Beverly Hills Cop III is a 1994 Eddie Murphy motion picture that was directed by John Landis, who had previously worked with Murphy on Trading Places and Coming to America. It was released on Wednesday, May 25 of that year, grossed a disappointing $44 million in the U.S. and is the final chapter (so far) in the Beverly Hills Cop trilogy. Judge Reinhold reprises his role as Det. William Rosewood. Image File history File links Beverly_Hills_Cop_III.jpg‎ This image is of a movie poster, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher of the movie or the studio which produced the movie in question. ... John Landis (born August 3, 1950 in Chicago) is an American movie actor, director, writer, and producer. ... Mace Neufeld (b. ... Steven de Souza is among the handful of screenwriters whose films have earned over two billion dollars at the box office. ... Edward Eddie Regan Murphy (born April 3, 1961, Brooklyn, New York City) is a Golden Globe-winning and Academy Award-nominated American actor and comedian. ... Judge Reinhold is the stage name of Edward Ernest Reinhold, Jr. ... Hector Elizondo (born December 22, 1936 in New York City) is a Puerto Rican-American actor. ... Theresa Randle (born December 27, 1964 in Los Angeles, California) is an American stage, film and television actress. ... Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production and distribution company, based in Hollywood, California. ... May 25 is the 145th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (146th in leap years). ... // November 1 - George Lucas leaves the day-to-day operations of his filmmaking business and starts a sabbatical (while on sabbatical, he wrote the prequel Star Wars trilogy). ... ISO 4217 Code USD User(s) the United States, the British Indian Ocean Territory,[1] the British Virgin Islands, Cambodia, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Panama, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the insular areas of the United States Inflation 2. ... Beverly Hills Cop II is a 1987 live-action film starring Eddie Murphy and directed by Tony Scott. ... Beverly Hills Cop IV is the long-awaited fourth installment in the Beverly Hills Cop series. ... // November 1 - George Lucas leaves the day-to-day operations of his filmmaking business and starts a sabbatical (while on sabbatical, he wrote the prequel Star Wars trilogy). ... Edward Eddie Regan Murphy (born April 3, 1961, Brooklyn, New York City) is a Golden Globe-winning and Academy Award-nominated American actor and comedian. ... John Landis (born August 3, 1950 in Chicago) is an American movie actor, director, writer, and producer. ... Trading Places is a 1983 comedy film starring Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd and Jamie Lee Curtis. ... Coming to America is a 1988 comedy film directed by John Landis. ... May 25 is the 145th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (146th in leap years). ... ISO 4217 Code USD User(s) the United States, the British Indian Ocean Territory,[1] the British Virgin Islands, Cambodia, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Panama, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the insular areas of the United States Inflation 2. ... Motto: (Out Of Many, One) (traditional) In God We Trust (1956 to date) Anthem: The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington D.C. Largest city New York City None at federal level (English de facto) Government Federal constitutional republic  - President George Walker Bush (R)  - Vice President Dick Cheney (R) Independence from... Beverly Hills Cop (1984) is an American comedy film directed by Martin Brest and starring Eddie Murphy. ... A trilogy is a set of three works of art, usually literature or film, that are connected and can generally be seen as a single work as well as three individual ones. ... Judge Reinhold is the stage name of Edward Ernest Reinhold, Jr. ...

Production was temporarily shut down to allow the Paramount top brass the chance to get to grips with the film's spiraling budget. Originally estimated at $55 million, it was soon in excess of $70 million. Of that budget, $15 million was Eddie Murphy's paycheck. Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production and distribution company, based in Hollywood, California. ...

Plot

Eddie Murphy's character, Axel Foley returns to Beverly Hills once again. This time it's personal: During an assignment, his boss, Inspector Todd gets killed, and certain evidence points towards an amusement park called "Wonderworld". Upon arriving in Beverly Hills, Axel looks up his old friend, Billy Rosewood who is now a bigwig in the LAPD. Taggart had retired and a new detective called Jon Flint (played by Hector Elizondo) is Rosewood's new partner. Beverly Hills is a city in the western part of Los Angeles County, California. ... View of Great America from above Paramounts Great America is an amusement park owned and operated by Cedar Fair, L.P., located in the San Jose suburb Santa Clara, California. ... It has been suggested that Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners be merged into this article or section. ... Hector Elizondo (born December 22, 1936 in New York City) is a Puerto Rican-American actor. ...

Criticism

The film was criticized for many reasons. For one, fans of the series missed John Ashton, Ronny Cox and Paul Reiser, who didn't reprise their roles. Secondly, original producers Jerry Bruckheimer and Don Simpson were not involved in the production as they were previously. Many critics felt the movie was a generic, formulaic action-comedy film. Also critics felt Eddie Murphy gave a somewhat routine performance as Axel Foley. John Ashton (born February 22, 1948 in Springfield, Massachusetts) is a U.S. actor, and graduate of the University of Southern California School of Theatre. ... Ronny Cox as Former Vice-President Robert Kinsey in Stargate SG-1 Daniel Ronald Cox (born Saturday, July 23, 1938 in Cloudcroft, New Mexico and grew up in Portales, New Mexico. ... Paul Reiser (March 30, 1957 – March 19, 2007) was an American actor, author and stand-up comedian, best known for his role in Mad About You. ... Jerome Leon Bruckheimer (born September 21, 1945) is a film and television producer in the genre of action, drama, and science fiction. ... Donald Clarence Simpson (October 29, 1943 - January 19, 1996) was an American film producer. ...

When Eddie Murphy appeared on the television show Inside the Actor's Studio (first airing on December 19, 2006), he claimed that he felt the third film was "atrocious" and such a disgrace that "the character was kind of banished for a while [from Hollywood]." He said he felt the third film didn't reveal enough of the "edginess" of Axel that was present in the first two films. He also said he hopes to return the edgy qualities to the character for the fourth film, and is going to pay more attention to the development of the project and its quality. Inside the Actors Studio is a program on the Bravo cable television channel which premiered in 1995 and is hosted by James Lipton. ... December 19 is the 353rd day of the year (354th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... This is a list of television-related events in 2006. ... Beverly Hills Cop IV is the long-awaited fourth installment in the Beverly Hills Cop series. ...

A fourth film

Beverly Hills Cop III was stated to be the last sequel of the trilogy, but Steve Wilson on KOMO-TV's First News at 4 Gossip section "The Buzz" mentioned that Eddie Murphy will return for Beverly Hills Cop IV. Murphy hopes it does better than Beverly Hills Cop III and continues the success of the first two films. It is slated to release in 2009 and is in the script process. KOMO Studio KOMO-TV (KOMO 4) is a television station in Seattle, Washington. ... Edward Eddie Regan Murphy (born April 3, 1961, Brooklyn, New York City) is a Golden Globe-winning and Academy Award-nominated American actor and comedian. ... Beverly Hills Cop IV is the long-awaited fourth installment in the Beverly Hills Cop series. ...

Music

Even though Harold Faltermeyer did not return to scoring duties on Beverly Hills Cop III (instead, the task was handled by Nile Rodgers), his song co-producer from the previous franchise entries, Keith Forsey, did produce and co-write a new song. "Keep The Peace", performed by INXS was supposed to be in the vein of previous Faltermeyer/Forsey Beverly Hills Cop techno-pop stadium anthems such as "The Heat Is On" (performed by Glenn Frey) and "Shakedown" (performed by Bob Seger). Harold Faltermeyer (born October 5, 1952 in Munich) is a German musician and moreover composer. ... Nile Gregory Rodgers (born September 19, 1952, in New York) is a prolific and influential musician, composer, arranger, guitarist and music producer, and co-founding member of the seminal multi-platinum hit R&B band CHIC, with influential bassist Bernard Edwards. ... Keith Forsey (born on January 22, 1948 in London, England, UK) // In 1988 Keith Forsey won the ASCAP Award for Most Performed Songs from Motion Pictures for: Beverly Hills Cop II (1987) Shared with: Harold Faltermeyer Bob Seger In 1984, Keith Forsey won an Oscar for Best Music, Original Song... INXS (pronounced In Excess) is an Australian rock group. ... Techno is a form of electronic dance music that became prominent in Detroit, Michigan during the mid-1980s with influences from electro, New Wave, Funk and futuristic fiction themes that were prevalent and relative to modern culture during the end of the Cold War in industrial America at that time. ... Popular music is music belonging to any of a number of musical styles that are accessible to the general public and are disseminated by one or more of the mass media. ... Glenn Lewis Frey (born November 6, 1948 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and actor, best known as one of the founding members of country rock band The Eagles. ... Shakedown is a 1987 single by Bob Seger, that is from the soundtrack of the film Beverly Hills Cop 2. ... Robert Clark Bob Seger (born May 6, 1945) is an American rock musician from Michigan, who after years of local Detroit-area success starting in the mid-1960s, achieved his greatest national success starting in the mid-1970s and extending into the 1980s. ...

Trivia

• Writer Steven E. de Souza originally wrote the story as more “Die Hard in a theme park”. He was told that each of the rides he had designed would cost about $10 million to build and the whole film would cost about $70 million. When box office results for The Distinguished Gentleman came in, Paramount ordered the budget to be cut to $55 million. Consequently the film became more about the investigation and less about the action.

• The theme park featured in the movie was Paramount's Great America, however some modifications were made to the Columbia Carousel and Vortex roller coaster.

• The ride featured in the rescue scene at the park was Triple Wheel (formerly known as Sky Whirl). Since the movie was made the ride has been demolished and scrapped, saddening many amusement park enthusiasts.

• The film's director John Landis hired the Sherman Brothers to write the "Wonderworld Song" which appears throughout the second half of the movie. The song is a comedic take on their own signature song, "It's A Small World". Robert B. Sherman also makes a cameo in the film. In the film, he sits next to Arthur Hiller and Ray Harryhausen in a bar when they hear that "Uncle Dave" is shot. "Uncle Dave" is the owner of "Wonderworld" which is like Disneyland. Uncle Dave is a character modelled loosely after Walt Disney, the Sherman Brothers' mentor.

• The film featured a number of cameos by well known film directors including Robert B. Sherman, Arthur Hiller, John Singleton, Joe Dante, special effects legend Ray Harryhausen and George Lucas as a ride patron.

• Inspector Todd's widow refers to her husband as "Douglas," however, in Beverly Hills Cop II, Todd's office door reads G. TODD ("G" possibly standing for "Gilbert" as Todd was portrayed by Gilbert R. Hill).

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External link

• Beverly Hills Cop III at the Internet Movie Database