Seven Pounds and beyond...

With the imminent release of the Seven Pounds movie, I thought it would be a good time to reflect on the current status of Will Smith's career ... well at least according to the media, that is...

Mr Smith has been a very busy man this past month; Not only has he been making the rounds for the promotional circuit of his upcoming new Winter release movie, Seven Pounds, but he has also been seen on Oprah, basking inthe afterglow of supporting aswinning candidate in the American Presidential elections. I beleive that there have also been sightings of Will smith begging people to buy his Hancock movie now that it is out on DVD...

Seriously though, I think that there is something that might have been lost in the shuffle with all of these other events, namely that Smith has recently declared that after Seven Pounds, he will be taking aprolongued sabattical from his acting profession to devote more time to his work as a father to his child. Wow, pulling back from your career somewhat to spend more time with your family? That is so ... so ... responsible, and to be coming from someone firmly ensconced in Hollywood, too.

You have to understand where I am coming from here: I am a big Will Smith fan who loves to go to all of his movies and who considers him to be to an often dull film industry what rival crock pot replacement parts are to a failing crock pot, but I really appreciate his decision here to spend the next 8 months focusing on his family. From what I have read, his next project after his self imposed hiatus will be the Last Pharoah. Nothing like coming back epic, huh?