Posted February 12, 200718 yr C0epiFyc4c0 the beeb says: Eddie Murphy's latest comedy, in which he plays three different roles, has entered the North American film chart at number one. Norbit took $33.7m (£17.2m) at the weekend, estimates suggest, well ahead of horror movie Hannibal Rising, a prequel to The Silence of the Lambs. It was the 14th time that a Murphy film has made its debut on top of the chart. Diane Keaton's comedy Because I Said So dropped to three, with last week's number one, The Messengers, at four. Completing the top five was Ben Stiller's comedy Night at the Museum, which remained in fifth place. Contenders Three Oscar contenders were further down the box office list, with Pan's Labyrinth at number eight, Dreamgirls at nine and The Queen at 10. All three were honoured at the Baftas in London on Sunday. Norbit is based on a story which Murphy developed with his brother Charles, and sees a return to his slapstick comedy roots. It is not the first time he has played multiple characters and worn a fat suit for a movie - he did so for the Nutty Professor series. Some US critics have branded Norbit as crass and unfunny, accusing the film of simply playing on racial stereotypes. But Marvin Levy, a spokesman for producer Dreamworks, said people had to "have a sense of humour" when watching it. Hannibal Rising concentrates on the early years of the future Dr Hannibal Lecter, the fifth film to feature the character http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/34/Norbit.jpg NORTH AMERICAN BOX OFFICE 1. Norbit ($33.7m) 2. Hannibal Rising ($13.4m) 3. Because I Said So ($9m) 4. The Messengers ($7.2m) 5. Night at the Museum ($5.8m) 6. Epic Movie ($4.5m) 7. Smokin' Aces ($3.8m) 8. Pan's Labyrinth ($3.6m) 9. Dreamgirls ($3.1m) 10. The Queen ($2.5m) Source: Media By Numbers
February 17, 200718 yr Seems like it's going to be a 'BIG' hit over here too, has a great appealing trailer aswell :D :P
February 18, 200718 yr Author Seems like it's going to be a 'BIG' hit over here too, has a great appealing trailer aswell :D :P i first saw it before going to see Dreamgirls and i thought it was so funny i kept giggling through the main feature
March 11, 200718 yr Its advertised on nerly every bus here, so of course I had to go and see it, plus Eddie being a comic actor. I found it funny...aww heck I was lmao throughtout the film, but from some reviews I've read some people say its got racist and weightist elements in it. I liked it though, might go and see it again...'how you doin'
March 11, 200718 yr i kept giggling through the main feature You sure that was because of the trailer or because "Dreamgirls" was just so cheesy and naff... :lol:
March 11, 200718 yr Eddie Murphy has passed his sell by date, the film is just so dull and awful, and I thought the Nutty Professor was dull and boring, this is 10 times worse.
March 11, 200718 yr Author You sure that was because of the trailer or because "Dreamgirls" was just so cheesy and naff... :lol: actually i didnt mind the first half of dreamgirls when they actually sung on stage, it was just when they started to sing $h!tty 'notevensmoothfmwouldtouchthisstuffmagaballads' in the middle of the rooom it went dodgy. think with norbit (reading the reviews) the trailer will be all you need to see. think the trailer, thanks to its sync deals (Peter Gabriel Big Time and PCD), will be funnier as the music over the top helps and i guess without it will just be a slog to watch. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwZBd5iOjp4 http://www.qscaudio.com/images/press/2003/01_03/Peter_Gabriel_lo.jpg note: please supply your own LOTR joke as i havent seen those films!!!!
March 11, 200718 yr Eddie Murphy has passed his sell by date, the film is just so dull and awful, and I thought the Nutty Professor was dull and boring, this is 10 times worse. I have to agree with that.. I've seen several of Murphy's more recent films, and there is just no way he will ever recapture the glory days of "Trading Places", "Beverley Hills Cop" or "48 Hours", when he brought a real sense of vitality, danger, righteous anger and energy to Hollywood cinema....
March 11, 200718 yr Author I have to agree with that.. I've seen several of Murphy's more recent films, and there is just no way he will ever recapture the glory days of "Trading Places", "Beverley Hills Cop" or "48 Hours", when he brought a real sense of vitality, danger, righteous anger and energy to Hollywood cinema.... havent seen "Beverley Hills Cop" or "48 Hours" yet, keep missing them on ITV2. However Trading Places (E4) is great and so Coming To America (i've seen that on TV about 5 times in the last year!!!)
March 11, 200718 yr apparently, the Oscar panel decided against awarding Murphy the Best Supporting Actor award after seeing Norbit.... Jonathon Ross has never been so vitriolic about a movie as he was about this... crass, offensive, sexist, racist were some of the nicer things he said about it. It looks impossibly dumb.... but then, Murphy has always left me cold. 200lbs of latex and a funny accent doth not maketh great comedy. His uber-homophobic early 'comedy' shows were given a new twist, I felt, when he was arrested picking up a drag queen hooker in LA a few years back (which his publicity people apparently paid millions to try to cover up - unsuccessfully).
March 11, 200718 yr Author His uber-homophobic early 'comedy' shows were given a new twist, I felt, when he was arrested picking up a drag queen hooker in LA a few years back (which his publicity people apparently paid millions to try to cover up - unsuccessfully). so i get it, his people 're-branded' the story as being by Hugh Grant :lol: (or maybe not)
March 11, 200718 yr the full hooker story: In the early hours of 2 May 1997, Murphy was driving his wife's SUV down Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood. Murphy pulled over, and a transvestite hooker named Atisone Kenneth Seiuli (or "Shalomar") got in. They drove off together, but didn't get far before Murphy was pulled over by a Los Angeles Sheriff's Department squad car. The cops spent half an hour talking amiably with Murphy, warning him about the neighborhood and perhaps getting his autograph before shaking his hand and letting him go. Seiuli, though, was arrested on an outstanding warrant for violating probation on an earlier prostitution charge. As quick as Seiuli could post bail, the story was in the tabloids. According to Seiuli, in their brief conversation in the vehicle, Murphy had put two hundred-dollar bills on her leg, and "asked me if I did this for a living, being a transsexual prostitute. I said yes. Eddie said, 'Do you like to wear lingerie?' I said yes. He said, 'Can I see you in lingerie?' I told him, 'Whenever I have the time.' He said, 'I'll make the time.' "Then he asked me, 'What type of sex do you like?' I said I was into everything." Or at least, that was Seiuli's story. Murphy's version was, not surprisingly, not the same. "I'm married with three children. I'm not going to be out there screwing hookers off the street or anything like that. I'm just being a nice guy... I was being a good Samaritan. It's not the first hooker I've helped out. I've seen hookers on corners... and I'll pull over... and they'll go, Oh you're Eddie Murphy, oh my God, and I'll empty my wallet out to help". The next weekend, Saturday Night Live aired a sketch titled, "Good Samaritan Eddie Murphy," with Tim Meadows as Murphy, ferrying transsexuals throughout metropolitan Los Angeles, out of the goodness of his heart. One by one, a parade of local transvestite escorts chatted with The Globe, The National Enquirer, and more mainstream publications such as Gay & Lesbian Times, telling about their assorted encounters with Murphy. Several subsequently recanted their stories, and were reportedly well paid to do so by a man connected with Murphy's lawyer. Murphy sued the tabloids, but later quietly settled. Candace Watkins, a purported mother figure to several of the transsexuals involved, later wrote In the Closet with Eddie Murphy under the pen name Carnal Candy. The book was filled with tales from Watkin's girlfriends about their alleged liaisons with Murphy. On 22 April 1998, Seiuli, wearing only a black bra padded a leather bikini thong (both from Frederick's of Hollywood) was found dead under her fifth-floor apartment window. She had apparently locked herself out of her apartment, tried sneaking in through an open window, and fallen to her death. There is no reasonable insinuation that Murphy was involved in Seiuli's death. Edited March 11, 200718 yr by russt68
March 13, 200718 yr Author Daddy Day Care was really good, so I might see this dont its even worse than epic movie and little man so bad that it has a character called Buster Move. thats the level of wit involved. hS-Ep5b4Tkg obv Eddie Murphy must be so totally insecure that not only does he wanna be Jaime Foxx he wanna be Tyler Perry as well. however is so bad that it makes everybody in the black community look like r*t****. thats how bad it is. and Eddie Murphy seems to be playing an old Jewish man as well (????!!!! :o ), one who has an odd whaling obsession and a speech problem a very nasty film. watch the trailer avoid the rest.
March 14, 200718 yr ^^c'MON IT WEREN'T AS BAD AS ePIC mOVIE....THAT HAS TIO BE THE CRAPPIEST MOVIE OF THE YEAR! been all over our bus stations too :lol: the fatty on top :rofl: Me too. Everytime I saw them 2day I was LMAO coz I was remembering the scene when Norbit is dancing to 'Temperature' by Sean Paul with Kate and hes lyk 'uh uh' and them his wife comes over LMFAO :dance:
March 15, 200718 yr Author ^^c'MON IT WEREN'T AS BAD AS ePIC mOVIE....THAT HAS TIO BE THE CRAPPIEST MOVIE OF THE YEAR! at least with Epic Movie you could spend the time counting the number of different films being taken off. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f9/Epicmoviewillywonka.jpg and also notice Faune A. Chambers in the pink. much better to spend my time watching a woman who looks like her in a one star film than a woman who is actually Eddie Murphy in a fat suit in a film where the entire scipt is just HowYouDoin? every five minutes. norbit a very nasty and racist film. http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B00022VMNK.02._AA280_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
March 17, 200718 yr I loved it, I found it more funny than Borat Epic Movie and Hot Fuss put together :D
March 19, 200718 yr Author I loved it, I found it more funny than Borat Epic Movie and Hot Fuss put together :D im guessing that you dont like action movies then :lol:
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