Movies Daily by Zach Cannon

While there wasn’t a whole lot of interesting news out of Hollywood today, there was a few piece of bad news. Here’s a trio of items that range from unnecessary to just plain stupid.

Brett Ratner is back to run sequel havoc on the Beverly Hills Cop franchise. As if the third one wasn’t bad enough, Ratner, the director of such sequel classics as X-Men 3: The Last Stand and Red Dragon, will work his magic on Eddie Murphy in Beverly Hills Cop 4.

Elizabeth Berkley and Briana Evigan are going to be visited by a time-traveling bunny in S. Darko, the sequel to Donnie Darko. The new Darko takes place seven years after the first and centers around the visions Donnie’s sister has after running away from her family.

Speaking of magic, Michael Bay and his Platinum Dunes label are putting together a film version of — this is not a joke — Ouija. Yes, Ouija, the board game. The movie is being billed as a supernatural thriller, but plot details are being kept under wraps. While transferring pre-existing things that shouldn’t be movies into movies worked for Pirates of the Caribbean, I can’t see it working at all here. If the film industry keeps coming up with any more ideas like this, it’s all going to topple down like a game of Jenga.

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