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From www.deadline.com Sources are telling me that based on matinee trends Sony Pictures’ After Earth (3,401 theaters) starring Will Smith and his son and directed by the now unwatchable M Night Shyamalan is looking to open around low- to mid-$20sM for this weekend. That’s much less than the high $30sM to low $40sM which Sony was predicting. Rival studios tell me it’s “2.5 times worse that Jaden Smith’s Karate Kid reboot and half of Oblivion‘s opening”. Reviews for the newcomer were just plain awful: 13% positive on Rotten Tomatoes. Big online ticketseller Fandango spotted the pic’s underperformance first when After Earth ticket sales began lagging Lionsgate/Summit Entertainment’s Now You See Me (2,925 theaters) on Thursday for shows beginning at 9 PM. Right now my sources see the magic-themed heist thriller debuting in the low $20sM which is slightly better than the $20M which the studio was predicting. It began selling tickets for shows beginning at 7 PM Thursday. Still holding fierce at #1 is Universal’s Fast & Furious 6 (3,686 theaters) which should easily dominate the field again with $35M-$40M this weekend (though my sources think it could do even better than that). Continuing to fill that drought in family fare at the domestic box office, Twentieth Century Fox/Blue Sky Studios’ Epic (3,894 theaters, the weekend’s biggest count) should do high teens this weekend. But the toon’s real story will be international where it releases wide today. There’s unsettling domestic news for Warner Bros/Legendary Pictures’ The Hangover Part III (3,565 theaters) which on only its second weekend already is lagging Paramount’s Star Trek Into Darkness (3,585 theaters) which has been in release a week longer. The weekend numbers are looking like $12M-$13M vs $15M-$16M. However, H3 begins its overseas wide rollout today and should do huge international grosses. More later…

Well the vinyl destination Instagram posted a photo of the soundcheck so surely they must be filming it!

Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince are going to perform for the troops in Fort Hood, Texas at a special After Earth screening. Nice!

They were predicting a disappointing $35-$40 million weekend but early word is it might not even make $20 million... Remember Hancock made lose to $60, I Am Legend was over $70... For a supposed summer blockbuster that's very low.

Review: 'After Earth' crashes on take-off The sci-fi action-adventure starring Will Smith and son Jaden is a disaster. Blame the script, blame the poor effects, but most of all, blame director M. Night Shyamalan. By Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times Film Critic May 30, 2013, 5:45 p.m. I have so many questions after seeing "After Earth," the new sci-fi action-adventure starring Will Smith and his 14-year-old son, Jaden. First, just how much blinding power is in that famous smile of his? On the day Will Smith floated the idea — "sci-fi flick, father-son friction, me and the kid will star" — did its sheer warmth and radiance make everyone in the room believe that anything, including "After Earth" as an actual, viable movie, was possible? Someone wrote the checks. And then someone hired a director. Which leads to another question: Have alien body snatchers made off with M. Night Shyamalan? There is no small irony that this sci-fi action adventure is about surviving a serious crash. The scorched earth left behind by "After Earth" is sure to leave a scar on everyone involved. Although the Smith franchise will no doubt recover, the toxic ozone hanging over Shyamalan won't lift any time soon. "After Earth" has a hint of the skin-crawling fright of Shyamalan films past, the ethereal palette he favors, echoes of the tender human touches we saw in his Oscar-nominated "The Sixth Sense." Enough to feel that Shyamalan is still in there, fighting since "Signs" in 2002 to regain control. But not enough to save "After Earth." And not enough to explain why the director's films keep getting worse. It must be body snatchers, ones from a planet that has no clue how to make a movie. Has Smith forgotten that his strength is his warmth, his humanity? The effortless charm of his turns in "Men in Black," "Six Degrees of Separation" and of course "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air," which ruled the '90s, does not even show up for a cameo in "After Earth." That failure to communicate cannot be chalked up to the movie's more serious tone. The actor was equally charismatic in the far more serious "The Pursuit of Happyness." Smith earned that Oscar nod for his portrayal of the homeless Wall Street-hopeful/single dad, another father-son story that featured Jaden. The bones of Smith's story are not the problem. The issues churned up by an A-type dad with high expectations and a son's failure to measure up are classic. It's the transition to screenplay by Gary Whitta, who wrote the post-apocalyptic tale "The Book of Eli," and Shyamalan, that is rocky. The script has no nuance, none. And when Shyamalan moves into the director's chair, the script problems are magnified. Everything is spelled out, underlined in red. Take the close-up on a "Restricted Access" sign followed by the overkill of having someone proceed to explain what "Restricted Access" means. Speaking of overkill, flashbacks, thousands of them, become things to be feared as much as any space alien. Smith plays Cypher, a tightly wound, high-ranking United Ranger, protectors of humanity 1,000 years after Earth could no longer sustain life as we know it. Mankind now lives on planet Nova Prime. Its resident aliens, the Skrel, have created a monster race called the Ursa, genetically bred to hunt humans. The Ursas are blind, only able to sniff out our kind by smelling fear. That particular quirk will set up one of the film's major themes — fear and how to control it, or preferably, not have it at all, ever. After a very dull opening narration to lay out all that history, the film finally gets underway as Kitai (Jaden Smith) is finding out that he failed the test to become a Ranger like Dad. He's bummed, and worse, Dad's due home for dinner tonight after a long stretch patrolling the galaxy, and he'll be bummed too. But Kitai's scientist mom, Faia (Sophie Okonedo), thinks she has the cure — a father-son bonding trip. After a few recriminations over dinner, Cypher tells Kitai to pack his bag. Not for vacation, but to tag along on Dad's next military mission. Let's take a moment to talk about the sci-fi effects. In this age of incredible ones, most of "After Earth's" seem inspired by the 1950s, one generation beyond tinfoil. The spacecraft looks exactly like a giant flying stingray sans the tail. Which might not matter, but …. When the craft crashes on a still hostile Earth, the only survivors — Cypher critically injured and Kitai scared to step up — are in the front of the craft, while the life-saving beacon is in the "tail" section. The rest of the film hangs on finding that oft-mentioned tail. That story arc will test Kitai's courage and Cypher's patience, since the injury means he can bark out orders only by remote. Earth has many perils — mainly its wild animal population and one Ursa that survived the crash — don't ask. Jaden will be required to do a lot of major stunt work if Kitai is to survive. As Gen. Cypher Raige, Smith has never seemed stiffer, like Patton without the personality. It's as if his Ranger suit were two sizes too small and he's trying to just deal with it. Meanwhile, Jaden struggles with the same issues as his character. He is trying so hard that the teenager's engaging on-screen presence, the one that made "The Karate Kid" such a kick, mostly disappears. He's best when running, jumping and fighting the beasties. Both dad and lad have a tough time with the deadly dialogue. If you're still wondering whether "After Earth" is a disaster, the question is not if, but how big? betsy.sharkey@latimes.com -------------------------------- "After Earth" MPAA rating: PG for sci-fi action violence and some disturbing images Running time: 1 hour, 40 minutes Playing: In general release http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-after-earth-review-20130531,0,5520934.story

chris where you at?

thought this was a reasonable review from Onion AV Club: For a $130 million vanity project, After Earth is remarkably lean. Conceived by Will Smith as a starring vehicle for his son, Jaden, the movie is a no-frills wilderness survival tale with sci-fi trappings. For most of its running time, its two major characters are the only people onscreen. Big chunks of the movie pass without dialogue. The set-up is clean and simple: A spacecraft crash-lands on a deep-future, depopulated Earth; the only survivors, a father and son, must recover the craft’s distress beacon in order to be rescued. The father has broken both of his legs. The son is inexperienced. They have few supplies, and suspect that their cargo—an alien specimen—has survived. They don’t uncover secrets. They don’t pass ruined landmarks. They don’t get sentimental about their home world or wonder about what humanity has lost by relocating to the stars. As far as the movie is concerned, Earth is a hostile planet that their ancestors left with good reason. Acting more or less as a hired gun, director M. Night Shyamalan brings considerable formal chops to the project. His style—part arthouse, part Spielberg—is well-suited to the material, and his knack for framing and editing comes in handy during the movie’s many dialogue-free scenes, including an effective post-crash sequence that intentionally breaks nearly every rule of classical continuity editing. Austere, roomy compositions—courtesy of Peter Suschitzky, the longtime David Cronenberg cinematographer who also shot The Empire Strikes Back—frame Jaden Smith’s character against vast backdrops of swaying foliage; during certain stretches, After Earth looks more like an elaborate Werner Herzog homage than a big-budget sci-fi flick. And yet, despite all of this, After Earth is a mixed bag. It’s hard to blame Shyamalan for the downright embarrassing opening, a choppy mess of redundant exposition that seems to belong in a different movie. Shyamalan may be an earnest (and some would say corny) storyteller, but he’s also economical; the opening’s overreliance on stock footage and plot-explaining voiceover stinks of test-screening rewrites. Then there’s the problem of Jaden Smith; bereft of charisma or anything resembling acting talent, he’s more liability than lead. Fortunately, he spends almost the entire movie running, jumping, and listening to his father talk—all things that the young Smith or his stunt double seem to be very good at. As the father, Will Smith spends most of After Earth sitting in a chair. His performance is grim and low-key; occasionally, it feels like the elder Smith is trying to throw the film in his son’s favor. To further complicate matters, all of the movie’s dialogue is spoken in a futuristic, vaguely Caribbean “post-Earth” accent, which proves to be distracting, since neither Smith seems to be able to keep his accent consistent. As if to counterbalance the outsize dynasty-building ambitions of the movie’s producer/co-star, Shyamalan scales back at key moments. Will Smith’s centerpiece monologue, for instance, is composed in chiaroscuro static shots, which lends the scene ambiguity. The crash sequence plays out without any music; when James Newton Howard’s score does come in, it’s frequently modernist and dissonant—not exactly the sort of music you’d expect in a father-son bonding movie. Shyamalan’s sensibility may not be enough to turn After Earth into a great (or even very good) film, but it does yield interesting—and at times strikingly realized—results. http://www.avclub.com/articles/after-earth,98361/

Looks like Jeff just played at the After Party. No JJFP performance this time. Will is on 106 & Park tomorrow not sure if anything will happen then?

Well the reviews are in..and it looks like its a very average movie. I think this could be Will's worst % on rotten tomatoes. They are basically saying he is like a robot in the movie so all his natural charm is taken away and he is hardly in it.

Sony has put out a review embargo, they are clearly trying to stop all the negative reviews coming out before the movie is released...

Another bad review: "A Will Smith action film that has him grimacing on his back, giving instructions, is nobody’s idea of a lot of fun. Jaden, a good-looking kid with a hint of charisma, has to carry the film and doesn’t have the presence to pull that off. And inexplicably, father and son have attempted Southern accents from over a thousand years in the future. Epic enunciation fail." http://www.pressherald.com/article/20130529/ARTS/130529827 The thing with Jadens acting, he was good in pursuit of happiness and he pulled off the Karate Kid, but as you get older your acting has to get better, and he has to carry this entire film. Dakota Fanning was a brilliant child actress, that's the standard. I haven't liked what I've seen from the clips, but I'll wait to see the movie. All the reviews are saying he struggles in this though. I think anyone going to see After Earth thinking this is a "Will Smith movie" will be disappointed.

Both saying its a poor movie and pointing out Jaden's bad acting.. I think this could be a stinker!

I imagine it will be at the After Party like for MIB3.. hopefully we get some video from it at some point

Great tour, really felt like we went along with Jeff & the crew through Europe. Really enjoyed that!

Podcast Rundown Introductions Discussion -graham norton performance [play fresh prince of bel air performance 2:00] -jjfp tour? -After Earth -Jaden Smith (being Will's son/online hate) The Future -Willow & Annie -Will's future films (focus, etc) The Hype Fan Test - a challenge for the podcasters to get through the hype fan test, with some jjfp related trivia/questions. Who will be too damn hype? [play end of too damn hype] Loretta Mailbag -people who email the site thinking its Will who may be potential Lorettas. We read the mail, then give the verdict. [play first 40 seconds of Loretta] Shoutouts Conclusion [fade out with its all good]

Excellent!

Great interview. Interesting read: Source: http://www.vulture.com/2013/05/will-and-jaden-smith-on-working-together.html Mr. and Mr. Smith: Will and Jaden Psych Up for After Earth By Claire Hoffman Will Smith came up with the story for M. Night Shyamalan’s postapocalyptic drama After Earth, which opens May 31, while watching his son Jaden, 14, film The Karate Kid in China. The premise: A father is a best-in-class soldier who crash-lands with his son on a hostile planet Earth a thousand years in the future. The father, wounded, must watch from the sidelines as the son navigates treacherous terrain and fights terrible creatures in order to escape. The parallels to their adventures in Hollywood, Will says, are obvious. I’ve read that you believe life can be understood through patterns. Will: I’m a student of patterns. At heart, I’m a physicist. I look at everything in my life as trying to find the single equation, the theory of everything. Do you think there is a single theory to everything? Jaden: There’s definitely a theory to everything. Will: When you find things that are tried and true for millennia, you can bet that it’s going to happen tomorrow. Jaden: The sun coming up? Will: The sun coming up, but even a little more. Like for Best Actor Oscars. Almost 90 percent of the time, it’s mental illness and historical figures, right? So, you can be pretty certain of that if you want to win—as a man; it’s very different for women. The patterns are all over the place, but for whatever reason, it’s really difficult to find the patterns in Best Actress. Do you see patterns too, Jaden? Jaden: I think that there is that special equation for everything, but I don’t think our mathematics have evolved enough for us to even—I think there’s, like, a whole new mathematics that we’d have to learn to get that equation. Will: I agree with that. Jaden: It’s beyond mathematical. It’s, like, multidimensional mathematical, if you can sort of understand what I’m saying. Are both of you religious? Will: No, we are students of world religion. Seems like everyone’s excited about the idea that you might be religious. Will: We respect all [religions]. Okay. Who would you say is the biggest star in your family? Will and Jaden: [in unison] Willow! (Willow is Jaden’s 12-year-old sister.) Jaden: She just knows who she is, so she just is. Will: She has a magic power in the family. She absolutely demands the most attention, and there’s ­something really incendiary about a 12-year-old girl who says and does what she wants. You and Jaden have acted in two movies together, including After Earth. Are you planning on a third? Will: If you were a student of the pattern, you’d have to say we’re going to do another one. Jaden: I definitely would do another one, absolutely. You know, how Johnny Depp and Tim Burton always do movies together, Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio? We’ll have a relationship like that. Do you think of that as a separate relationship from your father-son relationship? Jaden: It’s kind of like father and son, except that we’re both going to work together. [Points to his dad.] Like you worked in your family business with your dad. I’m just working in my family business with my dad. Patterns, boom. Jaden, how was working with your father this time around different from before? Jaden: Well, with the first movie [Pursuit of Happyness], he was teaching me along the way. This is how the camera works. You do several takes. Like, literally everything you need to know about movies. And then, in Karate Kid, he was kind of holding my hand and watching me distill those rules. And then on After Earth, he was like, All right, you’re an actor, I’m an actor, let’s make a movie together. So it was like a collaboration, you know what I’m saying? What is your dynamic when the whole family is on the set? Jaden: Willow basically does her thing. [They both laugh.] Dad kind of just is there. He has to feel his own vibe. And my mom is probably like, “Uh-uh. Tell Jaden he needs to do this.” Will: Yeah, Jada [Pinkett Smith] has really powerful insights and opinions about everything. You guys aren’t that way? Jaden: If we’re at a six, she’s like at an eight and a half. Like, when she comes on set and she sees something that’s not right, she says, “This needs to change, this needs to leave, this needs to happen.” Will: Yeah, I probably had a couple of poor parenting moments on this movie. Do you know what a fer-de-lance is? Jaden: It’s one of the most poisonous snakes in all of Costa Rica. Will: There were a couple of days where there was a high concentration of snakes [on the set]. Jaden: Fer-de-lances, not snakes! I was doing a scene, going through some tall grasses, and they said, “Hey, we caught some fer-de-lances around there, and there seems to be a lot more, and I think we should move the scene.” I was like, “How many fer-de-lances did you catch?” He’s like, “Eight.” Will: I said, “Well, you got them all, so it’s fine. Let’s just shoot it.” Yeah, if Mommy was there, that wouldn’t have gone down. As an actor, I felt like it was an authentic experience of actually being in Costa Rica. I learned it in Ali, man, when you actually have to go to the place and you take the flight and you are actually in the authentic space, it adds to your performance. Jaden, how does it feel to be famous? Jaden: I think it’s fun, except when people make up stuff about you. Then it’s not so much fun. But besides that, I enjoy it. It’s been reported that you might be dating Kylie Jenner. The Kardashians have treated their fame as the family business. Do you guys see yourselves as similar or different? [Will, laughing, holds up his hand for Jaden not to speak.] Jaden: I’m trying to understand. Will: Don’t. You know, he’s never had to, to deal with those kinds of questions. Well, forget the Kardashians … maybe you could just … Will: [Mimicking] “So how do you think your life is similar or un-similar to people’s names in Calabasas?” For our family, the entire structure of our life, our home, our business relationships—the entire purpose is for everyone to be able to create in a way that makes them happy. Fame is almost an inconsequential by-product of what we’re really trying to accomplish. We are trying to put great things into the world, we’re trying to have fun, and we’re trying to become the greatest versions of ourselves in the process of doing things we love. So the idea of fame or exploitation or orchestrating the media is sometimes even less than desirable for us. Do you think Jaden could have been a dentist? Will: It may seem like we have pushed our kids into the business, but that is absolutely insane. I would never, ever, push somebody to have their face on a poster that’s going be everywhere in the world. He is making a choice from the informed. It’s less scary to me than if he wanted to be a dentist in that I couldn’t help with what he’d chosen. I have relationships with some of the biggest filmmakers and actors and producers on Earth. So I can be a huge help. Willow chose singing and then un-chose it. She said, “Daddy, I want to go to school with my friends during the week, and I want to hang out with them on the weekends.” At the peak of “Whip My Hair,” she’s like, “Daddy, I’m done.” I was like, “Wow, wow, wow. No, baby, I got Annie [the upcoming movie remake, co-produced by Jay-Z], you know. It’ll be New York, you’ll be with Beyoncé. You can bring your friends.” And she said, “Daddy, I got a better idea. How about I just be 12?” At the end of the day, it has to be their choice. So maybe Jaden could have been a dentist, but he probably couldn’t sit in his room doing nothing all day. Jaden: Probably not. Will: I think it was in Edward ­Kennedy’s autobiography, he said that he hadn’t found his way in his life, and his father sat down with him and said, We are a family that are trying to have valuable lives. You are allowed to decide whether or not you want your life to be valuable to the world, and I respect that decision. I’m just not going to have a lot of time for you. Essentially that is my position with my children. You can choose anything that you want to do, anything you want to be, and you can decide you want to act crazy and run around. I respect your ability to choose a life for yourself that does not have value to the world. I respect that. I’m just not going have a lot of time for you. In the past, Jada has described the family as transparent. Do you think that’s true? Jaden: Definitely. Will: Let me see. Are we transparent? Jaden: You can argue that we’re extremely un-transparent. Everybody knows where we live, but nobody really knows what our house looks like. Will: That’s true. Jaden: We kind of live in a fortress. Will: I think for the most part we are transparent in the sense that there’s very few big family secrets. I think that if Jaden or Trey [Will’s son from his first marriage] or Willow were to write a book ten years from now, it will be very similar to what people think. And, the things about our family that are mysteries or seem strange, when they’re explained, it’ll be obvious. You know, the forum of media that we’re in can’t really handle the complexity of things that we say all the time. What would be an example? Will: I did an interview where the only quote that everybody ran was “Will Smith doesn’t believe in punishment.” Well, that’s actually ridiculous. That’s not what I said, but the sound bite can’t actually hold the complexity of what I’m trying to say, you know. That there is a destructive aspect to corporal punishment that I don’t agree with. There are concepts and ideas about punishment that I think run counter to healthy growth and psychological stability in this world. But they just take one blurb. Jaden: They’re always gonna do that. Will: Yeah. What’s the blurb gonna be from this one? [Laughs] But for the most part I think we are very transparent, or maybe not transparent, but boring. You think you’re boring? Will: I think that if you were to come to the house, people would really be ­surprised at how simple and basic it is. Our whole dream for our home was for it to be an artist’s haven. So there are paint supplies; there’s a piano with a microphone and a recorder right there to capture things right in the second. There’s editing equipment. There are cameras. I think the only thing in our house that people would be surprised by is the efficiency. Like staffing? Will: No, just how serious we are about how the microphone at the piano has to be on and the recorder has to be ready to go for when somebody gets an idea. The paint supplies have got to be kept up—you know, you cannot go to paint something and a color’s empty. Is it true that you alphabetized your laser discs? Will: Yeah, I’m very, very serious about systems supporting creative inspiration. In the movie, Jaden, your character calls his dad “Sir.” Is that the dynamic with you guys? Jaden: In real life, no. It’s like how it is right now. How is it right now? Jaden: It’s hard for me to explain because it’s so normal to me. It’s like ­asking, “So, Jaden, how do you breathe?” He’s, like, really just cool. He lets us have our freedom as long as we can control our freedom. In After Earth, the father is a general who is injured and has to watch his son fight for his life. Was this a metaphor for what it’s like sending your kid into Hollywood? Will: Absolutely. That’s what I wanted the metaphor of this movie to be. A father having to watch as his son makes mistakes in the world, and in an extreme place of life or death. It is the excruciating parental pain of having to let your kids go, and you just have to hope that the lessons you’ve instilled will kick in at the right time. Will, what kind of relationship did you have with your father? Will: You know, I grew up where you got the hospital corners on the beds. I grew up with old-school rules where you speak when you’re spoken to. There were hugely powerful ideas about discipline and spirituality. You were baptized. Will: Baptized. Went to a Catholic school. Lived in a Jewish neighborhood. My mother worked on the school board, so she was very serious about education, and my grandmother was in the church. So there was a huge amount of discipline, and I’m trying to maintain some of the old ideals, minus the ownership. We don’t own our children, you know. They own themselves. Not to go too far into that, talking about slavery concepts and how the black community is carrying those … Jaden: If we started going down that road, Mommy would, like, burst into this room. In terms of mistakes, Will, early on in your career you had a period of years where most of your wages were garnished for not paying taxes. Have you educated Jaden about all the money he’s making? Will: Yeah, you know, we met with ­Robert Kiyosaki, the author of Rich Dad, Poor Dad, and we’re trying to design a ­curriculum for children to understand even the basic connection between a bank and capitalism. I mean, I’m very serious with my kids about them comprehending the intricacies of global finance. Is it hard to educate your kids to be responsible about money when they grew up with wealth? Will: It’s funny. Willow and Trey went in completely the opposite direction. Like, Willow only shops at Target. Jaden is really the only one of my kids that has a little bit of a taste for, uh … Jaden: I like Cartier. Will: That’s a little new. Jaden: The Cartier is new, but before that it was Louis [Vuitton]. Will: Yes, he has a little bit of a taste. But he connects his responsibility to working and creating to the fun that he enjoys with the finer things. So, Jaden, you like spending the money you earn? Jaden: Well, when you say it like that, not really. There was a time in my life when I’d go to Cartier, like, every weekend for like a month. But, now I’m … What would you buy? Jaden: I have four rings I’m not wearing today. I haven’t bought anything that expensive in a really long time. The only thing I buy is, like, food and skateboards. Will: Once he started approving his own bank statements and credit cards and all, yeah, he changed. I heard that you and Jada were going to write a book together? Will: It feels like you can’t write books in progress. Jaden: Give them ten years. They’ll drop a book every year. You feel like they have a lot to say? Jaden: Yes, like 900 pages, both of them, so it’ll be like two books a year. He drops his book, she drops her book. Will: Our kids get an earful around the house just on every topic, every subject. Jaden: If I’m with my friends, and they’ll be like, “Oh, hey, where’s your dad? Let’s go say hi.” And I’ll be like, “Oh, no. He’s watching hours and hours of ted talks just … Dude, don’t go in there.” Last time I went in there, he said, “Jaden, so the art of telling stories is an art that you really have to learn. I want you to read Aesop’s Fables.” “Dad, I’ve read Aesop’s Fables three times.” “Honestly, you can’t read it enough.” But when you’re on your way to see a 9:15 movie and it’s nine o’clock, he’s like, “Wait, wait, Jaden, I need to tell you something about life, man.” *This article originally appeared in the June 3, 2013 issue of New York Magazine.

Well to let you know how big this is there have been articles about it in the Wall Street Journal, the L.A. Times as well as hip hop publications like Vibe. Also if you check the comments of the video everyone is asking for a jjfp tour!

yep that's right. Awesome!

Thursday 9PM UK time then?

As the Fresh Prince of Bel Air performance rolls past 6 million views on YouTube I can't help but think...this is it. Since Lost and Found in 2005 it's been a desert wasteland for us Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince fans. No new music, no performances, and no sign that it would ever happen. Will didn't even do a movie for 4 years and he still didn't touch a mic. I know Will is pretty sensitive about his music, from his past performances he doesn't want to step out unless he has a lot of love, he doesn't want to fail. 2013 seems to be the perfect timing, all those fresh prince fans have grown up, had kids and now those kids are fans too. It's like there are two generations of fresh prince fans and that's a lot of love. Will still has it on the mic, there is no question. I think we may look back on this weekend in the future and say that was the turning point. The amazing response to Will & Jeff performing must surely show Will how much love there is for Will & Jeff, on a stage, and in a recording studio. Now is the time for JJFP to head back in the studio, record a new album, and do a world tour. I like most of you have grown pretty pessimistic over the years of this happening, but this graham norton performance and the response to it, is like a shot in the arm, that I think will inspire Will. The fresh prince, the emcee, is inside of him, it never left, and with Jeff by his side it is ready to be unleashed. Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince Forever!!!

I was thinking at night UK time.. like about 9PM sometime this week...

anyone want to do a podcast on Skype about the JJFP performance & After Earth?

Great! Its got to beat the 4 Million he got last time, i think that was his aim. The last video has 8 million views in a year. This one is already at 4 million in just over 24 hours! incredible. This is the definition of going viral.

Someone says they saw it on IMDB. This is their review: