Will Smith Screens His New Film For Rihanna, Tyler Perry & Extra – Hollywood Life

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“EPIC night time!! Thanx for coming to see #Emancipation. Hope ya’ll loved!!” Will Smith captioned the photographs he posted to Instagram on Monday (Oct. 24), revealing the choose few who acquired to see his new film, Emancipation, forward of the Dec. 2 launch date. Will, 54, screened the movie for some A-lister pals, together with Rihanna and her boyfriend, ASAP Rocky, Tyler Perry, movie author and black-ish creator Kenya Barris, music producer Corey Smyth, superstar stylist Fawn Boardley, comic Dave Chappelle, and leisure mogul Tyler Perry. The second slide confirmed Chapelle, 49, standing among the many seats of the personal theatre.

“This night time was actually one for the books!” Kenya Barris, 48, wrote when sharing the identical photographs on his Instagram. “An incredible and good group of pals acquired collectively and witnessed TRUE ART. The dialog after was the impact of what something and every little thing we as creatives do on this trade hope for. Love you, @willsmith, and thanks for internet hosting.” “I’m nonetheless haunted by Emancipation,” wrote Tyler Perry. “It’s actually highly effective, transferring and charming. And the dialog afterward with this group was legendary. Thanks Will Smith for the preview!”

Directed by Antoine Fuqua, Emancipation marks Will Smith’s first movie because the now-infamous slap in the course of the 2022 Academy Awards. The movie relies on a real story, following Peter (Smith), an “enslaved man who runs away from his plantation in quest of his household, outwitting cold-blooded hunters and surviving Louisiana swamps alongside the best way,” per The Hollywood Reporter. The true Peter grew to become often known as “Whipped Peter” after pictures of keloid scarring on his again are distributed all through the nation, exhibiting the brutality of slavery, per Selection.

Will Smith is at present serving a 10-year ban from the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences over slapping Chris Rock in the course of the 94th Academy Awards in March 2022. “Mr. Smith shall not be permitted to attend any Academy occasions or packages, in particular person or nearly, together with however not restricted to the Academy Awards,” the  AMPAS president David Rubin and CEO Daybreak Hudson in a press release saying the ban. “We additionally hope this may start a time of therapeutic and restoration for all concerned and impacted.”

Smith issued a public apology in July. “I’ll say to you, Chris, I apologize to you. My habits was unacceptable,” Will mentioned in a video posted to YouTube. “I wish to apologize to Chris’s mom. I noticed an interview that Chris’s mom did. And that was one of many issues about that second I simply didn’t notice. I wasn’t pondering however how many individuals acquired damage in that second. So I wish to apologize to Chris’s mom. I wish to apologize to Chris’s household. Particularly Tony Rock. We had a fantastic relationship. Tony Rock was my man. And this most likely irreparable.”