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EXCLUSIVE: One of the market’s biggest-budget projects, the Will Smith action-crime thriller Sugar Bandits, has sealed multi-million dollar deals across the world for AGC ahead of a planned September start date. Oscar winner Smith, soon to be seen reprising his role in the Bad Boys franchise, will…

EXCLUSIVE: On the eve of the Cannes market, Westbrook Studios and AGC Studios have set Italian filmmaker Stefano Sollima, known for directing Without Remorse, Sicario: Day of the Soldado and hit series Gomorrah, to helm big-budget action-thriller Sugar Bandits. Based on the screenplay and novel Devils…

Sundance dealmaking was buoyant, the awards season is coming to a head with a number of critically acclaimed movies having done well at the box office, and apparently peak TV is over. Whisper it quietly, but after years of movies being almost a dirty word compared to the lustre of TV, is independent…

Oscar winner Will Smith is attached to star in Sugar Bandits, which is one of the buzziest packages at the EFM market this week in Berlin. The market’s biggest budget project — we hear it’s in the $80M range — is understood to follow a former Special Forces solider who joins an elite, vigilante squad…

Dave Chappelle calls it "one of the craziest things I have ever seen." He is talking, of course, about the infamous Will Smith/Chris Rock Oscars confrontation. Like many, Chappelle wasn’t sure what he was watching. He thought it was "fake," and he "waited 30, 40 minutes" before calling Rock to…

Will Smith has revealed that the development of I Am Legend 2 is moving at pace, with both him and Michael B. Jordan on board and a first script delivered. News of the reboot of the post-apocalyptic action thriller blockbuster – which grossed more $585 million back in 2007 – broke earlier this year…

Will Smith has responded for the first time to Jada Pinkett Smith’s revelations in her new memoir, Worthy, which she is heavily promoting in the media and is out on Tuesday. Smith sent The New York Times an email saying the book’s revelations "kind of woke [him] up." He said that Pinkett Smith was…

With the return of Saturday Night Live to NBC following the end of the writers strike, “Weekend Update” with Colin Jost and Michael Che was also back to poke fun at politicians and pop culture. Jost was back at it again poking fun of Donald Trump and this time it was for his comments about the Middle…

Jada Pinkett Smith recalled that infamous Oscars slap as she revealed she and Will Smith have been living “completely separate lives” since 2016. Pinkett Smith revealed the news in her new memoir Worthy and she spoke about the incident in an interview with People. She recalled watching her husband…

OK, here’s the situation: Will Smith is set to host a new Audible podcast about a landmark year in hip-hop. The erstwhile Fresh Prince will be the main voice for Class of ’88, an eight-episode series that will feature Public Enemy’s Chuck D, Queen Latifah, Run-D.M.C.’s Darryl McDaniels, Salt-N-Pepa…

Kevin Hart's Peacock show "Hart to Hart" on Thursday had Will Smith on board, as he recalled the grand way Steven Spielberg pitched him on taking on a role in the 1997 film Men in Black. Smith said that Spielberg "sent a helicopter for me… to talk," in order to convince him to take on the movie…

Will Smith put a high-profile spotlight today on his fellow actors and scribes out on strike. With the WGA labor action closing in on 90 days that writers have been on the picket lines, and SAG-AFTRA out for two-weeks now, the Oscar winner took to social media Friday to offer his take on what's going…