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The 52nd annual NAACP Image Awards will present its main ceremony live Saturday at 8 p.m. ET/7 CT on BET, with the show to simulcast on fellow ViacomCBS outlets BET Her, Comedy Central, Logo, MTV, MTV2, Paramount, Pop, Smithsonian, TV Land, VH1, BET Pluto, CMT and for the first time CBS. The two-hour show will be…

Eddie Murphy will be inducted into the Image Awards Hall of Fame at this year's ceremony, the NAACP announced on Thursday. Bestowed upon a pioneering artist, whose work has shaped the future of his or her profession, the Hall of Fame Award will be presented to the Oscar nominee by his longtime friend and collaborator…

If you turn on your Amazon Prime, you’ll see that the long awaited Eddie Murphy sequel Coming 2 America can already be streamed, a full day before its Friday, March 5 release date. Essentially, what occurred here is that Coming 2 America was a global release on Prime, as it was explained to me by an insider, so that…

As Eddie Murphy exploded into the zeitgeist with Saturday Night Live, he also was an influential, if polarizing, stand-up comic. Some four decades, scores of films and an Oscar nom later, he occasionally has teased a return to the comedy stage, but Thursday he made it sound all but imminent. In a distanced chat with Ke…

It is hard to believe it has been 33 years since Eddie Murphy played one of his most endearing characters, Prince Akeem of Zamunda, in 1988’s comedy hit, Coming to America. Why it has taken that long for a sequel I am not sure, but I can say after seeing Coming 2 America that they have matched the first not only for…

Eddie Murphy, known not only for his comedy skills but also his entertaining on-screen transformations in titles including Coming To America and The Nutty Professor, will receive the Distinguished Artisan honor at the eighth annual Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylist Guild Awards. The MUAHS award will celebrate Murphy and…

UPDATED with new Super Bowl trailer. In 1988, Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall originated the roles of Prince Akeem and Semmi respectively in Coming To America. Over 30 years later, the comedy has reached legendary status and the two actors are set to reprise their roles of Akeem and Semmi. Based on what we have seen…

Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall make a return trip from their African home to Queens, New York in Coming 2 America, the long-awaited sequel to the 1988 original, and the new film’s trailer hits many of the expected marks. Amazon Studios, which acquired the film from Paramount, will release it domestically via Amazon…

They’re coming! Amazon Studios has released the first images from Coming 2 America, the sequel to the classic 1988 Eddie Murphy vehicle about an African prince seeking true love in the good ol’ USA. This time, Murphy is set to become the King of Zamunda, but discovers he has a son he never knew about in America…

UPDATED: Sources say the deal is closed by Amazon, in the $125 milliion range. EARLIER EXCLUSIVE; Is the slumping theatrical marketplace about to lose another plum film title from the movie marquee? Deadline hears there is a deal brewing between Amazon and Paramount to move Eddie Murphy’s Coming to America sequel to a…

UPDATED, Saturday 8:24PM: It turns out Eddie Murphy did have an acceptance speech which he pre-recorded for his Guest Actor in a Comedy Series Emmy win tonight; the telecast didn’t air it. Here it is below from the Television Academy’s Twitter feed. Says Murphy below, “Thank you to everybody at the Emmys. Thank you so…

Eddie Murphy was planning a return to stand-up comedy this year, but then the pandemic happened. “We were planning before the pandemic hit, this year we’d be working on doing stand-up and getting stuff together, but all this happened,” said Murphy from his home tonight, appearing in the Creative Emmys virtual…