Will Smith Reviews, Interviews & More

The Will Gluck-directed, Will Smith, Jada Pinkett-Smith, and Jay-Z-produced reboot of Annie may have just cast the second-largest role in the film (Beasts of the Southern Wild star Quvuenzhane Wallis will portray the titular orphan), as Jamie Foxx is now in talks to take the Daddy Warbucks...

Here’s a fascinating case of an actor wildly mis-reading a script: in 2011, news broke that Quentin Tarantino wanted Will Smith to star as the titular character in his pre-Civil War era spaghetti western, Django Unchained.  Which made sense, in a way—Tarantino has a knack for oddball casting, and Will Smith starring in an actual good film is as odd as it gets these days (plus, as...

Last month we reported to you that Will Smith and Jay-Z were producing a remake of Annie (the 1982 musical based on the Little Orphan Annie comic strip; the film was also the source of the catchy sample featured in Jay-Z’s hit, “Hard Knock Life [Ghetto Anthem]”).  For some time, Smith’s daughter, Willow Smith, was...

For many, their most recent exposure to Annie -- the musical of the old comic strip Little Orphan Annie which was turned into a movie in 1982 -- was the Jay-Z song "Hand Knock Life." So it's fitting that Jay-Z is helping to bring Annie back to the big screen as a producer (along with Will Smith) and with Will Gluck...

Is it post apocalypse day? We've just had the trailer for the Tom Cruise movie Oblivion release its first trailer, and now we get After Earth, which stars Will Smith and son Jaden Smith in the science fiction film directed by M. Night Shyamalan. This one doesn't seem as future-tech driven, but definitely looks familiar.

With Thanksgiving weekend just passed, it seems that the studio is slow on their roll with this weeks releases. To wit, there are no big classic titles hitting streets today, but there are a number of recent movies, including the latest Step Up film, Men in Black III, and some of the late summer films. Check it out.

If you’ll recall, in the lead-up to production and principle photography of Quentin Tarantino’s highly anticipated western Django Unchained, much was made of the fact that the iconoclastic and mercurial director’s desire to cast Will Smith in the role of Django, an escaped slave who teams up with a bounty hunter (Christoph Waltz) to rescue his wife from a plantation owner...

How’s this for cheesy: the 1996 blockbuster Independence Day is receiving not one, but two sequels—entitled Independence Day Forever Part One and Independence Day Forever Part Two—which will be shot in 2D and then given the odious 3D post-conversion, and will focus on being “lovable.”  Oh, a million...

Most of the films that came to Comic-Con this year wowed or at least attempted to wow the audience. But though After Earth had a presentation, they didn't have enough material for a show reel, and couldn't bring its stars (including Will Smith and Jaden Smith) or its director M. Night Shyamalan, so the film was less reported on than most. But now there's a viral...

Will Smith might just be the biggest movie star there is. His TV show, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, made him a household name, and before his three-year hiatus he made a decade's worth of blockbusters. Now, he's back as Agent J in Men In Black 3. We recently got the chance to talk to Mr. Smith. He told us what he learned during his time away,...

Men In Black 3 has become a blockbuster underdog, mainly because it's the movie no one was asking for, and has to overcome a lot of bad buzz about re-shoots. It's been 10 years since we last saw Will Smith's Agent J and Tommy Lee Jones' Agent K monitor alien activity on Earth, and the new film offers a time travel twist which introduces Josh Brolin as the new K,...

We're heading toward the Memorial Day weekend, and though The Avengers is still setting records (and may continue to), Men in Black III is the big picture of that holiday weekend, which sells Will Smith's agent J losing his partner K (Tommy Lee Jones) and traveling back in time to work with a younger version of his partner (Josh Brolin)....

While we saw a trailer for the upcoming Men in Black III last December, it felt more like a teaser, seeing as how it was a quickie trailer for an incomplete film with a troubled production and, at the time, apparently no written ending.  Now, we get a more polished trailer for the entirely unnecessary sequel, which finds Will Smith traveling back in time to save Tommy Lee Jones,...

What if they made a $300 Million dollar film and no one came? What if that film makes $100 Million domestically or less? Men in Black III is sure to have been extra expensive, with a protracted shooting schedule, multiple reshoots, and the biggest star in the world in Will Smith. It's also a sequel that no one wanted, and from the evidence of the multiple reshoots, a...

It's fair game to spoil a five year old movie, right? 2007's I Am Legend ends with the reveal that Will Smith's character was a ghost the whole time. Or he dies. Something like that. You would think that would make it harder to do I Am Legend: Again, or I Am Legender, or 2 Am Legend. But -...

2008's Hancock, which made over $600 Million globally, was Will Smith's last huge hit. Since then he made Seven Pounds and has mostly been involved in Men in Black 3, which will eventually hit theaters this May.  There was talk of a Hancock sequel around the time...

Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, and Josh Brolin...as Tommy Lee Jones? That's the set up from the Men in Black 3 teaser trailer, one that seems to be there to refresh viewers on the world of the Men in Black. Though the rough outline of the plot has been known for a while, this gives a sense of what the film is about, with newcomer Emma Thompson telling the viewers that...

Despite the cavalcade of production snafus that have befallen the wildly unnecessary Men In Black III—really, do we need another one?—from Alec Baldwin bailing on the production to massive filming delays to the growing sense that the entire production is simply an outgrowth of Will Smith’s increasingly egomaniacal self love, it looks like Men in Black III is still...

If there's one thing to say about M. Night Shyamalan's career, he's failed up. Columbia Pictures announced today that Will Smith - the biggest and perhaps only real movie star left in America - will team with Shyamalan to produce and star in a science-fiction film. Also starring: Smith's son Jaden. Jaden had been rumored for the script before - and the project is currently known as...

Well, it appears that the mash-up of pop-cultural elements so horrible and cringe-worthy that their unification could potentially result in The End Of All Things isn't going to happen after all-- according to Deadline, Glee creator Ryan Murphy will not be directing Willow Smith in a Will Smith-produced remake of Annie...