Radewart
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I just find VH1 doing anything on hip hop/rap funny!
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How many albums sold for a Cd to reach gold? platnium?
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In a "Ali" when he refused to step forward and agree to go to Vietnam.
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267,000 or so.
So he's already close to 200,000 after three weeks! that's pretty good!
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What are the sale totals for his last album, Born to Reign?
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It's not a movie, but a play.
"Rehearsal for the play starts next week and the show runs from June 1st-July 11th in Los Angeles, California."
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So, he didn't say if it was he's next movie?
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well they were talking about having tonight he comes lined up and the presenter said it sounded like an adult movie, they had a little fun with that joke and Will just said hes trying to find a film that balances having a meaning and a good story behind it and being a big huge box office hit.
So, did it sound like "Tonight He Comes" will Be Will's next movie?
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hey guys i taped it, it was pretty good and Will was fooling around as usual. He talked a bit about lost and found and the concert 2moro, and then the dumb interviewers started asking him about movies again. WHY! he hasnt even got a film done yet.
anyways he talked a bit to xzibit aswell and chose to play Kayne West and de la soul as his videos, i'l leave the rest to see for yoursleves when i get the vid up sometime 2moro (hopefully :hsnono: )
What was Will's response to the movie question?
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This smells like bull****. This film won best picture back in 1957. It's not a good idea to remake classics. There is also no way Will Smith could star in the picture. It was about british officiers during WWII. How could Will play any of the leading roles!!
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It's been too long. Everything doesn't need a sequel. Independence Day was a great movie. They shouldn't mess with it, and left a bad tast in people's mouth like Men in black II was.
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here's a link to Aint It Cool News about Will's possible next movie?
http://www.aint-it-cool-news.com/display.cgi?id=19795
Hey folks, Harry here... I AM LEGEND... Richard Matheson's brilliant work, twice adapted to screen thus far.... Once by Vincent Price (the best version) then most iconically by Charlton Heston. This third adaptation has been a thing of legend in its own right. From the adaptation by Mark Protosevich, which was nearly perfect save for the pandering ending required by Warner Brothers... It has seen different producers and directors as often as... well as Warner's own SUPERMAN. Well it looks like Francis Lawrence, director of CONSTANTINE, has finally tamed the beast. I'm hearing that Will Smith will star... which makes this his first foray into horror. He's fought Aliens and Robots... so why not Vampires. Personally, I can see this... but only if he gives himself over to the tragedy of the role. The melancholy of being the Last Man on Earth. Now, if they're planning on actually shooting this in New York.. that means a pretty huge scale for this. Both previous adaptations were in the more sprawling Los Angeles. Let's see where this goes, I just hope they've kept the books ending... after all, the title isn't I AM A LIVING LEGEND...
Just thought you should be aware - on the "Reel Jobs" section on the Mayor's office website of New York City, they've listed the Richard Matheson adaptation "I Am Legend" in need of a scout staff, aiming for a May 5th start date of actual *shooting*.
First I've heard of this - but hey, I'm looking forward to it.
- SR Hadden
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-Hitch, the biggest hit of the year so far, lands on DVD June 14. The
romantic comedy, starring Will Smith as a slick date doctor who helps a
bumbling accountant (Kevin James) but meets his match in Sara (Eva
Mendes), has made $170 million. The DVD (Sony, $29) contains four
deleted scenes, a blooper reel, a music video of I Thing by Amerie and
five behind-the-scenes featurettes. On the same day, Hitch will be
available in the Universal Media Disc format ($29), which plays on
Sony's PlayStation Portable.
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I think it sounds good. A good special effects blockbuster that might actually challange Will as an actor.
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Why is Will calling Larry Elder an "Uncle Tom"? That's pretty hurtful, and Will should know better than most what it feels like. Now, I'm not calling Will an "Uncle Tom". I totally think he's not. But, I find it disappointing that he's sinking to other people's level. Will you'll classier than that!
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not that old...
but according 2 Israely sources Will did agree to do the movie...
It would of been mentioned in THe Hollywood Reporter or Variety, if Will signed on to do it. Anyways, I hope he doesn't cause this sounds like a tired cliched of a movie.
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The other projects are rumors. The only legit project that Will's doing is the Chris Gardner project.
Will has been rumored to do at least 4 movies. It doesn't come into fruition until they actually start filming the movie.
Will has been rumored to remake "A Star Is Born" for about 4 years.
The movie with Ben Affleck is a dead issue since Affleck will be stepping behind the camera to direct Dennis Lehane's novel Gone, Baby, Gone. Filming begins this fall in Boston(source - Chicago Sun-Times 3/24/05).
Will may take on "The Mark" but his first project is "Pursuit Of Happiness."
I hope this will help everyone.
"The Mark" ain't happening, either is "Affirmative Action." Will is likely going to do some music stuff for awhile and then start filming something over the summer. It's likely gonna be "Tonight He Comes" cause it already has a director in place, followed by "Pursuit of Happiness".
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Here's an article from the Chicago Tribune on the movie, interesting its out to dierctors now.
INNOVATORS: OFF THE STREETS
His biggest deal: Life
Once homeless and now a millionaire, Chris Gardner still wants to make big changes. A movie about his life will share his story.
By Rob Kaiser
Tribune staff reporter
Published March 14, 2005
Chris Gardner has gone from sleeping in a San Francisco subway bathroom to luxuriating on the 63rd floor of New York's Trump Tower.
The high-rise is one of three homes the millionaire, who is an owner and partner in a Chicago-based brokerage, now owns.
Next stop? Hollywood.
The 50-year-old's storybook tale is about to be widely told. In January, actor Will Smith signed on to play Gardner in "Pursuit of Happiness," a film about his life to be released next year by Columbia Pictures. A HarperCollins autobiography also is in the works.
Both will detail Gardner's rags-to-riches journey. Where he once had to haul everything he owned out of a homeless shelter each day, Gardner currently can't find time to play with all his possessions, which include a Ferrari Testarossa once owned by Michael Jordan.
Though Gardner will soon be swept up in publicity as the movie nears, he insists he remains focused on what got him off the streets: brokering deals. Moving beyond stock trades, Gardner is trying to leverage his big-money relationships to raise a $1 billion fund for investments in South Africa.
"I have yet to see my life's wealth," Gardner said. "I see it coming."
His 18-employee firm, Gardner Rich & Co., operates out of a squat building near the Chicago Board Options Exchange. Since starting the firm, Gardner has been particularly adept at building relationships with labor leaders, who he hopes will provide a good portion of the funding for the South African venture.
Gardner has made his living cultivating similar connections with pension fund managers and other moneyed individuals to steer stock brokerage business to his firm. He does it with a directness and boisterous charm that he once used to talk his way into a night's stay in a homeless shelter for mothers.
"He's the kind of person who walks into an office and knows all the assistants and the person at the reception desk," said Mellody Hobson, president of Ariel Capital Management LLC in Chicago and a friend of Gardner's.
"He'll know people's birthdays and their kids' names. Somehow he's able to do that with hundreds, if not thousands of people," she said.
Gardner grew up in a series of Milwaukee homes with his mother, stepfather and three sisters.
"My stepfather was fond of letting me know, quote, `I ain't your ... damn daddy,'" Gardner said. "That was something that was painful, to put it mildly."
Anxious to set out on his own life, Gardner said he lied about his age to get in the Navy at 17. He spent three years in the Navy's medical corps in North Carolina, leaving to work as a research assistant for a former Navy doctor in San Francisco. He then took a job as a medical supply salesman.
Gardner said his career path changed dramatically in 1981 when he spotted a "gorgeous, red Ferrari." When he learned the driver was a stockbroker who earned $80,000 a month, he began hunting for a job at a brokerage firm.
After 10 months of searching, a brokerage firm offered him a job. He quit his medical supply sales job and showed up for work only to learn the hiring manager had been fired and his services weren't needed.
"Nobody knew who I was or why I was there," Gardner said.
Gardner said he did whatever he could for money--cutting grass, painting houses, cleaning basements and other assorted jobs. The woman he considered his common-law wife left him, taking away his young son and locking away his possessions.
That same day his family left, the police arrested him for having $1,200 in unpaid parking tickets. He landed in jail for 10 days.
Immediately after his release, Gardner went to a previously scheduled interview at Dean Witter in smelly clothing and paint-spattered sneakers.
"I could not think of a lie bizarre enough," Gardner said. "I told the truth."
Amazingly, he was hired.
As a stockbroker-in-training, Gardner worked the phones. He cold-called 200 prospects a day, and colleagues noticed his zeal for the job.
"Chris had an amazing intensity and desire," said Bob Muh, who Gardner worked for at Bear Sterns after leaving Dean Witter. "He just had a passion for wanting to learn and absorb as much as he could. He was willing to work tremendously long hours."
For much of that time, he had nowhere else to go. A few months after she left, Gardner's common-law wife returned and handed over his son. They had to leave the boarding house where he was living because it didn't accept children.
They spent the night in friends' homes, cheap hotels, bus stations, the airport and a subway bathroom. Sometimes Gardner was the first in the office and the last to leave because he was sleeping under his desk.
He eventually got into the homeless shelter for mothers, but nobody was allowed to keep their possessions there.
Rev. Cecil Williams, a San Francisco pastor, remembers Gardner showing up at his church's soup kitchen. "He came through the line every day with a baby in his arms," Williams recalled. "I said, `My God, this man really has some commitment.'"
After nearly a year as a stockbroker trainee, which paid $1,000 a month, Gardner saved enough money to move with his son into their own place.
Gardner worked at Bear Sterns for four years, leaving in 1986 to start his own company in Chicago. Several former colleagues said they encouraged him to take advantage of special opportunities for minority-owned brokerage firms.
Gardner said such set-aside programs have helped his firm, but he's had to fight for business.
"He's butted heads with [Citigroup Inc. Chairman] Sandy Weill to get access to bond deals," said Michael R. Conners, who runs the Eventus hedge fund in Chicago and worked with Gardner at Bear Sterns. "He's fearless."
Gardner's story came to public attention in 2002 when a San Francisco television station did a story on Williams' church, including how its programs helped Gardner become successful. The television show "20/20" picked up his story, and Hollywood came calling.
One man pitched a reality show where Gardner would decide which homeless contestant would win a job, a $300,000 house and $100,000 in cash. Gardner said he responded, "Homelessness is not a game and if it is, I already won so send me the money."
He was more interested in a movie based on his life. Gardner sold story rights, and the project is now being shopped to directors.
Still, Gardner is just as eager to talk about the South African project as the movie.
He began looking around for a new venture a few years ago as profit margins in the brokerage business began getting squeezed. A labor leader gave Gardner the idea of creating an investment fund for South Africa, where he is working with a local investment firm.
Two years ago he met Nelson Mandela, South Africa's revered former president.
"He shook my hand and said, `Welcome home, son,'" Gardner said.
"I just cried like a baby. Being a little boy who grew up without a father, I just never heard anybody say those words to me."
Still, sentiment aside, the South African venture is a particularly challenging one.
Marshall Geller, head of a private equity fund in Los Angeles and Gardner's former boss at Bear Sterns, noted that numerous other groups have tried raising similar funds without success. Many investors express interest in helping the country recover from apartheid. Yet when it comes time to put in their money, few do.
Convincing major investors that South African investments will yield sizable financial, not just social, returns is Gardner's biggest sales job yet.
Geller said he told Gardner, "If you can pull it off, you'll be a legend."
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Chris Gardner's story
Age: 50
Background: Grew up in Milwaukee. Joined the Navy at age 17. Left after three years in the medical corps, became a medical supply salesman.
Became homeless when: He quit medical supply job to take position as a stockbroker. But the man who hired him was fired in the interim, leaving no job for Gardner. Shortly after, family left him and he spent 10 days in jail for unpaid parking tickets.
Pulled himself up by: In sneakers and stinky clothes, Gardner showed up for job interview at Dean Witter on day of his release from jail. He told the truth about his situation and got the job. Worked his way through training program, sleeping under his desk and eating in soup kitchens.
Currently: Partner in 18-employee Chicago-based brokerage, Gardner Rich & Co.
What's next: Columbia Pictures film about his life, "Pursuit of Happiness," starring Will Smith, to be released next year. HarperCollins autobiography is also in the works.
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Easy...Philadelphia
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This is just a project he's developing. Who know what movie he'll do next. It could be either the "mark" or "Affarmitive Action", too.
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I hope Will's new albulm is successful, but I doubt it will. America views him as a big movie star now, and most aren't interested in his rapping.
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Most likely "Pursuit of Happiness"
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There are some.. I read Hollywood Reporter and Variety's review and they were mixed/negative.
Choose Will's next movie...
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If you could choose Will's next movie, what would you pick? I'd go with "I Am Legend" since I'm a big fan of the book. But, there's also "Pursuit of Happiness", "Tonight He Comes, a sequel to one of Will's previous movies, or even if you have a orginal project for Will to star in! Let's hear'em.