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Director and Cast Interview http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/seven...view-will-smith

More Than 'Seven Pounds' of Smith Will Smith is telling all! Is the superstar planning to direct? Or is Will planning to play President-elect Obama? Check out the Oscar-nominated star's answers! http://extratv.warnerbros.com/2008/12/more...nds_of_smit.php

Sequels, sequels, sequels. That's the way of movie making today and actor Will Smith has many films that lend themselves to more storytelling. IESB caught up with Smith during the press day for his new film SEVEN POUNDS co-starring Rosario Dawson out from Columbia Pictures December 19. During the interview, Smith talked about sequels to I AM LEGEND, HANCOCK and answers the question "whatever happened to that ID4 sequel?" IESB: The idea of an I Am Legend prequel is interesting how are things developing on that? Will Smith: We have a very cool prequel idea, and in essence, it's not the title, but the idea of it is "The Last Stand of Manhattan." It would be the fall of Manhattan, the last American city to fall. IESB: So it won't be you alone anymore? WS: No, it would be an ensemble, and the feeling of it that we've been talking about would be essentially "Saving Private Ryan" you know. IESB: Do you wish you used the alternate ending where you lived? WS: You know, that ending was more conceptually true to the novel, but it was one of those things when you actually put it up in a theater, it doesn't work in movie format. It's like, there is forgiveness that literary audiences will give you that film audiences won't give you. It's the two-hour construct, you're in there, and it needs to climax and finish. And, it just didn't lend itself, but yeah, it would have been nice to be around. IESB: There's also talk about a sequel for Hancock... WS: Yeah, we've been talking about a sequel also to Hancock, we've been working, the ideas aren't as developed [as I Am Legend] but we are building out an entire world, I think people are going to be very surprised at the new world of Hancock. IESB: A lot more superheroes? WS: Well, um, uh, potentially yes! (laughing) IESB: Is there something that attracts you to revisit a character again? Characters lives usually end with the credits, but to revisist them again in sequels and such, what attracts you do that? WS: Let me tell you, I would do up to Bad Boys 6 if I could, alright, I have so much fun working with Martin Lawrence. I love Miami, it's like that little boy fantasy, it's fast cars and girls and I got the gun and the bad guys always lose, you know! It's like, I would make Bad Boys forever. IESB: There was talk that Devlin and Roland wanted to do a sequel to Independance Day. What happened there? WS: It was an idea, Roland never loved it so I'm here if he loves it, I'll consider all ideas. http://www.iesb.net/index.php?option=com_e...mp;article=5900

Will Smith Seeks Redemption By Michael White Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Will Smith’s charm has made him one of the world’s biggest movie stars. Don’t look for that charismatic personality in “Seven Pounds,” the story of a man who tries to atone for his mistakes by helping seven strangers. “That Will Smith persona, he had to bury all that for this performance,” screenwriter Grant Nieporte said in an interview. “You forget that you’re watching Will Smith.” Smith plays an Internal Revenue Service agent with a tragic past. Nieporte said the film, which opens Dec. 19, raises important questions. “If you felt responsible for the loss of life, what lengths would you go to make amends?” Nieporte said. “What about a guy who pulled out all the stops, what would that journey look like?” “Seven Pounds” was Nieporte’s seventh screenplay, but the first he considered good enough to show to producers. Escape Artists, one of the companies that produced Smith’s “The Pursuit of Happyness,” was the first to make an offer. Nieporte, who has written for TV shows including “8 Simple Rules ... for Dating My Teenage Daughter, wouldn’t say exactly how much he got for the movie script, preferring to describe it as the “lowest six-figure you could possibly imagine.” He said acceptance was more important than the money. “After 10 years, a lot of writers’ assistant work and a lot of long hours of television work, it was amazing to get validated for my own voice,” he said. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=206...&refer=muse

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Will Smith Talks Love-Scene Nerves in New Movie! Video! http://www.etonline.com/news/2008/12/68558/index.html Will Smith plays a conflicted man with a mysterious secret who decides to help seven strangers in the dramatic love story 'Seven Pounds.' Now, ET's Kevin Frazier gets the dish from Will and co-star Rosario Dawson about their love scene in the film together -- and Will's nervousness about going through with it! Rosario tells Kevin she saw a different side of Will while filming the love scenes. "He was very gentle and very sweet but I had to be extremely gentle with him," she says. "He was very nervous and very shy." The actor shares his own feelings about working so closely with his co-star. "I think women, they can kind of separate stuff," he says. "But for me, I'm lying in the bed with Rosario Dawson. It was throwing me off a little bit." In the film, Will plays Ben Thomas, an IRS agent who embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers, including Woody Harrelson as a blind man and Rosario as a woman with a failing heart. Catch Will and Rosario in '7 Pounds,' in theaters Dec. 19.

He thinks 'Seven Pounds' is better than 'The Dark Knight'? :1-eek:

Will Smith to attend movie premiere in Minn. Associated Press - December 7, 2008 12:24 PM ET EDINA, Minn. (AP) - Actor Will Smith will walk the red carpet at a Twin Cities premiere of his new movie, "Seven Pounds." Smith will appear Friday at AMC Southdale 16 in Edina. At the premiere, he'll donate 300 turkeys to Second Harvest Heartland, a hunger-relief organization serving Minnesota and western Wisconsin. Minnesota Viking Bernard Berrian, who recently pledged to donate up to $10,000 to Second Harvest Heartland, will join Smith. The red-carpet presentation begins at 6 p.m. and is open to the public. Starting at 4 p.m., the first 250 people to bring a non-breakable, non-perishable food item will have the chance to receive a screening pass to the movie. In "Seven Pounds," Smith portrays an IRS agent with a secret who tries to redeem himself by helping seven strangers. It opens Dec. 19. http://www.wqow.com/Global/story.asp?S=9472111

12/15/2008 - Live! with Regis & Kelly (Rosario Dawson) 12/19/2008 - Live! with Regis & Kelly (Will Smith)

"Seven Pounds" Press Conference Pics! http://wireimage.com/ItemListings.aspx?igi=345274&nbc1=1

'Seven Pounds': Spanish Trailer ('Siete Almas') http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=own9E9Tk414&e There you go, Sandy :thumbsup:

Awesome interview. I loved it.

Will Smith talks I AM LEGEND prequel Written by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub Just a few hours ago I attended the press day for “Seven Pounds” and was able to participate in a roundtable interview with the biggest movie star on the planet….Will Smith. As most of you know, Warner Bros. has started working on a sequel to “I am Legend” and while it was first reported as a prequel, word has started to spread that it was, in fact, a sequel. But if you’ve seen the movie, you know a sequel might be tough to pull off with Will Smith as the main character. Add to that, when fandom got wind that they were working on a prequel; let’s just say most didn’t think it was a good idea. So when I got to ask my question, I asked if “I am Legend” was a sequel or prequel and I also asked Will what excited him about returning to the character. Here’s what he said: Collider: Speaking of Robert Neville and I am Legend, there has been a lot talk about you possibly doing a prequel or sequel to that film. Could you tell us what it is and what excites you about going back to that character? Will Smith: We have a fantastic prequel idea…we’re still trying to work through a couple of bumps in the story. It’s essentially the fall of the last city – the last stand of Manhattan. The movie would be…within the body of the movie D.C. and then Manhattan would fall as the last city. It’s a really cool idea trying to figure it out…there’s a reason why we have to take a small band and we have to get into D.C. So we have to make our way from New York to D.C. and then back to New York. Question: Will the dog be back in it? Will Smith: Yes, the dog will be a puppy. I have to say…after hearing Will’s description of the movie; I think this idea could work. Imagine a big road movie with a few characters having to fight their way somewhere and then returning and having to protect the last city. While I still think Will should do an original property and not return to the Robert Neville character, I am way more excited to see this than before. http://www.collider.com/entertainment/news...id/10055/tcid/1

Peter Berg discusses making a non comic book based film http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKKfAZtbalU Peter Berg discusses casting http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByVEql_dRPY Peter Berg discusses his Directing Style http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yptxWwBhuY

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Will Smith rolling out low-profile Oscar bid By Steven Zeitchik LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Will Smith's new drama "Seven Pounds" is rolling out to tastemakers ahead of its December 19 release, having largely flown below blogger radars until now. Smith's role in the Sony film, as an Internal Revenue Service functionary who mysteriously drops into the lives of strangers in an apparent bid to help them, comes in a movie steeped in melancholy. That makes the drama an anomaly: It features the world's biggest movie star in a film that also is one of the season's most serious. There are grace notes about penance and sacrifice, but this isn't Tom Cruise in "Jerry Maguire." While awards pundits this year have followed the time-honored tradition of priming the pump for movies like Brad Pitt's "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" even before they began screening, "Seven Pounds" has avoided such attention. Part of that is because of the presence of a global box office star; those types of A-listers historically have had to work harder to get awards attention. And partly it's the movie itself, whose pleasures derive from orienting oneself on its map and figuring out just what exactly is going on. That's why some marketing materials have been opaque on the film's plot, while the movie's handlers have asked entertainment writers to avoid giving much away. Since it's so much weightier than anything he's done before, the role will be a litmus test of Smith's previously unbreakable box office mettle; "The Pursuit of Happyness" almost looks like "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" by comparison. (Both "Seven Pounds and "The Pursuit of Happyness" were directed by Gabriele Muccino.) But there's also an interesting question on the awards side -- namely, what kind of chance the movie, and specifically Smith, has at the Oscars. As one consultant said, it wouldn't be surprising if the superstar wasn't nominated, but it would be equally unsurprising if Smith took home the statuette. (The movie has chances in other categories, particularly original screenplay and best actress for Rosario Dawson, but Smith is the meatier issue.) There's an interesting list of factors for and against his bid. "Pounds" is the kind of solemn, tragedy-infused movie one normally sees in smaller films -- think "21 Grams" and pictures of that vintage -- that haven't always been Oscar front-runners. And the role and movie don't come in with as much preset recognition as some of the competition -- it's not a historical picture like "Milk" or "Frost/Nixon" or an adaptation of a well-known work like "Doubt." On the other hand, It's an intimate movie, all about dramatic moments between people, which generally favors acting bids. Maybe even more important, the Academy appreciates when a big movie star takes a dramatic turn. There are few tentpole actors who've batted 1.000 every time they've tried a more prestige role. Smith, nominated for both "The Pursuit of Happyness" and "Ali," is one of them. In fact, Smith isn't just going dramatic here; he's pushing his screen persona. There are elements of past Smith characters in "Pounds": the everyman struggle of "Pursuit of Happyness," the mysterious stranger of "Six Degrees of Separation," even a little bit of the tortured soul of "Hancock." But the nuances are very different. Even in more serious roles like "Ali" he could flip the charm switch; here, even when he's trying to be charming, it's the charm of an IRS agent, not, well, Will Smith. If Smith does get in as best actor, it suddenly makes the field a lot more crowded. Assuming Sean Penn and Frank Langella are pretty much locks and Pitt is a decent bet, a Smith nomination means there will be only more slot for a long list of hopefuls: Richard Jenkins, Clint Eastwood, Josh Brolin, Leonardo DiCaprio. A big movie star coming out of left field to upend a race isn't something you see every day. Reuters/Hollywood Reporter http://www.reuters.com/article/entertainme...tertainmentNews

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Excl: Hancock 2 coming? Despite mediocre reviews, HANCOCK did pretty well at the box office, but I still never thought we'd really see any further adventures from Will Smith's superhero in the future. Apparently, I was wrong. We just got done talking to Will Smith, who's promoting SEVEN POUNDS, and he told us that we'll "definitely" be seeing a sequel. When we asked Will if he'd ever be up for playing another superhero he replied that there were a lot of unexplored characters in the HANCOCK universe that would be ripe for a sequel and confirmed that we'll definitely see the rumored HANCOCK 2 in a few years. So who do you think these "unexplored characters could be?". While HANCOCK wound up disappointing do you think a sequel could vastly improve on the original? We'll have much more from Will Smith (and his SEVEN POUNDS co-star Rosario Dawson) next week on JoBlo.com! http://www.joblo.com/excl-hancock-2-coming

New Spot! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3SZpsbzlLk&e

Great documentary! Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbwH3dnXwdw Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dbkq-D4kD6k...feature=channel Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJelJ-nLGXw...feature=channel Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdzQ3C4dXks...feature=channel Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zg54tFivWk...feature=channel

He's 40 now :lolsign:

Peter Berg talking about 'Hancock' reviews and a possible sequel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTNukPWkk94&

Red Pearl to distribute films throughout region Overbrook Entertainment's Will Smith, James Lassiter and Ken Stovitz have teamed with Diana Jenkins' D Media to launch Red Pearl Pictures, which will distribute Western films throughout the Middle East. The new company will have offices in both Los Angeles and the Middle East, and has launched a search for a chief executive. CAA is advising the startup. Overbook and D Media confirmed the launch of the venture, but offered no specifics beyond a goal to tap into the growing demand for entertainment in such Middle Eastern markets as Qatar, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Overbrook has already shown global entrepreneurial ambitions, as the company made a deal with Ronnie Screwvala, chief of India's UTV, and Sony to produce films meant to play in the Indian marketplace. The venture is a new wrinkle in Hollywood's relationship with the Middle East, which has been more about raising coin than in exploiting box office potential. The Middle East has become a hotbed for Hollywood coin -- most recently evidenced by Abu Dhabi's $1 billion production arm Imagenation inking separate $250 million deals with Participant Media and Ashok Amritraj's Hyde Park Entertainment. By comparison, the theatrical marketplace in the region remains limited. While the Arab world boasts a population of some 300 million -- more than two-thirds of whom are under the age of 30 and eager for commercial entertainment -- censorship, piracy and underdeveloped infrastructure have so far hampered efforts by distribs and exhibs to maximize the region's true box office potential. Smith's "Hancock," for example, grossed approximately $3 million in the Arab world, a good-sized draw, but small compared to other offshore territories. "Quantum of Solace" has so far grossed about $8 million. Red Pearl Pictures joins a number of key Mideastern distribs that have existing deals with the U.S. studios and indies. The venture will be helped by Jenkins' strong relationships in the region. She is the Bosnian-born wife of Barclays Bank's Roger Jenkins, who runs the U.K. bank's Middle East business. Based in Malibu, she is a partner in the swimsuit company Melissa Obadash.She has been credited with helping facilitate a multibillion-dollar infusion of cash that came to Barclays from the Middle East. A recognized figure on the social circuit, she is close friends with Sheik Hamad bin Jassem, the prime minister and foreign minister of Qatar, and his wife. Sheik Hamad is widely considered one of the visionaries behind Qatar's economic and political emergence in the region, and was a key investor behind a recent $8.6 billion capital injection into Barclays Bank. Qatar, the world's biggest exporter of liquefied natural gas, has started to reveal its own ambitions to become a global film player. http://www.variety.com/article/VR111799676...yId=19&cs=1