Jaden Smith Archives

Jennifer Connelly keeps it classic in head-to-toe black at the The Day The Earth Stood Still press conference at Grand Hyatt Tokyo on Tuesday (December 17) in Tokyo, Japan.

The 37-year-old actress was accompanied by director Scott Derrickson and costars Keanu Reeves and Jaden Smith (Will and Jada’s 10-year-old son).

The film will open this Friday, December 19 in Japan. TDTESS opened in US movie theaters this past weekend and was #1 at the box office, raking in $31 million. Rounding out the top five: Four Christmases ($13.3 million), Twilight ($8 million), Bolt ($7.5 million) and Australia ($4.3 million).

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Will Smith, wife Jada Pinkett Smith and family enjoy the Thanksgiving holiday weekend in Hawaii on Friday.

Will, 40, worked out his golf game while Jada and the kids relaxed on the beach. Looks like Jaden took a big spill in the ocean!

This week, Smith’s off-beat superhero flick, Hancock, was released on Blu-ray this week. Check it out!

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Jaden Smith, the 10-year-old son of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith, will star in the refashioned 1984 hit The Karate Kid, reports Variety.

The film will be produced by his dad, Will, as well as Jerry Weintraub (who launched the original franchise) and Overbrook Entertainment’s James Lassiter, and Ken Stovitz. The film will shoot next year in Beijing and other cities.

Jaden costarred alongside Will in his feature debut, The Pursuit of Happyness.

Ralph Macchio was about 20 when he played Daniel Larusso in The Karate Kid.

Will Smith claws it up with his kids, Jaden, 10, and Willow, 7, on the red carpet premiere of wife Jada Pinkett Smith’s new movie, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, in Los Angeles on Sunday.

In the sequel to the first movie, Madagascar, the New York Zoo Animals, Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Melman the Giraffe and Gloria the Hippo (voiced by Jada), are still stranded on Madagascar and ready to leave the island. All of a sudden, they landed in the wilderness of Africa where Alex soon meet the rest of his family and starts to have trouble communicating with them after much of his time at the Central Park Zoo.

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Willow and Jaden Smith keep it young at the world premiere of Kit Kittredge: An American Girl at The Grove in Los Angeles on Saturday.

Will Smith, 39, and Jada Pinkett Smith, 36, brought all three of their kids to the premiere. Trey is 15, Willow is 7 1/2 and Jaden is 9 1/2.

Willow, the youngest of the Smith trio plays the Countee character in Kit Kittredge. She also had a small part in I Am Legend, playing the Marley character.

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Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith’s 6-year-old daughter, Willow, films scenes for her debut film on Monday on the Toronto set of the new American Girl movie, Kit Kittredge: An American Girl Mystery.

Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine) will play the title character in the Depression-era flick. Other stars include: Julia Ormond, Chris O’Donnell, Joan Cusack, Wallace Shawn, Stanley Tucci, Jane Krakowski and Glenne Headly.

Via The Hollywood Reporter: “Kit Kittredge, the first theatrical adaptation of the popular American Girl line of dolls, tells the story of Kit Kittredge (Breslin), a clever, resourceful 10-year-old growing up in Cincinnati during the Great Depression who helps her mother (Ormond) run a boardinghouse when her father (O’Donnell) loses his job. Cusack will play a nurse who moves into the Kittredges’ boardinghouse. Thieriot will play a boy accused of committing robberies, while Shawn will play the editor in chief of the Cincinnati Reporter Register.”

Kit Kittredge: An American Girl Mystery is set for a nationwide July 2, 2008 release.

Willow’s big brother Jaden, who turns 9 next month, has also dipped his foot in acting. The little guy picked up the 2007 MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance for the 2006 hit The Pursuit of Happyness. Jaden did not attend the Los Angeles award ceremony. Since the whole family is in Toronto, he taped an acceptance speech with his parents, which they showed after his win.

Last picture below: Will and wife Jada (not pictured) grab a bite to eat at Avenue Bar at the Four Seasons Hotel.