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- Will Smith paid $100,000 for a massive fireworks show over the Mississippi River in New Orleans for the Fourth of July.
- Last year’s show was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic.
- Smith is in the city filming the movie “Emancipation.”
Will Smith helped the city of New Orleans celebrate Independence Day by paying $100,000 for a massive fireworks show over the Mississippi River.
The actor, who is in the city filming the movie “Emancipation,” paid for the show after learning New Orleans hadn’t planned a display for 2021.
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The 2020 fireworks show to mark the Fourth of July was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Smith’s movie follows the story of an escaped slave named Peter who goes on to fight for the Union during the Civil War.
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