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Having sworn off family-friendly comedies for now, Eddie Murphy has returned to making terrible science fiction movies instead. His next project: an alien abduction side-slapper. More »
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Chances are you haven't been paying much attention to Tower Heist, the upcoming comedy film starring Eddie Murphy and Ben Stiller. But this movie could be the turning point in the transformation of movies. As we wrote back in February, Hollywood is moving towards getting more of its revenue from video on demand (VOD) instead of theaters — which could eventually erase more of the distinction between first-run movies and premium cable TV. More »
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Watch the "never-before-seen" Back To The Future audition tapes, featuring Al Pacino, Eddie Murphy, Prince, Robin Williams, Pee Wee and more. But beware: world's scariest, most spot-on Alan Alda impression ahead... More »
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No sooner has the Sun's reporter claimed that Eddie Murphy really, honestly will star in the sequel to The Dark Knight than someone else has appeared to call shenanigans. That person's name? Eddie Murphy. More »
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The Sun reporter Gordon Smart stands by his report that Eddie Murphy will party all the time as The Riddler in the Dark Knight sequel — which he claims will be called Gotham. More »
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Today in ridiculous Batman rumors, Eddie Murphy is playing the Riddler in the next Dark Knight, Shia LaBeouf is Robin, and I ride a sleigh drawn by tiny ponies to work. More »
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Who needs an Oscar when you can prance around in old lady boobs making fatty fart jokes? Not Eddie Murphy. Nuts to that whole Dream Girls phenomenon where he used his genuine talent to tell a story - there weren't enough fat suits. Lucky for fat suit lover Murphy, rumor has it that Nutty Professor 3 is in the works. More »
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Plenty of movies have a weak premise but elevate it via brilliant execution. And then there's the occasional film, like Eddie Murphy's Meet Dave, that has a premise so clever that even a completely lackluster execution can't ruin it. The idea of one-inch-aliens traveling to Earth in a human-sized spaceship that looks like their captain is just so rich that no amount of dubious Hollywood talent can ruin it — and believe me, they try. And guess what? There's spoilers in this review! More »
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What's going on with Meet Dave, Eddie Murphy's new scifi comedy? It's coming out July 11, and there's barely been a peep about it, aside from a trailer a while ago. No buzz, no press. And it doesn't sound as though it'll be screened for critics. Update: Actually, it is being screened after all. With a script co-written by MST3K alum Bill Corbett, the story of a human-shaped spaceship, with a bunch of tiny people inside, could be a blast. So what happened? More »
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We can only hope that this summer's Meet Dave — about a tiny Eddie Murphy inside a regular-sized Eddie Murphy, who's actually a spaceship — bombs worse than Pluto Nash. Maybe then the powers that be in Hollywood will decide the demand for miniature-Eddie-Murphy movies isn't quite as clamorous as they'd supposed, and they'll put the brakes on Eddie's remake of The Incredible Shrinking Man, to be directed by Brett "I ruined X-Men" Ratner. We can only hope. [ComingSoon] More »
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The basic plot idea of Eddie Murphy's next scifi movie is utterly brilliant, and has the potential to create an instant classic. But the execution, from Norbit director Brian Robbins, looks to be utterly awful. In Meet Dave (formerly known as Starship Dave), Murphy plays a starship shaped like a human, with a tiny crew inside... led by a miniature Eddie Murphy. The teeny aliens have to control their man-sized craft and learn how to interact with the natives of Earth, including such crucial activities as dancing, shaking hands and fairground games. Hilarity totally fails to ensue, sadly. More »
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Some movies radiate their awesomeness backwards in time as well as forwards. You practically have memories of enjoying films that haven't come out yet, the anticipation is so great. Other movies are so horrible, the pain travels back in time and becomes your childhood trauma. Here are the 2008 movies that are already thrilling and horrifying us: More »
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