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Sahr Ngaujah as the title character in the Broadway musical "Fela!" Jay-Z, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith have signed on as producers of the new Broadway musical a oeFela!a and will attend the showa s opening night at the Eugene Oa Neill Theater next Monday, Nov.

Falling buildings, collapsing bridges, Hollywood actresses running around like chickens without a head: Who doesn't love a good end-of-the-world picture? Here are our five favorite disaster epics of yore.

Until now! Congratulations, it's the never-ending disaster film. Ordinarily that would be the 10th circle of hell, but director Roland Emmerich is the Hugh Hefner of disaster porn, having granted the planet "Independence Day," "Godzilla" and "The Day After Tomorrow." "2012" is his disaster opus, a thriller that keeps on coming, leaving the viewer ...

Will Smith hired comedian Alex Thomas as a writer on his hit sitcom,The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, where he wrote for the show for three seasons.

Jay-Z is co-producing a Broadway musical about a Nigerian musician and political activist.

Falling buildings, collapsing bridges, Hollywood actresses running around like chickens without a head: Who doesn't love a good end-of-the-world picture? Here are our five favorite disaster epics of yore.

Academy Award nominee Will Smith, Jada Pinkett Smith and Grammy winner Jay-Z have joined the producing team of Broadway's Fela! , which is scheduled to open at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Nov.

A quarter of a billion dollars was spent in the making of this movie. A pie chart depicting how all those millions were allocated would have a fat slice labeled "publicity" and a much fatter one labeled "special effects." The slice for "story and character development," on the other hand, would be so skinny there wouldn't be room for a label on it.

Digg this story! Action films are renown box office sweepers, and can most of the time count on a solid box office performance even if the story and characters are lacking, if there's enough action, people usually flock to the theaters.

Loading ... Empireonline is reporting that the master of Disaster, Roland Emmerich, the man behind this week's new release "2012" is thinking about revisiting another one of his disaster properties.

First there was Independence Day : Roland Emmerich's cliche-ridden remake of Star Wars, War of the Worlds , and V: The Miniseries all rolled into one.

Loading ... Will Smith who has yet to win an academy despite being nominated twice, has his eyes currently set on adapting Daniel Keyes' 1966 Hugo and Nebula awards winning novel "Flowers For Algernon." The project is set up at Sony by Smith's own production company Overbrook Entertainment.

You would think I would have learned after Independence Day, Godzilla and 10,000 BC that any movie with Roland Emmerich's name attached to it can be like a sentence in movie hell.

Will Smith will star in a modern day adaptation of Daniel Keyes' classic science fiction novel, Flowers for Algernon.

Now that the Smith / Spielberg version of Oldboy has reportedly died a well-deserved death Will Smith will have to look for other ways to bridge the gap between mainstream success like I Am Legend and the critical praise one suspects he really desires.

Photo / Supplied End of the world epic 2012 marks director Roland Emmerich's third attempt to destroy the earth.

When you're Will Smith and you're not currently attached to any film, life is good.A It's a little less good when the news comes out that your potential Oldboy adaptation with Steven Spielberg is dead and the entire Internet cheers.A But you pick yourself up, say a hearty, "Awhellnaw", and move on to then next project, which could be another ...

The wait is over! On Tuesday , after 24 hours spent frantically refreshing LadyGaga.com for its scheduled Monday premiere, fans were finally treated to the premiere of Gaga's much-discussed "Bad Romance" video.

It seems Will Smith hasn't seen Tropic Thunder . It's too late for him now, because he's signed on to star in a new version of Flowers for Algernon according to Pajiba .

Although Hip Hop is no stranger to Broadway , it has not invested much in that particular stream of cultural capital.