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yeah might come over for a holiday at least.. I could do the manchester/london double

Hey Nicole I'll post it right now. Good idea!

Do we know the date for scala? Might be over for this if I can figure out what I'm doing with my life...

I'm a be honest. I hated that opening track. I thought this is awful! Jeff produced this??? Then the actual track started!! That beat is amazing! Imagine Will rhyming over that beat! Man Jeff's beats have been great lately..this, the mac miller track & the my faves vol 1..all great tracks & great sampling

shoots in August? damn that's fast

Well done Ale!! LOVE!

Yeah we gotta wait and see what the international box office is first after what happened with MIB3.. still it looks like it will only make about $70 million in the US.

But #3 After Earth earned only a ‘B’ CinemaScore which won’t help or hurt word of mouth. It opened to $9.8M Friday (including $1M from 9 PM Thursday late shows and Friday midnights) for a $27.2M weekend. That’s way less than the high $30sM to low $40sM which Sony was predicting and which tracking showed was possible right into Friday. Rival studios chortled it’s “2.5 times worse than Jaden Smith’s Karate Kid reboot and half of Oblivion‘s opening” with Tom Cruise. Not hard to understand why because reviews for the sci-fi newcomer were just plain awful: 13% positive on Rotten Tomatoes. To be fair, Sony Pictures rarely has a big underperformer like this. And rightly or wrongly depending on how much you care about Jaden Smith and/or nepotism in Hollywood, the studio positioned the movie as a broad family film, building on Jaden’s stardom from the worldwide hit The Karate Kid and reaching out to young teens and families. Will Smith’s residual mega-wattage was still strong enough to open the summer tentpole comfortably above $20M. But even that and Sony’s marketing prowess couldn’t overcome this Shyamalan meltdown, yet another in his string of box office stinkers which have made audiences and critics alike completely soured on him. (The director lost me forever after the execrable The Happening…) I’m told that Will really wanted M Night to direct – even though this subject matter decidedly wasn’t in Shyamalan’s wheelhouse - and they together developed the script for a “not terribly expensive” movie. But a budget of at least $130M is hardly insignificant. Still, given the fact that Smith has made billions for Sony Pictures, the studio felt it just couldn’t say no to its most successful movie partner. Now Smith and Sony must weather this very public failure. I’m told the studio worked “really hard” to fix this crapfest in post-production and that even an arrogant know-it-all like Shyamalan was aware the pic didn’t work but couldn’t fix it on his own. ”You keep hoping people are going to be as good as their best work,” one insider told me about this all-too-familiar filmdom situation. “Sometimes some collaborations bring forth amazing results. And some are not meant to be.” Without a solid opening in North America and no chance for a strong summer multiple, pic will have to depend on overseas grosses. Sony launched it internationally day and date in 3 locations this weekend, and Korea opened very strong, but the overseas rollout really begins next week and the week after.

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From www.deadline.com Sources are telling me that based on matinee trends Sony Pictures’ After Earth (3,401 theaters) starring Will Smith and his son and directed by the now unwatchable M Night Shyamalan is looking to open around low- to mid-$20sM for this weekend. That’s much less than the high $30sM to low $40sM which Sony was predicting. Rival studios tell me it’s “2.5 times worse that Jaden Smith’s Karate Kid reboot and half of Oblivion‘s opening”. Reviews for the newcomer were just plain awful: 13% positive on Rotten Tomatoes. Big online ticketseller Fandango spotted the pic’s underperformance first when After Earth ticket sales began lagging Lionsgate/Summit Entertainment’s Now You See Me (2,925 theaters) on Thursday for shows beginning at 9 PM. Right now my sources see the magic-themed heist thriller debuting in the low $20sM which is slightly better than the $20M which the studio was predicting. It began selling tickets for shows beginning at 7 PM Thursday. Still holding fierce at #1 is Universal’s Fast & Furious 6 (3,686 theaters) which should easily dominate the field again with $35M-$40M this weekend (though my sources think it could do even better than that). Continuing to fill that drought in family fare at the domestic box office, Twentieth Century Fox/Blue Sky Studios’ Epic (3,894 theaters, the weekend’s biggest count) should do high teens this weekend. But the toon’s real story will be international where it releases wide today. There’s unsettling domestic news for Warner Bros/Legendary Pictures’ The Hangover Part III (3,565 theaters) which on only its second weekend already is lagging Paramount’s Star Trek Into Darkness (3,585 theaters) which has been in release a week longer. The weekend numbers are looking like $12M-$13M vs $15M-$16M. However, H3 begins its overseas wide rollout today and should do huge international grosses. More later…

Well the vinyl destination Instagram posted a photo of the soundcheck so surely they must be filming it!

Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince are going to perform for the troops in Fort Hood, Texas at a special After Earth screening. Nice!

They were predicting a disappointing $35-$40 million weekend but early word is it might not even make $20 million... Remember Hancock made lose to $60, I Am Legend was over $70... For a supposed summer blockbuster that's very low.

Review: 'After Earth' crashes on take-off The sci-fi action-adventure starring Will Smith and son Jaden is a disaster. Blame the script, blame the poor effects, but most of all, blame director M. Night Shyamalan. By Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times Film Critic May 30, 2013, 5:45 p.m. I have so many questions after seeing "After Earth," the new sci-fi action-adventure starring Will Smith and his 14-year-old son, Jaden. First, just how much blinding power is in that famous smile of his? On the day Will Smith floated the idea — "sci-fi flick, father-son friction, me and the kid will star" — did its sheer warmth and radiance make everyone in the room believe that anything, including "After Earth" as an actual, viable movie, was possible? Someone wrote the checks. And then someone hired a director. Which leads to another question: Have alien body snatchers made off with M. Night Shyamalan? There is no small irony that this sci-fi action adventure is about surviving a serious crash. The scorched earth left behind by "After Earth" is sure to leave a scar on everyone involved. Although the Smith franchise will no doubt recover, the toxic ozone hanging over Shyamalan won't lift any time soon. "After Earth" has a hint of the skin-crawling fright of Shyamalan films past, the ethereal palette he favors, echoes of the tender human touches we saw in his Oscar-nominated "The Sixth Sense." Enough to feel that Shyamalan is still in there, fighting since "Signs" in 2002 to regain control. But not enough to save "After Earth." And not enough to explain why the director's films keep getting worse. It must be body snatchers, ones from a planet that has no clue how to make a movie. Has Smith forgotten that his strength is his warmth, his humanity? The effortless charm of his turns in "Men in Black," "Six Degrees of Separation" and of course "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air," which ruled the '90s, does not even show up for a cameo in "After Earth." That failure to communicate cannot be chalked up to the movie's more serious tone. The actor was equally charismatic in the far more serious "The Pursuit of Happyness." Smith earned that Oscar nod for his portrayal of the homeless Wall Street-hopeful/single dad, another father-son story that featured Jaden. The bones of Smith's story are not the problem. The issues churned up by an A-type dad with high expectations and a son's failure to measure up are classic. It's the transition to screenplay by Gary Whitta, who wrote the post-apocalyptic tale "The Book of Eli," and Shyamalan, that is rocky. The script has no nuance, none. And when Shyamalan moves into the director's chair, the script problems are magnified. Everything is spelled out, underlined in red. Take the close-up on a "Restricted Access" sign followed by the overkill of having someone proceed to explain what "Restricted Access" means. Speaking of overkill, flashbacks, thousands of them, become things to be feared as much as any space alien. Smith plays Cypher, a tightly wound, high-ranking United Ranger, protectors of humanity 1,000 years after Earth could no longer sustain life as we know it. Mankind now lives on planet Nova Prime. Its resident aliens, the Skrel, have created a monster race called the Ursa, genetically bred to hunt humans. The Ursas are blind, only able to sniff out our kind by smelling fear. That particular quirk will set up one of the film's major themes — fear and how to control it, or preferably, not have it at all, ever. After a very dull opening narration to lay out all that history, the film finally gets underway as Kitai (Jaden Smith) is finding out that he failed the test to become a Ranger like Dad. He's bummed, and worse, Dad's due home for dinner tonight after a long stretch patrolling the galaxy, and he'll be bummed too. But Kitai's scientist mom, Faia (Sophie Okonedo), thinks she has the cure — a father-son bonding trip. After a few recriminations over dinner, Cypher tells Kitai to pack his bag. Not for vacation, but to tag along on Dad's next military mission. Let's take a moment to talk about the sci-fi effects. In this age of incredible ones, most of "After Earth's" seem inspired by the 1950s, one generation beyond tinfoil. The spacecraft looks exactly like a giant flying stingray sans the tail. Which might not matter, but …. When the craft crashes on a still hostile Earth, the only survivors — Cypher critically injured and Kitai scared to step up — are in the front of the craft, while the life-saving beacon is in the "tail" section. The rest of the film hangs on finding that oft-mentioned tail. That story arc will test Kitai's courage and Cypher's patience, since the injury means he can bark out orders only by remote. Earth has many perils — mainly its wild animal population and one Ursa that survived the crash — don't ask. Jaden will be required to do a lot of major stunt work if Kitai is to survive. As Gen. Cypher Raige, Smith has never seemed stiffer, like Patton without the personality. It's as if his Ranger suit were two sizes too small and he's trying to just deal with it. Meanwhile, Jaden struggles with the same issues as his character. He is trying so hard that the teenager's engaging on-screen presence, the one that made "The Karate Kid" such a kick, mostly disappears. He's best when running, jumping and fighting the beasties. Both dad and lad have a tough time with the deadly dialogue. If you're still wondering whether "After Earth" is a disaster, the question is not if, but how big? betsy.sharkey@latimes.com -------------------------------- "After Earth" MPAA rating: PG for sci-fi action violence and some disturbing images Running time: 1 hour, 40 minutes Playing: In general release http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-after-earth-review-20130531,0,5520934.story

chris where you at?

thought this was a reasonable review from Onion AV Club: For a $130 million vanity project, After Earth is remarkably lean. Conceived by Will Smith as a starring vehicle for his son, Jaden, the movie is a no-frills wilderness survival tale with sci-fi trappings. For most of its running time, its two major characters are the only people onscreen. Big chunks of the movie pass without dialogue. The set-up is clean and simple: A spacecraft crash-lands on a deep-future, depopulated Earth; the only survivors, a father and son, must recover the craft’s distress beacon in order to be rescued. The father has broken both of his legs. The son is inexperienced. They have few supplies, and suspect that their cargo—an alien specimen—has survived. They don’t uncover secrets. They don’t pass ruined landmarks. They don’t get sentimental about their home world or wonder about what humanity has lost by relocating to the stars. As far as the movie is concerned, Earth is a hostile planet that their ancestors left with good reason. Acting more or less as a hired gun, director M. Night Shyamalan brings considerable formal chops to the project. His style—part arthouse, part Spielberg—is well-suited to the material, and his knack for framing and editing comes in handy during the movie’s many dialogue-free scenes, including an effective post-crash sequence that intentionally breaks nearly every rule of classical continuity editing. Austere, roomy compositions—courtesy of Peter Suschitzky, the longtime David Cronenberg cinematographer who also shot The Empire Strikes Back—frame Jaden Smith’s character against vast backdrops of swaying foliage; during certain stretches, After Earth looks more like an elaborate Werner Herzog homage than a big-budget sci-fi flick. And yet, despite all of this, After Earth is a mixed bag. It’s hard to blame Shyamalan for the downright embarrassing opening, a choppy mess of redundant exposition that seems to belong in a different movie. Shyamalan may be an earnest (and some would say corny) storyteller, but he’s also economical; the opening’s overreliance on stock footage and plot-explaining voiceover stinks of test-screening rewrites. Then there’s the problem of Jaden Smith; bereft of charisma or anything resembling acting talent, he’s more liability than lead. Fortunately, he spends almost the entire movie running, jumping, and listening to his father talk—all things that the young Smith or his stunt double seem to be very good at. As the father, Will Smith spends most of After Earth sitting in a chair. His performance is grim and low-key; occasionally, it feels like the elder Smith is trying to throw the film in his son’s favor. To further complicate matters, all of the movie’s dialogue is spoken in a futuristic, vaguely Caribbean “post-Earth” accent, which proves to be distracting, since neither Smith seems to be able to keep his accent consistent. As if to counterbalance the outsize dynasty-building ambitions of the movie’s producer/co-star, Shyamalan scales back at key moments. Will Smith’s centerpiece monologue, for instance, is composed in chiaroscuro static shots, which lends the scene ambiguity. The crash sequence plays out without any music; when James Newton Howard’s score does come in, it’s frequently modernist and dissonant—not exactly the sort of music you’d expect in a father-son bonding movie. Shyamalan’s sensibility may not be enough to turn After Earth into a great (or even very good) film, but it does yield interesting—and at times strikingly realized—results. http://www.avclub.com/articles/after-earth,98361/

Looks like Jeff just played at the After Party. No JJFP performance this time. Will is on 106 & Park tomorrow not sure if anything will happen then?

Well the reviews are in..and it looks like its a very average movie. I think this could be Will's worst % on rotten tomatoes. They are basically saying he is like a robot in the movie so all his natural charm is taken away and he is hardly in it.

Sony has put out a review embargo, they are clearly trying to stop all the negative reviews coming out before the movie is released...

Another bad review: "A Will Smith action film that has him grimacing on his back, giving instructions, is nobody’s idea of a lot of fun. Jaden, a good-looking kid with a hint of charisma, has to carry the film and doesn’t have the presence to pull that off. And inexplicably, father and son have attempted Southern accents from over a thousand years in the future. Epic enunciation fail." http://www.pressherald.com/article/20130529/ARTS/130529827 The thing with Jadens acting, he was good in pursuit of happiness and he pulled off the Karate Kid, but as you get older your acting has to get better, and he has to carry this entire film. Dakota Fanning was a brilliant child actress, that's the standard. I haven't liked what I've seen from the clips, but I'll wait to see the movie. All the reviews are saying he struggles in this though. I think anyone going to see After Earth thinking this is a "Will Smith movie" will be disappointed.

Both saying its a poor movie and pointing out Jaden's bad acting.. I think this could be a stinker!

I imagine it will be at the After Party like for MIB3.. hopefully we get some video from it at some point

Great tour, really felt like we went along with Jeff & the crew through Europe. Really enjoyed that!

Podcast Rundown Introductions Discussion -graham norton performance [play fresh prince of bel air performance 2:00] -jjfp tour? -After Earth -Jaden Smith (being Will's son/online hate) The Future -Willow & Annie -Will's future films (focus, etc) The Hype Fan Test - a challenge for the podcasters to get through the hype fan test, with some jjfp related trivia/questions. Who will be too damn hype? [play end of too damn hype] Loretta Mailbag -people who email the site thinking its Will who may be potential Lorettas. We read the mail, then give the verdict. [play first 40 seconds of Loretta] Shoutouts Conclusion [fade out with its all good]

Excellent!