Superstar Will Smith has never found a school he likes for his kids so now he’s starting his own.

Cost? More than $1 million!

The box office titan signed a deal to lease a campus near his California home.

Renamed the New Village Academy of Calabasas, the academy will be run privately including kindergarten through sixth grade.

The new Smith school -whose motto is Spiral Up! – requires special testing for admission and will be open “to all races, religions and creeds”, according to a spokesperson.

Previously, Smith and his wife, Jada Pinkett-Smith, were homeschooling their two children at the Smith family compound.

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Will Smith has bottled up a new movie project after optioning the film rights to wine saga The Billionaire’s Vinegar: The Mystery of the World’s Most Expensive Bottle of Wine.

Bosses at the movie star’s production company were won over by Benjamin Wallace’s chronicle of the auction house fight for a 1787 bottle of Chateau Lafite, which was rumored to have belonged to U.S. President Thomas Jefferson.

Wallace claimed that Jefferson was duped into thinking the wine was a rare vintage and as such the son of billionaire publisher Malcolm Forbes bought doctored cheap wine for $156,000 – the world record for a single bottle.

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A free music video website, backed by movie star Will Smith, launched on Wednesday.

The I Am Legend star is one of the financial backers of PluggedIn.com, which boasts 10,000 high-quality promos and live performances from top artists.

The new site is backed by three of the leading music giants, Universal Music Group, EMI Music and Sony Music.

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Just because you’re friends with Tom Cruise, doesn’t mean you’re a Scientologist.

So says Will Smith, who’s denying recent reports – including Radar magazine’s April cover story – which claim he’s been increasingly involved with the controversial religion.

“You don’t have to be Jewish to be a friend of Steven Spielberg. You don’t have to be a Muslim to be a friend of Muhammad Ali. And you don’t have to be a Scientologist to be a friend of Tom Cruise,” the actor told the New York Daily News Tuesday.

“I am a Christian,” the 39-year-old added. “I am a student of all religions. And I respect all people and all paths.”

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PS: Is it just me, or is Katie wearing an alien-head pin on her coat?  Is Katie trying to tell us something?