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Reshoots on I Am Legend? Source: CHUD.com November 15, 2007 Next to Frank Darabont's The Mist, Warner Bros.' upcoming I Am Legend adaptation could have boasted one of the second bleakest finales in horror this year. Could have. Word through the grapevine is that director Francis Lawrence strayed from Richard Matheson's source material (big surprise) - for what, we're not sure. CHUD's Devin Feraci has confirmed that reshoots on "Legend" wrapped as late as last week...less than a month before the film is shown to us press fiends. Sources tell Feraci that the ending was re-shot, one more thing to add to the grocery list of problems we've heard this film has faced over the last year. There have been rumors of multiple FX houses being hired and dumped to the point where one crew shirt listed all of the teams involved on back like some concert city listing. Except some names were crossed off to mark fallen comrades whose work went unused or abandoned. http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=3615

I AM RESHOOTS 11.15.07 By Devin Faraci Just the other day I got the invite for the I Am Legend junket here in Los Angeles at the end of the month. They'll be showing us the film, obviously, but it sounds like they're going to have to go double time in the editing room to get it finished: I have confirmed that there were reshoots on the movie as late as last week. What's not confirmed is what has been reshot. My source tells me that the ending was redone, as the studio wasn't happy with the finale that director Francis Lawrence had. Since I know that Lawrence's ending was already unfaithful to Richard Matheson's original story, I can only imagine that the new ending is more action packed and even more upbeat than before. This is the kind of thing that makes me look forward to the eventual book about the making of the film or Lawrence's life; we won't get the full story as to why the ending had to be changed or why it had to be changed so late in the game during the upcoming press deluge for the film, and nobody will go on the record with the truth for a good long time. http://www.chud.com/index.php?type=news&id=12571

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Pinkett Smith writing own 'Contract' Actress makes directing debut with comedy Jada Pinkett Smith is making her directorial debut with the romantic comedy "The Human Contract." Pinkett Smith wrote the script, and husband Will Smith will exec produce. Pic will star Jason Clarke ("Brotherhood"), Paz Vega, Ted Danson and Idris Elba ("The Wire"). A highly successful but personally tortured businessman (Clarke) has his life turned upside down after meeting a free-spirited, mysterious beauty (Vega), who tempts him to explore reckless love. Pic, which begins production this week in Los Angeles, is a co-production among Overbrook Entertainment, Tycoon Entertainment and Pinkett Smith's shingle 100% Womon. Tycoon is financing. Dawn Thomas, Miguel Melendez and Mike Jackson are producing. In addition to Will Smith, Overbrook's James Lassiter and Ken Stovitz are exec producers, along with Tycoon's David Grasso and David Dinenberg. Pinkett Smith recently wrapped the Diane English-directed "The Women," and Clarke completed the Paul W.S. Anderson-directed "Death Race" with Jason Statham. http://www.variety.com/article/VR111797583...yid=13&cs=1

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You know how in comic-book team-up stories, the good guys always get in a big fight as a result of some misunderstanding but then realize that they need to band together to stop some crazy villain? It turns out that in the clash between the Writers Guild and the major studios, the villains may actually be Tom Cruise, Will Smith, Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, and every other enormous star capable of commanding revenue-draining participation deals. According to a report by Global Media Intelligence and Merrill Lynch, the executives at the major studios may be speaking some truth when they insist that there's not much money left to share with the striking screenwriters. In fact, given just how much money ends up lining the pockets of A-list stars even when their films tank at the box office, we should all be grateful that there's any cash left in circulation at all. —Matthew Perpetua http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2007/...completely.html

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A class act in Lambertville Friday, November 09, 2007 LAMBERTVILLE -- Though education conferences closed schools yesterday, activity bustled at South Hunterdon Regional High School, where actor Will Smith was shooting scenes for his upcoming movie "I Am Legend." Once police shut down part of the road adjacent to the school, word quickly spread about the star's arrival to the rural high school. Principal Don Woodring said nearly 100 locals gathered to watch the filming and many were taken aback by Smith's warm personality. "He was great. Students got to take pictures with him and get autographs; the whole experience was wonderful," Woodring said. "It's so nice when someone of that caliber is completely down to earth, and treats everyone with such respect and kindness." The upcoming film, a post- apocalyptic horror film, is based on Richard Matheson's 1954 novel for which the movie is named. Smith's character, Robert Neville, is a survi vor of a man-made virus who works to create a cure while being stalked by mutant survivors of the plague. Scenes from the school's parking lot and nearby roads were used in yesterday's shoot. Woodring said it's possible the high school will be visible in the scenes when the movie releases in December. http://www.nj.com/news/times/regional/inde....xml&coll=5

Movie in Mt. Airy features actor Will Smith Thursday, November 08, 2007 By Renée Kiriluk-Hill WEST AMWELL TWP. -- Film star Will Smith is expected in Mount Airy today, trying to learn if he truly is the last human survivor of a man-made virus that wiped out his hometown of New York City. Starting at daybreak, crews will shut down roads to shoot a final scene of the action-thriller I Am Legend, scheduled for a Dec. 14 release in theaters. As long as residents are respectful of the work that needs to be squeezed into the short daylight hours they're welcome to watch the crew filming, said a studio spokesman who declined to be identified. He wasn't sure where he could put spectators, but said, "We'll be as accommodating as possible." He cautioned that spectator cameras in an actor's peripheral vision can break their concentration on the set. As for residents impacted by the filming, he said, "We'll try to cause as little inconvenience as possible. They can just go about their daily lives." The longtime film veteran had nothing but high praise for Mr. Smith, a two-time Oscar nominee. "He is terrific, the most accommodating and professional guy you'd want to come to your town. This guy is absolutely amazing, he is beyond genuine." The director's not looking for any extras; union rules mandate that the first 85 be members of the Screen Actors Guild, and since only 30 will be used in the Mount Airy scene they're being bused from New York with the crew. Mount Airy was chosen after an extensive search that stretched from northern New York south to Delaware. According to the spokesman, "We happened to fly over it," he said of the village, "we needed one countryside shot and we all kind of fell in love. It is absolutely magnificent and gorgeous, a quaint, wonderful town." That's not a guarantee that the locals will recognize their town in the movie. "I want to say yes" they will, but "truly can't answer that" unless the final film cuts are made, he said. A helicopter touched down on the Holcombe farm at the edge of the village on Sunday with location scouts, said police Lt. Steve Bartzak, who was asked about closing Route 179 for a day. He denied that request. Since the teachers convention closes schools today and tomorrow both sides agreed upon Mount Airy-Harbourton Road between the village and South Hunterdon High School. Mount Airy Village Road will be closed intermittently and the highway, between the village and West Amwell School, for a short period. Yesterday a crew planned to build a set piece along Mount Airy-Harbourton Road to be used today. "It's working out well," said the lieutenant. He will oversee eight officers who will direct pedestrian and vehicle traffic, their wages covered by the movie's budget. In the film, Mr. Smith is brilliant scientist Robert Neville, who is somehow immune to a man-made virus that wiped out human life (except for him) as we know it. For three years he sends out daily radio messages, as desperate to find other survivors as he is to avoid "the infected" -- mutant plague victims. He's driven to reverse the effects of the virus, utilizing the blood that's given him immunity. While Mr. Smith is the star, the Hollywood insider offered an inside tip to watch "Alice Braga. You'll know who she is in a few years. She's a big star in Brazil." The most unusual thing residents and motorists are likely to see today is a camera mounted on the nose of a helicopter, following a car down the road. After the crew has packed up and returned to New York City, where most of the film was shot, the studio spokesman hopes that people here will have had fun. "Most places that I've been to, they enjoy it and talk about it at church on Sunday." Warner Bros. Pictures has posted shots of the filming to date, along with a preview, at myspace.com/iamlegendmovie. http://www.nj.com/news/hunterdon/index.ssf...oll=12#continue

I AM LEGEND Still Shooting?? By: Jarrod Sarafin, News Editor Source: Scooper 'D' Date: Friday, November 9, 2007 The Warner Bros. production of I AM LEGEND, based on the best selling Richard Matheson novel, seems to be a high profile project for the parties involved here. So, why have we seen only two trailers for this film and little information about it compared to other productions? Well, apparently they're still shooting the film even if it comes out just a month and a week from now... Here's what an inside source has to say on the project: Will Smith has been filming the ending to "I Am Legend" in New Jersey this week. He's in Mt. Airy, a small Hunterdon County village set amid the rolling farms and hills of Central New Jersey. The local school parking lot just down the road is full of trailers and equipment. And some of the local folks are serving as extras. Apparently the film crew showed up pretty suddenly, not a whole lot of warning to the locals. When they finish up in Mt. Airy, they'll be going to South Carolina for a bit more filming. I AM LEGEND hits theaters December 14, 2007. http://www.mania.com/56587.html

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2007-11-08 13:57:12 - SPIKE LEE, KANYE WEST and WILL SMITH are among the stars nominated for the first ever award ceremony in memory of slain hip-hop star JAM MASTER JAY. The J.A.M awards, which will take place on 29 November (07) in New York City, aims to recognise outstanding efforts in promoting social justice, arts and music. The Run DMC DJ, real name Jason Mizell, was gunned down in his Queens, New York, studio in October 2002. Chuck D, Dr Cornell West and Smith are up for the Justice Award, while Lee, Robert L. Johnston and Lee Quinones are nominated in the Arts Award category. West, Nelly and Wyclef Jean will battle it out for the Music Award. The awards seek to promote music and arts education among urban schools. http://www.pr-inside.com/lee-west-and-smit...for-r290455.htm

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Will Smith talks about "I Am Legend" Artur Jung, Editor Cinema Magazine Germany talked with Will Smith about his New Movie "I Am Legend". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amWbK_-j8qY

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The City That Never Sleeps, Comatose http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/8124/lgndgz4.jpg HE’D saved the human race from aliens in “Independence Day” and the “Men in Black” movies, from its cyborg Frankensteins in the sci-fi thriller “I, Robot.” He’d even helped some of the nerdiest humans have a shot at perpetuating the species, as a dating coach in the romantic comedy “Hitch.” So perhaps Will Smith was due for a serious and seriously dark role in which the apocalypse has already come and gone, despite all his heroic attempts to prevent it. In “I Am Legend” (Dec. 14), a lean and lonely Mr. Smith grapples with the isolation of being the last healthy man on earth, three years after a deadly virus — meant to cure cancer — has all but wiped the planet clean of people. A studly military man as well as a scientist, he hangs on in a Manhattan that has gone back to nature in a big way — gathering vegetables in a Central Park that will give new meaning to “green market,” stalking deer in the high grass of Times Square — while simultaneously searching for a cure and steering clear of the rampaging, nocturnal ex-humans who have transformed into bloodthirsty predators, and who know where he lives. That Warner Brothers is releasing “I Am Legend” next month is itself something of a survivalist feat. Mr. Smith and his collaborators — the writer-producer Akiva Goldsman, the director Francis Lawrence and Mr. Smith’s producing partner James Lassiter — have achieved what other filmmakers and stars like Ridley Scott and Arnold Schwarzenegger could not, despite more than a decade of trying. Getting the $150 million-plus movie made took nearly two years of planning, months of rewriting, a studio boss’s green light without a script, and — a week into the nine-month shoot — a complete overhaul of the method for rendering the creatures terrorizing Mr. Smith’s character. All that, and only the biggest and longest-lasting moviemaking disruption of the daily lives of many New Yorkers since “The French Connection.” “I Am Legend” is the third film based on Richard Matheson’s 1954 novella of the same title, with its cold war allegory of Us and Them. Vincent Price starred in the first, “The Last Man on Earth” (1964), and Charlton Heston in “The Omega Man” (1971). Warner Brothers had long wanted to remake it again, and Mr. Smith, who said he had been seeking projects involving the most basic urges and emotions (as in his last movie, “The Pursuit of Happyness”), said he had nearly made an R-rated, darker version, written by Mark Protosevich, with the director Michael Bay before “28 Days Later” (2002) seemed to “snatch the concept.” Sitting in his two-story trailer on the Columbia Pictures lot, where he was finishing “Hancock,” a superhero drama set for release on July 2, Mr. Smith said he and Mr. Goldsman, who also co-wrote “I, Robot,” had been scheming for years to “sneak a little character drama into a big summer blockbuster.” Those big tent-pole movies, he said, “tend to start with, ‘Wouldn’t it be cool if ...?’ And no, it has to start with character, and the story has to grow from a trauma that the character has to experience.” In Mr. Goldsman’s reimagining, “I Am Legend” became, in essence, the story of Job, “and the question of the necessity for hope,” said Mr. Smith. Mr. Lawrence, the director, added: “If you’ve already taken away the world, and his family, what else can you take away from him for him still to be able to rise up from the ashes? What keeps you from putting a gun in your mouth?” And Mr. Lassiter, Mr. Smith’s longtime partner, said that while the last-man fantasy had attracted Mr. Smith early on, “there’s no saving the world in this.” He continued, “Once you hit the realization — everybody’s gone — that’s a scary concept.” Mr. Goldsman, who kept calling Mr. Smith back to the “Hancock” set, said later that he and Mr. Smith “share this fantasy that you can combine dramatics and genre, that genre movies can be character dramas and have great acting.” “Big entertainment,” he added, “can be meaningful.” A sought-after script doctor whose adaptations include “The Da Vinci Code,” Mr. Goldsman calls himself “the last stop for broken toys” at Warner Brothers. He also was a producer on “Constantine” (2005), the comic-book-based supernatural movie starring Keanu Reeves that was Mr. Lawrence’s first feature. When the studio’s production chief, Jeff Robinov, asked Mr. Goldsman to have a go at producing “I Am Legend” in 2004, he and Mr. Lawrence, who pressed to restore the “who’s the real monster?” aspects of Mr. Matheson’s novella, decided to extend their working relationship. (Mr. Goldsman, expecting to bring on another writer, said he banged out a treatment and then found himself finishing a draft.) Mr. Smith came on board a year later but said he wanted to combine Mr. Goldsman’s and Mr. Protosevich’s ideas. So Mr. Goldsman said he, Mr. Smith, Mr. Lawrence and Mr. Lassiter began “grinding” away at the story in marathon meetings, anticipating a 2007 production start. By May 2006 the group had created a 35- or 40-page, scene-by-scene outline, when it became clear that Mr. Smith’s next movie — what became “Hancock” — was not ready for its autumn start. Someone proposed flipping the two films, which would mean starting “I Am Legend” in just 16 weeks, Mr. Lawrence said, and after a moment’s pause everyone agreed. The president of Warner Brothers, Alan Horn, gave a green light based on Mr. Goldsman’s earlier draft and the latest outline. Even after shooting started, the talking and rewriting continued, Mr. Lawrence said. “We each come at it from a different angle,” he said of the four men in the room. “So you get this melding of different ways. When they meet, it’s kind of perfect.” Mr. Goldsman, for one, said he had learned to improvise dialogue from Mr. Smith. And Mr. Lawrence raced into work ebullient after having watched Jane Campion’s film “The Piano” with the sound off, so as not to wake his newborn son, without missing anything — “story or feeling,” he said. With long stretches of “I Am Legend” eerily silent, Mr. Lawrence said, he pressed his colleagues to work through their scenes without any words at all. “Underneath everything you should be able to boil it down to what it means without dialogue,” he said. “Because the truth is, everything should really be about behavior.” Mr. Matheson’s story and the previous film versions were all set in Los Angeles, but Mr. Goldsman’s biggest stroke was to relocate it in New York, where the absence of pedestrians is a statement, not a commonplace, he said. Warner Brothers initially opposed filming in New York because of costs and logistical challenges, but Michael Tadross, a veteran New York production manager (whose credits include the similarly disruptive “Die Hard With a Vengeance”), got the city to approve closing the Grand Central viaduct, several blocks of Fifth Avenue and Washington Square Park, among other highly trafficked sites — albeit at night and on weekends — between September 2006 and April 2007. It still took a warehouse full of plants trucked in from Florida to dress up the city streets as if weeds had overtaken them. And it took 1,000 to 2,000 extras, crammed into a specially built barge pier near the South Street Seaport in frigid temperatures, to simulate a panicked mob fleeing a quarantined Manhattan for the supposed safety of Brooklyn. Mr. Lawrence said he had been trying for years to develop ideas for filming “empty urban environments,” even when he was directing music videos. “Something’s always really excited me about that,” he said. “What that’s like psychologically — to have experienced that much loss, to be without people or any kind of social interaction for that long.” There are people, of sorts, lurking in the dark corners of “I Am Legend” of course. You just wouldn’t want to meet them. And Mr. Lawrence’s biggest challenge came a week into the production, when actors portraying victims of the rabieslike virus romped around on camera, but looked too much like romping actors wearing prosthetics. Mr. Lawrence, with the studio’s blessing, decided to enhance the actors with computer-generated effects, adding millions to the movie’s cost and weeks to its postproduction timetable. “We just weren’t able to get out of people what we really wanted,” he said. “They needed to have an abandon in their performance that you just can’t get out of people in the middle of the night when they’re barefoot. And their metabolisms are really spiked, so they’re constantly hyperventilating, which you can’t really get actors to do for a long time or they pass out.” Mr. Goldsman said he pined for the days “when science fiction and drama got to go together,” in films like “The Omega Man,” “Planet of the Apes” and other allegorical sci-fi films, which he said are rarely made in Hollywood anymore. So what’s the allegory in “I Am Legend,” beside the blurred lines between good and evil, us and them? “It’s funny, because we went back and forth,” said Mr. Lawrence. The story has no greedy comic book villain; rather, the virus arose “out of somebody truly trying to do something good, and accidents happen.” Virologists at the Centers for Disease Control, Mr. Lawrence said, told him and Mr. Smith that a pandemic could just as easily begin with a strange weather pattern. “The truth is that this kind of destruction can come from anywhere,” he said. “And nature has a way of resetting and rebalancing.” http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/04/movies/m...8UbHu%20XD2RpUg

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