Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Following its June 1983 release, Trading Places became a huge hit, emerging as the fourth biggest box-office release of the year.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Roughly 75% of Trading Places is set during Christmas time in chilly Philadelphia. (The other 25% runs from New Year’s Eve to ...

Giancarlo Esposito holding the bars and Eddie Murphy pretending to do martial arts in Trading Places Image via Paramount Pictures Over 40 years ago, one of Eddie Murphy's finest comedic triumphs first ...

Dan Aykroyd knows he couldn’t get away with blackface nowadays like he did 40 years ago alongside Eddie Murphy in 1983’s “Trading Places.” The 70-year-old actor spoke with The Daily Beast about the ...

This month marks the 40th anniversary of the 1983 film “Trading Places.” The hit comedy became a classic and helped launch Eddie Murphy’s film career, but co-star Dan Aykroyd says one scene didn’t age ...

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...

Jamie Lee Curtis (pictured center alongside Eddie Murphy and Dan Akyroyd in Trading Spaces) says being "inappropriate every second of my life" helped her move from horror to comedy. (Photo: Everett ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. During a conversation with Yahoo, Murphy was asked to choose the more enjoyable film from the two ...

ATLANTA - Crafting a successful piece of musical theater is notoriously difficult — but if anyone can do it, it’s the powerhouse creative team behind "Trading Places: The Musical." Based on the 1983 ...

A world premiere musical stage adaptation that reimagines the hit 1983 Eddie Murphy-Dan Aykroyd comedy Trading Places has cast Freestyle Love Supreme‘s Aneesa Folds in the role that made Murphy a ...