Dolemite Is My Name trivia: 30 facts about the new Eddie Murphy film

Dolemite Is My Name is a new Eddie Murphy movie that is produced by Netflix and will have a theatrical premiere.

So let’s dive into some trivia and facts about this new movie!

1. Dolemite Is My Name is a 2019 American biographical comedy film
2. It is directed by Craig Brewer
3. And written by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski
4. The film stars Eddie Murphy as filmmaker Rudy Ray Moore
5. Best known for portraying the character of Dolemite in both his stand-up routine and a series of blaxploitation films
6. Starting with Dolemite in 1975
7. The film had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 7, 2019
8. And will be released in a limited release on October 4, 2019
9. Before digital streaming on October 25, 2019, by Netflix
10. On June 7, 2018, it was announced that Craig Brewer would direct Dolemite Is My Name
11. From a script by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski
12. With Netflix producing and distributing
13. Eddie Murphy was set to star as Moore
14. Later that month, the rest of the principal cast was announced
15. In July 2018, Chris Rock and Ron Cephas Jones joined the cast
16. Principal photography began on June 12, 2018
17. Dolemite Is My Name had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 7, 2019
18. It is scheduled to be released in a limited release on October 4, 2019
19. Before digital streaming on October 25, 2019
20. In Variety, Owen Gleiberman describes Murphy’s performance as some kind of a comeback
21. As the brash hustler who made ″Dolemite″
22. Eddie Murphy has his best role in years in a film that’s like a blaxploitation answer to ″The Disaster Artist″
23. He plays Rudy as a cheap but priceless carny barker of his own ego
24. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported that 98% of critics have given the film a positive review
25. Based on 55 reviews
26. With an average rating of 7.94/10
27. The website’s critics consensus reads, “In dramatizing Rudy Ray Moore’s stranger-than-fiction story, Eddie Murphy makes Dolemite Is My Name just as bold, brash, and ultimately hard to resist as its subject”
28. At Metacritic, another review aggregator, assigned the film a weighted average score of 74 out of 100
29. Based on 21 critics
30. Indicating “generally favorable reviews”