Will Smith and his wife Jada Pinkett-Smith claim they’re not to blame for a movie that made absolutely no money — even though Jada wrote the script.

It’s all over a movie you’ll probably never see called “Human Contract” — which Jada wrote in 2007.

In legal papers filed today in L.A. County Superior Court, the couple claims the guy who financed the movie is threatening to sue them because he believes Will and Jada “guaranteed” a return on an investment to get him on board. Will and Jada claim they “made no such representations.”

Long story short — the movie went straight-to-DVD and Will and Jada admit, “it is unlikely that it will ever make a profit.”

Will and Jada aren’t going after the investor for money — but they want a judge to declare that they are not liable for the investor’s lost cash.

In the meantime, the movie had some serious star-power — Ted Danson, Idris Elba and even Jada herself.

Too bad no one ever saw it.

UPDATE: TMZ spoke to a rep for the couple who told us, “Although we normally shun this type of controversy, we felt compelled to respond to the baseless threats and absurd allegations put forth by Mr. Grasso’s counsel.”
Source: TMZ

Hollywood superstar Will Smith will auction a special artwork signed by music artists who performed at the Nobel Peace Prize concert in Oslo, to raise funds for poor children.

The ‘Hitch’ star is joined by his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith in raising the money that will go towards providing food to more than 500,000 school children in Haiti.

The artwork will be sold by UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) and the Will & Jada Smith Family Foundation on eBay.

The art is based on a map of world hunger. It is decorated with personalised silhouettes drawn by Smith, his family and the artists who performed at the concert, according to WFP. (more…)

Jay-Z, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith have officially signed on as co-producers of “Fela!,” a musical about Nigerian Afrobeat pioneer Fela Anikulapo-Kuti that opens Monday (November 23) on Broadway.

The news confirms weeks of speculation that the three would back the show.

A representative for “Fela!” did not specify the amount of the celebrities’ investment, but their endorsement alone gives the musical’s profile a significant boost just a week before its premiere.

“There’s going to be an enormous incentive for people to investigate Fela when they know that Jay-Z and Will Smith are all rabid fans,” Rikki Stein, Kuti’s former co-manager and executor of his estate, recently told Billboard. “It’s a sign that the underground is moving overground.” (more…)

American rap artist and actor Will Smith and his wife, the actress Jada Pinkett Smith, will co-host this year’s Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo, organizers said Wednesday.

The Dec. 11 show — a day after the award ceremony — will feature performances by Wyclef Jean, Toby Keith, Donna Summer, Puerto Rican singer Luis Fonsi as well as Amadou & Mariam, a blues and jazz duet from Mali.

“The opportunity to recognize the laureate’s contributions to the world peace movement will be an awe-inspiring experience,” the Smiths said in a joint statement. “We are both humbled and honored to take part in the Nobel Peace Prize Concert this year.” (more…)

The superheroic team of Peter Berg, Will Smith, and Columbia have been bantering about a Hancock sequel since last July, so it’s no surprise that it’s gone and become official. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Columbia has hired Adam Fierro and Glen Mazzara to bring back the boozy immortal. Berg is expected to return as director,
though THR is mute as to whether Charlize Theron or Jason Bateman will be reprising their roles. (Given the way the last film ended, it could really go either way, couldn’t it?)

While the plot is being kept under wraps, Smith already gave a few hints last winter. Smith says that the Hancock universe was “full of unexplored characters” and that we would meet them in a sequel. He certainly was a character with a long history, and a whole “last son of Krypton” thing going (I’m trying not to spoil anything), so I could see a sequel venturing into some kind of Phantom Zone territory. Or maybe they’ll go downright Biblical with his immortal lineage. Who knows! It’s too early to know! (more…)

It seems that Peter Berg, the director of 2008 Will Smith superhero epic, Hancock is now seriously talking sequel.

Are you drooling at the mere thought of this? Do you spend waking nights with fingers crossed just focused towards the mere possibility that we will revisit the vice-stricken amnesiac and ancient God-turned-superhero? (Just go with me on this one.) Well, as Berg tells Sci-Fi Wire (whose name, unlike its channel’s is still mysteriously spelled properly):

Caution: Spoilers ahead. (more…)

Sci Fi Channel is teaming with Will Smith’s production company for a new crime drama.

The network has ordered “Unfinished Business,” a series about an ex-cop who starts seeing flashes of memories from the recently deceased. The visions compel him to help wronged souls resolve their unfinished business.

The network, which changes its name to Syfy on July 7, plans to air “Unfinished Business” as a two-hour movie that will also serve as a potential series pilot. (more…)

90 million votes were cast (that’s a new record) for the Nickelodeon’s 22nd Annual Kids’ Choice Awards which featured first-time host Dwayne Johnson and The Jonas Brothers getting slimed big time, and Leonardo DiCaprio picking up the very first Big Green Help Award at the 2009 event held on March 28th. Also taking home ‘Blimp’ trophies were Vanessa Hudgens (High School Musical 3) as Favorite Movie Actress, Will Smith (Hancock) as Favorite Movie Actor, (more…)

”I definitely understand and respect people’s curiosity, you know. But people, they have to trust me and when I speak on my truth, that’s really the bottom line in dealing with people. If I say to you, ‘I don’t have an open marriage. No, we’re not gay.’ [laughs] And you don’t trust that, well then there’s nothing that we — that I have to say to anybody about anything, because at the end of the day, I’m living my life and I’m happy.”

Actress and metal rock musician Jada Pinkett Smith, of Baltimore, remarking about rumors that she and her husband Will Smith are in a marriage of convenience because they are both secretly gay. She also said their school is not a Scientology school, but that the method of teaching is a product of L. Ron Hubbard — the founder of the Scientology who, incidentally, claimed that homosexuality can be cured through scientific feedback therapy.
Source: Metro Weekly

Hollywood superstar WILL SMITH is to open another school with his wife JADA – following the success of the couple’s new Leadership Academy in California.

The pair launched the New Village Leadership Academy in Calabasas, California last year (08), which will teach pre-kindergarten children through to sixth grade at age 11-12.

And now Pinkett Smith has announced that they hope to open a companion high school, which will take pupils from the age of 11 until graduation. (more…)