Jaden Smith as Kanye West? No, it's not an early Halloween, it's a new Showtime anthology series called Omniverse, in which Smith will play a young West.
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Ezra Koenig, lead singer of Vampire Weekend, has teamed up with Jaden Smith to produce a Netflix anime series called Neo Yokio. See the Neo Yokio trailer.
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Watch the epic first The Get Down trailer. The Netflix series from Baz Luhrmann follows the collision of hip-hop, funk, and disco in 1970s New York.
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Get the details on the Jaden Smith Static Shock rumor. Actor Tyler James Williams let slip that Smith will play the DC superhero in a TV series.
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There's a potential Legend of Zelda Netflix Series on the horizon and we decided to fan cast the roles of Link, Zelda, Ganon and a showrunner. Read here.
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In the novel The Good Lord Bird, the young slave Henry dresses in a sackcloth during an escape from violence, and subsequently takes advantage of being mistaken for a girl as he seeks freedom. It's not the role you might assume Jaden Smith would take to follow a couple of Karate Kid movies (the second…
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Breck Eisner has been hired to be The Karate Kid sequel director. The sequel will likely reunite The Karate Kid stars Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan.
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A Will Smith movie without charisma is like an M. Night Shyamalan movie without a twist. It sounds interesting or different going in, but this one ultimately doesn't deliver. Much as Shyamalan made his career on surprise twists, Smith made himself the biggest star in the world by focusing his talent and charm. Over his…
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M. Night Shyamalan's new film and potential comeback After Earth has been moved up one week from June 7 to May 31. It's a good move on Columbia's part, as the Will Smith movie can very likely dominate that late May weekend, which is otherwise occupied by Now You See Me and The Purge. After…
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Once upon a time, when M. Night Shyamalan was making a movie, his name was promoted above the title. Then he did The Happening and The Last Airbender. For his latest release, After Earth, his name is barely visible with a microscope. Which is probably a good thing when the film has one of, if not the biggest…
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The first trailer for M. Night Shyamalan's After Earth was a pretty tightly controlled thing, showing characters played by Will and Jaden Smith stranded on Earth in a future that has seen evolution turn decidedly against humans. This second trailer gives more context to the story, showing a bit of what the two guys were…
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M. Night Shyamalan's stock as a director has steadily declined since his breakout The Sixth Sense, but with some luck After Earth could be the film to turn that trend around. For one thing, it's tough to go lower than the 6% RT score he got for The Last Airbender. For another, the marketing materials…
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While we won't know if the sci-fi film After Earth is a return to form for M. Night Shyamalan for a few months, we do know one thing. The world the filmmaker has created around the movie is incredibly rich and thoughtout. That much is obvious with the launch of the film's official website. The site…
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Here's the international trailer for M. Night Shyamalan's sci-fi picture After Earth, which stars Will Smith and son Jaden Smith as a father and son who are stranded on an Earth that has returned to a sort of wild, prehistoric state. The trailer opens with a hell of a sequence, and then settles into a…
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Buried in the incredibly busy Saturday schedule for San Diego Comic-Con 2012 is a panel concerning M. Night Shyamalan's latest film, After Earth. The sci-fi film, which stars Will and Jaden Smith, seems like a natural fit for Comic-Con, but neither the director or its two leads will be in attendance. Instead, the panel will be…
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Comic Con kicks off in San Diego on July 11, and with the show only a month away we haven't had too much concrete news about what will appear, and what is likely to miss the show. We know that The Dark Knight Rises won't be there, as Warner Bros. and Christopher Nolan have avoided…
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Since The Karate Kid remake, Sony has been fully committed to being in the Jaden Smith business. Doesn't hurt that he's the son of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, or that his father is interested in making movies with his son. (Such as M. Night Shyamalan's After Earth, pictured above, which is shooting now.)…
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M. Night Shyamalan recently started shooting his new film After Earth, in which a family crash lands on Earth one thousand years after humanity has vacated the planet. Will Smith plays a father who is captured by an Earth-dwelling force after the landing, leading his son (Jaden Smith) to mount an effort to save him.…
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M. Night Shyamalan, Will Smith and Jaden Smith are currently in Costa Rica shooting the Summer 2013 blockbuster After Earth and it seems like the trio are dead set on keeping the fans involved in the action. Shyamalan has been posting several behind the scenes shots at the film's jungle location and Smith's camp is…
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Gore Verbinski's The Lone Ranger was forced to make some changes when Disney balked at its $250 million price tag, but happily, it doesn't seem the cuts have stopped the project from continuing to land some solid talent. Deadline reports that rising star James Badge Dale is now the frontrunner to join the cast in…
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Polarizing director M. Night Shyamalan recently joined Twitter and revealed a few things about his upcoming collaboration with Will Smith. Back in April, it was announced Shyamalan would direct both Will and his son Jaden Smith in a movie tentatively titled One Thousand A.E. about what happens when a young boy and his father's spaceship…
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Despite writing and directing a multiple Razzie award-winning film his last time out, M. Night Shyamalan has now officially bagged two major stars for his follow-up. Shyamalan had previously mentioned he was prepping a sci-fi film for Jaden Smith and that's just been made official, adding the news that Jaden will co-star with his father,…
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Last month it was revealed that Jaden Smith had been cast in director M. Night Shyamalan's new project, a science fiction film scripted by ournalist-turned-screenwriter Gary Whitta (The Book of Eli) titled One Thousand A.E. At the time we didn't know much about the project, with story details being kept tightly under wraps. The only…
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Say what you will about director M. Night Shyamalan, but the man knows how to stay busy and keep putting himself out there. Even though his last film, The Last Airbender, was destroyed by film critics everywhere, it went onto gross over $300 million worldwide, fueling speculation about a possible sequel. Moreover, Drew and John…
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Shortly after The Karate Kid was released in theaters, earning $56 million opening weekend (well surpassing expectations), it was announced that they were going to begin development on a sequel. Columbia Pictures executives have been meeting with screenwriters to pitch their ideas on a sequel. Tonight HeatVision is reporting that screenwriters Cyrus Voris and Ethan…
Read MoreYesterday Russ wrote about how the box office performance of The Karate Kid would probably lead to a sequel, with a comment from director Harold Zwart saying that ideas have been discussed. Now Deadline has confirmed our suspicions -- Columbia Pictures executives are meeting with screenwriters to pitch their ideas on a sequel. It seems…
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The Karate Kid easily owned the weekend box office in its debut outing, thrashing The A-Team by a margin of two dollars earned for every one taken by Joe Carnahan's TV revival. With Will Smith's son Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan earning $56m, well surpassing expectations, do you think there will be a sequel? In…
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