‘Collateral Beauty’ Trailer: Will Smith Tries To Fix His Clouded Mind and Broken Heart

Perhaps delivering the uplifting boost we all need this holiday season, a new trailer for the seemingly fantastical drama Collateral Beauty has arrived.
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Will Smith stars in the film as a man who has lost all hope after losing his daughter. As a way of coping with his depression, he writes letters to Time, Death and Love. Then one day, they start showing up one by one to help him work through all the heartbreaking and bitterness he’s been carrying around. Is this really the cosmos reaching out to him with answers, or is there something more practical at work here?

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While the trailer paints this beautiful tale in the vein of It’s a Wonderful Life, I still can’t help but think that it’s some kind of therapeutic ruse created by his friends, played by Edward Norton, Kate Winslet and Michael Pena. Even though Jacob Latimore (as Time) has that scene with Will Smith where he tells him to ask Kate Winslet if she can see him, she could easily be pretending that he’s not there just to keep up appearances.

Having said that, creating this kind of trickery to help a friend is a huge risk and a little elaborate. But I could also see this movie doing something along the lines of revealing that the appearances of Time, Death (Helen Mirren) and Love (Keira Knightley) were fabricated by a plan, but then having something truly supernatural happen to make people feel all warm and fuzzy inside. And after this horrifying election, that sounds like just the thing we need.

On a side note, while Will Smith pours his heart into these dramatic performances, I’m wondering if we’re ever going to get him in some kind of summer blockbuster role ever again. He may not have the draw he once had on that front, but that doesn’t mean he shouldn’t try anymore.
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If you want to see more from Collateral Beauty, directed by The Devil Wears Prada helmer David Frankel, check out the first trailer right here.


When a successful New York advertising executive suffers a great tragedy he retreats from life. While his concerned friends try desperately to reconnect with him, he seeks answers from the universe by writing letters to Love, Time and Death. But it’s not until his notes bring unexpected personal responses that he begins to understand how these constants interlock in a life fully lived, and how even the deepest loss can reveal moments of meaning and beauty.

Collateral Beauty arrives on December 16, just in time to feel good around the holidays.


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What’s Ahead for the ‘Fantastic Beasts’ Franchise?

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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them opens up a brand new chapter in the Harry Potter franchise, and we already know it’s the first in a five-film saga. So even as we prepare to hit 1920s New York with Newt Scamander and his friends, it’s hard not to wonder what’s coming next. When I sat down with director David Yates and producer David Heyman this week, I took the opportunity to ask where the series might go in future installments.

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Fantastic Beasts 2 Takes Place a “Year or Two Later” in Paris

In August, Warner Bros. announced that a Fantastic Beasts sequel would be coming in 2018 with Yates returning to direct. During our conversation, Yates said he was currently “prepping” the follow-up and revealed it would take place not too long after the events of the first film. “A little bit of time [has passed]. Two years later. A year or two later, I should say,” he told me.

In addition, he confirmed reports that the sequel would head to Paris. “Grindelwald is from Europe and it feels natural to take it [there] — and we’ve never been to Europe before,” he said. “And Paris thematically has a kind of romantic element about it and if you’re gonna have a romantic element, it seems absolutely right to set a movie in Paris. So that’s one of the reasons.” The first film is pretty light on romance, so feel free to speculate about who’ll be getting all loved up in Fantastic Beasts 2.


Future Films Will Likely Travel Around Europe

The filmmakers have revealed in previous conversations that each of the Fantastic Beasts films will take place in a different major city. But they’ll likely be sticking around Europe, Heyman told me. “We haven’t really talked about it, but I suspect we’ll be, with the specter of World War II looming large in the not-too-distant future, it wouldn’t surprise me if Europe is quite central to the series.” He hastened to add, “But I have no idea.”


Will We See New Gay Characters in Fantastic Beasts Sequels?
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With the franchise traveling all over the world, Fantastic Beasts has the opportunity to introduce all sorts of new characters. And we already know of at least one who’ll be showing up — a younger Dumbledore. But if Dumbledore gets to strike up a flirtation with a new man, Heyman isn’t saying. When I asked if we might see more gay characters in future films, he admitted, “We haven’t talked about that specifically. Not yet.”

That’s not to say he’s ruling it out, as he continued:


I have no idea. Possibly. I mean, clearly, Jo did talk about Dumbledore being gay. But we haven’t talked about that being the driving force behind casting or any of the characters. That hasn’t been discussed yet.


Which Characters Could Return?

Without giving too much away, it remains unclear exactly which characters will come back for the sequel, and of course no one’s ready to say much yet. We do know Johnny Depp and Zoe Kravitz are among those expected to return, and it doesn’t seem like a stretch to assume lead actor Eddie Redmayne will be too. But what about his co-stars, like Dan Fogler? The actor told me, “The original contract was for three films with a chance of four.”
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Mind you, that doesn’t necessarily confirm Fogler will stay on through Fantastic Beasts 4 — or that he’ll be dropped before Fantastic Beasts 5. It simply means Warner Bros. has the option of keeping him on until the fourth installment, if they want to, and possibly renegotiate if they want him to stick around for the finale. But if we had to guess, it seems the odds are good we’ll be seeing Fogler’s Jacob Kowalski again.


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