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Apr 26 2012 09:09 PM ET

Casting Net: Vera Farmiga and Andy Garcia to romance in 'Admissions.' Plus: Denzel Washington, Will Smith, Emile Hirsch

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• Vera Farmiga and Andy Garcia will star in Admissions, as parents of different teenagers visiting the same college who become romantically entangled. Adam Rodgers will make his feature directing debut with the indie romcom. [THR]

• Rooney Mara, who just yesterday signed on for Spike Jonze’s next film, is now also attached to star in the adaptation of Colm Toibin’s 2009 novel Brooklyn. Adapted by writer Nick Hornby, the story follows an Irish woman in the 1950s who falls for an American. [THR]

• In other Nick Hornby news, Emile Hirsch has joined Pierce Brosnan and Toni Collette in the big screen adaptation of the author’s 2005 novel A Long Way Down, about a suicidal foursome who support each other after meeting on New Year’s Eve. [THR]

• Willem Dafoe has signed onto Out of the Furnace, a thriller about two brothers (Christian Bale, Casey Affleck), one who goes to prison, one who ends up embroiled in crime. Director Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart) is currently shooting the film in Pennsylvania. [Deadline]

• And finally, a story from the Dept. of Projects We Really Hope Actually Happen: Anchorman director Adam McKay is in talks to develop a remake of the 1974 Sidney Poitier/Bill Cosby comedy Uptown Saturday Night for Warner Bros, with the studio reportedly keen on Denzel Washington and Will Smith to star. With no script even written yet, there will be a lot of hurdles to clear before Washington and Smith formally attach themselves to the project, let alone that it gets a greenlight. But here’s hoping. [Deadline]

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Apr 18 2012 08:00 AM ET

'Men in Black 3' star Josh Brolin talks about playing a young Tommy Lee Jones: 'That was the toughest thing I'll ever do'

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The challenges involved in bringing Men in Black 3 to the screen — the ever changing script, the production delays, the budget that reportedly soared past $215 million — are not exactly a secret. If the thing had been a cakewalk, odds are we wouldn’t be sitting here 10 full years after the last installment of the sci-fi-comedy series, gearing up for the new film’s May 25 release. But co-star Josh Brolin had his own personal slice of misery to contend with in the making of MiB3: honing his impression of Tommy Lee Jones. The film’s storyline has Will Smith’s Agent J traveling back in time to 1969 to prevent an alien baddie named Boris (played by Jemaine Clement) from assassinating Jones’ Agent K — and the critical job of playing that younger incarnation of K fell to Brolin. “That was the toughest thing I’ll ever do,” Brolin tells EW. “I’m literally reliving it with you right now, and I’m so happy to be able to laugh about it.” READ FULL STORY »

Dec 12 2011 11:41 AM ET

'Men in Black III' trailer: Will Smith meets the new K

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When Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones team back up for this summer’s Men in Black sequel, it will have been a full decade since their last adventure. What’s changed? Well, the film’s special effects are much better than I remember, and Will Smith has to travel back to 1969 to smooth out some wrinkle in time that’s killed K. Plus, the old K — that is, the new, younger K — will bring a smile to your face. Take a look. READ FULL STORY »

Jun 24 2011 11:31 AM ET

Emma Thompson in talks to write 'Annie' for Willow Smith

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Will Smith is courting Men in Black III co-star Emma Thompson to write the screenplay for a remake of Annie that would star his daughter, Willow. A spokesperson for Thompson confirmed a New York Magazine report that talks were underway, though a role in front of the cameras does not appear to be in the cards for the actress. The Oscar-winning writer (Sense and Sensibility) and writer/star of the Nanny McPhee films plays Agent Oh in next summer’s Men in Black sequel.

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Jun 15 2011 03:16 PM ET

'Django Unchained' gets Christmas 2012 release date

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Though its cast is still coming together, Quentin Tarantino’s next movie at least has a release date. Django Unchained, a spaghetti Western about a former Southern slave who attempts to rescue his wife from a cruel plantation owner, will greet fans on Christmas Day 2012, The Weinstein Company confirmed today. (ComingSoon.net had the initial story).

Leonardo DiCaprio is rumored to be in final talks for the role of the evil slave owner, while Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds) is expected to play a German bounty hunter. Will Smith, Idris Elba, Chris Tucker, and Jamie Foxx have been mentioned as possible candidates for the lead, with Samuel L. Jackson in the mix for another role.

Unchained would be Tarantino’s first December release since Jackie Brown opened on Christmas Day in 1997.

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Apr 4 2011 04:27 PM ET

Will Smith joins son Jaden in M. Night Shyamalan sci-fi film

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Sony Pictures Entertainment announced on Monday that Will Smith will join his son, Jaden, onscreen in an untitled sci-fi film for director M. Night Shyamalan. According to the studio, the film is set 1,000 years in the future, where a young boy navigates an abandoned and sometimes scary Earth to save himself and his estranged father after their ship crashes. Said Shyamalan in a release: ”The chance to make a scary, science-fiction film starring Jaden and Will is my dream project.” (The younger Smith first hinted at the prospect of the project to EW last November, when it had the title 1000 A.E.)  READ FULL STORY »

Feb 16 2011 02:37 PM ET

'Men in Black III' scoop: Threequel delayed as production juggles writers, says source

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MIBImage Credit: Melinda Sue GordonProduction on Men in Black III, which was scheduled to resume this week after nearly a two-month break, has been further delayed until March 28. According to a Los Angeles Times report, an unfinished script was the root of the problem. A source close to the production tells EW that Sony agreed to give director Barry Sonnenfeld more time to prep the last act of the film after viewing a promising cut of the first act, which was completed before the holidays. Jeff Nathanson (Catch Me if You Can) had come aboard to work on the script for four weeks, but Etan Cohen (Tropic Thunder), who authored a previous draft, is now back writing. The delays won’t impact the availability of the cast (Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin), says the source, and the film is still locked into its Memorial Day 2012 release date.

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Jan 26 2011 02:21 PM ET

It's official: Will Smith and Jay-Z are hooking up to produce 'Annie' among other things...

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Willow-Smith-Jay-ZImage Credit: James Coldrey/WireImage.com; Astrid Stawiarz/GettyLast week, we reported that Will Smith was in talks with Sony Pictures to produce a movie adaptation of the beloved musical Annie that would star Smith’s 10-year-old daughter Willow and feature music by Jay-Z. Now it’s official. But not only are the A-list movie star and the multi-platinum rapper collaborating on the saga of the Broadway-belting little orphan, they’ve also formed a new joint venture to produce and develop more feature films and no doubt take over the world shortly thereafter.

In a statement from Smith’s publicist, the deal between Jay-Z and Smith’s production shingle Overbrook Entertainment (which includes wife Jada Pinkett Smith, James Lassiter, and Ken Stovitz) went down as follows: READ FULL STORY »

Dec 8 2010 05:02 PM ET

Wachowskis eyeing Will Smith for the 'Hood'

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The Wachowski siblings, Andrew and Lana (né Laurence), are gearing up for their next project: A modern, urban retelling of the Robin Hood legend, titled Hood. The Wachowskis wrote the script and would co-direct, as first reported by the Hollywood Reporter‘s Heat Vision Blog. Will Smith, who famously turned down the role of Neo in the Wachowskis’ The Matrix (to make Wild Wild West instead), is reportedly being considered for the lead role.

Jun 18 2010 04:58 PM ET

Why the hatred for Jaden Smith? It's the ugly underside of fan worship.

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the-kung-fu-kidImage Credit: Jasin BolandWhat is Jaden Smith’s crime? Last weekend, the up-and-coming young actor, who will turn 12 this July 8, starred in a remake of The Karate Kid that audiences flocked to beyond expectation and, from all available evidence, loved. Given that Smith is front and center in more or less every frame of the two-hour-and-20-minute movie (and given that his performance, as a kid who hides his sadness behind a mask of surliness, is — to this critic, at least — a magnetic and affecting piece of acting), I hope we can all agree that Jaden Smith’s presence on screen had a little something to do with the movie’s success. Yet Smith’s rise has been greeted, in far too many quarters (including a number of comment boards on EW.com, like the one on my review), with bitter, gnashing resentment. This 11-year-old really has the haters foaming.

Excuse me, but what the heck is going on? Let’s start with the indisputable fact that Smith got to be in the position he’s in because his father is the biggest movie star on the planet. So where, exactly, should that piece of information lead us? Should we hate Jaden Smith? Should we hate Will Smith? Should we hate every young actor or musician who ever got placed on the map of fame because of his or her parents? (Take that, Miley Cyrus, Michael Douglas, and Jamie Lee Curtis.) Oh, but, of course, the rap on Jaden Smith is that he’s all nepotism and nothing else, that he’s a kind of grouchy preteen Tori Spelling in cornrows. He’s been excoriated as a bad actor (even though, just a few years ago, most viewers had nothing but praise for the appealingly feisty and precocious performance he gave right next to his dad in The Pursuit of Happyness). He’s been called a brat, a spoiled no-talent, an ungrateful beneficiary of his lineage of stardom. He’s been ripped up and down as “insufferable” for his appearance last week on The Late Show With David Letterman. READ FULL STORY »

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