• Eddie Murphy, Katherine Heigl, Reese Witherspoon top list of overpaid actors

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    Eddie Murphy.

    By Peter Gicas, Eonline

    Eddie Murphy is No. 1! Unfortunately, not in a good way. Forbes has just released its list of Hollywood's most overpaid actors, and the star of such films (read: flops) as "Imagine That," "A Thousand Words," "Meet Dave" and "Tower Heist" landed in the top spot.

    The magazine based its selections on how much a celeb was paid for his or her recent projects and compared it to what the movies actually made in ticket sales. (Who deserves their paycheck the most? Vote below!)

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    So, with Murphy, it was calculated that for every dollar Murphy was paid for his last three films, they only returned an average of $2.30 at the box office.

    Coming in second was "One for the Money" star Katherine Heigl. Her recent flicks only generated an average of $3.40 for every dollar she was paid.

    Meanwhile, Reese Witherspoon placed third with an average $3.90 return for every dollar she was paid, stemming from such movies as 2010's "How Do You Know" and the recent "This Means War."

    Rounding out the list?

    Sandra Bullock, Jack Black, Nicolas Cage, Adam Sandler, Denzel Washington, Ben Stiller and Sarah Jessica Parker.

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  • 'Twins' sequel in works with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito, Eddie Murphy

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    Eddie Murphy, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito

    By Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter

    Is the world ready for a sequel to "Twins"?

    Universal and Montecito Picture Co. are hoping to develop a doozy of a follow-up to the 1988 hit comedy that starred Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito that would reunite the two stars.

    But wait, there’s a twist: In the new scenario, Eddie Murphy would act as a third brother.

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    Titled "Triplets," the story would see Schwarzenegger and DeVito as brothers Julius and Vincent, conceived experimentally, who discover they have third sibling.


    The project doesn’t have a director at this early stage -- Ivan Reitman, who helmed the original, would only act as a producer with his Montecito Picture Co. cohorts Joe Medjuk, Tom Pollock and Ali Bell, according to sources -- but the hunt is on for writers to develop the idea. Insiders caution that no substantial creative discussions have taken place between Universal and Montecito.

    The actors are attached to star.

    This wouldn’t be the first sequel to an 1988 film that Universal is working. The studio is developing a sequel to "Midnight Run" that sees Robert De Niro, one of the film’s two original stars along with Charles Grodin, returning in an incarnation to be directed by Brett Ratner.

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