Eddie Murphy Tanks At The Box Office
Posted on Mar 11, 2012 @ 01:15PM - 6 comments
Eddie Murphy's new movie, A Thousand Words, sat on the shelf for four years before its release, based on its box office return this weekend, it should have stayed there. The flick, which cost $40 million to make, took in only $6.3 million in ticket sales.
That's one big ouch.
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The result, writes Deadline's veteran Hollywood watcher Nikki Finke, "demonstrates the tragic degree to which reviewers and audience have deserted Eddie Murphy.
"Where Eddie’s career goes from here will be debated. He should have hosted the Oscars. Now he really needs to go back into television."
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Brittany Murphy Posters Urgently Being Removed
Posted on Dec 23, 2009 @ 11:58AM - 2 comments
A DVD company is desperately trying to remove promotional posters for Brittany's Murphy's movie Deadline.
In the poster Murphy is seen lying in a bath tub seemingly dead.
Redbox, which operate DVD kiosks around the US, are dispatching teams to remove the Deadline box art from kiosk displays.
