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March 6th, 2021 in Podcast. Closed “Coming 2 America,” the sequel was released this week on Amazon Prime. "Coming To America set the tone [within mainstream Western cinema] for Black Panther with the African garments and the culture," says Gabrielle Tesfaye, a US director of Ethiopian and Jamaican heritage whose 2019 film Yene Fikir, Ethiopia (My Love, Ethiopia) was nominated for a Film Africa award. [People] want to see themselves within an imagined state of being that i...

The Eddie Murphy film Coming to America busted some clichés about the continent. But, as a sequel comes out, David Jesudason asks if Western cinema will more fully change its attitude.

Eddie Murphy Fans Are Loving Coming 2 America Though it was scheduled for a March 5th release, Amazon Prime surprised subscribers by sharing Coming 2 America a day earlier this Thursday, allowing Eddie Murphy fans the chance to dig into the comedy sequel sooner than expected. And seeing as they’ve been after more from Prince (now King) Akeem and company for over 30 years, reducing the waiting time by 24 hours was a nice touch. The good news is that social media seems to be loving the new mo...

The ‘SNL’ alum on ‘Coming 2 America,’ her political awakening, and the “keyboard warriors” who tried to take her down: “I will fight you. Ain’t nobody going to walk up to me and say, ‘You suck, Leslie Jones!’”

Print Years ago, Eddie Murphy started noticing more and more fans quoting lines from his 1988 hit comedy “Coming to America,” the rom-com fairytale in which his charming Prince Akeem of the fictional African nation of Zamunda defies tradition to find true love in Queens, N.Y. He noticed as people flocked to pop-up replica McDowell’s restaurants, and when even Beyoncé and Jay-Z paid homage, donning costumes a la Zamundan royalty one Halloween. “I’ve done over 40 movies in the last 40...

Louie Anderson played fast food worker Maurice in Eddie Murphys 1988 comedy Coming to America Anderson was the only white cast member to be featured in the hit film Last week, Murphy claimed that he had been forced to cast Anderson in the movie because studio executives insisted he must included a white person Anderson has now expressed surprise at the revelation However, he has still been included in the sequel, Coming 2 America, which is set for release on Friday

Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall told Jimmy Kimmel Live on Monday that Paramount Pictures forced them to cast a white man, Louie Anderson (inset), in their 1988 hit comedy film Coming to America.

Subscribe This afternoon will be mostly sunny with a high near 34 degrees. Tonight’s low will be around 19 degrees. Tomorrow will be sunny and warmer with a high near 44 degrees. Top story Mayor Lori Lightfoot said today she expects Johnson & Johnson’s single-shot coronavirus vaccine to arrive in Chicago in a day or two and the city is ready to put the third option to immediate use. Two days after the Food and Drug Administration cleared the J&J vaccine for emergency use, Lightfoot told re...

Amazon Prime Video In rapid succession, 29-year-old KiKi Layne has hit an actor’s trifecta, with knockout performances in three distinct genres. She played the romantic lead Tish in the acclaimed drama “If Beale Street Could Talk” (2018). She was the South Side native turned U.S. Marine turned immortal mercenary Nile Freeman opposite Charlize Theron in the badass sci-fi action film “The Old Guard” (2020). And now she’s Princess Meeka Joffer, daughter of Eddie Murphy’s Prince (soo...

Amazon Prime is adding a ton of great new movies and TV shows this March, including Eddie Murphy sequel Coming 2 America.