With the November release of ‘Tower Heist’ and his gig as host of the 2012 Academy Awards, the next six months are already shaping up as The Eddie Murphy Comeback Tour. Hoping to take advantage of Murphy’s soon-to-be-burgeoning-once-again starpower? Paramount. Deadline reports that the studio has moved the Murphy-led dramedy ‘A Thousand Words’ to March 23, 2012, less than a month after the… Continue reading Eddie Murphy's Oscar Duties Already Paying Dividends for 'A Thousand Words'

Like Russell Crow, Gerard Butler’s choice of recent films has not set Hollywood afire — ‘Law Abiding Citizen,’ ‘The Bounty Hunter’ and ‘The Ugly Truth,’ each moderate successes, has done little to kick the Scot further up the serious leading man ladder. That may change with ‘Machine Gun Preacher,’ in which Butler stars as Sam Childers, a former drug-dealing biker tough guy who found God and…

