Jon Mone: Last News

EXCLUSIVE: Westbrook Studios and Davis Entertainment have entered development on Summertime, a hip-hop musical based on Will Smith and DJ Jazzy Jeff’s song of the same name, which Peter Saji will write and direct for Sony Pictures’ Screen Gems, in his feature debut.

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios is getting its engines revved up on a new romantic comedy set in the world of NASCAR with a list of top tier talent on board to help take this project across the finish line. Sources tell Deadline, Westbrook Studios will partner with The Chainsmokers’ Kick The Habit Productions and NASCAR to produce the upcoming romantic comedy feature, Clean Air for Amazon Studios with Younger writer Alison Rose Greenberg set to write the screenplay.

Mark David Veteran film production exec Jon Mone, currently co-President and Head of Motion Pictures at Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith’s production company Westbrook Studios, whose stated mission is no less than “to be the leader in global entertainment,” has sold one snazzy house in Malibu and bought another much larger and more expensive one.Mone, who prior to joining Westbrook was a production bigwig at Universal where he oversaw films like the Oscar-nominated “Straight Outta Compton” and the box office hit “Ted 2,” earned himself a small fortune on the $4.625 million sale of a 4.7-acre spread that’s privately sequestered up a zigzagged private lane with panoramic ocean and coastline views over La Costa Beach; property records

Kevin Hart and Will Smith are hitching a ride together for a remake of the John Hughes comedy Planes, Trains and Automobiles. The duo is developing a new version of the 1987 feature via their respective HartbeatProductions and Westbrook Studios banners with Paramount.

Will Smith has lined up his next movie role where he’ll be playing a real life runaway slave.

Justin Kroll Film ReporterWill Smith will star in the thriller “Emancipation,” which will be directed by Antoine Fuqua, sources tell Variety.William N. Collage penned the script, based on the true story of Peter, a runaway slave forced to outwit cold-blooded hunters and the punishing Louisiana swamp on a tortuous journey to the Union Army and his only chance at freedom.Production is expected to start early in 2021.Smith, James Lassiter and Jon Mone will produce “Emancipation” through Westbrook Studios, along with McFarland Entertainment’s Joey McFarland and Escape Artists’ Todd Black.