New Line Cinema took the Fresh Prince (a.k.a. Will Smith) to court over the video for his Elm Street-inspired “A Nightmare on My Street” New Line Cinema teamed up with the rock band Dokken when they needed a song and music video to help promote their 1987 film A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream … Read more
We talk with David Alan Grier, Justice Smith, An-Li Bogan, Nicole Byer, and Kobi Libii about The American Society of Magical Negroes Kobi Libii’s feature film debut is already facing some divisive reaction. For this viewer, having grown up on classic films that he is examining, I thought the approach was quite interesting. The American … Read more
Sloane & Glover’s version of this tale sets a different table from the very beginning. Whereas Simon Kinberg’s script was a variation on the now-common theme of domestic bliss torn apart by espionage—see recent duds like “Family Plan” and “Role Play,” or rather don’t—this take starts with two spies who know exactly what they’re getting … Read more
In 1974, an unknown assailant killed a 22-year-old girl named Beverly Lynn Smith in her home. The brutal murder case was the subject of the Prime Video documentary series The Unsolved Murder of Beverly Lynn Smith. The series went on to uncover a lot of details about the case and showed how the authorities managed … Read more
Kevin Smith is working to make sure the new Jay and Silent Bob script will be unpredictable for fans of the characters Earlier this month, Kevin Smith revealed that he “lost a bet” to his frequent collaborator Jason Mewes and as a result had started writing the script for a third Jay and Silent Bob … Read more
A first-look image of Sylvia Hoeks as Anna Nicole Smith for Francesca Gregorini’s upcoming Hurricanna biopic arrives online. “You never know if they like you for who you are or what you are,” Anna Nicole Smith once said before she passed away from an accidental drug overdose in 2007. The endearing model, actress, and television … Read more
I’m not sure if Mr. & Mrs. Smith is a good movie of if it is a great work of star self-mythologizing. The film version saw two of the most beautiful people in the world — Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie — playing a married couple who do not realize that both are assassins until they are hired to … Read more
Will Smith appeared at the Red Sea International Film Festival in Saudi Arabia, where he addressed his “problems” to a receptive crowd and teased I Am Legend 2. The Will Smith Redemption Tour made a stop in the Middle East over the weekend, as the star appeared at the Red Sea International Film Festival in … Read more
Emmy nominee Matt Smith has signed on for the leading role in Sky Studios’ upcoming limited series adaptation of The Death of Bunny Munro, based on Nick Cave’s darkly comic. The House of the Dragon star is set to play the titular character, who is described as a door-to-door product salesman and sex addict. “A … Read more
Every week, Netflix releases a list of the most popular films and TV shows available on its service. And this week, at #3 on the most-watched movie list, just below Netflix’s two big new releases — the Bill Burr comedy Old Dads and the religious-themed documentary The Devil on Trial — is Gemini Man, the 2019 Will Smith … Read more