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*Samuel L. Jackson is boarding RKO Pictures’ “Barely Lethal,” which marks the third Jackson project that is being shopped at the Cannes Film Festival. The action-comedy is described as a playful, high-velocity romp in which a 16-year-old international assassin (Hailee Steinfeld) yearning for “normal” adolescence fakes her own death and enrolls in a suburban high [...]
*Mary J. Blige, Bill Cosby and a secret appearance from Prince were part of the weekend-long celebration for the Beverly Hills Hotel’s 100th anniversary, according to The Hollywood Reporter. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] The hotel’s celebration began Friday at an evening poolside party with 200 guests where Cosby, who had been introduced by Carl [...]
*Dwayne Johnson has signed on to star in “Ciudad,” an action thriller based on the upcoming Oni Press graphic novel by the film’s directors Joe and Anthony Russo, reports Deadline.com. Set in one of the most dangerous and corrupt cities in the world, the film will star Johnson as a black market mercenary hired by [...]
*At the junket for his upcoming comedy, “A Thousand Words,” Eddie Murphy told “Extra” that, while he thought Billy Crystal did a “great job” hosting the Academy Awards, the show would have been “a little quicker with me driving.” As previously reported, Murphy was tapped to host the ceremony when Brett Ratner was at the [...]
*Billy Crystal has announced via Twitter that he will replacing Eddie Murphy as host for the next Oscars telecast. The actor tweeted this afternoon: “Am doing the Oscars so the young woman in the pharmacy will stop asking my name when I pick up my prescriptions. Looking forward to the show.” Murphy dropped out of [...]
*Brian Grazer has accepted the Academy’s 11th hour request that he replace Brett Ratner as producer of the 84th Academy Awards, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Academy president Tom Sherak had to hurry up and quickly to reboot the awards show, which had lost one of its producers as well as host Eddie Murphy, who [...]
*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 [...]
*Oh well, looks like we lost our bet that Eddie Murphy would stay on as host of the up coming Oscars after his creative partner, Brett Ratner, was forced to resign as the show’s producer. Glad we didn’t put any money on it. In a statement, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Tom [...]
*Woe is the man who makes offensive remarks these days about homosexuals in a joking way. Brett Ratner is now the former producer of the 84th Academy Awards show. During a Q&A session at the screening of his new film, “Tower Heist,” he said, “rehearsing is for fags.” (Watch/listen to his comments via the player [...]
*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) [...]
*(Via LA Times) – Eddie Murphy had a simple suggestion about six years ago: Why not make an all-black version of “Ocean’s Eleven”? Director Brett Ratner and producer Brian Grazer loved the comedian’s idea, and before long, the trio was throwing around ideas about who could star opposite Murphy: Jamie Foxx, Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock, [...]
*“Tower Heist” filmmakers could not have had a better time for the release of their film than during the Wall Street occupationand the worldwide wave of sympathy for the poor and abhorrence for greed. In the Brett Ratner directed “Tower Heist,” employees working at a Trump Tower facsimile luxury Central Park West Condominium do more [...]
*“Tower Heist” filmmakers could not have had a better time for the release of their film than during the Wall Street occupation and the worldwide wave of sympathy for the poor and abhorrence for greed. In the Brett Ratner directed “Tower Heist,” employees working at a Trump Tower facsimile luxury Central Park West Condominium do [...]
*(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 [...]
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