beverly hills cop 4

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Egregious Lack Of Banana-Stuffed Tailpipes Hurts Leaked ‘Beverly Hills Cop 4′ Draft

9:56AM STV | We’re not sure which of Elizabeth Kübler-Ross’s five stages of grief we’ve hit in our consideration of Beverly Hills Cop 4. Denial and anger seem ages ago, as does bargaining. And a script review appearing online today has us skipping depression altogether for what we suppose is something akin to acceptance — if you call “believing there is actually a studio cynical enough to greenlight this with Brett Ratner behind the camera” acceptance, or if that just throws us back to the beginning again. Help us sort it out, will you? More »
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Thursday, July 3, 2008

Eddie Murphy Wants To Stop Playing Robots With Aliens Inside Of Them And Start Getting Real

3:45AM Defamer Hollywood | Is it possible that one of Hollywood’s biggest comedic stars — who has had handlers and publicists coddling him with tales of his own greatness for years — has actually developed some self-awareness? Shocking as it may seem, it sounds like that’s what’s going on with Eddie Murphy. For example, why is he making a fourth Beverly Hills Cop movie? Not because of something so crass as money, but because “the third Beverly Hills Cop was horrible! I didn’t want to leave it like that. The first two were cool and the third one was shitty. [Let's] get the franchise fixed again, clean up this old mess and do a good movie.” More »
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Friday, May 30, 2008

Seven Reasons Why ‘Beverly Hills Cop 4′ is a Better Idea Than it Sounds

2:00AM Defamer Hollywood | It looks like there’s nothing anybody can do to stop a fourth installment of the Beverly Hills Cop franchise, which Paramount is reportedly pushing to a 2010 release date and which should finally fulfil that looooong-standing global demand for an Eddie Murphy/Brett Ratner collaboration. But as hammy, craven and sadistic as the project seems at a glance, and although it’s likely bound for a dispiriting PG-13 script, we find our tortured souls compelled to give this one a chance; follow the jump for a half-dozen reasons why we could think of worse news to wake up to on a Thursday. Feel free to add your own; we need all the reassurance we can get. More »
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