And despite the movie’s 9% Tomatometer rating on Rotten Tomatoes, Norbit opened at the top of the box office and surpassed $159 million worldwide. Murphy’s Rasputia and Mr. Wong transformations also ...

In December 2006, the glitzy movie adaptation of the Broadway hit Dreamgirls — a fictionalized retelling based on the rise of Motown sensations The Supremes — opened to cheers from both critics and ...

If Alan Arkin had made a mean-spirited, vulgar comedy that played theaters last February, Eddie Murphy might be an Oscar winner today. Though Norbit earned $95 million in theaters — some folks can't ...

“Norbit” is called “Norbit” presumably because “Yet Another Movie In Which Eddie Murphy Plays Multiple Characters and Wears a Fat Suit and Wastes His Talent, Just Months After Showing Us How Good He ...

André Joseph is a movie features writer at Collider. Born and raised in New York City, he graduated from Emerson College with a Bachelor's Degree in Film. He freelances as an independent filmmaker, ...

Eddie Murphy’s comedy “Norbit,” in which he plays three wildly different roles, opened as the top weekend movie with $33.7 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. Movie fans couldn’t pass up ...

Few visual effects are as special as Rick Baker’s makeup for Eddie Murphy’s comedies. Whether he’s aging Murphy in “Life,” or providing convincing flesh to fill out fat suits in the “Nutty Professor” ...

Alina has been enthusiastic about vehicles her entire life, and even from an early age found herself itching to get behind the wheel. Through high school and college, she could be found reading ...

Eddie Murphy during Los Angeles Premiere of DreamWorks Pictures' "NORBIT" at The Village in Westwood, California, United States. (Photo by E. Charbonneau/WireImage for Paramount Pictures - CA) Critics ...

Although Eddie Murphy worked with Beyoncé and Jennifer Hudson in the aughts, he might have been his own favorite leading lady. The Oscar nominee recently defended his 2007 comedy Norbit as a “funny” ...