BREAKING: Eddie Murphy Drops Out As Academy Award Host

There goes the Tower Heist contingent of the season’s Oscars. Within following day of Brett Ratner resigned as producer in the 84th Academy awards telecast following numerous questionable remarks made while marketing Tower Heist, his star Eddie Murphy has forfeited his place as this year’s host. The Academy of Movies Arts and Sciences made the announcement Wednesday morning via news release which incorporated the following statement from Murphy: “First and foremost If only to condition which i understand fully and support both sides’s decision regarding a large change of producers with this particular year’s Academy awards ceremony. I used to be truly searching toward being a component of the demonstrate that our production team and authors were just beginning to develop, however’m certain the completely new production team and host will perform a similarly champion.” The actor was attracted aboard to host the Oscars by his Tower Heist director as both an advertising ploy for your comedy — which opened up to lackluster box-office figures the 2009 weekend — and for which many fans wanted is a Murphy comeback. When the infamously press-shy actor was pressed to go over his approaching hosting gig throughout Tower Heist marketing interviews, he either shied in the subject or joked he'll be the worst Academy awards host ever, leading some to consider a situation the actor wasn't as excited to host the telecast as Ratner wound up being to make use of Murphy becoming an Academy awards-extended Tower Heist advertisement. Either in situation, both Ratner and Murphy have dropped by using this year’s Oscars giving the Academy roughly three several days to discover a new producer, a completely new host and a means to save face over this embarrassing snafu. Who would you like to see replace Murphy come February 26? · Eddie Murphy Drops From Oscars Telecast [NYT]