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*Will Smith and James Lassiter’s Overbrook Entertainment is partnering with production company Virgin Produced in a non-exclusive pact that will see Virgin Produced have the option to co-finance, co-produce and co-market a sequel to Columbia’s upcoming Overbrook product “After Earth.” That’s of course if a sequel is warranted after the pic’s May 31 release, reports [...]
*Jada Pinkett-Smith will produce and star in the upcoming feature film “Salsa,” reports Deadline. The actress stars as a woman at a turning point in her life who meets a salsa teacher, played by Latino soap star William Levy. Through the dance of salsa she begins to get her life back on track. “Clueless” helmer [...]
*Jamie Foxx is in negotiations to star opposite Oscar nominee Quvenzhane Wallis in Sony’s forthcoming reboot of “Annie.” The update of the classic comic strip-turned-musical would see Foxx as a character named Benjamin Stacks, a variation of the Daddy Warbucks personage, who takes in the spunky orphan girl being played by Wallis. Foxx has received [...]
*Will Smith and James Lassiter’s Overbrook Entertainment have two TV shows in development at different networks, reports Deadline.com. HBO’s sister channel Cinemax has its hands on “Kingpin,” an hourlong drama from Black List writer Chad St. John (“Ronin”). It centers on a crafty and careful mid-level drug trafficker trying to get out of the business. He [...]
*Jada Pinkett-Smith and Simon Cowell have scrapped their planned TV talent show that searches for the next superstar DJ, and word is — the issue was over who would receive top billing on the show’s credits. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] Pinkett-Smith and her husband Will Smith’s production company Overbrook Entertainment were supposed to team [...]
*Among the films premiering at this month’s Toronto International Film Festival [TIFF] was a documentary about political activist, author and scholar Angela Davis that was produced to coincide with the 40th anniversary of her famous acquittal. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] In August 1970, the then UCLA professor was charged with the aggravated kidnapping and [...]
*“Men in Black 3” marks the first acting gig for Will Smith in four years, but the Hollywood heavyweight didn’t spend the entire hiatus away from the business. Much of the time was spent producing projects for his Overbrook Entertainment shingle – like “The Karate Kid” remake starring his son Jaden. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS [...]
*Warner Bros is developing a remake of the 1974 comedy “Uptown Saturday Night,” with Will Smith and Denzel Washington eyed to take over the roles played by Bill Cosby and Sidney Poitier. Adam McKay is in negotiations to direct the film, which is being developed by Smith and James Lassiter’s Overbrook Entertainment. According to The [...]
*Sony Pictures and Will Smith’s Overbrook Entertainment are in early talks to acquire film rights to Allen Zadoff’s novel “Boy Nobody,” with plans to develop it as a starring vehicle for Jaden Smith. “Boy Nobody” is the first in a planned young adult trilogy about a brainwashed teenage assassin who starts to regain his emotions. [...]
*Simon Cowell is partnering with Will and Jada Pinkett-Smith for a new reality competition series searching for the world’s best DJ. Cowell’s SYCO Entertainment is partnering with the couple’s Overbrook Entertainment and Sony Pictures Television to launch the format, which is expected to be shopped internationally and domestically, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “DJ’s are [...]
*ABC has picked up a new sitcom from Will and Jada Pinkett Smith. The pair, along with long-time business partner James Lassiter, has sold the Untitled Romeo Project, with singer Anthony “Romeo” Santos tapped to star. The effort, from ABC Studios and their Overbrook Entertainment, centers on a charismatic Dominican-American (Romeo) from Washington Heights, who [...]
*Jaden Smith is again set to star opposite his father, Will Smith – this time in director M. Night Shyamalan’s next untitled sci-fi adventure, Doug Belgrad, president of Columbia Pictures, announced today. When rumors of the project were first mentioned in October by The Hollywood Reporter, the project was called “One Thousand AE.” Set 1,000 [...]
*Will Smith is reportedly attached to a film project titled “Joe,” which is being described as a modern version of the Biblical story of Job. “The Fighter” scribes Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson have sold the project to Sony Pictures and Smith’s Overbrook Entertainment, according to Movie B.S. Speaking with the blog over the weekend, [...]
*Will Smith and James Lassiter’s Overbrook Entertainment have partnered with Chinese-born filmmaker Eva Jin to develop an untitled crime drama for Fox, reports Variety. Twentieth Century Fox TV is behind the untitled hourlong, which focuses on a crime-fighting female college student China. Smith, Lassiter and Overbrook are also developing an hourlong based on the feature [...]
*Deadline is reporting that Will Smith is set to produce and star in “The Legend of Cain,” a film described as a biblical tale with a vampire twist. Smith will reportedly play Cain, a crop farmer in the Biblical story of brothers Cain and Abel, a shepherd. Cain is portrayed as sinful, committing the first [...]
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