EXCLUSIVE: Naomie Harris has signed with WME for representation in all areas. She is returning to the agency after 3 months with CAA.
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EXCLUSIVE: Welcome to Earth with Will Smith producer Nutopia is pushing further into the returning formats game with the hire of a new Creative Director in the UK.
Tom Watt-Smith joins Nutopia from Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb producer Lion TV just a few months after he was promoted to become Lion’s Creative Director of Premium and Specialist Factual.
At Nutopia, he will take on the newly-created Creative Director of Formats and Special Projects post to expand the transatlantic outfit’s documentary and returning formats slate, based out of London. He will “support Nutopia’s continued growth into new markets, price points, and territories,” according to the indie.
Nutopia’s shows include Nat Geo’s Welcome to Earth with Will Smith, Netflix’s African Queensand Sky History’s Royal Mob. Jane Root’s outfit also has a deal in place with former Travel Channel boss Pat Younge to develop a diverse and inclusive slate.
During his three-and-a-half-year Lion stint, Watt-Smith developed and produced a slate of shows including the BBC’s Stolen: Catching the Art Thieves, PBS/ARTE’s Saving Venice and an upcoming Liz Bonnin Caribbean show. He was promoted to his current role in January following a restructure with All3Media stablemate Lime Pictures. Past employers include Raw and Studio Lambert.
Watt-Smith will report into Nutopia’s recently-promoted Chief Creative Officer Simon Willgoss, who called him “one of the UK’s top creatives, who will lead our charge into new markets and genres.”
Watt-Smith said the opportunity was “impossible to turn down.”
“The scale and ambition of Nutopia’s projects is legendary and I feel honored to join in the next chapter of their story,” he added.
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EXCLUSIVE: Naomie Harris has signed with WME for representation in all areas. She is returning to the agency after 3 months with CAA.
For those who haven’t heard the news, it was announced this week that Facebook Watch would be ending its original series programming — meaning the popular talk show Red Table Talk would be de facto canceled (and in need of a new home). The news no doubt came as a disappointment to the legions of viewers who enjoyed watching Jada Pinkett-Smith, Willow Smith, and Adrienne Banfield-Norris take on very candid conversations about the hottest of topics. However, there’s one person who is glad Red Table Talk is gone (for now at least) – and that person is Nick Cannon.
EXCLUSIVE: Ioan Gruffudd (San Andreas) has closed a deal to join Will Smith and Martin Lawrence in Bad Boys 4, the newest installment in the hit series of buddy cop action comedies from Sony Pictures.
Meta will no longer pull up a seat at the red table. Jada Pinkett Smith and her daughter Willow Smith’s Red Table Talk has been canceled.
Jessie Wynter joked that she's gotten "too comfortable" at her boyfriend Will Young's farm in a new video. The Love Island star shared a video on Instagram which showed her spending some time with the farm animals, as Will approached from behind.The couple used a viral TikTok audio in which a woman asks someone: "Who are you?" to which someone else replies: "I'm Pam, who are you?" and is met with the response: "The owner of this house." Adding text to her clip, Jessie wrote: "When you start getting too comfortable at your boyfriend's place." Fans of the couple, who just missed out on making it to the Love Island final, were quick to comment on the clip.
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The Bad Boys are back.
Spider-Man: No Way Home” to tout from his studio’s 2022 box office record. But that didn’t stop him from cheering on theater owners from the Caesars Palace stage and mocking those who predicted their demise.“For the past three years, as the punditocracy pissed on your business, we at Sony held fast,” Rothman boasted.
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Will Smith was in proud dad mode on Sunday as he took in daughter Willow Smith‘s Coachella set.
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Will Smith and Martin Lawrence are back.
Leo Barraclough International Features Editor German film and TV distribution and licensing company Telepool, which is owned by Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith’s Westbrook, is moving into lead producing movies and series, its CEO Yoko Higuchi-Zitzmann tells Variety exclusively in her first interview since joining the company in January. Munich-based Telepool is celebrating its 60th anniversary on Wednesday, and although it has a barrel-load of experience in selling, distributing, licensing, financing and co-producing movies and series, this shift into initiating and lead producing represents a significant step for the company. It also forms part of Westbrook’s broader strategy for international expansion, which – in part – lay behind its acquisition of Telepool in December 2021.
Will Smith is all smiles and hard at work on the set of Bad Boys 4 on Wednesday (April 12) in Atlanta, Georgia.