Talk:The Distinguished Gentleman

Remake
The tags at the bottom indicate that this film is listed on the film remakes page, but no mention of it being a remake (or what movie it is a remake of) is made in the article. 66.68.6.110 04:05, 27 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. 24.207.160.25 06:48, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

Disney assembly line
The Entertainment Weekly review does not say that this was the first film by Murphy which was not produced by Paramount. I moved the review down to External links. I deleted the trivia section, as both entries were unsupported, and that kind of section as a whole is deprecated. Binksternet (talk) 18:15, 7 May 2009 (UTC)


 * One of the three references is no good; the part that says this was the first Disney movie by Murphy was a blog entry, not the article itself. I'm rewriting the factoid to make it more encyclopedic, and I'm deleting BlackVoices as a reference.


 * Old way it was phrased:
 * This was the first film starring Eddie Murphy that was not released by Paramount Pictures.[ref][ref][ref]


 * New way:
 * Eddie Murphy appeared in this Disney-produced film after a string of Paramount Pictures star vehicles.[ref] Bernie Weinraub, film reviewer for the New York Times, offered his opinion that Murphy wished to "move beyond the tepid material" he had been given by Paramount.[ref] Writer and producer Marty Kaplan said of Murphy's involvement "I feel like I've come close to winning the jackpot".[ref]


 * See the difference between trivia and encyclopedic content? Binksternet (talk) 20:26, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

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Exclusivity contract
I seem to recall that Eddie Murphy had an exclusivity contract with Paramount from 1985-95, after Beverly Hills Cop became such a huge success. If so, how did Disney (through Hollywood Pictures) become able to release this film? MightyArms (talk) 20:51, 3 May 2020 (UTC)