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*Critically-acclaimed drama “The Help” picked up eight nominations today for the 2012 NAACP Image Awards. The film starring Viola Davis and Golden Globe winner Octavia Spencer will compete for Outstanding Motion Picture against seven-time nominee “Pariah,” Eddie Murphy’s comedy “Tower Heist,” “Jumping The Broom” and “The First Grader.” “The Help” stars Viola Davis and Emma [...]
*Wow, that was quick. Just like that, it appears the unstoppable Eddie Murphy comeback hit a roadblock the size of Norbit. It was all set up so well – a Rolling Stone cover, interviews on Fallon, Regis and Kimmel, a War and Peace-length column on his career by Bill Simmons on Grantland (well worth a [...]
*Director Brett Ratner says he’s already in talks with “Tower Heist” star Eddie Murphy for yet another new project. “I’d make anything with Eddie,” Ratner told The Wrap without further elaboration. (He did say that it’s not the widely reported “Beverly Hills Cop 4,” even though he’d still like to make that one day.) Over [...]
*Annnnd the box office winner this week is “Puss in Boots” and not “Tower Heist” after all the hype for the Brett Ratner directed and Ben Stiller & Eddie Murphy starrer. “Boots” from DreamWorks Animation and Paramount scratched its way to a $33 million second weekend (only 3 percent drop from its $34.1 million debut) [...]
*Oscar-nominated actress Gabourey “Gabby” Sidibe called Detroit’s WJLB/FM 98 COCO, Foolish & Mr. Chase show Friday morning (11-4-11) to promote her role as the “Safecracker” in the new comedy “Tower Heist” w/ Eddie Murphy & Ben Stiller- in theaters today. Gabby was the only girl on the set at many time and she said all [...]
*Eddie Murphy and Drew Barrymore share a unique distinction in Hollywood according to a survey conducted by Forbes.com and published on Thursday. In a list that weighs the amount of money a star is paid for a film against the film’s profits, Forbes found that Murphy is the most overpaid actor, and Barrymore the most [...]
*No one ever had a better start to their career than Eddie Murphy. He’s like Hollywood’s version of Albert Pujols. There was no slow rise to the top – he was just there, a star from the minute he stepped on to the stage. He saved a floundering Saturday Night Live from cancellation and came [...]
*(Via THR.com) – “Tower Heist” spins on a crackerjack premise that’s played for broad entertainment value, rather than real interest in the contemporary economic issues at its core. Brett Ratner’s comic caper about a bunch of co-workers who turn the tables on a Bernie Madoff type who has swindled them out of their pensions is [...]
*Actress Gabourey Sidibe was not shy when it comes to exposing her real feelings about Eddie Murphy, her co-star in “Tower Heist.” “Have I ever had a real crush on Eddie Murphy? I don’t know if you’ve seen him in ‘The Golden Child,’ but he wore a lot of leather suits, and there’s nothing sexier [...]
*Eddie Murphy may not be making a “Beverly Hills Cop IV,” but the actor says he’s working on bringing the successful film franchise to the small screen. Murphy says in the new issue of Rolling Stone that he’s planning a TV series that would revolve around the son of his Axel Foley character. “Axel is [...]
*In a new Rolling Stone interview, “Tower Heist” star Eddie Murphy confirmed that he’s stayed away from “Saturday Night Live” for so long because of jokes his former show made about him. “They were shitty to me on ‘Saturday Night Live’ a couple of times after I’d left the show,” he said. “They said some [...]
*After famously dashing out of the 2007 Academy Awards the moment he lost for best supporting actor, Eddie Murphy is promising that he’ll stick around until the end this time as host of the February broadcast. “I’m looking forward to doing it and I promise I’ll stay there all night,” Murphy said during a press [...]
*EW.com is reporting that Universal has decided not to release its Eddie Murphy film “Tower Heist” on-demand, a move in response to boycott threats from Cinemark and a few small theater chains across the country. The studio was planning on rolling out the comedy to Comcast digital subscribers in Portland and Atlanta just three weeks [...]
*More bad news for Eddie Murphy’s upcoming film “Tower Heist.” Several independent movie theater groups have joined Cinemark’s threatened boycott of Universal Pictures’ action-comedy over the studio’s decision to offer the film on premium video-on-demand three weeks after it hits theaters. A number of indie theater chains, such as Galaxy Theatres, Regency Theatres and Emagine [...]
*There’s talk that Eddie Murphy may return to his old stomping grounds at “Saturday Night Live.” According to the New York Post’s Page Six, “a perfect storm is brewing” for the actor to make his first appearance there since leaving the show in 1984 and igniting a feud with creator Lorne Michaels.” The column reports: [...]
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