Unless Jaden Smith can’t get hired anywhere else.
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Even though the film’s ending sets up a possible follow-up, if the movie tanks at the box office, a sequel would be a long shot at best. Sony and Smith’s production company, Overbrook Entertainment, would certainly hope to have that option, and there is a listing for “After Earth 2” on.
“After Earth” isn’t the only new movie likely to be outpaced by “Fast & Furious 6.” Jesse Eisenberg’s crime-magic thriller “Now You See Me” also is expected to debut poorly, with estimated ticket sales of just $17 million. Sony is hopeful that its “After Earth” could sell as much as $38 million worth of tickets, which is a poor start for a $135-million movie with Will Smith, but other estimates say “After Earth” could barely surpass $30 million. Though some box-office prognosticators say “After Earth” should win the weekend, the odds favor Vin Diesel and his muscle cars, which should gross about $40 million in their second weekend of release. My colleague Amy Kaufman, who’s usually infallible at these sorts of calls, says that’s almost a certainty. Will it lose to the second weekend of “Fast & Furious 6” at the box office? Nowhere in evidence is the gifted ‘Sixth Sense’ director who once brought intricately crafted set pieces and cinematic sleight-of-hand to even the least of his own movies.” The critics, who have been excoriating the film, say the director’s touch is nowhere to be seen in “After Earth.” Reviewing the film in Variety, Scott Foundas said, “Though he shares screenplay credit with Gary Whitta, Shyamalan is clearly a director-for-hire here, his disinterest palpable from first frame to last. Although the director’s films sometimes feature sci-fi twists (“The Last Airbender,” “Signs”), “After Earth” is more of a genre film than anything he’s made before. There are no major plot twists, as there was in Shyamalan’s “The Sixth Sense,” and because the film stars a 14-year-old, the acting isn’t likely to attract comparisons to the filmmaker’s best-known works. Even though Will Smith is in the movie frequently, Jaden Smith is its star. The elder Smith’s character is in constant contact with his son, but the movie is very much about Kitai’s journey Cypher doesn’t even leave the spaceship while they are on Earth.
So Kitai must travel 100 kilometers to recover a homing device that will ensure their rescue. Cypher Raige (Will Smith) and Kitai Raige (Jaden Smith) are the only survivors of the accident, but Cypher has two broken legs. The film’s action is precipitated by the crash of a spaceship on Earth, a millennium after the planet became uninhabitable. The movie’s trailer suggests that Will Smith and his 14-year-old son, Jaden, share equal screen time. In his book “Dianetics: The Original Thesis,” Hubbard writes, “A Clear is relaxed in a fully conscious state, untroubled by aberrated fears.” An iconic image in “Dianetics” is an erupting volcano, which also plays a prominent part in the conclusion of “After Earth.” Said Rolling Stone critic Peter Travers: “ ‘After Earth’ merits comparison with 2000’s ‘Battlefield Earth,’ John Travolta’s godawful film tribute to the sci-fi novel by Scientology founder L. Some of that plot mirrors Hubbard’s teachings, which focus on overcoming fear. It is a product of thoughts you create.” Human characters in “After Earth” are detected by alien creatures by the fear they exhibit, and can survive only by relaxing. At one point in the movie, Will Smith’s character says, “Fear is not real. Some Internet banter has noted the similarities between the movie’s plot, dialogue and imagery with the teachings of L. A crash landing leaves teenager Kitai Raige (Jaden Smith) and his legendary father Cypher (Will Smith) stranded on Earth, 1000 years after cataclysmic. The trailer also takes issue with the characters’ names, such as Cypher Rage, and how the animals on Earth aren’t the vicious predators they are made out to be.Here’s a primer on six issues the movie raises.ĭoes it really feel like the story is about Scientology? PHOTOS: A-Listers Fall Victim to Summer Box-Office Flops
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In the latest installment of the series from Break Media’s Screen Junkies, the narrator urges us to watch as “Will Smith, one of the world’s most charismatic actors, plays a man with no charisma.” Night Shyamalan film drove the Honest Trailers narrator to do something he’s never done before - quit before his work was done. So, how bad was After Earth? It bombed at the box office and was a rare misstep for Will Smith.īut perhaps even more telling: The M.
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