MOVIES - May 21, 1991

Murphy Deal: It looks like Eddie Murphy--long a fixture at Paramount Pictures--will probably do his next movie at Disney. Informed sources say the star is interested in a script under development at the studio, but until it’s completed he won’t commit. Both sides in the discussions are mum on the details of the film project. Nearly every studio in town has been after Murphy since the star began suggesting displeasure about his deal with Paramount many months ago, so it would be a big coup for Disney to land his next movie. Although Murphy still owes Paramount two more movies, Paramount president Stanley Jaffe recently gave him permission to make his next film elsewhere.