Bret Ratner

Oh that Brett Ratner. Earlier this year, Ratner signed on to co-produce the Academy Awards and enlisted his buddy Eddie Murphy to act as host. This was considered a coup for the Oscar telecast, mostly because Murphy is being seen as an ideal choice as emcee. But now, Ratner is out. Well, actually, he resigned after an uproar over comments he made recently while promoting his latest film, Tower Heist (which, by the way, is not stealing much cash at the box office). First, there was...Read Full Story

To the surprise of probably no one, Brett Ratner has stepped down from his job producing next year’s Oscars ceremony after a public bout of verbal diarrhea. Okay, snark aside, the director of Tower Heist (and a bunch of other movies that were never meant to be smart) gave up his plum gig after using a homophobic slur to describe something as silly and unnecessary as rehearsing scenes with actors. Just days before that, he used his publicity tour as a megaphone to make sexist comments about...Read Full Story

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Eddie Murphy has officially resigned as host of the 2012 Academy Awards following the news that Brett Ratner dropped out as producer on the heels of his controversial interview on the Howard Stern Show.Murphy made the announcement that he...Read Full Story