will smith

Popular American actor and rapper Willard Christopher "Will" Smith, Jr. was born on September 25, 1968 in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is considered a triple threat in the entertainment industry having enjoyed success in music, television and film.


Will Smith started as the MC of the hip-hop duo DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince. They gained critical acclaim for winning the first ever Rap Grammy Award in 1989. He has since released 4 solo studio albums, selling a combined 20 million units worldwide.

In 1990 Smith starred in the successful NBC sitcom The Fresh Prince Of BelAir. The show aired for six seasons.

Will Smith's impressive filmography includes roles in: Bad Boys (alongside Martin Lawrence and Tea Leoni), Independence Day, Men In Black, Ali, The Pursuit Of Happiness and Hancock. He is the only actor in history to have eight consecutive films gross over $100 million in the domestic box office as well as being the only actor to have eight consecutive films open at #1 on the domestic box office as a lead actor.

Smith married actress Jada Pinkett in 1997. Together they have two children.

See what bloggers have to say about Will Smith at sites like WillSmithWeb.com and Will-Smith.net.

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• Steven Spielberg and Will Smith’s Old Boy is No More

  
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  Could it be? Have our prayer’s been answered? Latino Review is reporting that Steven Spielberg’s Old Boy starring Will Smith is dead in the water. Apparently Dreamworks and original Korean production studio were working together to get the rights to the manga, but the two ... Screen Rant found this 45 minutes ...
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• Best News You’ll Hear Today: Old Boy Remake Canned

  
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  Having recently revisited Park Chan-wook’s Oldboy, I’ve come to the conclusion that that film has a little slice of everything. It has incredibly light humor followed by the darkest of gallows humor,  and then proceeds to toss any funny business aside to strike at some of the darkest themes I’ve ever seen in ...
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• Transparent Opportunist Megastar Goes Full Retard: Will Smith On Flowers For Algernon

  
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  In another bid to be Americas most well-liked star, as well as an attempt for a third Oscar nomination, Will Smith has attached himself to star in an adaptation of the popular tearjerker novel "Flowers For Algernon." The original story, a sci-fi concoction about a man who at first has accelerated and then ...
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• OLDBOY remake dead

  
  Obsessed With Film — Authority: 429
  The Oldboy remake is done.Latino Review report from "a trusted source" that Mandate (Korean studio behind the original film) and Dreamworks were unable to see eye-to-eye during negotiations over the mangas rights and it left Dreamworks into walking out on the project, along with Steven Spielberg and his star/producer ...
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• Notes on the history of Black Cinema

  
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  The first all-black casted film, The Homesteader , was made by novelist Oscar Micheaux in 1919. It dealt with the race tensions and inequalities of the period, a theme that would continue to be pervasive in black cinema. Of the 500 or so ‘race movies’ – films made for black people by black people up until about ...
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• Smith/Spielberg OLDBOY Is Dead

  
  We Are Movie Geeks — Authority: 592
  My sigh of relief echoed down my vacant and cold street moments ago as I read that the much talked about Will Smith and Steven Spielberg OLDBOY re-imagining is no more. Latino Review reports that Dreamworks and Mandate could not come to terms and the project is essentially scrapped! This could not be better news for ...
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• Steven Spielberg and Will Smith’s Old Boy is No More

  
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  Could it be? Have our prayer’s been answered? Latino Review is reporting that Steven Spielberg’s Old Boy starring Will Smith is dead in the water. Apparently Dreamworks and original Korean production studio Mandate were working together to get the rights to the manga, but the two couldn’t reach an ...
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• Will Smith And Spielberg’s OLDBOY Remake Is D-E-A-D!

  
  Rama's Screen — Authority: 153
  You remember that OLDBOY remake that Will Smith and Steven Spielberg have been trying to make?! How they wanted to base it on the Japanese manga series by Nobuaki Minegishi and Garon Tsuchiya instead of straight up remaking the Chan Wook Park ’s classic. At one point they even got Mark Protosevich ( I Am ...
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• Will Smith Taking on Flowers for Algernon?

  
  Get The Big Picture — Authority: 584
  Another non-confirmed bit o casting goodness, which comes to us from Pajiba . Hows this strike you: Will Smith to produce and star in an update of Flowers for Algernon ? There are a plenty of details here and taken at face value, its not too hard a story to believe. According to Pajibas source, ...
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• Will Smith Looking for an Oscar in a New Role in FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON

  
  GeekTyrant — Authority: 608
  Will Smith has been nominated for an Academy Award twice already but he has yet to win one. Of course he wants one, and Smith might be hoping this role he wants to play in a film he is also producing will give him that win. The film is called, Flowers for Algernon , a modern-day adaptation of the Daniel Keyes’ ...
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• Will Smith Stops And Smells The FLOWERS

  
  Rama's Screen — Authority: 153
  Rama’s SCREEN reader Frankie thinks Will Smith always plays Will Smith in all his movies, he might be wearing a suit or holding a gun or living alone in a post-apocalyptic world but he’s still Will Smith . But what if Will Smith plays a mentally retarded character? Would that finally give him an Oscar? ...
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• Exclusive: Will Smith & Steven Spielberg’s Old Boy DEAD!

  
  ShowHype - Top Movies News, Videos, and Blogs — Authority: 163
  Late Breaking News… This just in… You know that OLDBOY remake…well it wasn’t really a remake, anyway (which is a terrible idea by the way) Steven Spielberg and Will Smith were suppose to do a film that was based on the Japanese manga by Nobuaki Minegishi and Garon Tsuchiya and NOT FROM THE ... GeekTyrant ...
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• Steven Spielberg and Will Smith’s OLDBOY Remake Project is Dead

  
  GeekTyrant — Authority: 608
  Looks like fans of the film and manga Oldboy can rejoice at the fact that Steven Spielberg and Will Smith will no longer be remaking the film and Americanizing the Japanese manga. According to our friends at Latino Review the DreamWorks Oldboy film project is dead. Spielberg and Smith were developing the ...
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• Will Smith Signs onto Flowers for Algernon

  
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  Pajiba Exclusive: Will Smith to Remake Flowers for Algernon He Will Win that Oscar Yet / Dustin Rowles Film School Rejects found this 3 hours ago on pajiba.com Find more top entertainment news, videos, and blogs on ShowHype: Movies , Will Smith
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• A Risk movie.

  
  Moe Lane — Authority: 676
  As in, a movie based on the board game Risk .  Coming from Columbia pictures, and apparently starring Will Smith . Belgrad pointed to the success of movies from toys  Transformers and G.I. Joe (but not to the dismal movie from the board game Clue ) to claim audiences have “shown a great desire for ...
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• Making History at 8–0

  
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  - Photograph by Jonathan Bachman - Hot Gumbo: Sean Payton — So made a pretty mystifying decision early in the fourth quarter when he called a timeout before unsuccessfully challenging a Marque Colston incompletion in the end zone, but he called an otherwise flawless second half for the Saints. Also, ...
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• Week 8: Star Studded Saints!

  
  NFL Touchdown — Authority: 534
  What a game - the Falcons almost…ALMOST….almost threatened the Saints undefeated season thus far (knock on wood) with their last minute efforts…seriously, the last minute of the game seemed to take FOREVER with the Falcons trying their best to claw at the Saints and sneak out of the Big Easy with a win. Luckily ...
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• Filmmaking Quote of the Day #4 (Will Smith)

  
  Screenwriting from Iowa — Authority: 425
  “I’ve never viewed myself as particularly talented. I’ve viewed myself as…slightly  above average in talent…Where I excel is with (a) ridiculous, sickening work ethic. While the other guy’s sleeping , I’m working. While the other guy’s eating, I’m working.”Will SmithProducer, writer, & ...
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• Montana, Gretzky, Smith Progeny Still Undefeated

  
  SPORTSbyBROOKS — Authority: 726
  It’s the only high school football snack bar that sells autograph pens. At any given game you may seen Joe Montana , Wayne Gretzky , Will Smith , or even Tom Cruise in the stands. I attended an Oaks Christian High School game last season and it’s actually kind of hilarious: The real Hollywood High. You ...
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