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Eddie Murphy: No one wanted to 'Meet Dave'
Eddie Murphy: No one wanted to 'Meet Dave'
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Fox Boss Forgets Own 'Sci-fi Isn't Funny' Rule in Greenlighting 'Meet Dave' [The Disappearing Genius]
Gawker: defamer — ... to lunch? We know you probably didn't see the whole "Goldstein blogs" thing coming either, but still. What's your Friday look like? Second: Actually, we have no second. Have we mentioned that nobody cares about Eddie Murphy? Sucks for Paramount, as Goldstein mentions, which has two Murphy vehicles (A Thousand Words and NowhereLand) on the way this fall. Alas, we don't make the rules. But we can make the reservations — call us, Tom! No one wanted to 'Meet Dave' [The Big Picture] ...

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Based on the Clive Owen BBC series > >
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The good news is that it's better than Eddie Murphy's last venture into sci-fi, Pluto Nash. The bad news: it's not much better and nowhere near good enough to compete with WALL-E.