Will Smith’s Concussion Trailer Drops Right in Time for NFL Season
As millions of fans get psyched up for the start of the 2015 NFL season, the sport’s brutality, and its subsequent, lasting effect on the players, is a fact that is becoming increasingly harder to ignore. And now comes writer/director Peter Landesman’s film Concussion, starring Will Smith’s as the real life forensic neuropathologist Bennet Omalu, ...
Apollo Robbins Teaches Will Smith & Margot Robbie Art of Grifting in Focus
When Will Smith and Margot Robbie look credible picking pockets in Warner Brothers’ Focus, opening Friday, it’s due to detailed coaching behind the scenes from a man sometimes known as “The Gentleman Thief.” Apollo Robbins, a performer who once picked the pockets of President Jimmy Carter’s secret service escort, gets top billing as a consultant ...
Warner Bros. Recruits World’s Greatest Pickpocket, Apollo Robbins, for Will Smith Film
In 2001, the Gentlemen Thief, Apollo Robbins, was performing at a show at Caesar’s Palace, in Las Vegas. He was told former President Jimmy Carter was coming to the show, but, owing to Robbins profession, he wasn’t allowed to shake Carter’s hand. Instead, Robbins chatted up his Secret Service men. A few minutes later, he ...
After Earth Screenwriter Gary Whitta on the Script’s Evolution
Sometimes the process of making a movie is as much of a surprising journey as any adventure tale that is being told. After Earth, for example, started as a story of a man and his son trying to survive a crash in the wilderness. The movie's original outline called for the pair in contemporary Alaska. ...
