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Owen Wilson to Star in Action Drama The Coup

24 April 2012 11:11 AM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »

Early in his career, Owen Wilson flirted with a few action-oriented pics like Behind Enemy Lines, Shanghai Noon, and I Spy.  Now it appears the actor fancies a return to the genre, as it was announced today that Wilson will star in the action drama The Coup.  The tone of the film is described as being akin to Taken (as is every other action drama in development these days), and centers on an American family that moves to Southeast Asia and finds themselves “embroiled in a violent coup where rebels mercilessly attack the city.”  Hit the jump for more. Wilson will play the father in the film, which is based on a script by Drew and John Erick Dowdle (Quarantine).  John will direct The Coup, making the film his follow-up to 2010’s Devil.  He also directed the 2008 thriller Quarantine which he co-wrote with his brother. Wilson has certainly grown as »

- Adam Chitwood

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Universal Wants ‘Twins’ Sequel With Eddie Murphy? Quick, Someone Hand Them a Pamphlet on the Joys of Abortion

30 March 2012 8:29 AM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »

The head honchos over at Universal seem to be undergoing a mid-life crisis of sorts as they reflect on their (relative) youth back in the year 1988. First, they announced last week that they’re going to move forward on a sequel to the Robert De Niro/Charles Grodin comedy Midnight Run (conveniently forgetting the three made-for-tv sequels that already exist). And now they’ve let word get out that they’re eyeballing a sequel to Ivan Reitman’s Twins. As awesome as that doesn’t sound, the news gets even more topical and ridiculous. According to THR, the studio wants to reunite Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito as the unlikely twins and add a third player into the mix so they can call the film Triplets. And who do they supposedly want for the third sibling? None other than Mr. Box Office Poison himself, Eddie Murphy! You can see why I said “supposedly.” If »

- Rob Hunter

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Eddie Murphy/A Thousand Words: Box Office Bomb

11 March 2012 2:20 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »

Eddie Murphy, A Thousand Words John Carter Box Office: Prince Of Persia Revisited? Dr. Seuss' The Lorax, which received about as many bad reviews as the Andrew Stanton / Taylor Kitsch sci-fier John Carter, easily maintained its position at the top of the North American box office this weekend, March 9-11. The Lorax took in $39.1 million (-44% from last weekend), according to studio estimates found at Box Office Mojo. Domestic total: $121.95m. Budget: $70m. As mentioned in my previous article (see link above), John Carter was no. 2 with $30.4m. At no. 3, the widely panned low-budget flick Project X added $11.55 million (-45%). Domestic total: $40.12m. Budget: $12m. Starring Martha Marcy May Marlene's Elizabeth Olsen, Silent House opened with $7.01m at 2,124 locations, for a mediocre $3,300 per-theater average. It gets worse: the Laura Lau / Chris Kentis-directed horror flick received an F rating from movie audiences. The silver lining: It reportedly cost less than $1m, »

- Zac Gille

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Eddie Murphy Box-Office Bomb: A Thousand Words

10 March 2012 7:27 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »

Cliff Curtis, Eddie Murphy, A Thousand Words Andrew Stanton/Taylor Kitsch's John Carter Box Office: Way Behind Zack Snyder's 300, Watchmen Eddie Murphy was to have hosted the 2012 Academy Awards ceremony, but dropped out after one of the show's producers, Brett Ratner, was fired (or resigned) following his use of an anti-gay slur and his comments about sex with Lindsay Lohan. Of course, no one can know for sure if the box-office take of the $40m-budgeted DreamWorks/Paramount release A Thousand Words would have been higher had Murphy kept his Oscar gig. But one thing is certain: it couldn't have been any lower. Nor could its approval rating at Rotten Tomatoes: 0%. Murphy, who'll turn 51 next April 3, has had a string of box-office disappointments — in some instances downright disasters — in recent years. A Thousand Words, which was actually shot in 2008, is his latest. The Brian Robbins-directed comedy co-starring Kerry Washington »

- Zac Gille

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5 Great Eddie Murphy Performances From When His Movies Were Actually Promoted (Oh Yeah, 'A Thousand Words' Is In Theaters)

9 March 2012 12:46 PM, PST | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »

You might not have noticed, but Eddie Murphy has a new movie in theaters today. That's a slightly loaded sentence: "A Thousand Words" was shot four years ago, has been barely screened for critics (those who have seen it have been vicious), and is being put into a mere 1900 theaters, nearly half as much as the week's biggest opening, "John Carter." And all this for a man who was once the brightest star on the planet.

But thanks to a string of bad movies (including bona-fide disasters such as "The Adventures of Pluto Nash," "Imagine That" and "Meet Dave"), Murphy is no longer a safe bet, and the kind of family fare that has been his bread and butter, and that turned off many of his fans, is now given token releases such as this.

But it hasn't always been this way. Once upon a time, Murphy was a comic hurricane, »

- Oliver Lyttelton

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