Eddie Murphy
Eddie Murphy Confirms Prince Beating Him In Basketball Was Absolutely Accurate
Source: Jason Merritt / Getty The late Charlie Murphy recounting the time his crew played pick-up basketball with the late Prince, and took an L, is the stuff of comedic legend. Recently, Eddie Murphy confirmed that his big brother’s hilarious tale of b-ball and blouses was completely “accurate.” Eddie Murphy checked into the Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon and was discussing some of the legends he’s met throughout the years. When speaking about Stevie Wonder, who he considers musical genius, Prince, who is another musical savant, was mentioned. After noting how much of a sense of humor Prince had, Fallon then asked if Charlie’s story was true. “That is totally and absolutely accurate,” said Murphy, who confirmed that they were hooping in their club outfits. “We had on stuff from the cl...
Amazon Shares Trailer For Eddie Murphy’s Coming 2 America: Watch
Amazon Studios has shared the first trailer for Eddie Murphy’s Coming 2 America. The Coming to America sequel 32-years-in-the-making Is scheduled to premiere digitally on Amazon Prime on March 5th, 2021. The follow-up to its 1988 predecessor sees Zamunda’s newly-crowned King Akeem (Murphy) returning to America to meet his long-lost son. Along with Arsenio Hall, playing Akeem’s trusy sidekick Semmi, the film’s cast includes Wesley Snipes, James Earl Jones, Jermaine Fowler, Leslie Jones, Tracy Morgan, and Teyana Taylor. It was directed by Craig Brewer (Hustle & Flow) and written by original screenwriters Barry Blaustein and David Sheffield with Kenya Barris. Like many of 2021’s upcoming blockbusters, Coming 2 Amer...
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Randy Watson Back: ‘Coming 2 America’ Official Teaser Trailer Drops [Video]
Source: Amazon Studios / Amazon Studios Randy Watson is back like he never left. After plenty of images have hit the Internets, today (Dec. 22) we get the official teaser trailer for Eddie Murphy’s forthcoming Coming 2 America. Source: Courtesy Amazon Studios / Amazon Studios The teaser for the sequel to the classic Coming To America offers some insight into the plot and showcases the myriad of characters portrayed by Murphy and his co-star Arsenio Hall. We see famed Sexual Chocolate lead singer Randy Watson make his return as well as Hall’s Gilligan-referencing Reverend Brown along with the assortment of barbershop characters in the clip. As for the story, he is now King Akeem (Murphy) and his homie Semmi (Hall) is still holding him down when the former decides to head back to Queens when...
Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall Return to Queens in Coming 2 America Trailer
The long-awaited sequel to 1988’s Coming To America has been in the works for years, but Coming 2 America is finally on the way. Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall lead a long list of characters who are returning to Queens from Zamunda 32 years after the first film was released. The pair have to return to America after Prince Akeem’s (Murphy) father, King Jaffe Joffer (James Earl Jones) tells the newly crowned king on his death bed that only a male can become king and that he has a son in America…leading he and Semmi (Hall) to head back to the site of their misadventures. The returning cast is joined by Wesley Snipes, Tracy Morgan, Leslie Jones, Jermaine Fowler and Teyana Taylor. It is directed by Craig Brewer. Watch the trailer below. [embedded content] Coming 2 Ameri...
Coming 2 America to Debut on Amazon Prime in March 2021
As widely expected, Eddie Murphy’s Coming to America sequel will bypass theaters and premiere on Amazon Prime. The streamer has given Coming 2 America (get it?) a worldwide premiere date of March 5th, 2021. Amazon entered into negotiations with Paramount Pictures to acquire the film after it became evident that a… Please click the link below to read the full article. Coming 2 America to Debut on Amazon Prime in March 2021 Alex Young You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat and make money in the process. Earn rewards by chatting, sharing photos, blogging and help give users back their fair share of Internet revenue.
Eddie Murphy and Spike Lee in Conversation: Our 1990 Cover Story
This article originally appeared in the October 1990 issue of SPIN. In the five years I’ve known Eddie Murphy, this interview was our first opportunity to site down and talk for any real length of time. Whose fault is it? Both of ours—we were too busy, too far apart, and too, too different (so we thought). After finishing, we were two young African-American males from Brooklyn. SPIKE: This is gonna be painless. Some of these questions I know the answers to already, but we’re just not going to assume anything. So the first question is: Why do you think we haven’t worked together yet? People always come up to me and ask me, “When are you and Eddy gonna hook up?” EDDIE: I don’t know. This weird thing happened, and I don’t even know if it’s somet...
Eddie Murphy’s ‘Coming 2 America’ Reportedly Property Of Amazon Studios
Source: WENN/Avalon / WENN Coming to America, the 1988 comedy starring Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall, remains a classic in many households around the world. The anticipated sequel from Paramount Pictures is reportedly now moving to Amazon Studios, with a wintertime release date attached. As the moviegoers around the world are left with limited options due to the coronavirus pandemic, theaters are shuttering thus pushing streaming back into the mix. With Disney Plus and Amazon Prime employing the strategy of video on demand, Hollywood is slowly shifting to the home theater model for the foreseeable future. As Deadline reports, Coming 2 America will now be the property of Amazon Studios, with a price tag reportedly around $125 million if the whispers behind the scenes are true. A date of Dec...
Eddie Murphy’s Coming 2 America Emigrates to Amazon Prime for Christmas Release
Perhaps movie theaters in the Kingdom of Zamunda are open, but here in the States things are looking bleak. The lack of cinematic release options is the main reason why Eddie Murphy‘s new film Coming 2 America is emigrating from Paramount Pictures to Amazon Studios. The sequel to 1988’s Coming to America was originally slated to drop on August 7th, 2020, before going on standby until Christmas. Then the coronavirus happened, and blockbusters such as James Bond’s No Time to Die and Dune were pushed back to 2021. But Crown Prince Akeem Joffer won’t have to wait that long; as Variety reports, Amazon ponied up $125 million for the streaming rights. Now, Coming 2 America is expected to premiere on December 18th. Some details are still bein...
Eddie Murphy Wins First-Ever Emmy Award for SNL Comeback
Eddie Murphy’s long-awaited return to Saturday Night Live late last year has earned the legendary comedian and actor his first-ever Emmy Award. During the fourth and final night of the Creative Emmy Awards, Murphy won Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for his turn hosting SNL. The December 2019 episode marked Murphy’s first time hosting the sketch comedy show in 30 years, and saw him reprise many beloved characters from his time as a cast member, including Mister Robinson, Gumby, Buckwheat, and Velvet Jones. Murphy had been nominated for Emmys twice before during his time on SNL in the early 1980s, but this marks his first-ever victory. Meanwhile, Maya Rudolph’s SNL portrayal of Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris earned her Outstanding Guest Actor in a ...
The 25 Most Anticipated Movies of Fall 2020
“New year, new decade, new films, right?” That was January, back when we were still looking ahead at 2020 with blind optimism and ill-fated excitement. Sigh, hindsight is 20/20 they say, right? Who knew. At the time, we had 50 exciting new titles we were anticipating, most of which have since been either postponed, dumped to VOD, or relegated to a limbo state. It’s been an unnerving year for the film industry, to say the least. A year fraught with shutdowns, furloughs, layoffs, bankruptcies, and re-evaluations. All of that change has prompted a seismic shift in how everything’s run across the media landscape, and no one truly has a grip on things just yet. Odds are they won’t for quite some time. Because of this, anticipating anything right now — let alone anything in pop culture — seems l...
The 100 Greatest Summer Blockbuster Movies of All Time
“Cool.” “Riveting.” “Gripping.” “High-Octane Thrill Ride!” All cliches of film criticism and yet all feelings we’ve experienced while watching a crackerjack summer blockbuster. Oops, there we go again. All things considered, any moviegoer can speak to the divine feeling of sitting in a cool, packed theater in the heat of the summer and being united by narrative. Not just united, but hypnotized, mentally convinced that the fate of the world is before your eyes, and there is nothing more important in that very moment. It’s escapism. It’s popcorn. It’s Chinatown. But also, it’s the power of spectacle. Over the years, Hollywood has certainly run that concept through the ringer, having turned what used to be a summer blockbuster season into, well, an entire calendar year. Now, all those aforeme...
