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Updated! It's A Scam! BEVERLY HILLS COP IV Casting Begins... In Florida?
Beaks here...
According to Paramount, the below casting call has nothing to do with the actual production of BEVERLY HILLS COP IV. It's a scam that's used to hook gullible actors into shelling out $$$ for a highly dubious casting "service".
So to everyone who emailed me for this company's contact info, forget about it.
Sorry for the false alarm.
No, this is not the eagerly awaited announcement of John Ashton's return to the BEVERLY HILLS COP franchise (if you're wondering where he's been, check out GONE BABY GONE). Or Judge Reinhold's (no suggestions). Or Ronny Cox's (reunited with Eddie Murphy in next year's NOWHERELAND). Or Bronson Pinchot's (hot off of a six-episode run on THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS, he'll next be seen in a t.A.T.u. lesbian romance directed by what remains of Roland Joffe).
Basically, all we've got is news that extras casting has begun for Brett Ratner's BEVERLY HILLS COP IV in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida (see below). What's interesting about this is that a) according to Variety on July 30th, production wasn't supposed to begin until 2009, and b) it's Florida, which houses neither Beverly Hills nor Detroit (Axel Foley's hometown).
It's a little strange for an extras call to go out four or five months in advance, so I'm thinking BEVERLY HILLS COP IV is probably rarin' to go before the end of this year. If this means that Michael Brandt and Derek Haas (of WANTED infamy) have already knocked out a usable-for-Ratner draft, then I'm just gonna have to get my mitts on that sucker and get to the bottom of this Florida nonsense. I mean, it's not like you can shoot Southern Florida for Southern California. That's just crazy thinkin'!
Here's the reprinted booking request. It was a lot more impressive in the email. It had big letter and snazzy colors.
Booking Request Notice
Work with Eddie Murphy, don't miss out!
Dear xxxx,
You have received a booking notice indicating that you are a match for an upcoming casting call.
Beverly Hills Cop 4 is looking for extras of all ages to be cast for the upcoming feature film.
All types and looks are encouraged to apply and no experience is required for this casting.
Palm Beach Gardens Extras are Encouraged to Apply!
Don't miss out on your opportunity to jumpstart your career!
GET STARTED NOW CLICK HERE
Please also notify friends and family in the Palm Beach Gardens area who would like to be part of this casting.
So to everyone who emailed me for this company's contact info, forget about it.
Sorry for the false alarm.
Basically, all we've got is news that extras casting has begun for Brett Ratner's BEVERLY HILLS COP IV in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida (see below). What's interesting about this is that a) according to Variety on July 30th, production wasn't supposed to begin until 2009, and b) it's Florida, which houses neither Beverly Hills nor Detroit (Axel Foley's hometown).
It's a little strange for an extras call to go out four or five months in advance, so I'm thinking BEVERLY HILLS COP IV is probably rarin' to go before the end of this year. If this means that Michael Brandt and Derek Haas (of WANTED infamy) have already knocked out a usable-for-Ratner draft, then I'm just gonna have to get my mitts on that sucker and get to the bottom of this Florida nonsense. I mean, it's not like you can shoot Southern Florida for Southern California. That's just crazy thinkin'!
Here's the reprinted booking request. It was a lot more impressive in the email. It had big letter and snazzy colors.
Booking Request Notice
Work with Eddie Murphy, don't miss out!
Dear xxxx,
You have received a booking notice indicating that you are a match for an upcoming casting call.
Beverly Hills Cop 4 is looking for extras of all ages to be cast for the upcoming feature film.
All types and looks are encouraged to apply and no experience is required for this casting.
Palm Beach Gardens Extras are Encouraged to Apply!
Don't miss out on your opportunity to jumpstart your career!
GET STARTED NOW CLICK HERE
Please also notify friends and family in the Palm Beach Gardens area who would like to be part of this casting.
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Is that supposed to be sarcasm?
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Eddie fucking Vedder. Nothing else needs to be said.
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Just like "Meet Dave", "Norbit", "Cop 3"
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they're really going to make this after DAVE made 12 million dollars????? is there really anyone out there who would actually see this???
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(going back to sleep)
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He should be in this movie.
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Thats good for a hardy laugh. Have they never seen an episode of Extras?"I see on your resume you were "Guy wearing Speedo" in Beverly Hills Cop 4:The Rising Tide, well, I'm ready to sign your 3 picture contract..."
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That's all.
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Seeing Eddie in Dreamgirls, not my favorite film, but a glimpse into a new chapter in an incredibly talented performers life. I pictured him in films with QT, Scorsese, PT Anderson, opposite Denzel, but instead Eddie got pissed about the Golden Globe and Oscar snubs, sulked back into his corner of hellish "family comedies" and decided to swin in his private tub of gold, Scrooge McDuck style. Don't give up on yourself Eddie, 'cause we never will!!! Fuck you Ratner!!!
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Your last sentence says it best.
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Will it be rated R?
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He needs to play MLK in a biopic. That's how he gets his Oscar.
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ad brett ratner thinks a beach town is a beach town, and we won't notice the difference. what a fucktard.
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He was very open about howmuch he hated the 3rd...and his hopes for the fourth.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/moviegeeksunited/2008/08/11/JUDGE-REINHOLD -
Eddie Murphy is the new Nicole Kidman...( Box Office Poison )
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a sequel to 'coming to America' or something.
It says on imdb eddie murphy has 5 films in production.
Who is giving this guy work?
Shows you hollywood has given up on ideas -
I knew the industry was vapid - but I didn't realize it was fully imploding.
I'm going to rewatch Hammerhead and remember the good old days. -
God, I thought these stories were just satirical attempts to lampoon Hollywood's complete lack of original ideas.
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and won't be watching this with us.
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Let's see here...
--- Lethal Weapon 4?
--- Die Hard 4
--- Nightmare on Elm Street 4
--- Friday the 13th, Part 4
--- Psycho IV
--- Rocky IV
--- Exorcist IV
--- Superman IV
--- Star Trek IV
--- Toxic Avenger IV
--- Phantasm IV
The only good IV in there would have to be Star Trek IV. By the time a franchise reaches a fourth film, it's already lost it's way two sequels ago and it's usually ten to fifteen years too late.
Combine that with the fact that Eddie Murphy hasn't impressed since "Bowfinger." That film had help because it was Steve Martin's baby.
Eddie: Show off your dramatic chops. Go back to stand up like you said you will eventually do. No one's going to this film and it will continue to tarnish your career. Thank you and good night. -
Aug 12, 2008 1:08:21 PM CDT
Of course they are going to shoot Beverly Hills cop 4 in Florida
by leafy mcplantsalot
that's that advanced Hollywood thinking!!!! They've reimagined Beverly Hills to Florida!!! geniuses.
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He puts out casting calls, tells some attractive girl he directs big movies.
I heard he went to the set of The Girl Next Door to get a date with Elisha Cuthbert, saying he was big director.
I really do hate Brett Ratner -
Nominated for four Oscars
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You heard it here first.
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Fuck you! Rocky IV single handedly ended the Cold War!
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with Hammerhead in it. But, that goes without saying.
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sorry, but it's true
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Rocky IV was fucking awesome and contributed to the fall of communism.
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Put Don Cheadle in it, he seems to like Ratner, good coke and all, as either the villan or a slightly psychotic sidekick, with Eddie being the slightly straighter edge guy. He is an older and wiser Axel after all. And put Megan Good in it just b/c she's superhot.
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This is such a bad idea that it's funny. Brett Ratner is a sequel-whore. Red Dragon(prequel), X-Men 3, Rush Hour 2 & 3, etc... I thought Eddie was quitting acting and going back to stand-up. I guess he didn't want to go out with MEET DAVE. He won't quit acting -- he loves the money too much.
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isnt it considered one of, if not the best of the series by most fans?
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Rocky IV was awesome!!! But that is the only example I can think of.
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Um...
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If you could get 15-20 million dollars just for wearing a fat suit for six weeks and making up dialogue as you go for a director who doesn't give two shits about the final product because he's already angling for his next project...wouldn't you do it? Or would you rather take a 99.99% paycut and go sweat out in Brooklyn in August with a real director yelling at you to "stop fucking around and work from the dialogue" for a movie 10 people will see and will make none of that fat "family" cash? Pop quiz, hotshot...what would you do?
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are expensive!!!! They have lots of upkeep.
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BILLY JACK GOES TO WASHINGTON
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Over-rated comedy and not really a very good Eddie or Steve Martin performance, even Roller Girl was kinda fugly in that one. I'll take Eddie in the Nutty Professor over that any day. Not the Klumps though...not the Klumps.
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Ratner did the same thing up in Vancouver when he was doing X-3... Promising young starlets or dumb chicks with stars in their eyes that they could be "Featured" in X-3, when the only thing he really wanted to feature was his tiny balls in their mouth.
Same old tricks, Ratner, but we're on to you! No more hitting on Married women and promising them roles when you just want to fuck their bums...
For more truth on Ratner, check out this sketch I found on YouTube...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftwBZdoQr28
Macho Man says... "Mmmm. mmm.. Good!" -
plays to be adapted years ago??
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And when he's old enough to play Troy Maxson (James Earl Jones was fifty-six when he originated the role on Broadway), I'm sure he'll get it produced.
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I leeve there and it is niiiiice.
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I never saw a single trailer or tv spot for that film. Hell, I didn't even realize it had already been released.
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Why not?
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the other week for the first time in years. What a classy, professional, assured and vastly entertaining piece of work. The sort of thing JJ Abrams couldn't achieve in his dreams.
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PS I see an ad over there for Scorpion King 2!Who the fuck's gonna see that when NO-One watched the 1st piece of shite!
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Its not debatable that the 4th James Bond film is the greatest sequel to a sequel to a sequel. Look in your heart; you know it to be true.
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Was a good fourth film.
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WTF... Is this movie going to shoot specifically in Spanish? Where in the hell are they going to cast english speaking people in South Florida?
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harbinger could be so great...still waiting on an X-O Manowar movie too!
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It's rumor to exist. Great casting call, well then again I guess this film will be dealing with drug dealers again after thinking about it, hell who else could be cast in that area.. DAMN Thanks Palm Beach Post for blowing the plot!
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Awww SNAP! I bet they wrote Shia's pinky into the script as well as a scene where Eddie gets to cross dress and/or wear a fat suit!
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I didn't know Ratner was confirmed as director. Ew.
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Sadly, this seems like a logical downward step for the series.
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And to think for Rush Hour 3 they had [or maybe even by his request] labeled his name with font almost comparable to the actual film title itself... honestly he's not big enough to get splash intros of that magnitude yet. You show me someone who knows Brett Ratner and I'll show you an above average film goer, MOST likely. DAMN HIM
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I hear it's the best prequel to a spinoff of a sequel to a remake ever made!
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Judge Reinhold is doing back
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...you are the man.
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...butt I leeb in sud florida and I espic bery good englich!
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I had to run through all that to see if you were just goofing, but you have it right.
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Maybe Axel will be on vacation or attending a law enforcement seminar in Palm Beach when he gets a call from Beverly Hills? Rosewood's been kidnapped by a gang? Serge has been targeted by some Espresso Cartel? Eh, I got nothing.
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I'm having a wonderful time!"All we have to do now is wait for the TV series based on the novelization and the circle will be complete.
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Don't forget the Broadway musical based on the motion picture, that is then remade as a motion picture..(Cue bombastic score..)"I'M AM THE KIIING....THE SCORPIAN KIIING!"
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..is a tit, someone gimme some more gossip on his attempted pussy catching antics. I love those Hollywood tales. And I refuse to watch this unless "Mock Trial" Judge Reinhold is in it.
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Ah, silly me.Nathan Lane set to star!
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Directors have used their clout to troll for pussy for eons.
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Aug 12, 2008 3:56:29 PM CDT
Two teenage girls, Janiho is Ame werican and Lana who is Russian
by i dunno
Two teenage girls, Janie who is American and Lana who is Russian, fall in love after meeting at a t.A.T.u concert and are swept into a dangerous world of obsession, drug abuse and murder.It's like someone crawled inside my head.
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Sounds like a plot tailor made for Andy Sidaris. Too bad the sumbitch passed away this year. Damn, what a rough year its been.
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There is nothing that can save his career at this point...Unless he plays a mentally challenged character that really tugs on your heart strings!
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is fucking inspired!. serious role, comeback. all is forgiven. he'd have to research long and hard, no fucking about and be serious but omg that actually is a fucking great suggestion
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you can be an extra in this Arsenio! hmmmmmm...
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Give this audience what it wants Fuckner... and I swear to fuck if I so much as glimpse a Chris Tucker cameo I am going to get you.
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Updated the story.
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Stallone holds the title with two very good 4th installments - ROCKY 4 and RAMBO 4.
As was mentioned, THUNDERBALL was a great 4th film, and STAR TREK 4 was at least entertaining (and going by memory, probably VERY dated by now). -
BEVERLY HILLS COP IV. It's a scam that's used to hook gullible moviegoers into shelling out $$$ for a highly dubious sequel.
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A scam?!?! But the guy promised that I would get some major screen time if I sucked his balls!!! Say it isn't so!!
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dude, must suck for those who applied. lol
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Someone mentioned this earlier, and I know Ratner's been kicking it around as a possible project, but fuck me...what does ANYONE like about this comic? No one - especially no one who's a real fan of comics - can possibly consider this interesting or well-written. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that the writing is patently God-awful.
Someone, anyone, explain how this crap has fans. I'm dying to know. Yes, I can appreciate that HEROES totally jacked the concept, but at least they bothered to do something relatively interesting with it. -
... If as your updated headline, instead of "it's a scam!", you used "It's a trap!"
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Script didn't suck? And why do the Transformer script writers get every offer known to man now as well? And how saw either of those movies and went, MAN! I can't wait to see what the guys who wrote this movie are going to do next.
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Hiring extras early? Hiring in Florida for a film set in Beverly Hills? Anyone with half a brain would stay away... and anyone dumb enough to show up would be easy pickings to con. See, not that dumb after all, is it?
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Hmm... does that mean that Variety was right all along? Me thinks someone owes someone else an apology.
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--with Eddie Murphy and Jerry Stiller as nutty Arabs who often run around in fast motion (Eddie cracks wise; Jerry screams & growls a lot. A real change of pace for both veterans).
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The emabargo also sucks!!! BTW
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Aug 12, 2008 5:51:49 PM CDT
You mean I shouldn't have paid for those special headshots?
by the winged doucheman
But the Florida casting director told me I could only get work if I did a photoshoot with their photographer! Darn! Oh well, I guess I'll just cash this $3,000 secret shopper check and wire my new overeseas employer the excess $2,500 via Western Union. Wait what? I suppose the next thing you'll tell me is that this ocean front property I just purchased in Nebraska is also a scam.
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zing.
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Aug 12, 2008 5:58:15 PM CDT
Judge Reinhold was just putting the finishing touches on his res
by the winged doucheman
when he got the news. He then wept softly and tied his grocery store smock back on, realizing his break was over and the assistant manager would need his computer back.
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Star Wars Episode 4.
Next question. -
Maybe they should get Jason Segel to play his son or something? That'd work.
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I just knew it.
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But don't you think this is the sort of thing you should verify BEFORE posting?
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Nevermind its just a scam. I don't think any extra casting is a way to "jump start" your career.
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Aug 12, 2008 7:02:06 PM CDT
Will Eddie Murphy be an amusement park furry in this one too?
by the winged doucheman
Johnny Drama hopes so.
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Episode IV: yup that sucked too.
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Beverly Hills, FL
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when I was in high school that company did the same thing but said they were casting for The O.C. and got half my school to try out for what really had nothing to do with the oc and was just a pitch for over-priced acting classes
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SUCKERS!
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1. Let it be rater R
2. Let him curse his ass off and run scams on people
3. let him be a funny detective in the process
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What i dont get is why people the scammers would think people would be all excited over beverly hills cop. If they said early overseas casting for the Hobbit, maybe i coulda have bought that as they do tend to round up extras who need heavy makeup early.
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Imagine the idea of people paying money to be extras in Beverly Hills Cop 4 by Brett Ratner. I'm almost amazed a scam like this would work.
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I always laugh at these sad little walrus clam-bakes. Every criagslist in every town in the country is teeming with exciting career opportunities for models and actors. Or, better yet "extras needed!" As if there's ever been a gaping need for people to stand around for money.
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If he's not in it, then I'm skipping it. And please don't just give him a bit part.
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Stands for Fraud.
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Tired of being pandered to by Hollywood? Let me hear about it: file-film.blogspot.com
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It's just a little bit hilarious. Think about it, you just reported on e-mail spam. That's really funny. If you want I just heard about this deal where you can get twenty million bucks wired to you from overseas if you just give the Somalian heir to the money your bank account info; it's totally legit so let me know if you want the details.
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These casting mill scammers send this crap for any movie at all - and it's usually way early, just like this one. Anyone who would pay for these "casting notices" is an idiot.
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went to his fastfood joint to work the register, unfortunately a peed off customer informed him to get money back sine the food was shit to which he flipped out saying "i once had a CAREER ASSHOLES FUCK YOU!" and stormed out, to his sister's house to sleep at. But her sister had her hot friend over and he was jacking off while peeping at her at the pool, at that point he wanted that pussy so badly that he tied her up and ass fucked her and took a dump on her chest.
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