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Beverly Hills Cop III | |
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Directed by | John Landis |
Written by | Steven E. de Souza |
Based on | Characters by |
Produced by | Mace Neufeld Robert Rehme |
Starring | |
Cinematography | Mac Ahlberg |
Edited by | Dale Beldin |
Music by | Nile Rodgers |
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Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 104 minutes[1] |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
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.