PUBLISHED: May 2, 2011 at 8:41 a.m. | UPDATED: January 13, 2019 at 5:46 a.m. It pays to be Will Smith's son. Jaden Smith, 12, was paid $3 million for the 2010 remake of “Karate Kid,” his first starring role ever. According to his contract, the pre-teen made $900,000 initially and was later given an additional $100,000.
Jaden Smith's Karate Kid Age Is A Major Original Movie Difference. Jaden Smith was much younger than Ralph Macchio was when acting the part of the original Karate Kid, Daniel LaRusso. Macchio was 22 at the time, playing the role of a 17-year-old teenager, while Smith was 11 and cast to play 12-year-old, Dre Parker.
Smith has been learning karate since he was three years old. For the film, he trained under one of Jackie Chan's stunt team, Wu Gang, for four months, so that his kung fu would look realistic on film.
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It closed on September 18, after 101 days of release, grossing $176 million in the US and Canada along with an additional $182 million overseas for a worldwide total of $359 million, on a moderate budget of $40 million.
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Did Jaden Smith actually learn kung fu?
Smith has been learning karate since he was three years old. For the film, he trained under one of Jackie Chan's stunt team, Wu Gang, for four months, so that his kung fu would look realistic on film. All martial arts battles on film are choreographed, making it more akin to a dance, rather than actual combat.
According to Celebrity Net Worth, Will Smith's net worth is $350 million as of 2023. These earnings are thanks to an entertainment career spanning over three decades, from his work as a rapper to his many roles as an actor and producer behind the scenes.
In truth, filming for the sequel started in September 1985, and The Karate Kid Part II hit theaters in June 1986. So, though only a few months had passed for Daniel in-plot, Macchio had aged two years since he last played the character. The actor would have celebrated his 24th birthday while filming was still ongoing.
Did Will Smith have anything to do with Karate Kid?
Smith's involvement in Cobra Kai stems from the 2010 Karate Kid reboot starring Jackie Chan and Will's son, Jaden Smith. Sony owned the Karate Kid franchise when the first four movies were made, but Smith's production company Overbrook Entertainment acquired the rights to spearhead the 2010 Karate Kid.
Sheree Zampino was married to Will Smith for three years, and the two share one son, Trey Smith. Both went on to marry other people — Smith tied the knot with actress Jada Pinkett Smith in December 1997, while Zampino married former NFL player Terrell Fletcher in 2007 (although they divorced in 2014).
Since his rise to fame in the 80s, Will has seen his whole family join the entertainment industry to varying degrees of success and wealth. And while the Smith patriarch is by far the richest of them all, his wife, ex-wife and kids are all millionaires in their own right, too.
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Jenner never officially revealed that she was in a relationship with Jaden Smith, despite signs pointing to the two being more than friends. In April 2013, Smith, then 14, told Wonderland Magazine: "I was in L.A., we were all hanging out.
To prepare for the role, Jaden trained for three months in the United States and then three hours a day for four months once they moved to China. But martial arts weren't totally new to him. He'd been taking karate lessons since he was 3 years old. "I was pretty ripped [before filming]," Jaden says.
Even as a family-friendly movie, The Karate Kid cannot go unlooked. Even though, many films go uncensored in China, so some reason why The Karate Kid was not. Reporters, such as Zhou JiaYiIt, believe it was the fact that the movie directly portrayed the Chinese culture in a negative Americanized light.
It's an update that, along with the shifted setting and expanded characters, that makes The Karate Kid remake a worthwhile companion to the original. The Verdict: The 1984 original, by split decision, mainly because Macchio is so good.
Box office. The Karate Kid Part II opened in 1,323 theaters across North America on June 20, 1986. In its opening weekend, the film ranked first in its domestic box office grossing $12,652,336 with an average of $9,563 per theater.
