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Two years later, Will Smith has made his triumphant return to the awards show stage. The Fresh Prince of Bel Air alum performed on the BET Awards stage for the first time on Sunday, gracing fans with the live debut of his new track ‘You Can Make It‘ with Fridayy and Kanye West’s Sunday Service…

The 2024 BET Awards will close out the first half of the year at the end of June. This year's show boasts a wide range of nominees as well as performers, and the spotlight will be on Usher — fresh from his Super Bowl halftime show — as he receives the BET Lifetime Achievement Award, which recognizes…

Will Smith will perform a new original song at this Sunday’s BET Awards, another indication of Smith’s seemingly renewed interest in music. "From his start as a rapper to The Fresh Prince to being a box office king as one of the Bad Boys, Will Smith is truly a global icon, and we are honored to…

EXCLUSIVE: With Sony Pictures’ Bad Boys: Ride or Die passing the $100 million domestic box office mark this past weekend, the studio and Will Smith are already looking to the future as he is attached to star in Sony’s Resistor. Based on the book Influx by bestselling author Daniel Suarez, the first…

Pondering Will Smith's recent triumph at a local Cinemark and Donald Trump's post-conviction surge, I got to thinking about “movie-think.” You know, the way we've become accustomed, after watching hundreds and hundreds of mainstream films, to thinking…

Four years after Bad Boys original author George Gallo first went to court over copyright to the lucrative Will Smith and Martin Lawrence franchise, the scribe and Columbia Pictures have settled their differences. “Pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 41(a)(1)(A)(ii), and in light of a…

DeVon Franklin has opened up about how working on The Pursuit of Happyness led him to want to dedicate his life to making faith-based movies. The Miracles from Heaven producer, who recently signed a multi-year deal with Tyler Perry, had interned for Will Smith since he was a freshman and worked with…

In the war on streaming, Will Smith is doing his part to get butts back in theater seats. The Academy Award-winner surprised fans at a recent screening of his new movie, Bad Boys: Ride or Die, the fourth installment in the buddy cop franchise. He snuck out of the theater at Cinemark Baldwin Hills…

SUNDAY AM FINAL: Sony’s Bad Boys: Ride or Die had a great Saturday of $19.5M, -10% against previews/first day of $21.6M, for what’s shaping up to be a $56M opening. This is the highest-grossing R-rated opening since Oppenheimer last July, and Will Smith’s sixth-highest U.S./Canada opening overall of his…

Although some advise against working with animals, Will Smith is fondly remembering his time with man’s best co-star. The Academy Award winner reminisced about his canine scene partner Abbey from the 2007 movie I Am Legend being “a brilliant actress” as he admitted to trying to adopt the German…

It may all be ridiculous if you think about it too much, but this action-comedy franchise still has gas in the tank 30 years after the fortuitous teaming of Will Smith and Martin Lawrence first hit the beat as notorious Miami cops aka the “Bad Boys.” Perhaps the most action-packed edition yet, Bad Boy…

EXCLUSIVE: Westbrook Inc., Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith’s studio, has named Denise Bailey-Castro as CFO. Bailey-Castro will oversee all of Westbrook Inc.'s financial operations across new business development, funding, acquisitions and major deals and be based in Westbrook's LA headquarters…