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Apr 19 2013 01:47 PM ET

'After Earth' to be released one week earlier

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After Earth will now be released May 31, one week early than had been previously planned, EW has confirmed. The Wrap originally reported the news.

”We love the date!” Sony said in a statement, adding, ”It is a wide open slot on the calendar that allows the film to get a little more summer play time.”  The studio also mentioned that footage shown at Cinemacon Wednesday was met with a fantastic reaction from the audience. The movie now opens a week after Fast & Furious 6 and two weeks before Man of Steel.

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Mar 25 2013 09:00 AM ET

Will Smith on turning down 'Django Unchained': 'I needed to be the lead'

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When Quentin Tarantino’s western revenge-fantasy Django Unchained was first announced, casting rumors pegged Will Smith as the titular slave-turned-vigilante. But Smith, who teams with his son Jaden in this summer’s sci-fi epic After Earth, tells EW that he turned down the part because his character would’ve been second fiddle to the bounty hunter (played by Christoph Waltz) who teaches Django his trade . “Django wasn’t the lead, so it was like, I need to be the lead. The other character was the lead!” says the Men in Black star, whose departure opened the door for Jamie Foxx to play the role.

Smith says that before he left the project, he even pleaded with Tarantino to let Django have a more central role in the story. “I was like, ‘No, Quentin, please, I need to kill the bad guy!’” (Ironically, Waltz was considered a supporting actor during his Oscar-winning award season, while Jamie Foxx was promoted as the movie’s lead.)

But no hard feelings: Smith was a big fan of the final product. “I thought it was brilliant,” he says. “Just not for me.”

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Dec 10 2012 03:08 PM ET

'After Earth' trailer: Will Smith and Jaden Smith together again, for the first time, for the last time

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Following a successful collaboration in The Pursuit of Happyness and also a lifetime of being related to each other, Will Smith and Jaden Smith are reteaming in After Earth, a film about a father and son in the far-future who land on a the most terrifying planet of all: [planet's name redacted to avoid ironic spoiler]. The first trailer for After Earth looks intriguing. It also looks intriguingly similar to Oblivion. Watch the trailer, which unfortunately doesn’t mention the very important fact that Will Smith is playing a character named General Cypher Raige: READ FULL STORY »

Jul 16 2012 10:23 PM ET

'After Earth' viral teaser sets up the world of Will and Jaden Smith's sci-fi adventure -- VIDEO

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Hollywood’s new favorite way to market a high concept studio sci-fi film is the quasi-viral soft sell. Sometimes they’re fake advertisements for fictional companies (like for RoboCop and Elysium); other times, they come in the form of an endorsement by a third-party brand to give the viral clip more legitimacy (like the Prometheus TED talk). But the underlying goal is the same: Edutain audiences about the world of the film without ever expressly stating This Is An Ad For a Potential Blockbuster.

The latest iteration is the first teaser for the M. Night Shyamalan-helmed Will and Jaden Smith sci-fi adventure After Earth, out June 2013, about a father and son who crash land on Earth 1,000 years after humanity evacuated the increasingly inhospitable planet. Instead of any shots of its two stars, however, the video traces how the crash landing of an extra-terrestrial space craft helped boost human technology, and ultimately led to the inevitable disintegration of the planet. It also introduces the Raige family, the pioneers of this technology and the descendants of Will and Jaden Smith’s respective characters. Interestingly, the entire timeline is presented as part of, well, a Facebook timeline — though the actual Facebook page for the film has barely developed.

Check it out below:  READ FULL STORY »

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