{"id":197534,"date":"2025-09-03T18:52:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T18:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/197534\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T18:52:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T18:52:12","slug":"will-smith-to-make-movies-for-paramount-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/197534\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Smith to Make Movies for Paramount Pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tWill Smith<\/a> has found a new home at Paramount<\/a> Pictures.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe movie star and his Westbrook banner, which he runs with wife Jada Pinkett Smith, have inked a first-look deal with a focus on developing four-quadrant theatrical movies, emphasizing projects based on IP and franchise plays. The projects will be developed as starring vehicles for the Oscar winner.<\/p>\n

\n\tUnder the deal, Westbrook has set up projects at the studio, including Sugar Bandits, based on the book Devils in Exile by Chuck Hogan that follows a down-and-out Iraqi war veteran who intercepts drug deals for profit. The project has bounced around at other studios. Another project that was revealed as a part of today\u2019s announcement is Rabbit Hole from Dune writer Jon Spaihts.<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter taking the reins at Paramount Pictures, Ellison has been on a dealmaking spree. On Tuesday, the studio announced a deal with Activision that will see the popular video games series Call of Duty<\/a> become a big-screen movie franchise. Other transactions include a $7.7 billion deal for UFC rights and an exclusive multiyear pact with Stranger Things creators Duffer brothers.<\/p>\n

\n\tFor his part, Smith previously worked with both Ellison\u2019s Skydance banner and Paramount on the action thriller Gemini Man. Smith, repped by CAA, was last onscreen in 2024\u2019s Bad Boys: Ride or Die, his comeback vehicle after slapping Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars, and the 2022 Apple history drama Emancipation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Will Smith has found a new home at Paramount Pictures. The movie star and his Westbrook banner, which…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":197535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[171,15329,67,132,68,5956],"class_list":{"0":"post-197534","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-paramount","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us","13":"tag-will-smith"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115141879098737812","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}