At the risk of sounding like a conspiracy theorist, there are more powerful peeps than Will Smith and even the owners of Sony. I just can't prove it to you.
Kid, I wonder if Will would be flirtatious with Ms.Theron on those foreign press conferences like he did with Eva Mendes?
It is possible that H Weinstein had racial motivations but consider the passage below from a few years ago... Will Smith In 'Tonight He Comes' For Mostow [Thursday, February 17th, 2005] Will Smith and director Jonathan Mostow (Terminator 3)are teaming up to bring the superhero drama Tonight He Comes, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Tonight He Comes is a script that has fallen on many execs' "best unproduced scripts" lists and has attracted many A-listers. But its dark, adult tone made it difficult to set up. The story tells the tale of a depressed, bored superhero who drinks, smokes and has one-night stands. He develops a newfound purpose in life when he is drawn to a married woman. Vincent Ngo wrote the original draft. Tonight He Comes is part of a new wave of projects that deal with superheroes but are not based on existing comic book-based superhero characters. More On 'Hancock'...
Then somebody is giving will the scares in hollywood. And like I said it IS somebody within the industry.
Yeah that is what is puzzling about this whole entire thing. Usher has one of the biggest black female fan followings and he did an IR movie and you didn't hear a peep out of black women. I saw some black women buying the movie on dvd and Im pretty sure they went to the theatres. But that just goes to show that the media blows that up with black women being upset, and I think they dropped the ball right there and got exposed. But also got lucky because not too many people caught that there was no backlash from black women.
That is true Kennyg but,when a person buys or rents a DVD no one cares. One had to look harder to find a IR flick that is even straight to DVD.