Back in black - Movies - The Boston Globe

LOS ANGELES -- A sharp black suit is timeless, yet a decade has passed since Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones last wore theirs in “Men in Black II.” Despite the box office success of that film and its 1997 predecessor, the franchise had gone sufficiently cold that “Men in Black 3” only got the green light after audience research affirmed an abiding interest in it, said director Barry Sonnenfeld.