THE BUMRUSH

Or maybe the question should be how long will studios keep making movies starring Eddie Murphy? After his latest movie, Meet Dave, made $5.3 million opening weekend while costing about $75 million to make, the answer has to be not much longer, right?

Of course, I originally thought Eddie Murphy was done as an actor when The Adventures of Pluto Nash came out. That movie makes Dave look like a blockbuster. Nash opened to $2.2 million in 2002 and made $4.4 million total in the US after costing about $100 million to make. I remember thinking to myself that that was the end of Murphy as an actor, and yet, here we are in 2008 and he’s still pumping out crap every year.

And – good news - We have at least three more movies to look forward to from Murphy: 2009’s A Thousand Words and NowhereLand and 2010’s The Incredible Shrinking Man.

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