell Crowe and Will Smith, both stars of his previous work, in supporting roles.

Set in both nineteenth-century and present-day Manhattan, Winter's Tale is about a petty thief who falls in love with the dying girl who inhabits the house he’s just burgled and the gangster boss bent on killing him. (Oh, and did we mention there’s also a white, flying horse?) We hear Crowe is in negotiations to play Pearly Soames, the gangster boss, while Smith would appear in the film as a judge. The lead roles of the thief and the little girl still have not been cast.

The film had been languishing at Warner over financial issues — as you might expect with a book that features an angelic white horse that can actually jump five New York City blocks at one go — but we now hear that between Goldsman shaving some $20 million off the original budget and landing both Crowe and Smith, the film is likely to take flight (just like a flying horse!) and begin shooting as early as September or October of this year.

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2012/02/russell-crowe-will-smith-winters-tale.html

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Simon Cowell & Will Smith Team With Sony TV For International Music Reality Format

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:07:05 +0000

Simon Cowell’s SYCO ENTERTAINMENT partner with Jada Pinkett-Smith and Will Smith’s OVERBROOK ENTERTAINMENT on the development and launch of a live, new international TV format to find the world’s greatest DJs.

This new format has already been developed and will be co-produced by SYCO and OVERBROOK. The show will capture the incredible rise of the DJ phenomena. It has been in development for over a year and SYCO, OE and Sony Pictures Television will soon announce their broadcast partners in both the US and the UK.

Simon Cowell said: “We have been working on this show for over a year and we wanted to partner with the right people. As soon as I met Jada and Miguel from Overbrook, I knew they would be our ideal partners. DJ’s are the new rock stars, it feels like the right time to make this show.”

“This show will comb the world to find a new breed of talent,” said Jada Pinkett-Smith, ” I am happy to be creating it alongside Simon Cowell, the Sony team, and my partner Miguel Melendez, on behalf of the Overbrook family.

“We are thrilled to be working with Simon Cowell and our partners at Overbrook on what we know will be a tremendously successful global format,” said Andrea Wong, President of International Production for Sony Pictures Television.

http://www.deadline.com/2012/01/simon-cowell-will-smith-team-with-sony-tv-for-international-music-reality-format/

NEW FRESH PRINCE PIC WITH COMMON SENSE, ANTHONY HAMILTON, + RAEKWON

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 01:24:53 +0000

Anthony Hamilton (who's new album is AMAZING!!) posted a pic on his Facebook. It's him with FP, Common Sense, and Raekwon!

Check it...

https://www.facebook...6&type=1&ref=nf

p.s. Does FP normally not wear his wedding ring?

Will Smith @ 2012 Consumer Electronics Show

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:40:11 +0000

LAS VEGAS, NV - JANUARY 09: Actor Will Smith appears at a Sony Corp. press event at the Las Vegas Convention Center for the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show to promote his upcoming movie, 'Men in Black III' January 9, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada. CES, the world's largest annual consumer technology trade show, runs from January 10-13 and is expected to feature 2,700 exhibitors showing off their latest products and services to about 140,000 attendees.

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Will Smith to host Nickelodeon's Kids' Choice Awards

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:21:54 +0000

Will Smith, watch out for the slime.

The actor has just been announced as host of Nickelodeon's 25th Annual Kids' Choice Awards, airing live on March 31 at 8 p.m. (ET/tape delayed for West Coast) from the Galen Center at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

Smith recently finished filming Men in Black III, which will release on May 25. Up next, he will begin filming and producing One Thousand A.E., co-starring his son, Jaden Smith.

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/entertainment/post/2012/01/will-smith-nickelodeon-kids-choice-men-in-black-iii/1

Will Smith to be Featured on E!'s SCOUTED TO STARDOM, Premiering 1/9

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:22:13 +0000

Justin Bieber, Will Smith to be Featured on E!'s SCOUTED TO STARDOM, Premiering 1/9

With obsessed fans around the world, larger-than-life careers and booming bank accounts, it's hard to imagine that some of Hollywood's biggest names - such as Justin Bieber, Will Smith and Cameron Diaz - were at one point complete unknowns. In the all-new thirty-minute special "Scouted to Stardom," E! explains how these mega-stars happened to be at the right place at the right time and were thrust onto the rollercoaster of celebrity life. In exclusive sit-down interviews, buzz-worthy names including Audrina Patridge, Chrissy Teigen, Selita Ebanks, Jewel and Lucas Grabeel, share their stories of discovery. Find out how grabbing a drink at a bar, taking a trip to the smoothie shop and laying by the pool led to fame and fortune for these stars when "Scouted to Stardom" premieres January 9th at 9:30 PM ET/PT on E!

Tinseltown playboy Ashton Kutcher was not looking for celebrity and fortune when fame found him - find out how he went from obscurity to magazine covers and red carpets in E!'s new special. Additionally, E! cameras go back to where some famous faces were first scouted. "High School Musical's" Lucas Grabeel returns to the shopping center where he was spotted, Victoria Secret angel Selita Ebanks stops by a New Jersey theme park for the first time since she was scouted there as a teen and model Chrissy Teigen relives her experience of being scouted while working at a surf store.

However, as this special reveals, even for these stars who fell into celebrity - the ultimate Hollywood fairytale - the road to fame and success is not easy. "The Hills" sexy star Audrina Patridge, who was scouted while tanning poolside at her apartment complex, shares exclusively with E! the juicy details behind her mega-hit television series that launched her into superstardom. "Lauren wasn't that friendly" the stylish stunner reveals to E! about her forced friendship with Lauren Conrad when the show first began filming, "I was like, 'Wow, this girl does not like me. She's not nice really.' Maybe 'cause she doesn't know me." In addition to feeling like an outsider with her new onscreen friends, Audrina explains that fortune wasn't part of the package either, "The first season that we filmed, I wasn't really getting paid at all. I would call the producers and tell them, 'Listen, I don't know if I can do this anymore. Like I can't even pay my rent." While Audrina's road to fame was bumpy, four-time Grammy nominee Jewel was already at a low point in her life when she was discovered by a local radio DJ while singing in a coffee shop. Jewel was homeless and living out of her car unaware that she would eventually have a string of top forty hits.

"Scouted to Stardom" premieres January 9 at 9:30 PM ET/PT on E! And don't miss a new episode of E!'s "Scouted" immediately following at 10pm ET/PT with a special guest appearance by Josie Maran.

Select exclusive quotes from "Scouted to Stardom" include:

"I never set out to be famous. I was rewarded on a massive scale for being myself. That's a gift. That's a gift that people gave to me." - Jewel

"It's just crazy how laying out by the pool one random day and meeting a producer changed my whole life drastically." - Audrina Patridge

"I felt like such a nobody. I came from nothing. I came from nowhere." - Chrissy Teigen

"If I learned anything from dreaming as a child and then having those dreams come true, is that you must dream bigger and, I'm trying to do that everyday." - Lucas Grabeel

"My first time walking in on a Victoria Secret fashion show was, I was just kind of the girl in headlights." - Selita Ebanks

"I remember going to Denny's and washing my hair in the sink. Some woman was going into the bathroom and she said, 'She looked nice enough. I wonder how she got that way,' and I felt really bad about myself." - Jewel

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