Beverly Hills Cop (film series)

Beverly Hills Cop
Directed by	Martin Brest (I) Tony Scott (II) John Landis (III) Adil El Arbi (IV) Bilall Fallah (IV)
Produced by	Jerry Bruckheimer (I-II, IV) Don Simpson (I-II) Mace Neufeld (III) Robert Rehme (III) Eddie Murphy (IV)
Screenplay by	Daniel Petrie, Jr. (I) Larry Ferguson (II) Warren Skaaren (II) Steven E. de Souza (III) Josh Appelbaum (IV) André Nemec (IV)
Story by	Danilo Bach (I) Daniel Petrie, Jr. (I) Eddie Murphy (II) Robert D. Wachs (II) Steven E. de Souza (III) Josh Appelbaum (IV) André Nemec (IV)
Starring	Eddie Murphy Judge Reinhold John Ashton (l-ll, lV) Gil Hill (l-lll) Ronny Cox (I-II) Brandon T. Jackson (Unaired Pilot)
Music by	Harold Faltermeyer (I-II) Nile Rodgers (III)
Cinematography	Bruce Surtees (I) Jeffrey L. Kimball (II) Mac Ahlberg (III) Dante Spinotti (IV)
Edited by	Billy Weber (I-II) Arthur Coburn (I) Chris Lebenzon (II) Michael Tronick (II) Dale Beldin (III)
Production company	Simpson/Bruckheimer (I-II) Eddie Murphy Productions (I-III)
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	December 5, 1984 (1984-12-05) (I) May 20, 1987 (1987-05-20) (II) May 25, 1994 (1994-05-25) (III)
Running time	105 minutes (I) 103 minutes (II) 104 minutes (III) 312 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$85 million
Box office	$735.5 million

Beverly Hills Cop is a series of American action comedy films, with characters written by Daniel Petrie, Jr. and Danilo Bach. The films star Eddie Murphy as Axel Foley, a street-smart Detroit cop who travels to Beverly Hills, California to investigate crimes, even though it is out of his jurisdiction. There, he meets Detective Billy Rosewood (Judge Reinhold), Sergeant John Taggart (John Ashton), and Lieutenant Andrew Bogomil (Ronny Cox). Ashton and Cox do not appear in Beverly Hills Cop III. Murphy, Reinhold, and Gil Hill, who plays Axel's boss, Inspector Todd, are the only actors who appear in all three films. Harold Faltermeyer produced the now famous "Axel F" theme song heard throughout the series. The series as a whole have been distributed by Paramount Pictures. The films have made a total of $735,534,503 worldwide.

Following a failed attempt at making a Beverly Hills Cop TV series, Paramount has decided to produce another film.

In Beverly Hills Cop (1984), Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy) is introduced as a Detroit cop who, after the murder of his friend, travels to California to investigate and track down the killer(s), who he believes operate an arts dealership as a cover in Beverly Hills. He teams up with two reluctant detectives, Billy Rosewood (Judge Reinhold) and John Taggart (John Ashton), from the Beverly Hills police department who were supposed to keep a watch on him, especially after seeing Foley's different approach to tackling the situations which were considered unacceptable by the chief of police.