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Jada Pinkett Smith and Marc Anthony attend the TEN Upfront 2011 at Hammerstein Ballroom on May 18, 2011 in New York City http://www.gettyimages.es/Search/Search.aspx?contractUrl=2&language=es&assetType=image&ebd=2011-05-16&p=jada+pinkett

Happy Birthday Cookie, wherever you are! Hope you have a wonderful day today ;)

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Some clips from the show here! http://www.accesshollywood.com/access-hollywood-live-tom-hanks-tom-cruise-will-smith-and-many-more-give-oprah-winfrey-a-night-to-remember_video_1328274?__source=rss|latest_videos

Pro wrestling superstar Randy "Macho Man" Savage died after having a heart attack while driving his Jeep Wrangler, Fox News confirms. The accident happened in Seminole, Fla. A source tells Fox News that he "suffered a heart attack while driving and hit a tree." Lanny Poffo, Randy's brother, told TMZ the accident happened Friday morning when Savage lost control of his vehicle. Florida Highway Patrol said Savage leapt a concrete median, veered into oncoming traffic and smashed into a tree head on. He died from his injuries at largo Medical Center. Savage, 58, had just celebrated his first wedding anniversary with his wife Lynn. It was his second marriage. His first wife died of a drug overdose shortly after their divorce in 1992. Professional wrestler Kevin Nash tweeted: "I lost a close friend today. If anybody in heaven is wondering who the cat in the ugly cowboy hat is it's Randy. Love you Bro. Never another." Savage helped put WWF wrestling on the map in the 1980s and '90s, becoming, along with Hulk Hogan, one of its biggest draws. His outrageous outfits and bellowing voice made him a fan favorite. TMZ first reported the story. http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2011/05/20/pro-wrestler-randy-macho-man-savage-dies-car-accident-report-says/ ----- Sad news. RIP Randy :(

And nice picture too BTW!

Warner Bros and Will Smith have acquired the rights to Kazu Kibuishi's Amulet series. The Princess and the Frog scribe Rob Edwards has been hired to write the script, reports Variety. Smith is producing the films alongside his partner James Lassiter through their Overbrook Entertainment company. It is rumoured that the two starring roles will be filled by Smith's children Jaden (Karate Kid) and Willow (I Am Legend). Robot 6 also suggested that the roles of the children's parents could be filled by Smith and his wife Jada Pinkett Smith. Flight founder Kibuishi's three-book series about two children who are drawn into a magical world and discover themselves to be the last in a line of guardians in command of a powerful amulet. The fourth volume in Scholastic's series is due for publication in September. The Smiths appeared at a recording for the final Oprah Winfrey Show on Wednesday of this week. Smith has courted controversy recently over the $2m (£1.2m) trailer he has been staying in while shooting Men In Black 3. http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/news/a320358/will-smith-and-family-approach-amulet.html

More pictures! http://globalgrind.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/article_images/images/2011_may/o9am.jpg http://globalgrind.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/article_images/images/2011_may/willop.jpg

I just saw these pics of Jada wearing clown makeup on the set of 'Hawthorne'. Found them on that site! http://x17online.com/gallery/view_gallery.php?gallery=jsmithEXCL050211_X17 ----- Wow.. this looks awesome. Can't wait to see it! http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-live-0518-oprah-at-united-center-20110517,0,6131620.column?track=rss http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/05/17/oprahs-farewell-spectacular-live-blog/

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If I Was Will Smith, I Wouldn't Move My Trailer One Inch http://globalgrind.com/celebrities/if-i-was-will-smith-i-wouldnt-move-my-trailer-1-inch

Willow Smith Readys New Single; Releases Preview Willow Smith New Single Willow Smith is getting prepared to release her next single. After the success of the 10-year-old's platinum selling debut single "Whip My Hair," her follow up single, "21st Century Girl," do not fair as well, peaking at only #99 on the Billboard Hot 100. The daughter of Will and Jada Smith is looking to bounce back with her new single "Rock Star." An official release date for the single was not announced, but the Smith clan is banking on "Rock Star" being closer to "Whip My Hair" than "21 Century Girl." The singer/actress signed to Jay-Z's Roc Nation record label in 2010. A snippet of her new single was released as the backdrop to a behind-the-scenes video of Willow's appearance at last month's 2011 Kids' Choice Awards. http://hiphopwired.com/2011/05/14/willow-smith-readys-new-single-releases-preview-video/

Jemaine Clement and Will Smith battle it out in NYC http://www.accidentalsexiness.com/2011/05/13/jemaine-clement-smith-battle-nyc/ http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/CoastToCoastStation/news/?a=37223

Simply terrible.

More articles and videos: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/will_arious_last_laugh_tow_smith_6IPr2tuaWFlUdCJf4eYWyM http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/video/smith-nyc-movie-trailer-generates-complaints-13586474 http://rantsthoughtsmerde.com/2011/05/11/will-smith-men-in-black-set-in-soho/ http://www.clickondetroit.com/video/27864603/index.html

Video here -> http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpps/news/will-smith-massive-movie-trailer-in-soho-ncx-20110511_13146090 Will annoyed some NY neighbours too when he was filming 'I Am Legend' :laugh:

Whoopi Goldberg on the intro, Color Me Badd and Boyz II Men both perform, then present the rap award to "Summertime" by DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince (Jeff accepts):

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Men in Black perfect time travel! Will Smith is spotted filming with a young Tommy Lee Jones in New York... (it's really Josh Brolin) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1385395/Men-Black-3-Will-Smith-Josh-Brolin-young-Tommy-Lee-Jones.html?ito=feeds-newsxml ----- More pix here! http://www.celebuzz.com/2011-05-09/a-buff-will-smith-josh-brolin-film-men-in-black-photos/ http://www.popsugar.com/Smith-May-Star-Quentin-Tarantinos-Django-Unchained-16419355?

Foreign For Quentin Tarantino's 'Django Unchained' Goes To Will Smith's Home Studio Sony (Even Though Universal Tried Hard) EXCLUSIVE: Sources tell me that international on Quentin Tarantino's new Spaghetti Western Django Unchained is going to Sony to co-finance production later this year and distribute sometime in 2012. This after the filmmakers met with every major studio except Warner Bros. Of course, The Weinstein Company is taking domestic. But the surprise is that Universal International didn't have the inside track since it co-financed and took overseas on Tarantino's last film, Inglourious Basterds, in a very successful pairing ($201M international for a global cume of $321M). Actually, Universal really wanted Quentin's latest and tried to really step up. There was a big meeting this past Friday between Universal International and Quentin where the foreign guys went to extraordinary lengths to pull out all the stops. Employees wore T-shirts emblazoned with the languages of all the managing directors of the territories in town. And a bag of handmade scalps was presented to Tarantino -- a reference to the "100 Nazi scalps" from Inglourious Basterds to remind Quentin how well the studio did for that movie last time around. Instead, Django Unchained went to Sony because of its existing relationship with Will Smith, whom Quentin desperately wants to star in the film. "Having Will involved is the key. That's what the filmmakers want, and they think the best chance of making it happen is at his home studio," an insider tells me. UPDATE: Right now, Will is still pondering his role as a slave in the script, which I just read and would be a very risky project for the actor, who's known for carefully controlling his professional persona. Other top-flight casting will start immediately. The film is a take-off on the Sergio Leone/Eastwood "Man With No Name" films. According to the script, it's not a Spaghetti Western remake or reboot but a brand new story with a similar character and similar stylized violence from those 1960s films. Tarantino's Pulp Fiction producer Stacey Sher will produce with Pilar Savone and Harvey Weinstein. Getting the WME-repped Tarantino back behind the camera is another boost for the rebounding TWC. http://www.deadline.com/2011/05/foreign-for-quentin-tarantinos-new-spaghetti-western-django-unchained-going-to-will-smiths-home-studio-sony-even-though-universal-tried-hard/

Haha! Seems lil Caleb is growing up fast! Loving the 'Rocky' soundtrack BTW :laugh:

I don't think money is very important to him. If I'm not wrong he cut his salary to make 'Seven Pounds'. He cares a lot about his image though, and he should change that if he really wants to show the world what a great actor he is. He definitely should take this opportunity.

Interesting read.. Exclusive: director Francis Lawrence on what went wrong with I Am Legend "One of the big downfalls for me, with that movie, personally, was with the visual effects" - director Francis Lawrence on I Am Legend" A fascinating yet flawed movie, I Am Legend was ultimately let down by some uneven visual effects. We spoke to director Francis Lawrence about just what went wrong... Published on May 4, 2011 There are many great things about Francis Lawrence's 2007 adaptation of Richard Matheson's sci-fi horror novel, I Am Legend. The extraordinary overgrown New York landscape. Will Smith's lonely, haunted performance. Akiva Goldsman and Mark Protosevich's economical script which, for the first hour at least, is entirely convincing. While the movie diverges greatly from Matheson's 1954 novel (as did the two previous adaptations, The Last Man On Earth and The Omega Man), the premise is the same. Following the outbreak of a virus, much of humanity has mutated into an aggressive race of nocturnal monsters, leaving lone, immune protagonist, Robert Neville (Smith), to defend himself in a sprawling, dangerous city. And yet, having managed to build the film's world so effectively (and its overgrown, deserted New York is surely one of the most memorable post-apocalyptic landscapes of recent years), I Am Legend then loses considerable momentum when the Dark Seekers are brought out in full view. Brought fitfully to life using CGI, the Dark Seekers, a horde of rabid, slavering humanoids that hunt in packs, looked too artificial to inspire the fear the movie needed. The distracting appearance of the Dark Seekers is doubly perplexing when compared to the quality of the filmmaking and effects work elsewhere. A couple of iffy lions aside, CG has been used brilliantly to create the illusion of an empty New York City, and the movie's beautifully shot throughout. A few weeks ago, we saw some make-up test shots that revealed that I Am Legend was originally going to be shot with old-fashioned actors and latex, and from the footage that appeared online, the results looked to be far more effective than the ones seen in the final film. So, with director Francis Lawrence in the UK to promote his latest movie, the romantic drama Water For Elephants (which is in cinemas now), I couldn't resist the chance to bring up the topic of I Am Legend, and ask him about what occurred behind the scenes. It turned out, in fact, that Lawrence was happy to speak quite openly about I Am Legend, and it was his experience on that film, he said, that prompted him to choose a less effects-heavy movie like Water For Elephants for his next project. "I really wanted to do a movie that I could approach in a more organic way," Lawrence said. "I was really disappointed by that part of the process on I Am Legend." Lawrence then spoke quite candidly about the rush to complete the effects shots for the film‘s final third, a factor that would certainly explain the variable quality of the CGI, as well as the movie's rushed, muddled conclusion, which was reshot after negative comments from test audiences. "Having done a movie with so many visual effects shots, and then coming to the end, where you have the plug pulled because you have a deadline, and you have to deliver the last reel, and you know there's a hundred shots in the movie you're not satisfied with, was a real disappointment to me." I then brought up the subject of the make-up effects footage mentioned earlier. Lawrence hadn't seen it, but my mention of it prompted him to describe what happened when shooting began on I Am Legend in 2006. "I wanted to do it with real people in the beginning," Lawrence said. "We actually cast this huge group of people, like, 50 dancers and parkour guys. And we shaved their heads and they worked with movement coaches and we created this behaviour for everybody. And we built these suits, this guy called Christien Tinsley built them. "We actually started to shoot with them. Second unit started first, and we were doing stuff with them running across Washington Square Park towards the house, and I was really worried about it, because they needed to be fast, and we were going to have to augment them and duplicate them. They had to be aggressive, and I just wasn't convinced it was going to work. "When I saw the dailies, I broke out into a cold sweat. They were very pale, and covered in this chalky powder to protect their skin, which was a really interesting concept, but it looked like a bunch of mime artists running across Washington Square Park. It didn't work at all." It was then that the decision was made to realise the Dark Seekers using computer graphics, a process that wouldn't be without pitfalls of its own. "And one night, we shut that all down and decided we were going to go for CG. We basically postponed anything we were going to shoot with creatures until much later. We went to a whole other design process. We used the same actors, but now they were in these speed skater suits with dots, and it was all performance capture, which would be translated to these things." Sadly, the final rush to complete the film resulted in the variable effects work in the final cut. Had the production been granted another few months to work on the CG, Lawrence argues, I Am Legend may have been a very different looking film. "It was better than doing the live versions at that time, because it didn't work, but we needed six more months on the post end to get all the visual effects right," Lawrence said. "Because there were some close-ups that were stunning, and then you get some shots that I never got right, and it just ****ing blows it. It just kills it. And it's just, like, one of the big downfalls for me, with that movie, personally, was with the visual effects." Dodgy effects weren't, of course, the sole problem with I Am Legend, and here, too, Lawrence was refreshingly candid about the film's shortcomings. "If you want to go even deeper into it, part of the problem was, if you look at the movie, the most effective part of the film is the scene where he [Will Smith's character] goes into the dark building, because you never see [Dark Seekers]. "And the truth is, if you go all the way back to the great creature movies like Alien, the best thing is, you never see them. As soon as you get into the back third of the movie, and there's this huge horde of creatures you've already seen that aren't scary any more. "I think that's also one of the mistakes. They should have just been hidden. They should have been much more hidden in shadows, and barely getting a sense of movement. It would have been much more viscerally scary." I Am Legend was a flawed yet brave attempt to get a singularly downbeat novel made within a studio system. And while six more months of post production may still not have resulted in a perfect movie, we can't help wondering what I Am Legend would have looked like had that extension been granted. http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/874292/exclusive_director_francis_lawrence_on_what_went_wrong_with_i_am_legend.html

I had never seen this video. Love it. 'Pursuit Of Happyness' was a great movie IMO.