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Eddie Murphy is one of the world's most iconic comedians and has portrayed countless incredible characters over the years. While Murphy got his start as a standup comedian and found early success on Saturday Night Live, during the 1980s, he shifted into movies and starred in some of the biggest action comedies ever made. This success led Murphy to pivot into family-friendly entertainment during the 1990s, where he played characters beloved by viewers of all ages.

The best Eddie Murphy movies all featured incredible, unique characters who embodied the actor's impeccable comedic timing and passionate use of slapstick humor, making him stand out as one of the best comedians of all time. Murphy has also shown off his more dramatic side and has even been nominated for an Academy Award. From the action star stylings of Beverly Hills Cops Axel Foley to the family-friendly hilarity of Donkey from Shrek, Murphys...

In Norbit, actor Eddie Murphy played three different characters. Known for playing multiple parts in one movie, Norbit promised the same type of comedic entertainment fans came to expect from Murphy. Norbit followed Murphy's acclaimed performance in 2006's Dreamgirls and was a stark contrast to the Oscar-winner, ultimately so poorly received that Murphy received multiple Razzie Award nominations for the numerous parts he played.

Murphy went from a highly praised performance in Dreamgirls to overwhelming criticism in Norbit in an extremely short period. Here's how it happened and what the makers of Norbit said about it.

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*Availability in US Release Date February 8, 2007Director Brian RobbinsCast Eddie Murphy, Thandiwe Newton, Terry Crews, Clifton Powell, Lester Speight, Cuba Gooding Jr.Runtime 110Main Genre ComedyWriters Eddie Murphy, Charlie Murphy, Jay Scherick, David Ronn Expand Eddie Murphy and DreamWorks Pictures Were Excited to Make Norbit

DreamWorks' Jeffrey Katzenberg...

Saltburn composer Anthony Willis leads the pack in the second wave of nominations for the World Soundtrack Awards (Wsa) 2024.

As well as his previously announced nomination in film composer of the year, Willis is also up for the discovery and the public choice award.

The winners will be announced on October 16 at the Wsa ceremony and concert, held during Belgium’s Film Fest Ghent.

In discovery, Willis battles it out alongside Jerskin Fendrix for Poor Things; Carlos Rafael Rivera for Ezra; Caroline Shaw for Julie Keeps Quiet; and Diego Baldenweg for In The Land Of Saints And Sinners.

Willis and...

"Gears of War" took a former football player/wrestler and turned him into "Cole Train"-- a central character in the game -- and then stiffed him royally. Lenwood Hamilton claims he was going about his life last January when his son's friend showed him the video game, and he was flabbergasted ... he says "Cole Train" was simply him. So, Hamilton did what any red-blooded American would do ... sued. According to the docs ... the physical appearances are almost identical,...

The minds behind Monster Fest 2016 out of Melbourne, Australia, have announced that the French horror film Raw will open the festival, which will also feature a screening of Beyond the Gates. Also in today's Highlights: a trailer for Halloweed and a sneak peek of Aliens: Life and Death #1.

Monster Fest 2016 Lineup Announced: Press Release: "Returning this year from November 24-27, Australia’s premier genre film festival Monster Fest is thrilled to announce the Australian premiere of controversial new French horror film Raw as its Official 2016 Opening Night Film.

Raw made its World Premiere in Critics Week at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year where it was awarded the coveted Fipresci Award and was lauded by critics and fans alike as the genre sensation of the festival.

Raw is the debut feature of French director Julia Ducournau and tells the story of a young vegetarian who discovers her dark side...

Trent and his best bud Joey move to a small town to escape the shadow of his serial killer father. But right after they roll up, everything goes to pot as the bodies pile up and they must weed out suspects and smoke out the killer. He who has the weed has the power in Halloweed! We have the first trailer, three new posters and a photo gallery from this decidedly different kind of halloween horror movie.

Halloweed arrives from Screen Media Films, with the DVD release date set for November 8, 2016. Today, Screen Media announced the filmmaking team of Roberto Rosario, Jr. and Jayson Bernard, who produced the film under their J&R Productions banner.

Halloweed is a comedy/stoner/slasher/mystery genre hybrid, starring Simon Rex, Shannon Brown, Jim O'Heir, Michelle Mueller , Jayson Bernard, Ray Wise, Jason Mewes, Deje Dee, Lester Speight, Danny Trejo and Tom Sizemore, and will...

Recently, CBS released the new,official synopsis/spoilers for their upcoming "Scorpion" episode 3 of season 2. The episode is called, "Fish Filet," and it turns out that we're going to see some very intense and high drama stuff go down as Sylvester's life gets put in major jeopardy during the crew's latest undercover operation, and more! In the new, 3rd episode press release: In Order To Save The Lives Of Three Judges, Sylvester Goes Undercover In A Federal Prison, But Team Scorpion Must Break Him Out When His Life Is Threatened, On "Scorpion," Monday, Oct. 5. Press release number 2: In order to save the lives of three judges, Sylvester is going to go undercover in a federal prison but Team Scorpion will have to break him out when his life is threatened. Alana De La Garza is going to return as the new head of Homeland Security and Kevin Weisman returns as Walter's new friend,...

One of the numerous special features attached to the Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray and DVD release of Thor: The Dark World, is the latest Marvel short film, Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King. Last night, I headed down to the Arclight Hollywood for a screening of this short, which features Ben Kingsley reprising his Iron Man 3 role as Trevor Slattery, the British actor who tricked the world into thinking he was a dangerous terrorist known as The Mandarin. These shorts have become big hits with the fans, but All Hail the King is by far the biggest one yet, that you surely won't want to miss.

The 15-minute short opens with Jackson Norris (Scoot McNairy) a documentary filmmaker who arrives at Seagate Prison for his final interview with Trevor Slattery, as he tries to figure out who, exactly, this mysterious man really is. However, before the interview itself, we see...

Ben Kingsley is set to reprise his role as Mandarin in Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King, which gets an official poster today courtesy of EW. The short film will be included on the Thor: The Dark World Blu-ray available Tuesday, February 25.

Ben Kingsley is back as Iron Man 3 terrorist Mandarin in the all-new short film Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King. Spoiler Alert! Exposed as the theatrically inclined Trevor Slattery, this villain is locked up in a high-security prison where his newfound profile has brought him celebrity and protection on the inside, where he gladly agrees to do an in-depth profile with a well-known documentary filmmaker. Will the real Mandarin come out from hiding to hunt Trevor down?

Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King was released February 25th, 2014 and stars Ben Kingsley, Scoot McNairy, Lester Speight, Sam Rockwell, Matt Gerald, Allen Maldonado, Crystal the Monkey, Rob S. Gray.

When Marvel releases Thor: The Dark World on Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray and DVD on February 25, fans will also get to see the studio's next Marvel One-Shot entitled All Hail the King, starring Ben Kingsley reprising his Trevor Slattery role from Iron Man 3. The studio has released the second clip from this short film, which shows Trevor Slattery impressing his fellow Seagate Prison inmates by providing his fake Mandarin voice. The One-Shot co-stars Scoot McNairy as documentary filmmaker Jackson Norris as he prepares for his final interview with this British actor who fooled the world into thinking he was the villainous Mandarin. Take a look at this clip, then read on for more details from Ben Kingsley and writer-director Drew Pearce.

Ben Kingsley first spoke about how much fun he had playing the complex Trevor Slattery in both Iron Man 3 and this Marvel One-Shot short film.

"I realized I...

From writer, director, fight choreographer R.L. Scott (photo above) comes a new indie thriller/actioner titled Call Me King which is described as follows: In the international world of gun running... loyalty, honor and discretion are valuable commodities, but nothing is more priceless than the bond of family. Power begets enemies and a loved ones betrayal cuts like a knife. Sides will be chosen, wars will be fought. In the end, there can only be one King. Executive produced by Amin Joseph and produced by David A. Fisher, the film stars Bai Ling, Amin Joseph, Chris Mulkey, Bill Cobbs, Robert Miano, Lester Speight, Gabrielle Dennis, Alimi Ballard, Sean Riggs,...

New Line Cinema has released a red-band trailer for Rawson Marshall Thurber's comedy We're the Millers. The film centers on a single, small-time pot dealer (Jason Sudeikis) who ends up in debt to his supplier (Ed Helms). In order to bring the next shipment of drugs up from Mexico, the dealer puts together a fake family from his stripper neighbor (Jennifer Aniston), an eager teen (Will Poulter), and a streetwise punk (Emma Roberts) as a cover for his smuggling operation. I wasn't even aware that this was an R-rated comedy, but there are some good jokes in here. In all fairness, this movie hasn't really been on my radar, which is surprising because I've been waiting for Thurber to do a comic follow-up to Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story. I was also a big fan of his "Terry Tate, Office Linebacker" commercials. Hit the jump to check out the trailer.

My friend, actor/filmmaker, Jon Lee Brody ("Pawn," "Star Trek Into Darkness"), has created a short film called "Police Guys" that you guys should see! Brody wrote, produced, directed, and starred in the 15-minute film alongside Stephen Kramer Glickman (Big Time Rush), Shawna Waldron (Little Giants), Lester Speight (Transformers: Dark of the Moon), Jonathan Bennett (Mean Girls), Lisa Catara (Charlie Valentine), Gonzalo Menendez (Act of Valor), Alex Heartman (Power Rangers Super Samurai) and Christine Lakin (Step by Step, Valentine.s Day).

Here's more info on the project:

A pair of cops (Jon Lee Brody and Stephen Kramer Glickman) on a stakeout get much more than they bargained for! Police Guys is a fifteen-minute short film/pilot that was written, produced and directed by Jon Lee Brody.

The film was shot in 2 days with little to no budget. Brody sites Robert Rodriguez as his inspiration. .The book .Rebel Without a Crew...

If you haven’t heard Brooklyn Shanti’s gorgeous track ‘Rani Rani’, stop reading now, and remedy that straight away. But don’t stop there! The Brooklyn based Bengali has been making music for nearly his entire life– just check out www.brooklynshanti.com for a taste of his back catalogue. With a track (‘Pyaari Pyaari’) in the upcoming family comedy From Sydney With Love, Brooklyn Shanti’s brand of beautifully uplifting, heartfelt hip hop is set to reach an even wider audience – which can only be a fantastic thing!

The incredibly upbeat music man was kind enough to take the time to tell us about what’s in a name, his hip-hop philosophy, where to find new tunes and what it’s like making music for films.

You’ve been making music your whole life, right? Was there a specific point you decided to channel your abilities into hip-hop...

Action star, Wesley Snipes is currently serving a prison sentence for tax evasion in the McKean Federal Correctional Institution in Pennsylvania. His projected release is June 19, 2013. In the meantime, the man is keeping as busy as one can keep in prison, even going as far as to do interviews. IGN was able to conduct a lengthy interview with Snipes, who spoke in depth about his plans for a return to the world of film upon his release. A video game that he's involved with for the iPhone, 'Julius Styles: The International' was released yesterday. Describing the idea behind the character, he said: "The concept is an amalgamation of the "international spy, security specialist" characters I've played in a couple of films, a street novel that an early incarnation of my production company, Amen Ra Film, acquired back in the late '90's, and a persona played by Chow Yun Fat...

Prime transformed a record. Transformers: Dark of the Moon premiered in the Number One spot at the box office this weekend with $97.4 Million for $162.1 Million so far. The “robo-threequel rocked the Independence Day weekend gross record, eclipsing Spider-Man 2′s $88.2 million, and socked Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides for the top-grossing weekend crown of 2011 so far.” Cars 2 was Second with $25.1 Million for $116 Million so far. Bad Teacher was Third with $14.1 Million. Larry Crowne premiered in Fourth place with $13 Million. Monte Carlo was Fifth with $7.6 Million. Super 8, Green Lantern, Mr. Popper’s Penguins, Bridesmaids, and Midnight in Paris rounded out the top ten respectively.

Transformers: Dark of the Moon (also known as Transformers 3) is a 2011 American science fiction/comedy/action film, part of the Transformers film series, directed by Michael Bay and produced by Steven Spielberg. It is the sequel to Transformers and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen...

Now that you have seen Transformers: Dark of the Moon, what did you think of it? Is your movie review of Transformers: Dark of the Moon that it is better than Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen? It couldn’t have been worse, could it? We reviewed that Transformers film here: Film Review: Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen. Sami Jarroush, in the video below, feels the same way and touches on a few other key points.

Video: FilmFan: ‘Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon’ and ‘Larry Crowne’

Plucking down $12 -$20 dollars to see CGI robots fight in 3D is an expense some people have chosen to avoid in lieu of seeing the film in 2D for $5-$10. Were you one of them?

I have heard that critics are almost divided on the film and read some criticism of first-time actress Rosie Huntington-Whiteley acting ability. If this is true, what did these people expect?...

Earlier this week, we posted AdFreak's 10 Funniest Commercials of All Time, and while most were in agreement on the Terry Tate commercials and the number one commercial, John West Salmon: Bear, several of our readers had some other hilarious suggestions. I compiled those reader suggestions into this, alternate list of the 10 Funniest Commercials. Note, however, that I tried to limit the list to just one commercial involving a fart and one involving poop, simply to keep the list slightly, but not too much, above the fray.

Canadian Breast Exam (Mrs. Julien)

French Condom Commercial (billdog)

Warmup: Dutch Oven (Lexie)

Sprite: Sun Fizz (Keith)

C&A: Santa Claus

Starbust: Screaming Mime (MelBivDevoe)

Healthy Choice "Customer Service" Commercial (twig)

Washington Mutual: Guess I'm Having Tea (tamatha)

Outpost.com: Wolves (Tracer Bullet)

Banquet Frozen Dinners Commercial (gholson)

Nutrigrain Ad (Nick Obi)...

One of my favorite blogs is Adweek's blog, AdFreak, which keeps us apprised of the weird and wacky in the advertising industry. They also love lists almost as much as we do, and their latest is the 10 Funniest Commercials of All Time. I encourage you go to go their website and check out all ten, along with their blurbs, which is why I'm only giving you the top five here, including my favorite commercial of all time in at number four. I'll also note that I'd never seen number one, and I never thought I could laugh as hard at a kick to the junk.

5. Budweiser: Wassup?

4. Reebok: Terry Tate

3. Cadbury: Gorilla

2. Wendy's: Where's the Beef?

1. John West Salmon: Bear...

The name Terry Tate has been synonymous with ridiculous corporate drudgery since a series of Reebok ads introduced us to a football goon known as the Office Linebacker who inexplicably dishes out punishment to abused drones working in a cubicle farm. But British actress Catherine Tate may soon be the Tate most associated with destroying white-collar workers' wills to live, if a Hollywood Reporter article suggesting that she has become the front-runner to replace Steve Carell on "The Office" turns out to be true and results in her joining the NBC...

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The Hollywood Reporter scored an exclusive with the story of writer/director Rawson Thurber (Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story) negotiating to film the pot comedy that started the film-scripting careers of Steve Faber and Bob Fisher back in 2002. The writing duo had been TV writers when they decided to write a comedy spec to break into features.

And so they birthed We’re the Millers, a story about a pot dealer who wants to make one last score before retiring from the business on his 30th birthday.

How big? 1,400 pounds.

How’s he’s going to drive a Winnebago to Mexico, fill it with over half a ton of weed, and drive it back across the border? By hiring a fake family.

What could...

The Transformers: Dark of the Moon Movie Trailer has premiered. Michael Bay‘s Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) stars Shia Labeouf, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, John Turturro, and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley. Transformers: Dark of the Moon’s plot synopsis: “the Autobots and Decepticons become involved in a perilous space race between the U.S. and Russia, and once again human Sam Witwicky has to come to the aid of his robot friends. There’s new characters too, including a new villain in the form of Shockwave, a longtime “Transformers” character who rules Cybertron while the Autobots and Decepticons battle it out on Earth. The Autobots learn of a Cybertronian spacecraft on the Moon and must race against the Decepticons to find it and learn its secrets, which could turn the tide in the Transformers’ final battle.” I actually like the sound effects from the Transformers: Dark of the Moon: Super...

On "Lawyers, Guns and Money," Hank Moody doing a PSA was a rich concept. It would be akin to seeing if Charlie Sheen is available to talk about the dangers of hookers and blow because, like they say, “The More You Know.”

My worst fear came to fruition on this episode, though, as apparently we have seen the last of Sasha. There are so many things I will miss about her, but two stand out.

Karen prescribed the perfect remedy for Hank’s social malady: get his head out of his ass. Hank lost his charm switch, but it also seemed like he lost something else. I got the feeling that he very easily could have just packed it in and gone off the deep end.

Hank always struck me as the guy who would try anything twice. I don’t think we’ll see him in the ER again any time soon,...

During this year’s Super Bowl commercial breaks, Roseanne got knocked over by a log for Snickers and Grizzly bears wrecked a car for McDonald’s. Cars.com poisoned one dude, body-scrambled another, and shot an unfortunate cowboy full of arrows. Pepsi had two separate commercials that ended with the same punchline: Someone being hit in the face by a full can of Pepsi Max. (A possible tagline could be, “Pepsi Max: Tasty and Concussive!”) Also, House threw his cane at an adorable child, a pug dog smashed through a door for Doritos, and that terrifying green android apparently stole someone’s thumbs.

Paramount Pictures have released the official Super Bowl TV spot for upcoming sci-fi action film Transformers: Dark of the Moon.

Directed by Michael Bay, Transformers: Dark of the Moon is the third and final installment in the hugely successful Transformers film franchise, and stars Shia Labeouf, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, John Turturro, Patrick Dempsey, Lester Speight, Ramon Rodriguez, Frances McDormand and John Malkovich.

The Autobots learn of a Cybertronian spacecraft on the Moon and must race against the Decepticons to find it and learn its secrets, which could turn the tide in the Transformers’ final battle.

Transformers: Dark of the Moon will be released in the UK on July 1.

Watch the Super Bowl TV spot below and watch all TV spots and trailer from the evening here.

Watch the Super Bowl TV spot below:...

Norah Jones appears in this indie feature you probably missed called, "Wah Do Dem," (which is Jamaican Patois for "What they do"), her first since 2007's "My Blueberry Nights." She plays the girlfriend of a young Brooklyn musician played by young Brooklyn musician, Sean Bones, in this Caribbean misadventure.

Jones dumps Bones just days before they're due to set sail on one of those huge floating malls called cruise ships, bound for Jamaica. His friends blow him out too and, finding no one else to accompany him, he sets out alone. If you've ever been on one of these monuments to excess before, you know what an unromantic mistake that is. I'll let the official synopsis take over from there:

Over the course of several days he flirts with the staff photographer, drinks cocktails with the boat's celebrity juggler and has several strange encounters with the only other loner. When...

All in a day’s work for Josh Duhamel. MichaelBay.com and AceShowbiz has posted these new set pics from next summer’s Transformers 3.

Aceshowbiz.com is also reporting that:

Michael Bay has revealed the final scenes of the third “Transformers” film. Speaking to Chicago Sun-Times, the helmer says they are shooting in Chicago until the end of August and the footage filmed there will be featured as part of the closing sequence.

Swipe to reveal Inviso-text ahead [Spoiler Alert!] The Chicago footage “is at the very end of the movie and the city is under alien attack, so it’s very critical and important to the film’s climax,” Bay explains. “Something very bad has happened to America – and this is at the very end of the movie.”

They had some additional news on Megan Fox’s replacement, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley.

She is only said to be new female lead but...

By Larry Carroll

You've got your brewskis, a big tub of corn and a space reserved on the couch. You are officially good to go for Sunday's big event: Three hours of the world's most anticipated commercials, promoting products with celebrities, gimmicks and billion-dollar ad budgets. Oh yeah, there's also some kind of sporting game being played in between the spots for soda and Web sites.

When you watch Sunday's Super Bowl, be sure to keep an eye out for this year's watercooler-worthy ads that everyone will be talking about on Monday. But first, take a look at our list of these all-time champions.

Apple, "1984" (1984)

This commercial was first broadcast during Super Bowl Xviii on January 22, 1984, and has never been broadcast again since. At the time, few would have guessed that the brief-but-epic spot branding Apple computers as modern and groundbreaking would launch a company that is now synonymous with innovative computing.

Melora Hardin and WWE star Paul 'Big Show' Wight have signed up for wrestling comedy Knucklehead. Mark Feuerstein, Rebecca Creskoff (Hung), Lester Speight (Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay) and Bobb'e J Thompson (Role Models) are also among the cast. Michael Watkins is directing the movie for WWE Studios. The film follows the story of a fighting promoter (Feuerstein) (more)...

Melora Hardin, Mark Feuerstein and World Wrestling Entertainment star Paul "Big Show" Wight have boarded the comedy adventure , that Michael Watkins is directing from WWE Studios.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the film centers on a fight promoter (Feuerstein) deeply in debt to his crooked rival. Desperate for a new fighter that will help him win back everything he owes, the promoter catches a break when a 450-pound church handyman (Wight) who has spent his entire life in an orphanage agrees to wrestle on behalf of his fellow orphans.

Hardin runs the orphanage with a nun (Wendie Malick). The trio embark on a road trip on their quest to enter him into a wrestling competition for the first time.

Rebecca Creskoff (HBO's Hung), Dennis Farina, Saul Rubinek, Lester Speight and Bobb'e J. Thompson round out the cast.

Filming began this week in and around New Orleans.

Melora Hardin, Mark Feuerstein and World Wrestling Entertainment star Paul "Big Show" Wight are starring in "Knucklehead," a comedy-adventure Michael Watkins is directing from WWE Studios.

The film centers on a fight promoter (Feuerstein) deeply in debt to his crooked rival. Desperate for a new fighter that will help him win back everything he owes, the promoter catches a break when a 450-pound church handyman (Wight) who has spent his entire life in an orphanage agrees to wrestle on behalf of his fellow orphans.

Hardin runs the orphanage with a nun (Wendie Malick). The trio embark on a road trip on their quest to enter him into a wrestling competition for the first time.

Additionally, Rebecca Creskoff (HBO's "Hung"), Dennis Farina and Saul Rubinek have booked supporting roles. Lester Speight ("Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay") and Bobb'e J. Thompson ("Role Models") round out the cast.

Mike Pavone is producing,...

Have you noticed additional hipsters in Echo Park lately? That may be because production on the Josh Schwartz (Gossip Girl, The O.C.) scripted drama Rockville, CA is now in full swing at popular La music venue, The Echo. Lines were already long outside the club, but they may get longer, as the club now doubles as the fictional venue Rockville for the show. The show chronicles a youthful group working in the music industry and their adventures in and around the east side of town. It also stars some familiar faces especially among the teen set, including Andrew West (Privileged), Alexandra Chando (As the World Turns), Ryan Hansen (Veronica Mars,) and Mighty Rasta aka Terry Tate. Rockville 3But the real stars of the show may turn out to be the bands. Music supervisor and executive producer on the show, Alexandra Patsavas (she launched at least a half dozen music careers...

Here's another opportunity for a big time movie studio to do the right thing and let an animated creation remain in its original form. The Hollywood Reporter says Warner Bros. will adapt the comic series Elfquest, and that Rawson Thurber will write, direct, and produce it.

Elfquest began 30 years ago as a self-published comic by Richard and Wendy Pini. It's one of the few titles to have been released by both Marvel and DC at various points in its journey. The central characters were members of the Wolfriders, an elf tribe that fought with humans and trolls on some distant but similar planet. Also, they fought accident attorneys, who are the enemies of everyone.

That's not true. Well, accident attorneys are the enemy; Wolfriders didn't fight them, though.

Now, fans of the series will want to know who this Rawson Thurber character is. I had that same thought, the same Elfquestion,...