Eddie Murphy Movie Updates

The long-gestating movie about legendary comic Richard Pryor has lost its director.

Though it recently looked like the Beverly Hills Cop saga would continue on television, Paramount Pictures has begun moving fast on another movie.

MGM has acquired the rights to Richard Matheson’s classic sci-fi novel The Shrinking Man with the aim of bringing an updated version of the story that was first adapted on-screen as The Incredible Shrinking Man in 1957.

Universal and Montecito Picture Co. are hoping to develop a doozy of a follow-up to the 1988 hit comedy that starred Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito that would reunite the two stars.

Eddie Murphy will give voice to the animated lead character in Alcon Entertainment’s live action/animated big screen adaptation of the of the 1970s Hanna-Barbera animated TV series Hong Kong Phooey.

Eddie Murphy is set to join Ben Stiller and Alan Alda in Tower Heist, the Brett Ratner-directed caper film for Universal Pictures. Imagine's Brian Grazer is producing, and Murphy will join Karen Kehela Sherwood and Kim Roth as executive producers.

Eddie Murphy takes his "Nutty Professor" fat suit out of storage, Damian Chapa prepares to assault Marlon Brando's legacy, Olivia Thirlby fills in for Lindsay Lohan in "The Other Side" and documentary filmmaker Marina Zenovich starts a "Revolution" at Adam Yauch's Oscilloscope Laboratories