Who says Eddie Murphy’s dead?
Yes, we all miss the old days. That doesn't mean Eddie Murphy is dead.
OK, someone, somewhere today started this “Eddie Murphy’s dead!” business. I just want to know who and how and why. I am just about getting sick of this. These ridiculous Eddie Murphy’s dead, Jeff Goldblum is dead, Steven Tyler is dead rumors get started somehow. I just don’t understand how.
More importantly I don’t understand why. However, with today’s crop of “Eddie Murphy is dead” rumors, it makes me sad to think that this could all be a marketing ploy geared toward making money. I mean, who remembers the last movie Eddie Murphy was in? Not surprisingly, the “Eddie Murphy is dead” rumors are accompanied by all kinds of cracks about his dead career. So is he or his publicist just trying to get attention?
A disrespectful strategy
If this really is just a cry for attention, do me a favor next time you need cash and just go for borrowing money instead of doing this type of disrepectful publicity stunt. Death is not a joke, and it’s not a good hype-getting strategy. If Eddie Murphy wants attention, why can’t he just make a sex tape like all the other celebrities.
It annoys me because this kind of thing is what lead to me reading about Michael Jackson’s death and thinking “Whatever. That’s not true.” I rolled my eyes and moved on. A while later when I found out it was true, I felt … guilt? But rumors like this “Eddie Murphy’s dead” business cause the “Boy Who Cried Wolf” syndrome. In case you don’t remember how that story went, let’s just say it is not a happy ending. So stop this spreading “Eddie Murphy’s dead” rumour spreading. Enough.
Oh yeah, I’m supposed to write about money
Anyway, now that I’ve gotten that off my chest, I must remember that this is a finacial blog, so let’s talk about how the alive and well Eddie Murphy is making a paycheck nowadays.
Perhaps people think Eddie Murphy is dead simply because they haven’t seen his face for a while. Eddie Murphy has been doing a lot of voice work lately. His gig as “Shrek” has been pretty lucrative and fans will be glad to know that there is a fourth “Shrek” movie coming out, “Shrek Forever After,” next year.
Glory days at the box office
Eddie Murphy’s first big film, for him, was “48 Hrs.” That was all the way back in 1982 when Eddie Murphy was barely old enough to legally drink alcohol. Everyone remembers his stint as “Beverly Hills Cop” in that trilogy. The very first “Beverly Hills Cop” basically broke even. The film cost $14 million to make and pulled in about $15 million at the box office.
People who didn’t get to know Eddie Murhpy through “Beverly Hills Cop” know him from classics like “The Golden Child,” which made $80 million at the box office and another $40 million from video rentals, which is no small feat. Personally, I enjoyed his performance in “Coming to America,” which was also a very long time ago. After “Daddy Day Care” and all of his other kiddie movies, perhaps people are just mourning the loss of the Eddie Murphy they once knew. Is that why someone started the rumor that Eddie Murphy is dead?
