Will Smith’s $1.6B Sci-Fi Franchise Dominates Streaming Chart 13 Years Later One of Will Smith 's earliest franchises, Men in Black , is making quite a showing on streaming, well over a decade since the actor's last appearance as Agent J. Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld , the first installment in the sci-fi action franchise was released in 1997, with Smith and costar Tommy Lee Jones both returning for two sequels released in 2002 and 2012.Though the franchise has been dormant since the release of Men in Black: International in 2019, love for the earlier installments evidently still persists, as the first three Men in Black movies are all currently present in the Paramount + U.S. top 10. Men in Black 3 currently ranks as the eighth most… Source: https://www.imdb.com/news/ni65544104/?ref_=ttnw_art_perm