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'Saturday Night Live' cast member Jay Pharoah talks about meeting Will Smith http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/entertainment-general/index.ssf/2013/04/saturday_night_live_cast_membe.html

Will Smith Kicking ‘American Can’ With Ed Zwick; ‘The Accountant’ Also On Ledger? EXCLUSIVE: As Tom Cruise today looks to strengthen his box office foothold with Oblivion after a huge overseas opening last weekend, I’ve been wondering when Will Smith was going to start cranking them out again. Looks like he’s chosen this week to really get back into the mix. He signed to do the Warner Bros grifter pic Focus, and I’m told that Sony Pictures and his Overbrook Entertainment partner James Lassiter and Jada Pinkett Smith have revived American Can, and are now looking to Ed Zwick to direct Smith in a reluctant hero role that seems like a tailor-fit. He will play John Keller, a real guy who returned from Gulf War service looking for a new challenge, and found one after Hurricane Katrina devastated his home city of New Orleans. He found a boat and was moving to safety when he saw a blind elderly woman, stranded and calling for her son. Knowing she would certainly die if he passed by, Keller brought her back to safety in the American Can building. Shortly after, he found many more stranded seniors, and brought each of them back, around 244 in total, to American Can, a building that at least was dry. It was tricky business, but using his resourcefulness and his military training to get food drops to feed his new friends, he kept them alive and eventually found enough boats to lead them all to safety. The script was written by Adetoro Makinde and John Lee Hancock. Hancock originally intended to direct it, but the project languished while Smith did other things and Hancock went off to direct Saving Mr. Banks at Disney with Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson, poised to follow that with The Highwaymen, with Liam Neeson and Woody Harrelson being courted to play the Texas Rangers who hunted down Bonnie & Clyde. I’m told Smith will likely do this film after Focus, in which he’ll play a veteran con man who mentors a young female newcomer to the grifter game for directors John Requa and Glenn Ficarra. This is the project that Ben Affleck was going to star in, before dropping out to focus on the adaptation of the Dennie Lehane novel Live By Night, which Affleck will direct. There has also been talk that Smith is once again eyeing The Accountant, another project he’d previously circled, back when it was at Warner Bros and Mel Gibson was going to direct him. I’d heard that this project was coming around again at Media Rights Capital with Sony, but PR for MRC denied it yesterday. Now, they are saying they only denied the Will Smith part of it, but since I see a story this morning about MRC’s involvement on my sister publication Variety (without any substantive cast details), I am going to remember now and in the future that my sources are more believable than PR people, and just put it out there. I do believe that Smith is once again eyeing this thriller about a government accountant who doubles as an assassin. Gibson is no longer involved. Bill Dubuque wrote the script. I’m not saying Smith has to prove his viability. MIB3 grossed $624 million worldwide (I don’t know if that made it profitable but it is a huge gross), and he next stars in with son Jaden in the M. Night Shyamalan-directed After Earth, which I hear turned out well. He throws a lot of effort into Overbrook producing projects like Karate Kid and the upcoming Annie. But when they ask who’s the world’s biggest male box office star, I guess I just would like to see him make a better case for that crown, which means more films with Smith front and center. Smith and Zwick are repped by CAA. http://www.deadline.com/2013/04/will-smith-kicking-american-can-with-ed-zwick-the-accountant-also-on-ledger/

That BET interview was really great. I totally enjoyed it!

From Jada's Facebook: This is a picture of Willow and I that I keep in my living room. It reminds me of the power we have to create love. There is so much happening in the world right now. Today, I am simply holding on to all that I love and using my power to create more. Sending my love to all of you… J

Yep, it's been posted here :)

Kristen Stewart out? Now this looks interesting!

In a bonus clip from Matte's interview with DJ Jazzy Jeff, the iconic DJ explains how fate brought him and Will Smith (aka The Fresh Prince!) together. Watch Fuse News weeknights at 8/7c http://www.fuse.tv/videos/2013/04/fuse-news-dj-jazzy-jeff-will-smith-web-exclusive

HERE COMES THE SON Jaden Smith, shot exclusively for Wonderland by Andrew Davis and Rory van Millingen. Read the full interview here. http://www.wonderlandmagazine.com/2013/04/here-comes-the-son-jaden-smith/

http://vimeo.com/63760822

http://www.onlocationvacations.com/2013/04/15/anchorman-2-filming-on-location-in-atlanta-today/

http://youtu.be/Cm1UtGqpyLU

From Jada's Facebook: Open marriage? Let me first say this, there are far more important things to talk about in regards to what is happening in the world than whether I have an open marriage or not. I am addressing this issue because a very important subject has been born from discussions about my statement that may be worthy of addressing. The statement I made in regard to, "Will can do whatever he wants," has illuminated the need to discuss the relationship between trust and love and how they co-exist. Do we believe loving someone means owning them? Do we believe that ownership is the reason someone should "behave"? Do we believe that all the expectations, conditions, and underlying threats of "you better act right or else" keep one honest and true? Do we believe that we can have meaningful relationships with people who have not defined nor live by the integrity of his or her higher self? What of unconditional love? Or does love look like, feel like, and operate as enslavement? Do we believe that the more control we put on someone the safer we are? What of TRUST and LOVE? Should we be married to individuals who can not be responsible for themselves and their families within their freedom? Should we be in relationships with individuals who we can not entrust to their own values, integrity, and LOVE...for us??? Here is how I will change my statement...Will and I BOTH can do WHATEVER we want, because we TRUST each other to do so. This does NOT mean we have an open relationship...this means we have a GROWN one. Siempre, J

The First TV Spot for After Earth Hits http://www.superherohype.com/news/articles/176169-the-first-tv-spot-for-after-earth-hits

Wow! I've always wanted to see this and didn't know it was on Youtube! French: Portuguese (with the 'I, Robot' premiere at the end):

LAS VEGAS, NV - APRIL 13: Actor Will Smith attends the 17th annual Keep Memory Alive 'Power of Love Gala' benefit for the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health celebrating the 80th birthdays of Quincy Jones and Sir Michael Caine on April 13, 2013 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Pics! http://www.gettyimages.es/Search/Search.aspx?contractUrl=2&language=es&assetType=image&ebd=2013-04-13&eed=2013-04-14&excludenudity=false&p=will+smith

From Jada's Facebook: Was hard at work on the set of the Queen Latifah talk show yesterday. We gotta hot talk show coming your way this Fall. Exciting!!! Happy Friday! Do something unexpected this weekend, and tell me all about it. I won't post anything so I can read YOUR stories :) J

Two Generations of Smiths Imagine the Future: Jaden Smith and Will Smith to Be Special Guests of Metro Newspapers in Honor of Earth Day 2013 LUXEMBOURG--(Marketwired - Apr 12, 2013) - Metro International S.A. ("Metro"), the international newspaper group, today announces that Jaden Smith, will join forces with his father, Will Smith, as Special Guests of Metro on 22 April 2013. In honor of Earth Day and in advance of the duo's highly anticipated action film "After Earth," in which they play father and son, Jaden and Will Smith will take the theme of 'the future' to create exclusive content for Metro. "After Earth" will be released in theaters worldwide on June 7, 2013. As Special Guests, Jaden and Will Smith will imagine together what the Earth will look like hundreds of years from now, within categories such as environmental impact, advances in technology and transport, and media. The pair will also sit for an exclusive Q&A with Metro. All content will run in Metro's print and digital editions around the world. http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/two-generations-smiths-imagine-future-jaden-smith-will-smith-be-special-guests-metro-1778315.htm

According to this article, this is a film they're gonna shoot in Colombia next August, and Will won't star in it. The story takes place in Colombia and is about a girl in search of peace for her people to return to tranquility. I guess we'll hear more about it soon.. http://www.caracol.com.co/noticias/entretenimiento/will-smith-y-su-esposa-rodaran-pelicula-en-colombia/20130410/nota/1875289.aspx

Hollywood superstar Will Smith coming to Taiwan Taipei, April 10 (CNA) Hollywood superstar Will Smith will visit Taiwan in May along with his 15-year-old son Jaden to promote their new film "After Earth," Sony Pictures said Wednesday. It will be their first visit to Taiwan, the film company said. The Taiwan leg is part of an Asia promotion tour for their new science-fiction thriller to be released in June. The tour, scheduled to start toward the end of this month, will also take Smith, a popular American actor, producer and rapper, and his son to Japan and South Korea, Sony said. During their May 3-4 visit, the Smiths will meet their fans in Taipei's vibrant Xinyi shopping district on the evening of May 3, when the world's tallest green building, Taipei 101, which dominates the area, will display the film's title "After Earth" in lights. The movie, set 1,000 years in the future, stars the two Smiths as father-and-son Cypher and Kitai Raige. The film depicts how teenage Kitai and his estranged father, Gen. Cypher Raige, must learn to work together and trust each other in order to return to their home in Nova Prime, a planet light years away from Earth, after their ship crash lands on the abandoned Earth. In the film, Gen. Raige is the leader of the Ranger Corps, which controls peace on Nova Prime, a planet colonized by humans after a cataclysmic event 1,000 years ago forced them to leave Earth. Kitai is a training recruit of the corps. "After Earth" is the second film starring the pair. The father and son co-starred for the first time in the 2006 biographical drama "The Pursuit of Happyness," which was Jaden's film debut. http://focustaiwan.tw/news/aall/201304100034.aspx

From Jada's Facebook: I had the honor of sitting with the President of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos. We sat to discuss a film I plan to shoot in Colombia. It was a wonderful meeting, and I am very excited about working in this amazing country of beautiful people... Siempre, J

NEWS/Jennifer Hudson, Will Smith, Scarlett Johansson Among Stars Asking Obama to Reform Nation's Drug Laws http://uk.eonline.com/news/406104/jennifer-hudson-will-smith-scarlett-johansson-among-stars-asking-obama-to-reform-nation-s-drug-laws

Part 2 Jada Pinkett Smith: ‘I would love to see ‘A Different World’ back on TV’ http://thegrio.com/2013/04/08/jada-pinkett-smith-i-would-love-to-see-a-different-world-back-on-tv/

Another great read! http://www.maxim.com/music/dj-jazzy-jeff-talks-jfk-conspiracies-and-big-belgian-lemons

Shakespeare - JADEN (Official Video) MsDirected by Moises Arias