The movie I wanted to make and the movie Will ... It was me, Will, some of the production people, and Will's producing partner, James Lassiter, who is his best friend. So, I'm trying to save ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. My writing partner Rick Parks and I wrote the Ellis Island scene because friends of mine who ...

In the middle of the movie, date doctor Alex "Hitch" Hitchens ... including his producing partner and best friend James Lassiter, who is Black. "I'm trying to save the sequence, and lo and ...

Tennant said he doesn’t “have anything against Will,” adding, “He hired me to make this movie. It was not ... based on Hitch with Smith and James Lassiter’s Overbrook Entertainment ...

Will Smith has a list of memorable performances, whether it’s fighting aliens in the Men in Black films, his Oscar-winning role as Venus and Serena Williams’ dad in the cast of King Richard ...

Director Andy Tennant had creative differences with star Will Smith on the 2005 rom-com "Hitch." Smith rejected a scene on Ellis Island because he thought Black people didn't immigrate via the ...

In the original movie, Smith played the titular superhero ... are so many people involved in that from Will to his partner James Lassiter to Akiva [Goldsmith] to Michael Man and myself.

Director Andy Tennant breaks down the "wild ride" of making the 2000s staple. At the height of his powers in Hollywood in the early 2000s, Will Smith made a change. After gaining fame as a Grammy ...