Friday, July 3, 2026

A Slap in the Face? Will Smith’s “Emancipation” Coming to Theaters on December 2 (See Trailer Here– in B&W)

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Slap or no slap, AppleTV Plus is persevering with Will Smith.

The studio/streamer will release “Emancipation” On December 2nd in theaters, and then a week later on Apple TV Plus.

I don’t know how they’ll handle publicity for the Antoine Fuqua directed drama. Will junket press just agree not to mention Smith’s violent outburst on the OScars this year? Are we just going to forget about it and move on?

And how will the Academy handle it if Smith is good enough for an Oscar nomination? He’s been banned from the show for 10 years.

This is a mess. And it’s only going to get worse. Also, the movie is in black and white. Here’s the trailer.

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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