By Kit Bowen and Brian Marder, Hollywood.com Staff
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Friday, December 12, 2008
Men in Black (1997), Men in Black II (2002)
How does a movie star follow up a ginormous hit like Independence Day? If you’re Will Smith, you just churn out another one. Men in Black proved that audiences didn’t mind seeing Smith fight extraterrestrials two summers in a row, and he was thus anointed a sure-fire box office hit.
BEST QUOTE: "When I started in movies, I said, 'I want to be the biggest movie star in the world.' The biggest movie stars make the biggest movies, so [my producing partner James Lassiter and I] looked at the top 10 movies of all time. At that point, they were all special-effects movies. So Independence Day, no-brainer. Men in Black, no-brainer. I, Robot, no-brainer."
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