Actor/comedian Eddie Murphy posed for a pic with his co-star (and on-screen daughter) Yara Shahidi on the red carpet at the premiere of their brand new movie, Imagine That at the Paramount Theater in Los Angeles. Other celebrities who attended the premiere of Nickelodeon Movies’ latest release include Nicole Ari Parker, Arsenio Hall, Vanessa Williams and others. Continue reading to check out all of the photos!

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Sanaa Lathan, Kim Kardashian, Brittny Gastineau and Gabrielle Union posed for a pic together at the Carrera Vintage Sunglasses LA launch party at Chateau Marmont Thursday in Los Angeles. Four beautiful women in one pic … hot damn!

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Rapper Kanye West and super producer Polow Da Don were spotted laughing it up courtside at Sunday night’s Lakers game against the Utah jazz at the Staples center in Los Angeles, CA. Eddie Murphy, Vanessa Hudgens, Zac Efron and more also enjoyed the game via the best seats in the house. Continue reading for the full gallery of photos.

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According to reports published by Entertainment Weekly, famous movie director Bill Condon is currently shopping around an idea for a new biopic about the life of the late Richard Pryor. Actor/comedian Eddie Murphy has been hand picked by Condon to portray the Pryor, who died of a heart attack in December 2005.

Writer/director Bill Condon, who just completed his debut run as producer of the 2009 Academy Awards, is shopping his script Richard Pryor: Is It Something I Said? to the studio subsidiaries and independent distributors around town. Eddie Murphy is attached to star. Sources tell EW.com that Fox Searchlight, the studio behind this year’s big Oscar winner Slumdog Millionaire, is interested in the film. The studio, which declined comment, has a relationship with Condon, having partnered with the director on his 2004 feature Kinsey.

Condon, who most recently wrote and directed Dreamgirls, had the Pryor biopic set up at The Weinstein Company but was able to pull it out when the indie outfit put it into turnaround. He initially was hoping to secure $30 million to produce the film, but that number, sources say, has dropped down to $25 million. Murphy, who has featured Pryor impersonations in his act as far back as the 1987 concert movie Raw, seems a likely choice for this role.

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Beyonce and Hugh Jackman, among others, shared the stage during a performance at last night’s Academy Awards. Hugh Jackman, who also was the show’s host, and Beyonce performed a musical medley of hit musicals with High School Musical’s Zac Efron & Vanessa Hudgens and Mamma Mia’s Amanda Seyfried. Continue reading for more photos from the show!

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It definitely sucks to be Eddie Murphy right about now. The 47-year-old actor/comedian was ordered by a judge in a Los Angeles courthouse to pay out $51,000 per month in child support to former girlfriend, Melanie Brown until their now 22-month old daughter, Angel Iris, turns 18 years old.

It’s also being reported that he has agreed to see his daughter for the first time since she was born. A friend of Mel B said that the former Spice Girl was happy about the court’s decision in the case.

“Mel is delighted that the case is over as she just wanted what was right for the girl. It was never about the money – it was Mel’s way of asking Eddie to show consideration for Angel.”

It’s good that Eddie finally decided to step up to the plate and take care of his child. And it only took 22 months!

MARY J. BLIGE & JAY-Z SUED OVER HIT SONG » R&B soul singer Mary J. Blige and long-time rapper friend Jay-Z are being sued over Mary J’s hit single, “Enough Cryin’” According to the federal lawsuit, which involves allegations of song theft, Jermaine Jumpp and MIchael C. Adams claim they dropped off a CD at Rodney “Darkchild” Jerkins’ office, and that CD had a song on it caleld “On My Grind.”

Despite not hearing back from the megaproducer, they say the track appeared on Mary J. Blige’s album, The Breakthrough, as a song titled “Enough Cryin’.” The song, which was produced by Darkchild, later went on to become a single and had a fairly successful run on the Billboard charts. Adams and Jumpp claim MJB’s song sounds awfully familiar to their “On My Grind” song.

No amount in damages has been specified, but the duo is likely to request something to the tune of millions of dollars since the album went multi-platinum. Jay-Z wasn’t featured on the track vocally, but he received album credit as the co-writer of the song. No trial date has been announced yet.
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Will Smith is currently Hollywood’s best paid actor! The “Hancock” star came first in the Forbes ranking to find the best paid actor 2007, with an estimated $80 million in the bank, just from making movies. “Pirates of the Caribbean” star Johnny Depp earned $72 million last year, and came in second. Eddie Murphy and Mike Myers both tied for third, earning $55 million each. And Leonardo DiCaprio came in 5th place with $45 million.

As far as actresses go, Cameron Diaz is Hollywood’s best paid actress. In 2007, she raked in $50 million, with actresses Keira Knightly and Jennifer Aniston following behind with $32 million and $27 million, respectively.

Damn, can I just have a millie?

PHOTOS: GETTY IMAGES » Reggie Bush and Kim Kardashian (not photographed together) hit up Friday’s Lakers Game (Apr. 11th) in LA.

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Actor/comedian Eddie Murphy has made it clear to the public that Melanie Brown (aka Mel B or “Scary Spice”) deliberately tricked him into getting her pregnant. According to The Daily Mail, the former Spice Girls singer stressed to the actor that she was on birth contol, and Eddie claims that the former couple only had sex 3 times. And although he accepts the fact that Angel Iris Murphy-Brown is indeed his daughter, a source close to Eddie says that he will not see her until she’s 18 years old. Why? Because he doesn’t want to set eyes on Mel. CONTINUE READING