{"id":2121120,"date":"2025-10-28T19:12:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T19:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2121120"},"modified":"2025-10-28T19:12:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T19:12:25","slug":"will-smiths-1-6b-sci-fi-franchise-dominates-streaming-chart-13-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/will-smiths-1-6b-sci-fi-franchise-dominates-streaming-chart-13-years-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Smith\u2019s $1.6B Sci-Fi Franchise Dominates Streaming Chart 13 Years Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">One of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000226\/\">Will Smith<\/a>&#8216;s earliest franchises, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0119654\/\">Men in Black<\/a>, is making quite a showing on streaming, well over a decade since the actor&#8217;s last appearance as <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm7570722\/\">Agent<\/a> J. Directed by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001756\/\">Barry Sonnenfeld<\/a>, the first installment in the sci-fi action franchise was released in 1997, with Smith and costar <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000169\/\">Tommy Lee Jones<\/a> both returning for two sequels released in 2002 and 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Though the franchise has been dormant since the release of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2283336\/\">Men in Black: International<\/a> in 2019, love for the earlier installments evidently still persists, as the first three <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0119654\/\">Men in Black<\/a> movies are all currently present in the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0858764\/\">Paramount<\/a>+ U.S. top 10.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1409024\/\">Men in Black 3<\/a> currently ranks as the eighth most&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of Will Smith&#8216;s earliest franchises, Men in Black, is making quite a showing on streaming, well over a decade since the actor&#8217;s last appearance as Agent J. 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