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*Fox has announced that a movie previously titled “Neighborhood Watch” starring Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn, will now be called “The Watch.” The storyline is about suburban neighborhood watch volunteers who discover an extraterrestrial plot. However, since the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, the studio decided to retitle the movie. “As the subject matter of [...]
*In the wake of Trayvon Martin’s shooting, Twentieth Century Fox has pulled early promotional materials for its upcoming comedy “Neighborhood Watch.” The studio announced Tuesday that an early “teaser” trailer and in-theater posters have been removed from Florida theaters and will soon be phased out nationally, reports the AP. The film stars Ben Stiller, Vince [...]
*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) [...]
*(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 [...]
*By now everyone is aware of the Hank Williams debacle. Apparently, there hasn’t been enough said about the infamous hillbilly country singer that compared the President to Hitler. So, Saturday Night Live, in their “no holds barred” style, went after him this weekend.
*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: [...]
*Brett Ratner has apologized for including a joke in his trailer for the forthcoming “Tower Heist” in which Eddie Murphy makes light of epilepsy. In the ad, Murphy says to co-star Ben Stiller, “You were the little seizure boy having seizures all the time! You would have seizures on a regular basis! All the kids [...]
*Universal has finally released the trailer for its long-in-development action-comedy “Tower Heist,” starring Eddie Murphy, Gabourey Sidibe, Ben Stiller, Casey Affleck, Michael Pena, Matthew Broderick and Tea Leoni. Brett Ratner directed. The film follows a bunch of blue-collar employees who are defrauded by their wealthy employer and then plot revenge against him. In a post [...]
*It’s been a half-dozen years since we last saw Greg (Ben Stiller) and Pam Focker (Teri Polo), and over the interim the couple has been blessed with fraternal twins, Samantha (Daisy Tahan) and Henry (Colin Baiocchi). The terminally-cute kids are five years-old and already driving their parents crazy with hijinks ranging from projectile vomiting to [...]
*Kevin Hart is one of the funniest guys under 6 feet that you will ever meet. And there aren’t that many people over 6 feet that are funnier than him. If you think we’re joking then check out a copy of his stand up “I’m A Grown Little Man” and see for yourself. Apparently, someone [...]
*Gabourey Sidibe has joined the cast of Eddie Murphy’s upcoming film “Tower Heist,” Deadline.com reports. The film, also starring Ben Stiller, Alan Alda and Michael Pena, follows employees at a luxurious block of apartments who are scammed out of their pensions by one resident. The crooked character lives in the penthouse suite, where he is [...]
*Eddie Murphy has just signed on to star in “Tower Heist,” the crime caper that he was originally going to lead when the project was first conceived in 2005 as an all-black version of “Ocean’s Eleven.” According to EW.com’s Hollywood Insider, the original idea of an African-American “Ocean’s Eleven” was hatched in a conversation between [...]
*The 2010 Time 100 gala, celebrating Time magazine’s 100 “most influential people in the world,” will take place on May 4 with music legend Prince among the scheduled entertainment. Country superstar Taylor Swift and “Saturday Night Live” comic Andy Samberg are also on the bill, according to the New York Post. Former President Bill Clinton [...]
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