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Welcome to Smith Zone, a fan site dedicated to bringing you the latest on mr Smith's music career.
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» Smith on the cover of Men's Vogue (11.22.07) |
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Will Smith is in an enviable position. Entangled in full clinch with Charlize Theron, he's wrestling around for a frisky fight scene on the set of the romantic comedy Hancock. Sweating and grunting, they grapple in the bucket of a fake bulldozer against a green screen, doing take after take for director Peter Berg and a crew of about 50 standing below. It's the film's last week of shooting at Sony's studios in Los Angeles, and Smith's hallmark laugh—confident, flagrant, manchild mirth—is the loudest thing on the soundstage, a pleasing basso profundo. While movie sets like these can become a grind, Smith—playing a down-and-out superhero who hires a publicist (Jason Bateman), only to fall for the flack's wife (Theron)—is churning out DVD extras as he boxes the air, taunts Berg, and keeps Theron in stitches. "Did anyone see Will fall like a girl?" she asks, toppling over in imitation. Finally, on the seventh take of intense tussle, they nail it, so to speak. Smith grins and declares: "That one was kind of soft-porny." Click Here to read more.
On Nov 1st Will attended the premiere of Tom Cruise's new movie "Lions for Lambs," click here to view pictures.
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» Gallery Update (10.08.07) |
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Sorry for neglecting the site once again. I've updated the gallery with the following pictures:
"Hancock" Movie Stills.
On The Set of "Hancock".
"I Am Legend" Movie Stills.
The Kingdom Premiere - Sep 17, 2007.
Golden Globes - Jan 23, 1993.
The official "I Am Legend" movie website is now up and running, click here to check it out.
Smith denies son's debut
Actor Will Smith has denied rumours that his nine-year-old son is to take on the lead role in a remake of the 1984 classic Karate Kid.
Smith's company Overbrook Entertainment is making the film to be directed by the actor himself, reports contactmusic.com.
A spokesperson for Smith said rumours that Smith's son Jaden taking on the lead role originally reprised by Ralph Macchi is "not true". Smith and his son have co-starred before in the hit Pursuit of Happyness.
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» Will Smith is John Hancock (07.10.07) |
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Will Smith is currently busy filming his new summer Blockbuster "John Hancock," where he plays a tortured superhero (Smith) who has fallen out of favor with the public enters into a questionable relationship with the wife (Charlize Theron) of the public relations professional (Jason Bateman) who’s trying to repair his image. He tries to transform himself by romancing this alluring housewife, causing chaos in the city. John Hancock is set for a July 2, 2008 release. Login to the gallery to view pictures from the set.
If you haven't seen the trailer for Will's Dec movie "I Am Legend" yet, then click here.
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» Better Late Than Never (03.15.07) |
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I've finally uploaded some pictures from The 79th Annual Academy Awards, click here to view them.
The Pursuit of Happyness will be availble on DVD in the US on March 27th, click here to pre-order from amazon.com
Also, Will Smith has been nominated for an Nickelodeon Award in the Best Actor category.
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» Gallery Update & TEFA Awards (02.15.07) |
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» Will Smith Nominated For An Oscar (01.24.07) |
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Will Smith received yesterday his 2nd Best Actor Nomination for his role in "The Pursuit of Happyness." Also nominated are Leonardo DiCaprio, "Blood Diamond"; Ryan Gosling, "Half Nelson"; Peter O'Toole, "Venus"; Forest Whitaker, "The Last King of Scotland."
I'm working on getting the latest updates and pictures added to the site - Hopefully by Feb 1st.
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» The Latest on Mr Smith (12.09.06) |
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• Will and Jaden are on the cover of the Dec issue of Entertainment Weekly and the Jan issue of Ebony Magazine.
I won't post the articles for a while as I don't want to take away any potential sales, but you can check out the gallery for some pictures.
• Click Here to read a Q&A from comingsoon.net.
• Click Here to visit philly.com to listen to an audio interview with Will Smith and more.
• Checkout clips from the Oprah interview on youtube.com PART 1 - PART 2 - PART 3. Hurry up before they get deleted.
• Catch Will on TV this Decemeber: Late Show with David Letterman Dec 14 Thu CBS --- Live With Regis and Kelly Dec 15 Fr.
• A couple of days ago The film and television career of Will Smith were toasted in grand style Sunday night by the American Museum of the Moving Image in New York. Many of Will's co-stars and celebrity friends were in attendance including Eva Mendes, Bridget Moynahan, Thandie Newton, Alfonso Ribeiro, Jamie Foxx, Bill Pullman, Terrence Howard, Queen Latifah, Chevy Chase, Chris Gardner and many more. Login to the gallery to view many pictures from the event. Click Here to read more about the event.
• The entire Smith family attended the world premiere of "The Pursuit of Happyness" in Los Angeles two days ago. Login to the gallery to view some pictures.
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» Gallery Update & More (11.26.06) |
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Tom and Katie Cruise Wedding Nov 18, 2006.
US Premier Magazine Dec 06 Issue More pictures.
Pursuit of Happyness Premiere in Miami Nov 16, 2006.
Pursuit of Happyness Press Conference Nov 9, 2006.
• Will and the cast of Pursuit of Happyness were on Oprah a couple of days ago, click here to view pictures and more.
• Click Here to read an Extra Premiere Q&A with Will.
• ...When asked when he's returning to the music scene, he replied "That might be in the past." Click Here to view the clip. :( :(
• Will still loves Hip Hop though: "...I love hip-hop and always will. I am hip-hop... I released a record last year on my Overbrook label and my 'lil 16 year old nephew, K-Smith, will be dropping a CD soon. Me and 50 Cent are working on it."
• Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith are producing two new comedies for ABC and The CW.
The CW show, from Randi Mayem Singer, is a single-camera half-hour about a group of mostly divorced mothers who live in a large apartment complex. The Hollywood Reporter adds from the point of view of a security guard who patrols the area, it focuses on the women's child-rearing problems and their dating lives.
The ABC show is a multicamera comedy about an upper-class black man from a conservative family and his Jewish wife from a liberal lower-middle-class family who juggle raising their twins and dealing with their respective mother-in-laws who move into their crowded home; it's written by Betsy Borns.
• Will Smith recently said he wants to boldly go where only a few people have gone before... space!
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» The latest Press (11.15.06) |
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It's not long until Will's new movie Pursuit of Happyness premieres and that means he's "forced" to do a lot of press for it.
• He's on the cover of the December issue of Premiere magazine. I don't have the article yet, but you can login to the gallery to view two pictures from the magazine.
• Check out the The Reader's Digest Magazine website to listen to an audio interview with Will. It's also available in written form in the latest issue and on their website, click here.
• The NYTimes also interviewed Will recently, click here or here to read their feature.
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» News Sum-Up & Gallery Update (11.04.06) |
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Once again sorry for the lack of updates. I've updated the gallery with the following pictures:
On The Set of "I Am A Legend" (24 Pictures.)
18th Annual Kids' Choice Awards 04.02.05 (41 Pictures.)
>The official Pursuit of Happyness website is now up and running, click here to check it out.
>Will made it clear that he would be interested to play Barack Obama in a movie about the politican, click here to read more about it and Pursuit of Happyness.
>Smith is one of a group of investors interested in buying the Philadelphia 76ers from Comcast-Spectator! Click Here to read more about it.
>Win a trip to the Hollywood premiere of 'Pursuit of Happyness' and an internship! Click Here for more info.
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Made some minor site updates today: added an 'In Pursuit of Happyness' page to the film section. Also added two HQ stills from the movie to the gallery.
Click Here to visit ConcreteLoop.com to view some candid pictures from the film set of 'I Am a Legend.' Pictures will soon be added to the gallery.
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I'm so sorry for neglecting the site... mr Smith is currently busy filming in NYC his new movie 'I Am A Legend.'
I managed to get hold of some paparazzi pictures of Will leaving his hotel to the film shoot, login to the gallery to view pictures.
More updates on the way...
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» The Pursuit of Happyness Trailer (08.01.06) |
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Sony has launched a new mini site for Will's new movie "The Pursuit of Happyness" with the movie trailer and an interview with Will. Click Here to visit the official movie site.
In other Will Smith News... Will Smith returned to his hometown to participate in a march against violence. The actor and rapper said he wanted to do something about the violence in the city, which had 380 killings in 2005 and appears likely to top that number this year.
"We're going to take this walk, hopefully draw a little attention to the problem and get some solutions," Smith said Saturday as he walked with his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, in West Philadelphia, along with local officials and members of the community.
The level of violence last week prompted the Philadelphia Daily News to call for the National Guard to patrol city streets.
Gov. Ed Rendell gave Philadelphia a $7.5 million grant for 166,000 hours of police overtime to help deal with gun violence until state police free up 70 city officers by taking over highway patrols.
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» Gallery Update (07.14.06) |
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» Depp Joins Smith in I Am Legend (07.02.06) |
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BlackFilm.com reports that "Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise star Johnny Depp will join Will Smith in Warner Bros.' I Am Legend, for director Francis Lawrence (Constantine):
When Will Smith was cast as the lead in the long-awaited adapted film version of Richard Matheson's I AM LEGEND, it was probably the worst kept secret. After all, his name had been floating around the web for the longest time. Until certain outlets that folks feel are the bible of information put the word out to confirm our story, sources tell blackfilm.com that along with Smith, JOHNNY DEPP has been added to the cast.
Depp may be playing Ben Cortman, who is Robert Neville's (Smith) neighbor in the film and the first to get infected, becoming the head vampire.
In Richard Matheson's book, Neville is the last living man on Earth... but he is not alone. Every other man, woman, and child has become a vampire, and they are all hungry for Neville's blood. By day, he is the hunter, stalking the sleeping undead through the abandoned ruins of civilization. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for the dawn.
The site says filming starts this September.
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» Latest Pictures (06.25.06) |
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Sorry about the lack of updates recently, to make it up -I've added the latest Smith pictures to the gallery;
Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards, Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People & Dubai Golf Tournament
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» New Best of Released (06.07.06) |
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Twenty years after releasing 'Girls Ain't Nothing but Trouble,' DJ JazzyJeff and The Fresh Prince remaster their favorite
hits from the 80's and 90's. Click Here to purchase.
1. Girls Ain't Nothing But Trouble
2. The Magnificent Jazzy Jeff
3. A Touch Of Jazz
4. Parents Just Don't Understand
5. A Nightmare On My Street
6. Brand New Funk
7. I Think I Can Beat Mike Tyson
8. The Groove (Jazzy's Groove)
9. Summertime
10. Ring My Bell
11. The Things That U Do
12. Boom! Shake The Room
13. I'm Looking For The One (To Be With Me)
14. I Wanna Rock
The latest photos will be added very soon to the gallery.
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» Mission Impossible III LA Premiere (05.07.06) |
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Will sported a new haircut at the Hollywood premiere of Tom Cruise's new movie 'Mission Impossible III.' Login to the gallery to view some pictures from the event. Also, check out the web section for new affiliates.
Info on Will's new movie I Am Legend: Will Smith is looking to get an early start on his new mutant movie, I Am Legend.
The Men In Black star is asking Warner Bros. to begin this summer on the Francis Lawrence-directed flick; it wasn't supposed to start until early next year.
According to Variety, the move would amount to a slot swap with "Tonight, He Comes" in which Smith was slated to star this summer. Gabriele Muccino took over as director of the film that's about the last healthy man battling blood-sucking mutants in New York.
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» Time Magazine: Most Influental Entertainers (05.02.06) |
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He has become our designated Wise Guy—the cool dude confronting aliens, villains and wary, foxy chicks while armored in nothing more than a knowing attitude and an enviable wardrobe. But Will Smith, 37, is something more than clothes and quips. What we always sense about the Wise Guy is that he's essentially a Sweet Guy, eager to learn, eager to please, eager to be heroically helpful and romantically obliging. He may be our most insinuating movie star and, amid all his studly competitors, the one with the lowest profile. Mostly he lives quietly (with wife Jada Pinkett Smith and his three kids) and works hard.
It could have been otherwise, for he began his public life as a rapper at age 12 and was TV's Fresh Prince of Bel-Air when barely in his 20s. Youthful stardom can be toxic to a performer, but his ambition for better things paradoxically kept him centered. His performance as a kid pretending to be Sidney Poitier's son in the movie version of Six Degrees of Separation made him an actor to be reckoned with, while such roles as the smooth street cop opposite Martin Lawrence in Bad Boys and the edgy rookie to Tommy Lee Jones' seen-it-all alien chaser in Barry Sonnenfeld's great Men in Black, made him a star. Last year's megahit Hitch, in which love—and Smith—conquered all, even the critics, proved his durability. He once said he wanted his career to be both "dazzling" and "eclectic." It's a goal he has pretty much achieved.
Click Here to read the full article.
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» The Smith's in Jerusalem (04.21.06) |
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He never got an invitation and he certainly didn't R.S.V.P., but that didn't stop Will Smith from crashing Atir Cohen's bar mitzvah at Jerusalem's Western Wall.
Cohen, 13, was deep into his Torah reading Thursday when he heard shouting and saw girls pushing against the barrier separating men from women at the holy site to catch a glimpse of the Hollywood superstar.
"At first I didn't know who it was," Cohen said. Smith compensated for the interruption by shaking the bar mitzvah boy's hand and posing for a picture with him.
Surrounded by a security detail, Smith approached the wall and put a note in the cracks in keeping with tradition.
Smith and his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, then took a tour of an excavated tunnel alongside the wall. The tour leader was Shmuel Rabinovitch, chief rabbi of the holy site, who said the couple took notes and spent several minutes praying.
"He is a very nice man, he was very excited and showed his emotions," he said.
Smith and his wife later visited the nearby Church of the Holy Sepulcher, built on the site where many Christians believe that Jesus was crucified.
Login to the gallery to view pictures Jerusalem pictures.
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» Pictures + News (04.12.06) |
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I've added some pictures from the ATL Premeire and The Kids' Choice Awards to the gallery.
Will won The Nickelodeon Award for Favorite Actor. Click Here to watch Will's acceptence speach. (Credit: Please contact me for credit. I don't remember who uploaded it)
New Film? Will Smith is to star in a new action thriller called 'Greenback'.
Variety reports that the film is set in Morocco and follows the adventures of an American expatriate who discovers a plot to sabotage the world economy by mass-producing counterfeit dollars.
Smith will also produce the film through his company, Overbook Entertainment.
The script for the film has been written by David Weisberg and Douglas Cook, whose credits include 'The Rock' and 'Double Jeopardy'.
Another Film? Universal Pictures has attached Will Smith to star in a feature adaptation of the TV series It Takes a Thief, reports Variety. The Roland Kibbee-created series, which starred Robert Wagner, ran 1968-70.
Smith will play a charming rogue who is blackmailed by the government into doing covert larceny for the good of his country. The film will put the professional thief in the employment of the CIA.
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» Bow Wow Ends Beef With Will Smith (04.12.06) |
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Bow Wow endured a lot of criticism from the media and hip hop fans for aligning himself with the top MCs in rap and the controversial remarks he made about Will Smith in an issue of XXL Magazine months ago.
However, all Bow Wow wants is his fans and the media to be clear about he and Smith and why he felt like he was among the best three MCs in hip hop at the time of his comments.
Bow Wow explained his comments in XXL, in which he said Smith "isn't a real rapper" and was "more of a bubblegum rapper."
"I'm going to be the first person to tell you this, but me and Will Smith had a sit down talk, eye-to-eye," Bow Wow told Vibe.com exclusively Wednesday (April 5). "Me and him (Smith) talked for like 30 minutes in my trailer and we worked it out. We walked out the trailer laughing, cracking up like crazy and that whole thing is deaded."
Bow Wow, who's responsible for the smash single "Fresh Azimiz", cites the truce with Smith as an important step of growing as not only an artist, but a man.
"That's me growing up learning a lot of things," he said. "I felt like it was only right as a man now, looking at me that I talk to another man eye-to-eye, instead of keep going on with the hoopla, so I called Will Smith myself and I respected him for even coming to meet."
Bow Wow also went on to say that he and Smith reached an understanding and hit it off to the point in which the different generation hip hop stars even talked about movie scripts. (vibe.com)
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» Site Updates & ATL Premiere (03.28.06) |
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Will and Jada attended a special screening of ATL (Produced by Will Smith, James Lassiter, Jody Gerson, and Dallas Austin) in New York. I've added some pictures from the event to gallery, more to follow.
New icons and wallpapers have been added to the You section.
If you're interested to read reviews on "Pursuit of Happyness" by pre-screening attendants, click here and here.
Indian beauty Aishwarya Rai and Will Smith's schedules are clashing, Click Here to read the full story.
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Jada looked absolutely stunning at the 78th Annual Academy Awards last night (and mr Smith didn't look too shabby himself.)
Login to the gallery to view some pictures from the event.
Will presented The Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, which went to the South African film "Tsotsi." www.tsotsi.com
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