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Will Smith and Martin Lawrence return for the fourth Bad Boys film, Bad Boys: Ride Or Die.Directed by duo Adil & Bilall, who helmed the previous instalment Bad Boys For Life, this latest entry sees detectives Mike and Marcus become fugitives as they try to solve a case of corruption within the Miami PD.Vanessa Hudgens, Joe Pantoliano, Alexander Ludwig and DJ Khaled all reprise their roles from the previous film, while new cast additions include Eric Dane, Ioan Gruffudd, Rhea Seehorn, Melanie Liburd and Tiffany Haddish.The film’s score is by Scottish composer Lorne Balfe, who previously worked with directors Adil & Bilall on Bad Boys For Life.His other credits include Mission: Impossible – Fallout, Black Widow, The Lego Batman Movie, along with video games like Assassin’s Creed 3 and Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.Bad Boys: Ride Or Die also features original track ‘TONIGHT’ by the Black Eyed Peas & El Alfa, along with other songs by various artists.You can check out the tracklist for the soundtrack album below.‘TONIGHT’ – Black Eyed Peas & El Alfa feat. Becky G‘Lights Out’ – BIA & JID‘Mike T’ – ScarLip‘OH NO’ – BIA‘DUH!’ – Flo Milli‘Bam Bam’ – Shenseea & Myke Towers‘Brand New’ – 21 Lil Harold‘Flores Pa Ti’ – Becky G, Luisa Sonza & Papatinho‘Light Em Up’ – Will Smith & Sean Paul‘Bad Boys’ – Sean Paul & Trueno

Will Smith’s character in Bad Boys: Ride Or Die is slapped repeatedly in a climactic scene, in what is being described as a nod to his infamous Oscars moment.At the ceremony in March 2022, Smith slapped Chris Rock onstage after the comedian made a joke about his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith. Following the incident, Smith apologised to Rock, resigned from the Academy, and was banned from attending Academy events for 10 years.Smith later released another apology on YouTube in July 2022 where he described his behaviour as “unacceptable”, adding: “I just didn’t realise, I wasn’t thinking about how many people got hurt in that moment.”And now, in his new film, his character is seen being repeatedly slapped in the face in what many reviews have cited as an obvious reference to the controversy.Variety note that it could be an effort to “make cruel fun” of Smith’s “transgression”, while Daily Beast describe it as “a tasteless nod” to the real-life slap in order to “rehab Smith’s image”.Bad Boys: Ride Or Die is the fourth instalment in the buddy cop film series, starring Smith as Mike Lowrey alongside Martin Lawrence as Marcus Burnett.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Martin Lawrence is assuring fans that he is healthy amid concern sparked by his “Bad Boys: Ride or Die” press tour. The actor appeared on a recent episode of Hot 97’s “Ebro in the Morning” (via Entertainment Weekly), where the host asked him about rumors claiming he’s not healthy. A video interview where Lawrence appeared to slur his words a bit and an appearance at the “Bad Boys” premiere where some fans thought he looked unsteady as he held on to Will Smith for support sparked concern.

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Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic If there are five ages of man, maybe there are four ages of “Bad Boys.” There’s the early age — the original “Bad Boys” came out in 1995 — of youthful effrontery: zappy, flashy, mouthy, decadent. There’s the age when the heroes start to say, “We’re too old for this shit!” There’s the age when they’re too old to even be saying that.

The well-established ‘Bad Boys’ buddy cop formula isn’t rocket science. It’s combustible friction, and thus comedy between two very different Miami detectives— Will Smith as Mike Lowery and Martin Lawrence as Marcus Barnett—and as many chaotic shoot ‘em ups and car chases as possible as humanly possible mixed with Michael Bayhem-esque cinematic slickness and hysterics.

It may all be ridiculous if you think about it too much, but this action-comedy franchise still has gas in the tank even 30 years after the fortuitous teaming of Will Smith and Martin Lawrence first hit the beat as notorious Miami cops aka the “Bad Boys.”

Rebecca Rubin Senior Film and Media Reporter Whatcha gonna do when “Bad Boys” comes for the box office? If you’re a theater owner, the answer is hopefully sell some tickets. Sony’s “Bad Boys: Ride or Die,” the fourth installment in the Will Smith and Martin Lawrence-led buddy cop series, is targeting $30 million to $50 million from 3,850 theaters in its first weekend of release. As that cavernous range suggests, estimates vary greatly depending on whom you ask.

Audiences had to wait eight years between the first Bad Boys and Bad Boys II, and another 17 years for the threequel, Bad Boys for Life, which thanks to filmmakers Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah became the highest grossing installment in the Will Smith and Martin Lawrence action cop series at $426.5M. As such, it was a cinch by historical standards for Adil and Bilall to put Bad Boys: Ride or Die into motion. Their m.o. on part 4: Make it fast, make it feel like a ride, and at 1 hour and 55 minutes, it’s the shortest Bad Boys ever. We talk with the duo today on Crew Call on one-upping Tom Cruise’s aerial stunt in Bad Boys: Ride or Die on his Mummy movie (interesting as the two are attached to reboot that Universal franchise), mining the action scenes in the script, jockeying production between two strikes last summer, and getting the best improv out of Smith and Lawrence. In addition, Adil and Bilall talk about the takeaway on Warner Bros’ unplugged Batgirl movie, and whether filmmakers can protect themselves in the future from such major studio shenanigans.

Willow Smith was one of the best dressed guests at the premiere of “Bad Boys: Ride or Die.” Willow attended the event in support of her dad, Will Smith, who’s starring in the franchise’s fourth film. For the occasion, she wore a matching coat and pants that she paired with her signature afro.

Will Smith and Martin Lawrence attended the LA premiere of “Bad Boys: Ride or Die” at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on May 30, 2024.

Columbia Pictures’ Bad Boys: Ride or Die has been cleared for a theatrical release in China, landing in cinemas there on June 22.

Will Smith and Martin Lawrence are keeping busy promoting their new movie Bad Boys 4 – aka Bad Boys: Ride or Die!

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Columbia Pictures’ action-comedy movie “Bad Boys: Ride or Die” is set to play in cinemas in mainland China from June 22, it was announced on Thursday. Starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, the film is the fourth in the nearly 30-year-old Bad Boys franchise. It sees the titular Miami cops investigate corruption in the police force after their late boss is accused of colluding with a foreign mafia.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Sony Pictures Entertainment’s senior management says it remains “optimistic” about the future of cinema, despite a slow start to the North American summer season and industry talk of superhero fatigue. Speaking on a Sony Group Corporation conference call (on Thursday in Japan, Wednesday in Los Angeles), Sony Pictures Entertainment CEO Tony Vinciquerra blamed current box office torpor on three prongs of disruption that have affected movie production over the past five years: competition with streaming; the disruptions and cost increases brought on by the COVID-era; and last year’s writers and actors strikes. Together these have led to fewer films reaching theaters.

Five Scots residents have been rushed to hospital after a horror smash between a fire engine and a van on a Highland road.

Jada Pinkett Smith was on the red carpet to support Will Smith at the premiere of his movie Bad Boys 4, but they didn’t pose together.

Ellise Shafer David Cronenberg weighed the pros and cons of artificial intelligence in filmmaking at the Cannes Film Festival press conference for his latest film, “The Shrouds,” on Tuesday. Though Cronenberg said that technological advancements like CGI have “made filmmaking much easier” in terms of tasks like removing coffee cups from footage, he admitted that it’s “quite shocking … to see what can be done even now with the beginnings of artificial intelligence.” Speaking of Sora, the new AI software that can generate motion pictures, Cronenberg said it has the potential to “completely transform the act of writing and directing.” “You can imagine a screenwriter sitting there, writing the movie, and if that person can write it in enough detail, the movie will appear. The whole idea of actors and production will be gone.

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