Forbes just released its list of Hollywood’s top paid actors and as it turns out, Will Smith made a little cash last year. Well, $80 million to be exact. Johnny Depp came in second on the list of top paid actors, making $72 million in the last year. Third place went to Eddie Murphy, who earned $55 million for stinkers like this and this.

Mike Meyers takes the fourth spot, followed by Leonardo DiCaprio.

Bruce Wills, Ben Stiller, Nicolas Cage, Will Ferrell and Adam Sandler were also among the top ten. Forbes also reports that Hollywood’s 10 top-earning actors out-earned Hollywood’s 10 best-paid actresses 2-to-1 over the course of the year.
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Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith have been rumored for years to have a very open marriage but it was never confirmed by the couple – at least until now.

According to a recent interview with UK magazine Reveal, Will Smith says “Our perspective is, you don’t avoid what’s natural and you’re going to be attracted to people.”

As one of Hollywood’s most powerful couples, the Smith’s 10 year marriage rivals that of many Hollywood relationships that have since fizzled out. According to the magazine Smith says their open marriage has been in place since day one of their marriage. “In our marriage vows, we didn’t say ‘forsaking all others’. We said you will never hear I did something afterwards’. Because if that happens the relationship is destroyed.” (more…)

Will Smith may be on top at the box office once again with Hancock, but his longtime friend and former rap partner DJ Jazzy Jeff says the success and fame hasn’t gone to the Fresh Prince’s head.

“He’s the biggest movie star on the planet, [but] he’s still the same Will – the same good guy,” Jazzy Jeff, 43, tells PEOPLE. “He’s just a little harder to get in touch with.”

The “Parents Just Don’t Understand” duo recently reunited for an impromptu show at the Hancock premiere in Hollywood.

What’s the rapper’s take on Smith’s happy 10-year marriage to Jada Pinkett Smith? (more…)

Will Smith is planning to make a film with Tom Cruise. The ‘Hancock’ actor revealed he has been trying to find a suitable project for them to star in, but has so far been unsuccessful.

He said: “Me and Tom have to work together. I think that would just be genius. We have been pitching some ideas back and forth and trying to find a movie that will be big enough for both of us.”

The actor ” who is close friends with the ‘Top Gun’ actor and his wife Katie Holmes ” also said Tom is a “warm-hearted” person. Will has also expressed an interest in teaming up with ‘There Will Be Blood’ actor Daniel Day Lewis. (more…)

Will Smith’s “Hancock” is no super hero at the box office.

If numbers hold up, “Hancock” will finish a five-and-a-half-day July 4th weekend with just under $100 million. That’s about equal to what his last movie, “I Am Legend,” did last December. The only difference is that “Legend” did that without the advantage of a long holiday weekend.

The other difference is that on “Legend”’s opening night it took in around $30 million. “Hancock” has done very well, but nothing like that. On Friday night it did an estimated $18 million — and that may be an over-estimate. (more…)

Will Smith usually plays the hero in his summer blockbusters. But in “Hancock,” he drinks, swears, mouths off — and goes to prison.

Smith’s role as a superhero-gone-bad could be jarring to some moviegoers — but not his children and wife Jada Pinkett Smith.

“Fortunately, our kids are in the business so they kind of understand,” the 39-year-old actor told Associated Press Television News at the red-carpet premiere of the film. “But it is such a bizarre shock for them to see daddy being mean. It was fantastic in our house.” (more…)

Will Smith is the undisputed king of the July 4 weekend movie blockbuster — and this year is no different.

In his latest film, “Hancock,” Smith plays a superhero with a mysterious past and a bad attitude. The actor refers to the title role as a “bum superhero”

“He is rude. Mean to kids,” he told Early Show co-anchor Harry Smith. “Like that was so bizarre and opposite to, you know, what my natural instincts (are). It actually was difficult for the first couple of weeks, but actually turned into one of those guilty pleasures.” (more…)

Jamie Foxx, Amanda Peet, Chris Daughtry, Queen Latifah and a very pregnant Minnie Driver turned up at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre Monday night to watch Will Smith save the world once again, this time as an ambivalent superhero in Hancock.

But where was Smith’s main man, Tom Cruise, who has turned up at almost every one of Smith’s movie premieres since Cruise and Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, co-starred in 2004’s Collateral?

“He still had some things to do for Valkyrie,” said Pinkett Smith of her friend’s 2009 Adolf Hitler assassination plot drama. “But he let us know, ‘Sorry, I can’t make it tonight.’ ”

Pinkett Smith wowed in a jade Herve Leroux gown, while her husband called himself “aggressive” for turning up in a Tom Ford checkered suit. “I was feeling sexy about myself,” said Smith, 39. (more…)

Will Smith ’s soon-to-open private school is not a Scientology facility, as some reports have suggested, the academy’s director said.

Smith and his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, have founded the New Village Academy, scheduled to open in September.

The school will use instructional methods developed by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard called study technology. And a few teachers belong to the church.

But the couple say they are not Scientologists, and the academy’s director insists the facility has no religious affiliation. (more…)

They say the pen is mightier than the sword.

And in Hollywood, sometimes a Sharpie can be more important than the box office—at least when it comes to Will Smith and his pal Tom Cruise.

The Hancock star tells USA Today about the friendly stars’ long-standing rivalry about who spends the most time signing his, well, John Hancock.

“It’s hard to beat that dude,” says Smith. “He has another gear. He did 2½ hours in France for Mission: Impossible on the red carpet. Now when I go to France, people will say, ‘You know, Tom was out here for 2½ hours.’ ” (more…)

A-List celebrities like Will Smith, Jada Pinkett-Smith and Oprah Winfrey descended upon London’s Hyde Park Wednesday for a star-studded dinner as part of a week-long celebration honoring Nelson Mandela.

The former South African president is in London for a series of events to celebrate his 90th birthday, including a big outdoor concert at Hyde Park on Friday — with proceeds benefiting his 46664 charity. The show coincides with the 20th anniversary of London’s Free Mandela concert, which called for his release from prison.

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• Appearances from 2008 - 46664 Concert Photo Session [HQ]
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Actor WILL SMITH has warned his wife JADA PINKETT SMITH that her demand he takes time off from acting will leave her exhausted in the bedroom.

Pinkett Smith has begged the 39-year-old to take a break when he ends his world tour promoting new movie Hancock.

He says, “I’ve been working a lot the last couple of years. My wife has said we have to take the next five months off. I enjoy my job, I really enjoy working.

“She might need to be prepared to have lots of sex.”
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Will Smith gatecrashed his Hancock co-star Charlize Therons interview after hearing the actress had been lying about him on camera.

The actor had already spoken to a reporter as part of a segment for U.S. TV show Extra show and Theron was talking about her role as Smiths sidekick - when he barged in.

Reporter A.J. Calloway confirmed to Smith that Theron was boasting she was fitter than the Ali star.

The actress is said to have confided: “He (Smith) was incredibly scared because I am so ripped.” (more…)

Box office champ Will Smith has become as synonymous with the Fourth of July as fireworks and backyard barbecues - but the star says he takes nothing for granted as he opens yet another summer holiday blockbuster with his new action film, “Hancock.”

“I feel like I have a relationship with the audience,” Smith told Matt Lauer on the TODAY set, winding his way through a cheering throng of fans. “They agree they are going to go in droves, and I agree that every time they go, it’s going to be better than the last time.”

Smith, 39, has launched such all-time action hits as “Independence Day” and “Men in Black” on Fourth of July weekends past. And now he is an odds-on favorite to add another film financial bonanza to his resume with “Hancock,” in which he plays a boozy comic book-style hero who has a bad attitude and often does more harm than good. (more…)

HANCOCK star Will Smith has told T4’s Steve Jones that he may be about to appear in a Bollywood movie.

Speaking in the Channel 4 show, Smith said: “I’ve made a couple of speculative deals in India. We’ve got some Bolly-Will movies going on!”

There is a little bad news though. It seems that Big Willie may not be about to star in a new BAD BOYS movie anytime soon.

“I probably won’t do that. There have been pitches, and the concept is genius for ‘Bad Boys 3′ but I’ve moved on now.” He said.
Source: The Hollywood News