Beverly Hills Cop III

Beverly Hills Cop III
Theatrical release poster
Directed byJohn Landis
Written bySteven E. de Souza
Based on
Characters
by
Produced byMace Neufeld
Robert Rehme
Starring
CinematographyMac Ahlberg
Edited byDale Beldin
Music byNile Rodgers
Production
companies
Neufeld/Rehme Productions
Eddie Murphy Productions
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • May 25, 1994 (1994-05-25)
Running time
104 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$70 million[2][3]
Box office$119.2 million[4]

Beverly Hills Cop III is a 1994 American action comedy film starring Eddie Murphy, written by Steven E. de Souza, and directed by John Landis, who had previously worked with Murphy on Trading Places (1983) and Coming to America (1988). It is a sequel to Beverly Hills Cop II (1987) and the third film in the Beverly Hills Cop franchise. Murphy again plays Detroit detective Axel Foley, who once again returns to Beverly Hills and teams up with detective Billy Rosewood (Judge Reinhold) to stop a gang of counterfeiters at a local amusement park called Wonder World.

The film features a number of cameo appearances by well-known film personalities, including Robert B. Sherman, Arthur Hiller, John Singleton, Joe Dante, Barbet Schroeder, Peter Medak, special effects legend Ray Harryhausen, and George Lucas as a ride patron. It is also the first film in the series not to involve producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, who opted out of the film's production due to budgetary disagreements, as well as the last film in the series to be distributed by Paramount Pictures.

Beverly Hills Cop III was released on May 25, 1994, and grossed $42.6 million in the United States, and $76.5 million at the foreign box office for a worldwide total of $119.2 million. The film received negative reviews from critics, and was considered by them and Murphy himself as the weakest film in the series.[5] A sequel, and fourth film, titled Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, was released on Netflix on July 3, 2024.

  1. ^ "BEVERLY HILLS COP III (15)". British Board of Film Classification. May 13, 1994. Retrieved November 28, 2015.
  2. ^ Cook, John Evan (January 5, 1993). "Par puts 'Cop III' off 8 wks". Variety. Retrieved April 15, 2020.
  3. ^ "'BEVERLY HILLS COP III' COULD FINALLY GET ROLLING THIS SUMMER". Orlando Sentinel. April 2, 1993. Retrieved February 15, 2020.
  4. ^ "Beverly Hills Cop III (1994)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved September 22, 2009.
  5. ^ "Eddie Murphy: 'Beverly Hills Cop 3' Was 'Garbage'". The Hollywood Reporter, February 12, 2015. February 12, 2015. Retrieved February 12, 2015.