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In the wake of the undeniable success of Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, it should come as no surprise to anyone reading this that plans are very much in motion to give Shrek fans further expansion of the revered franchise. That’s the excitedly delivered word straight from Illumination CEO Chris Meledandri, who’s currently on […]
You People cast member Andrew Schulz alleges the wedding sequence where Jonah Hill and Lauren London kiss was done using CGI. “There’s a hilarious thing, I don’t even know if I should share this shit, but the final scene, they don’t even kiss. It’s CGI. Swear to god, son,” Schulz said on the Brilliant Idiots podcast, which the comedian […]
Eddie Murphy wants to incorporate music in his eventual return to stand-up. In an interview with Complex about his upcoming film You People, Murphy laid out his plans for his return to the stage. “There are two other films that I’m supposed to do,” the actor said. “And then I’m going to try to get some new material […]
Netflix has dropped the first official trailer for the new comedy You People, which stars Jonah Hill, Eddie Murphy, Lauren London, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and more. From writers Jonah Hill and Kenya Barris, the film follows Ezra Cohen (Hill) and Amira Mohammed (London) who fall in love after connecting via a rideshare mix-up. As they plan to get […]
Eddie Murphy is in early talks to play George Clinton in an upcoming biopic, Variety reports. The project is said to cover Clinton’s early life in North Carolina in the 1940s up until the formation of the Parliament and Funkadelic, which the Godfather of Funk and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee headed. Murphy is expected to […]
Two months after it was reported that Jonah Hill had landed a starring role in an untitled Netflix comedy, Eddie Murphy has joined the upcoming Kenya Barris-directed film. Murphy and Barris previously worked together on Coming 2 America, which arrived on Amazon Prime Video earlier this year. Barris was a writer on the movie. Strong Baby’s Matt Dines and […]
Arsenio Hall stepped up to host Jimmy Kimmel Live while its star was on vacation, producing a special edition of the show’s “Lie Witness News” segment, where unsuspecting people happily weigh in on a fictional crisis in the equally fictional Zamunda. Yes, that Zamunda—the fabricated African nation from Coming to America, which got a sequel this year reuniting Hall and Eddie Murphy. “We asked […]
Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence may be two of the funniest men in Hollywood, but there’s nothing funny about the relationship between their kids, which is now Instagram official. On Saturday, Martin’s daughter, Jasmin Lawrence, posted a pair of photos alongside Eddie’s son, her boyfriend Eric Murphy, confirming that the pair are in a relationship. “Happy […]
Jada Pinkett Smith says an incident that occurred on the set of the 1996 Eddie Murphy comedy The Nutty Professor opened her eyes about the potential side effects of her tendency toward drug and alcohol abuse. In a new episode of Red Table Talk, Jada—joined by co-hosts Willow and Adrienne Banfield-Norris—reflected on the incident while […]
It has been decades since Eddie Murphy performed stand-up, but his peers continue to hold out hope that he will one day return to the stage. During his appearance on Kevin Hart’s SiriusXM podcast Comedy Gold Minds with Kevin Hart to promote his upcoming film Coming 2 America, Murphy was jokingly pressed by Hart about getting back into stand-up. “Eddie, I don’t […]
