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- Coming 2 America is a 2021 American romantic comedy film that serves as a sequel to the 1988 film Coming to America starring Eddie Murphy and directed by Craig Brewer, from a screenplay by Barry W. Blaustein and David Sheffield, the original writers, and Kenya Barris, and a story by Blaustein, Sheffield, and Justin Kanew, based on characters created by Murphy.
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Coming 2 America is a 2021 American romantic comedy film that serves as a sequel to the 1988 film Coming to America starring Eddie Murphy and directed by Craig Brewer, from a screenplay by Barry W. Blaustein and David Sheffield, the original writers, and Kenya Barris, and a story by Blaustein, Sheffield, and Justin Kanew, based on characters ...
Mar 5, 2021 · Coming 2 America review: Eddie Murphy sequel is a dazzlingly knowing rom-com. The follow-up to Murphy’s 1988 classic Coming to America is smart, warm and infectiously energetic. 1 / 14....
- Charlotte O'sullivan
Mar 4, 2021 · Kristen Baldwin. Updated on March 4, 2021 03:00PM EST. The original Coming to America is a treasure, an endlessly rewatchable modern classic that blends rom-com sweetness with standalone...
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On the 30th anniversary of his wedding with Lisa McDowell, Prince Akeem of Zamunda is summoned before his dying father, King Jaffe Joffer. Jaffe and his shaman Baba reveal to a baffled Akeem that he had sired a son during his first visit in Queens, New York, after his aide Semmi had enticed two women into spending the night with them while Akeem wa...
Arsenio Hallas SemmiJermaine Fowleras LavelleLeslie Jonesas Mary JunsonDevelopment
In January 2017, an announcement was publicized which addressed the impending production of a sequel to the original film, Coming to America. Kevin Misher was named as producer, and David Sheffield and Barry W. Blaustein, the original screenwriters, were also attached to the project. However, a possible participation of lead actors Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall was left undefined.
Casting
On January 11, 2019, it was announced that the sequel would be moving forward with Murphy reprising his role, and Craig Brewer as director (having previously worked with Murphy on the Netflix film Dolemite Is My Name). Arsenio Hall, Shari Headley, John Amos, Paul Bates, and James Earl Jones were expected to return for the sequel as well. Wesley Snipes signed on for a role in the film, later revealed to be General Izzi, the son of Colonel Izzi and older brother of Imani from the first film. Le...
Filming
Principal photography began on August 17, 2019, in Atlanta, Georgia, with Joe Williams serving as cinematographer. Rick Ross confirmed during the same month that his Georgia mansion would be used as a location in the film. On October 1, 2019, in an interview with Collider, Murphy confirmed that production on Beverly Hills Cop IV would commence after the filming of Coming 2 Americahas wrapped. Filming officially wrapped on November 9, 2019. Due to his age, James Earl Jones did not travel to th...
The original motion picture soundtrack was released through Def Jam Recordings on March 5, 2021. In February 2021, Bobby Sessions and Megan Thee Stallion released I'm a Kingas its lead single.
Coming 2 Americawas released by Amazon Prime Video on March 4, 2021, one day earlier than was announced. The film was initially scheduled to be theatrically released by Paramount Pictures on August 7, 2020, but was pushed back to December 18, 2020, before the COVID-19 pandemic began. On November 20, 2020, Amazon Studios acquired the distribution ri...
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 49% based on 243 reviews with an average rating of 5.4/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "Decades after its predecessor joked about the fine line between love and nausea, Coming 2 Americareminds audiences that there's an equally fine line between sequel and retread....
Nov 3, 2022 · Director John Landis' 1988 effort Coming to America was a smash hit — a rom-com with a genuinely sweet love story at its center that still managed to lean heavily in favor of the "com" part...
- Mike Floorwalker
Coming 2 America: Directed by Craig Brewer. With Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, Jermaine Fowler, Leslie Jones. The African monarch Akeem learns he has a long-lost son in the United States and must return to America to meet this unexpected heir and build a relationship with his son.
Mar 5, 2021 · Amazon Prime. 110 minutes ‧ PG-13 ‧ 2021. Odie Henderson. March 5, 2021. 7 min read. In 2019, Ruth E. Carter won an Oscar for creating the fashions of Wakanda. It’s only fitting she would follow that by tightening her stitches on the attire of Zamunda, the other beloved cinematic African paradise first seen in 1988’s “Coming to America.”
