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Will Smith Is Hopefully Lost in Translation Tue, 12/04/2007 - 12:53pm by Molly Will Smith arrived in Tokyo for a press conference to promote I Am Legend today. He was looking pretty dapper in his suit, which I assume we'll be seeing a lot of as he premieres this one all around the world. While the movie is based on the premise of Will thinking he's the last man alive, his daughter Willow makes a cameo in the film. According to her dad, she's already a bit of a diva. He said, "You don't work with Willow. You work for Willow." He also said that while Jayden is the Johnny Depp of the family, Willow is more like, well, a different kind of personality. "Willow is Paris Hilton . . . Willow wants to be on TV." Let's just hope that her similarities to Paris end with the desire to be on television. http://popsugar.com/856145

Will & Scientology http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EDIx-e0ZFI

SMITH COULDN'T SURVIVE ALONE LIKE I AM LEGEND CHARACTER 2007-12-05 03:18:26 - WILL SMITH fears he couldn't survive all alone - and he'd kill himself rather than face the prospect of becoming the last man on earth. The movie star plays the last surviving, living person in New York following a terrible disaster in new film I Am Legend, but he admits he couldn't exist without human contact for real. He says, "I'm outta here. I'm going to the nearest bridge! "It's such a primal, childlike idea to wish everybody was gone and you were by yourself, but, as much as people get on your nerves on the freeway, as much as people irritate you through your daily life, if you took everyone away and had it exactly the way you want it, it would be the most miserable existence. "I walked down the middle of Fifth Avenue (in New York), which we had cleared out for six blocks... and, as cool as that is, it's only cool because when we yell 'Cut,' there's 10,000 people on the other side. "There was absolutely no pleasure for me at all experiencing that amount of loneliness and solitude in the film. I love people, so that's hard for me not having anybody else around." The Ali star reveals he studied prisoners of war to get into the mindset of a person who spends days after days alone: "I found a guy, Geronimo Pratt, who had been in isolation in prison. He said, 'You would schedule things like cleaning your nails and you'd have two hours to clean your nails and that was the only way to maintain sanity. "But he struggled - he remembers sitting in his cell one time and for about four hours he was trying to remember what his fingers were called!" http://www.pr-inside.com/smith-couldn-t-su...e-i-r332585.htm

I thought you would say "God Bless America". :lolsign:

De nada Sandy! :thumbsup:

I Am Legend - Cast and Crew Interviews By Locke Webster http://img474.imageshack.us/img474/3791/siggypy2.jpg I Am Legend, the new Will Smith sci-fi hits theaters on December 14th, but this past week we had a chance to catch up with the Ex-Fresh Prince along with Brazilian cast member Alice Braga (pronounced ah-lee-see), director Francis Lawrence, and writer/producer Akiva Goldsman to hear their thoughts on creating the film. In true fashion, Smith was quite the charmer, providing insights to his process of becoming the last man on Earth as well as what shutting down New York can do to your star persona. Akiva, you're a big fan of the original story, at what point did you start writing the screenplay for I Am Legend? Akiva Goldsman: I hired the writer, me, about 2, 2 1/2 years ago. Francis Lawrence: Almost 3. AG: Warner Brothers had yet again decided that the movie was in the broken toy pile, which Warner Brothers had a tendency to do with this screenplay. It had had about a zillion incarnations. They said, "anybody want it?" and I raised my hand. It was probably Mark [Protosevitch]'s 719th draft or so. You really had great access in shutting down parts of Manhattan, how difficult was that? AG: We had almost every problem you could imagine you would have in New York if you tried to shut the streets down. I am a New Yorker. By the end of the shoot, which was endless, none of us would tell anybody what we did for a living. You'd be at a cocktail party and hear from across the room "oh you're that motherf**ker!". There was not one person we hadn't stopped from getting somewhere. FL: The city was really helpful. They let us shut down pretty much everywhere we wanted to shut down. I mean, you name it, we shut it down. Will Smith: Shooting in New York, especially something on this level, is difficult. I'd say, percentage wise, it's the most amount of middle fingers I've ever received in my career. I was like "I'm used to people liking me, when I come to town people have fun". We shut down 6 blocks of 5th Avenue on a Monday morning. That was probably poor logistics. But you realize that you've never actually seen an empty shot of New York. When we were doing it, it was chilling to walk down the middle of 5th Avenue. There's never an opportunity to walk down the middle 5th Avenue. Two o' clock in the morning on a Sunday you can't walk down the middle of 5th Avenue. It puts such an eerie, icky kind of feeling on the movie when you've seen those shots. Logistically it was a nightmare, but it absolutely created something that you can't do with green screen and that you can't do shooting another city for New York City. What was the total time you shut down the streets? FL: Wow I don't know. 40 plus days for some of the stuff. We did 6 days alone up at Grand Central by the Viaduct. It was tricky. How significant do you think it is that an african american is the last man alive? WS: Well first and last baby! (laughter) You know I rarely think about that until someone brings it up. It never crossed my mind in that way. For me, at least, the acknowledgment of those kinds of ideas put a weird boundary on my thoughts that I can't allow myself to be a part of. It sort of makes me think smaller if that makes any sense. What did you do to help create the future New York for the film? FL: We did a lot of conceptual work on this world before we got started. What we didn't want to do was the same grim world we see in movie after movie after a situation like this. So we started to do research and we talked to scientists and ecologists and people and really started looking into what would happen to a city once a population disappeared and the truth is nature would start to reclaim the city. And there have been since our film, not because of our film, there have been scientific studies and we're sort of in line with that -- the types of animals that would start to repopulate, the types of plant life that would start to repopulate. How the air would start to get cleaner. The water would get cleaner. It would actually probably become a more beautiful place. AG: One of the big changes from the source material obviously is the relocation to New York. Novelistically it's really very effective to render Los Angeles empty, but cinematically Los Angeles is always empty. Once we got to New York, we just picked a specific date and we built a present [time], and then I took every DC poster and character that I could think of that Warner hadn't made and slapped them up there. Some of them we got cleared and some of them were just slowly stalled so the clearance never saw them. So I'm pretty sure someone owes somebody a lot of money. FL: We did some kinda fun stuff too. There are certain things in Times Square. A bunch of a scene takes place around a tickets kiosk where you can buy tickets for Broadway plays. That's actually not built yet, but we got the designs from the city and actually built our set to be how it will look in the year that our apocalypse is supposed to happen. Will, can you talk about creating the persona of the last man on Earth? WS: It was such a wonderful exploration of myself, because what happens is, you get in a situation where you don't have people to create the stimulus for you to respond to. So what happens is, you start creating the stimulus and the response. So there's a connection with yourself where your mind starts to drift to in those types of situations that you learn things about yourself that you would never even imagine. To prepare for that we sat with former POWs and people who were in solitary confinement. That was sort of the framework for creating the idea. They said, first thing is a schedule. You will not survive in solitary unless you schedule everything. What about I Am Legend had you attached to the project for such a long time before finally going into production? WS: With movies, I am really connecting to the Joseph Campbell idea of the collective unconscious. There are things that we all dream, that each one of us has thought that connect to life, death, sex... There're things that are beyond language. And to me, this is one of those concepts. You've been on the freeway many times and wished everybody was dead. (laugh) There've been times where you just wish you were by yourself, you don't need any of these assholes, you just want to be by yourself. And I love this concept because it connects to ideas that a 4 year old can understand. What was it like working with Will? FL: Now I know all of you guys have heard stories, so its a bit of a cliche, but Will's a pretty great guy to work with. He's as professional as can be, he's as positive as can be. His energy is always fantastic. He's really smart. He's really good with story. He's a really good actor. He's inventive and creative and has great instincts. You can't ask for a better person to work with. Other than Alice. Alice Braga: It's an enormous pleasure to have a chance to work with someone that just wants to give you more and more and more and just wants to open the door for you to be really comfortable... and as he says "search magic". Which is wonderful. He just all the time, was pushing me harder and harder and look in my eyes and say "do you want one more?" "Do you want to try this?" "Do you want this?" Or pushing me to go somewhere that he wanted me to go, which is so generous. This is the best thing you can have from someone that is like him. It was an enormous pleasure and opportunity. Will, when was the last time you were called the Fresh Prince? WS: 4 seconds ago. (laugh) On July 6th, 1996 Fresh Prince stopped. That Monday after Independence Day was the first time someone called me Mr. Smith. And I'm like "what the hell"? I specifically remember that morning when the box office numbers came in people started calling me Mr. Smith. http://www.ugo.com/ugo/html/article/?id=18...amp;sectionId=2

Posted Dec 4th 2007 12:55PM by TMZ Staff Who needs bedtime stories when you have Will Smith?! The Fresh Prince held a press conference in Japan today, where one sleep-deprived (or extremely bored) reporter was caught catching some zzzs while Smith rambled on about "I Am Legend." Surprisingly, the ever charming Will didn't seem to mind. He must be used to it. http://www.tmz.com/2007/12/04/will-smith-p...press-to-sleep/ Video! :lol:

Will Smith, center, director Francis Lawrence, left, and producer Akiva Goldsman promote their new movie "I Am Legend" in Tokyo on Tuesday. Smith, 39, had a busy day, visiting the U.S. base at Yokota in the morning, before being flown back to Roppongi in a Black Hawk helicopter. He will attend the Japan premiere of "I Am Legend" on Wednesday night before heading to South Korea.

Will Smith has been in Tokyo to promote his new sci-fi flick, I Am Legend. Updated 14.36 Tue Dec 04 2007 The Hollywood star arrived in the city by helicopter and admitted "it felt good". "I heard no one had ever done that before," he said. "The Black Hawks (helicopters) are actually used in the film so I guess they were open to it. It was quite an experience to see Tokyo from the air like that." Smith plays Robert Neville, a scientist who ends up living alone in New York with only his dog for company, after the whole city is wiped out by a terrible disease. Immune to the virus, he spends the next three years looking for food and possible survivors - but they are all infected and are waiting for a chance to infect him too. I Am Legend opens in the UK on December 21. © Independent Television News Limited 2007. All rights reserved. http://itn.co.uk/news/afad5aa292ed575500748faf97c76034.html

By Karu F. Daniels, AOL Black Voices Like with most of his well-marketed movie projects, Will Smith will just about be everywhere promoting his latest flick 'I Am Legend,' due to arrive in theaters on Dec. 14. The box-office superstar, who has roots in hip-hop, will be the subject of a one-hour special episode of 'The E! True Hollywood Story' premiering Dec. 8 at 6 p.m. et/pt on the E! Television Network. According to a production rep, the show will "provide a revealing look in the dynamic life of the entertainment power player and family man featuring interviews with his close friends and co-stars." "The movie business pays the bills really well, and the music business is more where my heart is, you know, because an album is like a snapshot of your life at that point and time," the former chart-topping rapper said in archival footage featured in the program. "I'll always make records as long as people wanna buy them." The Philadelphia native the initially came to prominence as one-half of the rap duo DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince in the late 1980s. He then took his persona to the small screen with a starring role in the beloved sitcom "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air" where for six years fans watched Will mature on screen in the 1990s. Since launching his movie career in 1993 with 'Made in America' and 'Six Degrees of Separation,' he has repeatedly proven his versatility and box office appeal with blockbusters including 'Independence Day,' 'Men in Black,' 'Bad Boys,' and his Academy Award nominated turns in 'Ali' and "The Pursuit of Happyness.' And despite his mounting fame, the box office force of nature with that irrepressible boy-next-door charm has managed to stay clear of the tabloids and stay close with wife Jada Pinkett Smith and their growing family. 'The E! True Hollywood Story' plans to chronicle all of this and more. http://www.blackvoices.com/blogs/2007/12/0...ywood-swinging/

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Oops, Will Smith gives away ending of latest film Tue Dec 4, 2007 6:52am EST TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - Hollywood star Will Smith had the producer of his latest film holding his head in anguish on Tuesday after the actor gave away the ending of "I Am Legend". Speaking at a Tokyo news conference, Smith inadvertently revealed the plot, prompting co-producer and co-screenwriter Akiva Goldsman to shout: "Don't give away the ending!" Goldsman then pretended to be surprised, but it was all too late, and press handlers asked all present to keep the ending a secret, so as not to spoil it for viewers. Smith plays a virologist fighting a man-made virus in "I Am Legend", the film adaptation of Richard Matheson's 1954 novel of the same title. The movie premieres simultaneously in the United States and Japan on December 14. http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMo...ST2066420071204

Posted on December 3, 2007 2:11 PM Will Smith is continuing to come to the defense of Tom Cruise and Scientology, blasting critics who take aim at Tom’s devotion to the religion. “Tom is one of the greatest spirits that I met. He dedicates himself to making the world better,” Will told “Extra.” “And just because our beliefs are different, does that mean we are not allowed to be friends? Does that mean I need to take out my bible and club him with it?” Will continued, “Our twin towers came down because of ignorant religious fundamentalism. I am a student of world religions and my religion is love.” “Extra” caught up with Will at a junket for his new thriller, “I Am Legend,” in which he plays the last surviving man on earth after a virus wipes out mankind. The mega movie star regained the 25 pounds he has lost for the role and joked, “It’s a good thing at 210, but those Italian pants don’t fit so good.” The two-time Oscar nominee also declared he’s in the prime of his career, saying, “I’m going to make the best movies of my career over the next ten years. This is my peak. I’m coming up baby!” Still, whatever commercial and personal success he’s had in the last 20 years, Will says he owes it all to his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith. “For me, I connect all aspects of life back to Jada,” Will said. VIDEO!

Ideas in Bible are 98 percent same as Scientology’s, star says Access Hollywood updated 9:25 p.m. ET Dec. 3, 2007 LOS ANGELES - Will Smith opened up this past weekend on “60 Minutes,” and he was equally revealing with Access Hollywood, as he defended friend Tom Cruise’s passion for Scientology. “What about Scientology do you embrace?” Access Hollywood’s Shaun Robinson asked the “I Am Legend” star. “I was introduced, [to] it by Tom and I’m a student of world religion,” Smith said. “I was raised in a Baptist household, I went to a Catholic school, but the ideas of the Bible are 98 percent the same ideas of Scientology, 98 percent the same ideas of Hinduism and Buddhism.” Impassioned and serious, Will came to the defense of his close friend, whom some have criticized for his passionate stand on Scientology. “It seems like it makes you angry that people have attacked him because of what he believes?” Robinson said. “When I sit and I talk with Tom Cruise, he is one of the greatest spirits that I’ve ever met – someone who is committed to making the world better,” Will said. “You have people [that] are attacking and wanna fight that don’t know nothing — how you gonna not know nothing about Scientology and attack somebody? It’s dangerous and it’s ignorant. “How can I condemn someone for what they believe and I believe that God was born from a pregnant virgin?” Will continued. He’s dead serious taking on Scientology adversaries, but Robinson did get to have a little fun with Smith as she talked to him about his new film, “I Am Legend.” Incredibly charged with emotion and crying, it will be another big hit at the box office and it all goes back to when he was 16. Smith says that it was his cheating first girlfriend motivated him to become a movie star. “I was so devastated that she cheated on me and I remember making a decision that she cheated on me ‘cause I wasn’t good enough right? And I remember laying in my mother’s bed crying and making a decision that if I was the best at everything, that my woman could never cheat on me,” he said. Copyright 2007 by NBC. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. VIDEO!

December 03, 2007 For a second year in a row, Will Smith is co-starring with one of his offspring in a major motion picture, hitting big screens Dec. 14 in I am Legend with daughter Willow. The two may be father and daughter in real life, but when cameras started rolling, the actor’s parental rights were revoked. "I'm not allowed to talk to the kids while they're working,” he tells Entertainment Tonight. “Jada [Pinkett Smith] says, 'Once the movie starts you are their co-star and I am their mother. Any problems you have with those kids you can talk to their mother.'" The two-time Oscar nominee may have to get used to that rule as he envisions many more future projects for Willow, 7, and 9-year-old Jaden, who co-starred with his dad in last year’s The Pursuit of Happyness. "Entertainment is our family business. It's what we do, it’s how we eat, so at some level everyone is involved in the process." As for their marriage, Will and Jada are coming up on the 10 year mark on Dec. 31, a lifetime in Hollywood. And don’t think it didn’t come without work. The 39-year-old reveals the couple take time out to study their relationship and iron out the kinks in the midst of parenting and bustling film careers. “I've probably got 40 books under my belt on making relationships work,” he says. “If you're going to spend 60 hours per week working at your job and it takes you 60 hours per week to be successful at that job, you think with two hours a week and sex on Saturday night you're going to make the most important relationship of your life work?" And you can bet the clan, which also includes Will’s son Trey, 15, from his first marriage, will carve out quality time together for the holidays. A stickler for tradition, Jada is serious when it comes to Christmas, Will says, annually researching the places with the most snowfall for family to trek to. “We'll be in Denton, Montana because they have projected 14 inches of snow on Christmas Eve. We have a tradition, a Christmas Eve sleigh ride." And what will he give Jada for Christmas? Will won't reveal it, but adds, "Jada is very simple so big gifts fail horribly." For more on Jada, tune into ET tonight. http://www.okmagazine.com/news/view/3054

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Monday Night Conversation with Will Smith - I Am Legend http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0ggyjUX_kk

4 Dec 2007, 0000 hrs IST,MADHUREETA MUKHERJEE ,TNN Will Smith, the rap-rocker-turned-Hollywood megastar, was trying to make me feel comfy in his LA stronghold. Folding his hands in traditional Indian greeting with ‘Salaam Namastey’, it was charming Will-wit at its best. When I asked in Ameri-canese, “How you doin’ Will?”, tongue firmly in cheek, he sighed, “I’m so good that I’m almost ashamed of it!” For a man who believes he can be the President of America; fly a space shuttle and achieve the unattainable — turning into a ‘legend’ isn’t way off the mark. After all, he’s been the first rapper to be nominated for an Academy Award twice (Ali, The Pursuit of Happyness). Now Willy boy is all set to save the world all over again (remember Independence Day and MIB?) from a man-made virus in his new sci-fi movie, I Am Legend. What everyone wants to learn from Will is how he gets into the ‘skeleton of the role’. Yes, he’s lost nearly 20 pounds for this character; and is looking almost skinny fit. “For me eating becomes something I do just because I have to. There is no desire or pleasure to eat. I just know that my brain isn’t going to function if I don’t eat. And working out is something I have to do. It’s important for me to stay in good physical condition — if you marry a real firecracker (Jada Pinkett-Smith) you gotta stay in shape!” he says, flashing his infectious smile. The Grammy winner apparently has a passion for Indian beauties and Bollywood movies. To be more specific, ‘the most beautiful woman in the world’ — Aishwarya Rai? He’d expressed his desire to cast her in Hitch, but Ash had ‘date’ issues (only movie dates, we presume?) and Eva Mendes stepped in. “Aishwarya Rai turns me down all the time. Everytime I ask her, she turns me down.” He pauses and exclaims, “Oh yes... Congrats Aishwarya! I heard she got married. But she ain’t working with Will Smith,” he expresses. For a man who featured in a celebrity magazine in a list of ‘50 Most Beautiful People in the World’, it is indeed a display of modesty. And what does he think of Mumbai, so akin in life-form to his favourite NYC. “I had a beautiful time in Mumbai. Sometime in June 2008, I’ll be making a trip,” he reveals. Looking for Indian beauties for his next venture, aha? “I want to make a movie in India, I’d really love to. I have discussed this with my friends too. I’ve told them ‘let’s get the script and idea and let’s make it happen’!” And knowing the ‘Will’-ful Smith, he’s gonna do it! http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India_B...how/2591478.cms

Legend Emptied New York 12:00 AM, 03-DECEMBER-07 Will Smith, who stars in the upcoming SF movie I Am Legend, told reporters that the film got permission to block off streets in Manhattan to shoot scenes of an abandoned, post-apocalyptic New York—to the dismay of commuters. "Shooting in New York, especially something on this level, is difficult," Smith said in a news conference in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Nov. 30. "I would say that, percentage-wise, it's the most amount of middle fingers I've ever received in my career [laughs]. ... I was starting to think 'F you!' was my name." In I Am Legend, based on Richard Matheson's classic SF novel of the same name, Smith plays Robert Neville, a virologist who is the last apparent survivor of a plague that has emptied the world's cities. The movie shot in New York for several weeks. The locations the production used included New York's Grand Central Terminal, Madison Square Park, Washington Square Park, TriBeCa, Columbus Circle, Chinatown and Fifth Avenue, each of which had to be closed, emptied of traffic and pedestrians and dressed to appear abandoned. "We shut down six blocks of Fifth Avenue on a Monday morning," Smith said. "That was probably poor logistics, which was poor planning," he added, with tongue in cheek. Smith said that the experience was eerie. "You realize that you have never actually seen an empty shot of New York," he said. "When we were doing it, it's chilling to walk down the middle of Fifth Avenue. There is never an opportunity to walk down the middle of Fifth Avenue. At 2 o'clock in the morning on Sunday, you can't walk down the middle of Fifth Avenue. What happened is that it just created such a creepy energy." In one scene, Smith as Neville races down an empty Fifth Avenue in a cherry-red Shelby Cobra Mustang. "There is a shot in the movie with the U.N.," Smith added. "There is Broadway, and it puts such an eerie, icky kind of feeling on the movie when you see those shots. Logistically, it was a nightmare, but it absolutely created something that you can't do with green screen, and you can't do shooting another city instead of New York." I Am Legend opens Dec. 14. http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?c...=3&id=45951

How to Build a True Urban Jungle In I Am Legend, a virus hits in 2009, infecting everyone but Will Smith. By 2012, New York is rife with monsters at night yet empty during the day: a spookily beautiful dystopia. “Most apocalyptic movies are very dark, with burnt-out cities,” says director Francis Lawrence. “The truth is that if people left, nature would start reclaiming the city pretty quickly.” Creating the illusion of a verdant, depopulated Manhattan took $40 million of the film’s $150 million budget. And even with hundreds of assistants pushing pedestrians out of the frame, a visual-effects team still had to digitally remove each sign of life from shots, erasing people and darkening windows. Here’s how they constructed the opening scene, in which Smith hunts a deer in Times Square: Lasers mapped real buildings to within an inch, creating gray structures (1). Then the crew took thousands of digital photos, using them to add detail, while animators put in 3-D objects (2) that would eventually look like cars and billboards. The street itself, covered in grass, was practically the only thing built on a soundstage. The final result is what you see in (3). As for the TKTS booth (4), a hybrid of set design and CGI, it was based on plans for the unfinished renovation. And those billboards? “We had to decide which Broadway shows would still be open in 2009,” says visual-effects supervisor Janek Sirrs. And which Warner Bros. movies. “We’ve got an ad for Superman vs. Batman in there somewhere.” http://nymag.com/movies/features/41551/

5. WILL SMITH AGE 39 JOB TITLE Actor/producer SMART BECAUSE He has revitalized and redefined old-fashioned movie stardom in an era when movie stardom has become small and suspect. After hitting the scene in the mid-'80s as rapper Fresh Prince, then transitioning successfully to TV, Smith soon demonstrated surprising versatility and a knack for picking blockbusters that have given him license to do...well, anything, from Oscar-nominated drama (The Pursuit of Happyness) to event-film spectacle (I Am Legend). He credits Ali director Michael Mann with enlightening his filmmaking mind, and pure elbow grease for achieving a level of global popularity unprecedented for an African-American actor. Smith sums up his work ethic this way: ''I don't like to lose.'' Here are his keys to a winning career. SET A GOAL ''When I started in movies, I said, 'I want to be the biggest movie star in the world.' The biggest movie stars make the biggest movies, so [my producing partner James Lassiter and I] looked at the top 10 movies of all time. At that point, they were all special-effects movies. So Independence Day — no-brainer. Men in Black — no-brainer. I, Robot — no-brainer.'' PICK A ROLE MODEL ''Tom Hanks is the prototype of where I want to be. I admire how he is able to morph with the times and the audience. He is very savvy that way.'' WORK YOUR ASS OFF ''My father had a ridiculous work ethic. He started his own business. To him, kids were convenient employees. So from a really early age, I was working — and I was in charge.'' MANAGE YOUR FEAR ''After [1999' s disappointment]Wild Wild West, I got scared and started choosing incorrectly. For me, I did Bad Boys IIand Men in Black II out of fear. That was a bad time for me psychologically because I wasn't thinking the right way about filmmaking.'' STRETCH YOURSELF — ASAP ''The smartest move I ever made was Six Degrees of Separation. I was [thinking of] leaving The Fresh Prince of Bel-Airand needed to set a tone. Separation was so far at the other end of the spectrum of anything I had done. It became easier for me to convince Jerry Bruckheimer that I could do Bad Boys. It blew open a world of possibilities for me.'' http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20163012_46,00.html

Francis Lawrence on I Am Legend Re-shoots Source: ShockTillYouDrop.com December 3, 2007 Speaking openly with ShockTillYouDrop.com over the weekend in Beverly Hills, I Am Legend director Francis Lawrence addressed the talk of re-shoots that recently went down. For good or for worse, re-shoots on productions do often occur - yet on high-profile projects such as the latest "Legend" adaptation, when word leaks out, arched, suspicious eyebrows are raised and Internet chatter kicks up. In Lawrence's case, he confirms final shooting was completed less than a month ago. "I'm a huge fan of pick-ups and re-shoots," he tells us. "There's this misconception that it's always a bad thing and for me it's like saying a painter only has one shot at a brush stroke. That you can't erase and do it again." Due to this production's tremendous CGI grocery list of scenes in various stages of evolution (an estimated 800 shots, he says), "we weren't seeing fully-rendered shots until about a month ago. The movie starts to take on a whole other life. It's not only until later that you can judge a movie as a whole and go, 'Huh, maybe we should shoot this little piece in the middle, or tweak this a little bit.' It just so happened that our re-shoots revolved around the end of the movie." The director adds that re-shoots were called upon during the Keanu Reeves-starring Constantine and that he'd love to budget them into every film he tackles. "The studios just don't ever want to budget them in because it's like a contingency for them." More than happy to discuss the last-minute alterations Lawrence won't venture to say exactly what needed to change in the film's finale. http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=3861