In this edition of Sequel Bits: The new Evil Dead movie will start filming this year. Coming 2 America had to cut a joke referencing the first film because Eriq La Salle couldn't return. Joe Cornish once again swears that a potential Attack the Block sequel might be headed our way. Lupin team Omar Sy and Louis Leterrier…
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In a surprise twist of events, Paramount Pictures will see Netflix making Beverly Hills Cop 4 after striking a once-time licensing deal with the streamer.
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Eddie Murphy says that as soon as he's done with Coming To America 2 he'll make Beverly Hills Cop 4.
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In this edition of Sequel Bits: Some trouble in the Fast and Furious family as a spin-off is considered. Transformers concept art, and the return of Sector 7. Jigsaw releases character posters. Jay and Silent Bob reboot will see the return of a Clerks character. The real reason why Jim Carrey won't do sequels. And more! Could…
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The new Beverly Hills Cop 4 directors are Bilall Fallah and Adil El Arbi, best known for their gritty TIFF drama Black. Eddie Murphy returns as Axel Foley.
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Today at the Television Critics Association summer press tour, Brett Ratner was on a panel for the National Geographic series Breakthrough. Ratner directed an episode of the series, focused on the human brain. After the panel, a few journalists approached Ratner for follow-ups and I asked him about the status of the Rush Hour franchise.…
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Paramount has just wiped the Beverly Hills Cop 4 release date off its calendar, leaving the film's future in limbo.
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There are some big updates on some really big sequel in this edition of Sequel Bits. Below, read about the following. Paul Feig says his Ghostbusters reboot will take place in New York and include winks to the original. Don't fret, Ian Ziering and Tara Reid are returning for Sharknado 3. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2…
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Sorry, Breaking Bad fans: Aaron Paul says he won't appear in Better Call Saul after all. Also after the jump: The next Beverly Hills Cop will head to Michigan Mission: Impossible 5 might film in the Houses of Parliament Benjamin Bratt hops on for Ride Along 2 Pitch Perfect 2 adds Birgitte Hjort Sørensen A top…
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Paramount has announced a Transformers 5 2016 release window, and also seemingly delayed Paranormal Activity 5 by more than a year.
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Beverly Hills Cop 4 has a release date. The new Eddie Murphy comedy, directed by Brett Ratner and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, is coming March 2016.
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In this edition of Sequel Bits, comments from Jerry Bruckheimer address the stalled Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales and the possibly less-stalled Beverly Hills Cop 4. In addition, we've got the following after the break: Mara Wilson talks about Mrs. Doubtfire 2, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For seems to be…
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After failing to make it as a TV series, the long-gestating follow-up to the Beverly Hills Cop trilogy has just come full circle. Brett Ratner has signed on to direct Beverly Hills Cop IV, about five years after he was initially in talks. Jerry Bruckheimer is producing for Paramount. More details after the jump. Beverly Hills…
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Jerry Bruckheimer is going back to the studio he ruled in the Eighties. After ending a very successful development deal with Disney earlier this year, it was announced the mega-producer is driving down the hill and signing a new deal with Paramount, the studio Bruckheimer made his home in the 1980s, and where he developed…
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People under the age of 25 might be too young to remember what the names "Simpson/Bruckheimer" meant when appearing in front of a movie. With films like Top Gun, Beverly Hills Cop, Days of Thunder, Bad Boys, The Rock, odds were if Jerry Bruckheimer and the late Don Simpson produced a movie in the Eighties or Nineties, it…
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Beverly Hills Cop 4 was stuck in on-again, off-again development for years before Eddie Murphy finally reworked the concept as a spinoff TV series. Initially, the new medium seemed like the right approach. CBS won a "very competitive" bidding war to order the Beverly Hills Cop pilot. Brandon T. Jackson, Kevin Pollak, and David Denman…
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When this story started unfolding, the first bit of breaking news was that Judge Reinhold and John Ashton's cops Rosewood and Taggart would both be back and reunite with Eddie Murphy for the next Beverly Hills Cop film. Then, an apparent U-turn came when it was announced that, actually, nothing like that could be promised…
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Movieline caught up with hack director Brett Ratner and was able to get "The Rat" to go on record about the many films listed on the director's Internet Movie Database page. As suspected, most of them aren't happening or are in early stages of development. But the film Ratner claims is the "closest to getting…
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Can someone perform a drive-by on this project while blasting Harold Faltermeyer instrumentals? We've already seen a 180-spin with Beverly Hills Cop IV, with poolguy Brett Ratner originally playing to the kiddies, then predictably back-pedaling and labeling the film "hard R, brah" followed by a tepid review of the script and its more serious "standard…
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LatinoReview has gotten a look at Michael Brandt and Derek Haas' screenplay for Brett Ratner's "Beverly Hills Cop 2009". Yes, even the title has a Ratner-level of annoyance. So what's it about? Billy Rosewood (Judge Reinhold) is killed from a fall out of the 20th story of the Los Angeles Police Headquarters, but Axel (Eddie…
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We all know that Eddie Murphy will end up on screen again---whether as a jivin' animal, an obese person near a pool, in a third sequel to June '09's awful-sounding NowhereLand, or (hail mary) Inglorious Bastards. But the man who made Buckwheat even bunnier just announced to Extra (classy) that he's throwing in the towel…
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Doc's De Lorean. KITT. Tony Stark's Audi R8. Eddie Murphy's Head. Dream Vehicles. In a Hail Mary for the ages, 20th Century Fox has that thing above cruising around the West Coast in hopes that it will make people pay to see Murphy in next month's mini-alien bonanza, Meet Dave. I saw the trailer for this $100 million movie a couple nights…
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The PG-13 Effect: Brett Ratner's officially "blowing 'em where the pampers is." The Miami-born maverick tells MTV that his Beverly Hills Kindergarten Cop 4 will be out to impress kids who can't get into PG-13 movies. Is there another franchise that has ever consisted of three R-rated films (two of which are really good) and…
Read More"Peace sign or eye gouge?" Before we begin, there is something you must know about Brett Ratner. Similar to the combination of gremlins and water, when the moon is right and Ratner applies baby powder to his ass, out pop multiple epic-ly shitty movies. Tonight, it was thick. The trades are reporting that Ratner is…
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Producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura has been trying to get Axel back on the big screen, and claims that a writer will be hired in the next couple months, but does Paramount want a PG-13 Beverly Hills Cop 4? When Chud asked the producer if an R-Rated fourth film would be possible in the now family…
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