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"Danger is real. Fear is a choice."
Will Smith's last movie was Men in Black III, though had he taken Quentin Tarantino's offer, he would have played the title character in Django Unchained. "He didn't walk away from it because he was scared of the material," Tarantino said to Playboy about Smith last December. "It just wasn't 100 percent right, and we didn't have time to try to make it that way."
Instead, Smith decided to again join forces with his son Jaden Smith (The Karate Kid) for the sci-fi movie After Earth, which was not exactly a choice devoid of risk. After Earth was written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan, who jump-started his career with the 1999 thriller The Sixth Sense, which created a memorable catchphrase about seeing dead people and went on to become an international box office hit. Lately, however, Shyamalan hasn't had as much success — unless you loved 2008's The Happening and 2010's The Last Airbender, in which case, he's on a roll. The latest trailer for the upcoming movie shows that both Shyamalan and the Smiths are taking a measured risk in telling an intimate father-and-son story on a grand scale, with the two characters crash-landing on an Earth that humanity has abandoned for a thousand years. Once they arrive, they a find a planet that is no longer hospitable for humans.
watch the trailer >> Posted 03.09.13 by Ryan -
"Do you know where we are?"
While not his debut movie, 1999's The Sixth Sense turned director M. Night Shyamalan into an instant sensation, with 2000's Unbreakable and 2002's Signs keeping audiences in anticipation of when the next Shyamalan "twist" movie would arrive next. However, 2006's Lady in the Water was a turning point, and not a good one, as audiences didn't take to the director's fairy tale story. Shyamalan followed with critical punching bags like 2008's The Happening (which still managed some box office success) and 2010's The Last Airbender (which didn't).
Luckily, everyone loves a good redemption story, and Shyamalan could be due for one with next year's After Earth. It doesn't hurt that Shyamalan has decided to join forces with Will Smith, an actor who has been on a hit streak longer than most, and Jaden Smith, who has become a movie star in his own right. After Earth sees the father and son duo crash land on a human-less Earth, with the younger Smith sent on a journey that will hopefully ensure their survival.
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There's always a deluge of new information about upcoming movies once the San Diego Comic-Con gets underway, but the programming schedule for the 2012 convention has already provided us with some juicy new details about M. Night Shyamalan's upcoming sci-fi movie, After Earth (formerly One Thousand A.E.). The listing for the After Earth panel presentation on Saturday, July 14, includes a detailed synopsis that reveals not only the names of the characters played by Will Smith and his son, Jaden (The Karate Kid), but a bit about their personalities and motivations, as well as details about how they ended up crashing on the "now unfamiliar and dangerous Earth" in the first place.
read the synopsis >> Posted 07.02.12 by BrentJS -
ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
Robin Gibb, one of the last Bee Gees members, died Sunday at the age of 62 after a long battle with battle with cancer. Robin's twin Maurice died of intestinal surgery complications in 2003. The Bee Gee's Saturday Night Fever was the best-selling soundtrack album of all time until surpassed by Whitney Houston's The Bodyguard. The record topped the charts for 24 straight weeks when released in 1978. Gibb leaves behind brother Barry, wife Dwina, and three children.
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Whitney Houston was awarded the Millennium Award at Sunday's Billboard Music Awards Through tears, daughter Bobbi Kristina told the crowd. "I just wanna say thank you to everyone who supported us through it all — not just when it was good, but when it was bad too..." TMZ reports there was drama behind the scenes because the award show only wanted Bobbi to accept the award, but sister-in-law Pat Houston, who was Whitney's manager, reportedly demanded to be on stage with Bobbi.
John Legend and Jordin Sparks performed a Houston tribute at the BMAs. Houston's final song, a duet with Sparks that she recorded just four days before her death, has just been released. The song is from the upcoming movie Sparkle.
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Nick Stahl has been found. The Terminator 3 actor, reported missing by his wife. last week, has checked himself into rehab. While the couple has been separated since January, Rose Stahl told TMZ "she is not even thinking about divorce right now — she is just glad he is safe."
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"Now this is the story all about how my life got flipped, turned upside down..." Everyone knows those are the opening lyrics for the theme song to the '90s classic The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Even 16 years after the show was on the air, Will Smith proved he still knew the song when he rapped it on Britain's The Graham Norton Show. The YouTube clip has already amassed 1.4M hits.
This was Smith's second viral hit from the weekend with the first being a video of Smith slapping a Ukrainian journalist who tried to kiss him on the lips at the Russian premiere of Men in Black 3. After backhanding the reporter, Smith told reporters, "He's lucky I didn't sucker punch him!"
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Even since being cast to play Elizabeth Taylor in a TV movie, Lindsay Lohan has reportedly been obsessed with the legendary actress. Over the weekend, photos hit the web of Lohan trying on Taylor-inspired outfits, including a green dress that resembled the famous the Valentino dress Taylor was photographed in. The Lifetime movie Liz and Dick is scheduled to start shooting next month.
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And in Justin Bieber news, the Biebs has released the track list for his upcoming album Believe. Don't act like you're not going to buy it.
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"The good guys dress in black, remember that..."
Yes, Will Smith, we remember that, but did you know that the bad guys dress in yellow and have claw-tipped tentacles bursting from their palms? Hmm? We do, thanks to the new still images from director Barry Sonnenfeld's Men in Black III (MIB3) that have been released online. While there's not a lot that seems designed to remind us of what we loved about the original Men in Black movies: the odd couple relationship between curmudgeonly old Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones) and his jiggy partner, Agent J (Smith), and the crazy hardware they use when wrangling the latest wackadoo alien-gone-wild.
In MIB3, the offending alien (Jemaine Clement) has more than just a little mayhem on his mind, time-tripping back to the '60s to kill young K (Josh Brolin) in the hopes of preventing the secret alien watchdog group from stopping his plans in the present. We're not sure why the elder K doesn't accompany J back in time to help save his younger self, but there's probably some sort of good explanation (guess we better rewatch Back to the Future II to brush up on the downsides of meeting yourself in another time).
SEE THE NEW IMAGES >> Posted 05.17.12 by BrentJS -
Columbia Pictures has released two new preview clips from director Barry Sonnenfeld's Men in Black III that seem to guarantee that, whether Agent J (Will Smith) is chumming around with '60s-era Agent K (Josh Brolin) or the present day K (Tommy Lee Jones), there's going to be plenty of action. And as we've already guessed from the early production photos and movie stills that were released, there will be plenty of new Rick Baker–designed aliens for J and K to 'splode.
watch the new preview clips >> Posted 05.02.12 by BrentJS -
ReelzChannelCelebrity Rundown
If Lindsay Lohan stays out of trouble for the next 48 hours, she's home free... almost. The troubled starlet is scheduled to have her final court appointment for her probation this Thursday. TMZ reports the L.A. County District Attorney is satisfied that LiLo completed the terms of her probation (she's been on probation for four years, stemming from a DUI arrest). The D.A. said it will not object to the judge terminating Lohan's probation case. But Lohan isn't completely off the hook. Because her of jewelry incident last year (LiLo was accused of stealing a $2,500 necklace), she'll have to remain on informal probation, meaning she'll no longer have to regularly report to a probation officer or judge. If she keeps her nose clean for the next two-and-a-half years, the misdemeanor theft charge will be dismissed. Something tells us this is going to be the longest 48 hours ever.
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The legal troubles for Bobby Brown are just beginning, however. Brown was arrested for DUI on Monday. Brown, the troubled ex-husband of Whitney Houston, was initially pulled over in Reseda, CA, for talking on a cell phone while driving. The officer on scene reportedly then noticed that Brown seemed impaired. Brown failed a field sobriety test, was booked on DUI, and released Monday afternoon. Brown was previously convicted of DUI back in 1996 in Georgia. In that case, he pled guilty and served 8 days in jail.
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Will the real Will Smith please tweet? Spike Lee and Rosie O'Donnell were among the celebrities who retweeted a quote from Smith's Twitter account connecting the death of Trayvon Martin to the flour bombing of Kim Kardashian. The only problem? Smith isn't on Twitter. The account, @ReaIWiIISmith, turned out not to be real. The imposter tweeted: "WE live in America where a girl that threw flour on Kim Kardashian was arrested on site But the man who KILLED Trayvon Martin is still free."
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Speaking of the infamous flour bomb incident... There will be one less nude celebrity now that Khloe Kardashian, who posed semi-nude for PETA's anti-fur campaign, said she's pulling her support from the group after it announced it would pay for the legal fees for the woman who flour bombed her sister, Kim. On her website, Khloe writes, "[PETA has] proved that they support this kind of behavior. I've been a vocal supporter of PETA for a long time but I have also been very vocal about anti-bullying, so this was a huge disappointment for me. As you all know, I don't condone violence and bullying and what happened last Thursday was just that. I am absolutely disgusted by their behavior." Khloe went on to say, "I personally don't wear fur but that doesn't mean I am going to force my views on anyone else, ESPECIALLY by violating them." Kim was wearing a black leather outfit when she was flour bombed.
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And in talk-about-awkward news, there's this uncomfortable photo of Peter Facinelli and Jennie Garth, who recently announced they were divorcing, out shopping with their kids.
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When we heard Will Smith was coming back for a Men in Black installment, we all knew what to expect, right? Smith in a black suit? Check. Smith throwing out memorable one-liners ("You know, I don't have no problem pimp slapping the shiz-nit out of Andy Warhol")? Check. Smith singing the movie's theme song? Wait, where is Smith's MIB III song?
Despite rumors that Smith would be returning to the rapping game for MIB III it looks like Smith will not be rocking his Ray-Bans in a new MIB song. So who did Sony get to record the theme song for MIB III? Pitbull.
While no one will mistake Smith for being a particularly good songwriter, his theme songs were at least funny and catchy. We can't say the same for Pitbull's "Back in Time."
listen to Pitbull's song >> Posted 03.26.12 by Chris -
In terms of audience anticipation, all that Men in Black III has to do is not repeat the mistakes of 2002's Men in Black II and the third installment can be considered some kind of success. It's simple — be more like the first Men in Black and no one will remember how the movie went on hiatus so that the script could be finished and the other production delays that have looked like a cause for alarm for a big-budget production. "We knew starting the movie that we didn't have a finished second or third act," director Barry Sonnenfeld recently told Empire Magazine (via The Playlist). "Was it responsible? The answer is, if this movie does as well as I think it will, it was genius. If it's a total failure, then it was a really stupid idea."
As we said before, all that Men in Black III has to accomplish is to avoid being as awful as Men in Black II was universally seen to be, and, so far, the movie's trailers look like Sonnenfeld and company has pulled it off. The key is Josh Brolin, whose uncanny impersonation of Tommy Lee Jones should prove entertaining as the 1960s version of Jones' Agent K, though it's likely that younger audiences are going to love watching Will Smith's Agent J say things like "shiznit" in the sequel's latest trailer.
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It's been 10 years since the last time Will Smith donned his Men in Black suit so some moviegoers might need a refresher course about the sci-fi franchise ahead of Men in Black III hitting theaters May 25.
Smith, who plays J in the franchise, answered fans' questions on Yahoo! Movies. Smith explains to one fan what's new in this second sequel.
This movie has not only aliens, but time travel - so it sets the movie in a time and place that gives it a whole new look and feel and brand-new situations that are so much funnier because of the time period. I really believe this is the best of the three.
In MIB3, Agent J (Smith) discovers that history has been rewritten so that his partner K (Tommy Lee Jones) no longer exists. So J has to go back in time to 1969 and team up with the younger version of K, played by Josh Brolin.
Read more of Smith's Answers >> Posted 03.04.12 by Chris