Eddie Murphy’s Axel Foley adventures are coming to 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray, as Beverly Hills Cop III gets announced for the format.
2024 is the year that the long-mooted fourth film in the Beverly Hills Cop series finally happens, with Netflix bringing Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F to our screens later this year.
It’s the first time that Eddie Murphy has taken on the lead role since 1994’s ill-fated Beverly Hills Cop III, a film that brought the saga to a shuddering stop when it stumbled at the box office. But still: there’s a chance to reassess that third film now, as Paramount is releasing it on the 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray format.
In fact, it’s doing two things. Beverly Hills Cop III will be coming to 4K disc on February 19th in the UK. And it’s accompanying that with a boxset that features Beverly Hills Cop...
2024 is the year that the long-mooted fourth film in the Beverly Hills Cop series finally happens, with Netflix bringing Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F to our screens later this year.
It’s the first time that Eddie Murphy has taken on the lead role since 1994’s ill-fated Beverly Hills Cop III, a film that brought the saga to a shuddering stop when it stumbled at the box office. But still: there’s a chance to reassess that third film now, as Paramount is releasing it on the 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray format.
In fact, it’s doing two things. Beverly Hills Cop III will be coming to 4K disc on February 19th in the UK. And it’s accompanying that with a boxset that features Beverly Hills Cop...
- 1/2/2024
- by Simon Brew
- Film Stories
Once upon a time, Hollywood studios made original movies. Lots of them. Granted, "original" is a relative term when we're talking about this industry. Studios have always hedged their bets by relying on popular genres or recycling tried-and-true formulas. When a film went into production, moguls and executives were hoping for a healthy return on their investment, while stars generally tried their damnedest not to alienate their fans while avoiding the perils of typecasting. Once the film wrapped, it was on to the next one — and the next one was rarely a sequel.
This business model changed drastically in the 1970s when films like "The Godfather," "The Exorcist" and "Love Story" became wildly profitable cultural phenomena. When the studios realized people were lining up to see these movies again and again like they were amusement park rides, they reasoned that the safest course of action would be to continue the...
This business model changed drastically in the 1970s when films like "The Godfather," "The Exorcist" and "Love Story" became wildly profitable cultural phenomena. When the studios realized people were lining up to see these movies again and again like they were amusement park rides, they reasoned that the safest course of action would be to continue the...
- 12/24/2023
- by Jeremy Smith
- Slash Film
When we last hung out with Eddie Murphy's Axel Foley, he was wreaking havoc at a fictional Southern California amusement park (clearly based on Disneyland) while trying to apprehend the facility's chief of security, who murdered Foley's ill-tempered mentor, Inspector Todd (Gil Hill). If you're saying, "Uh, no, he was chasing the Eurotrash criminals who shot up his buddy Chief Bogomil (Ronny Cox)," you are one of the vast majority of moviegoers who skipped John Landis' "Beverly Hills Cop III."
Released over Memorial Day weekend in 1994, Murphy's third go-round as the fast-talking Detroit detective who keeps making unwelcome visits to Los Angeles to avenge dead or badly wounded friends arrived seven years after the last installment, and audiences had moved on. Whereas the first two movies grossed $316 million and $300 million worldwide (the bulk of that money being made in the U.S.), "Beverly Hills Cop III" only...
Released over Memorial Day weekend in 1994, Murphy's third go-round as the fast-talking Detroit detective who keeps making unwelcome visits to Los Angeles to avenge dead or badly wounded friends arrived seven years after the last installment, and audiences had moved on. Whereas the first two movies grossed $316 million and $300 million worldwide (the bulk of that money being made in the U.S.), "Beverly Hills Cop III" only...
- 11/28/2023
- by Jeremy Smith
- Slash Film
Eddie Murphy turned 61 years old this year, which makes him roughly the same age John Wayne was when he played the out-to-pasture codger Rooster Cogburn in "True Grit." That film, and Wayne's subsequent Westerns, had an elegiac, one-last-ride feeling to them. Yes, the Duke's cancer was in remission at this point, but he still looked washed. When he finally succumbed to the disease on the eve of the 1980s, the book quietly closed on an outmoded era of Hollywood filmmaking. It was time. Of all the golden age stars, Wayne was uniquely unsuited to the coked-up, strip-club glitz pioneered by producing teams like Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer and Jon Peters/Peter Guber.
Of all the big-screen '80s superstars, no one was more at home in this olio of excess than Eddie Murphy. His fast-talking, nimble-minded riffing was perfectly attuned to the hurtling energy of the decade's blockbuster action-comedies. Murphy...
Of all the big-screen '80s superstars, no one was more at home in this olio of excess than Eddie Murphy. His fast-talking, nimble-minded riffing was perfectly attuned to the hurtling energy of the decade's blockbuster action-comedies. Murphy...
- 9/21/2022
- by Jeremy Smith
- Slash Film
Gil Hill, a real-life police detective who starred in all three Beverly Hills Cop films as Inspector Douglas Todd, Eddie Murphy's character's boss, died at age 84 on Monday. Hill was admitted to Dmc Sinai-Grace Hospital in northwest Detroit on Feb. 17 with pneumonia, Deadline Detroit reports. He was listed in critical condition and died at the hospital around 4:40 p.m. on Monday, a friend tells the media outlet. Hill had previously undergone treatment for a lung condition. "We are relieved that his passing was peaceful and painless," a family member told Deadline Detroit. "We ask that you pray for...
- 3/1/2016
- by Andrea Park, @scandreapark
- PEOPLE.com
Gil Hill, a real-life police detective who starred in all three Beverly Hills Cop films as Inspector Douglas Todd, Eddie Murphy's character's boss, died at age 84 on Monday. Hill was admitted to Dmc Sinai-Grace Hospital in northwest Detroit on Feb. 17 with pneumonia, Deadline Detroit reports. He was listed in critical condition and died at the hospital around 4:40 p.m. on Monday, a friend tells the media outlet. Hill had previously undergone treatment for a lung condition. "We are relieved that his passing was peaceful and painless," a family member told Deadline Detroit. "We ask that you pray for...
- 3/1/2016
- by Andrea Park, @scandreapark
- PEOPLE.com
Gil Hill, a Former Detroit homicide inspector and later Detroit City Council President who occasionally acted, playing Eddie Murphy’s tough talking boss in the Beverly Hill Cop franchise died today after contracting pneumonia. He was 84. Hill had been reportedly battling chronic obstructive pulmonary disease for some time prior to his final illness. Originally from Birmingham, Alabama, Hill served in the U.S. Air Force beginning in 1950 and was stationed at Detroit’s…...
- 3/1/2016
- Deadline
Gil Hill, the real-life Detroit policeman who portrayed Eddie Murphy’s no-nonsense boss in the three Beverly Hills Cop films, has died. He was 84. Hill, who had battled respiratory problems, died Feb. 17 at Dmc Sinai-Grace Hospital in Detroit, a local website reported. “We are relieved that his passing was peaceful and painless,” his family said in a statement. Hill played frustrated police Inspector Douglas Todd, who frequently dressed down the unorthodox — yet wildly successful — Detective Axel Foley (Murphy), in the box-office smash hit Beverly Hills Cop (1984) and its 1987 and 1994 sequels. {
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- 3/1/2016
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
CBS confirms that a "Beverly Hills Cop" spin-off TV pilot has been greenlit by Sony Pictures Television, from "The Shield" creator Shawn Ryan and executive producer Eddie Murphy.
Murphy will also reprise his role as fast-talking 'Axel Foley' in the potential series as a veteran streetwise Detroit cop, who now mentors his police officer son.
"Axel is the chief of police now in Detroit," Murphy said.
Ryan will write the pilot, planned as an hour police procedural, blending action and comedy.
The original "Beverly Hills Cop' released in 1984, was directed by Martin Brest, from a story and screenplay by Daniel Petrie Jr., starring Murphy, Lisa Eilbacher, John Ashton, Judge Reinhold, and Ronny Cox :
"...'Axel Foley' (Murphy) is a young, talented, but reckless Detroit police detective who had previously been a delinquent. His latest act of attempting to catch crooks through an unauthorized cigarette smuggling sting operation goes sour...
Murphy will also reprise his role as fast-talking 'Axel Foley' in the potential series as a veteran streetwise Detroit cop, who now mentors his police officer son.
"Axel is the chief of police now in Detroit," Murphy said.
Ryan will write the pilot, planned as an hour police procedural, blending action and comedy.
The original "Beverly Hills Cop' released in 1984, was directed by Martin Brest, from a story and screenplay by Daniel Petrie Jr., starring Murphy, Lisa Eilbacher, John Ashton, Judge Reinhold, and Ronny Cox :
"...'Axel Foley' (Murphy) is a young, talented, but reckless Detroit police detective who had previously been a delinquent. His latest act of attempting to catch crooks through an unauthorized cigarette smuggling sting operation goes sour...
- 9/6/2012
- by M. Stevens
- SneakPeek
Reading up on the history of Beverly Hills Cop, it never should have worked. By the time the movie went into production, there were about 8 billion different versions of the script. The final product was basically scotch-taped together from those different versions and whatever else didn't work was improvised by the cast.
Way back when, the story looked like a star vehicle for Al Pacino or James Caan in what would have been a much more serious take on the story. Then Mickey Rourke was attached. Then Rourke walked. Sylvestor Stallone came on board for an even bloodier version that never came to fruition because it would have been too expensive (reportedly Stallone took many of that version's ideas and made Cobra. I'm assuming it was most of the really bad ideas). So what did the studio do with what was once a serious tale of revenge? They made it a comedy.
Way back when, the story looked like a star vehicle for Al Pacino or James Caan in what would have been a much more serious take on the story. Then Mickey Rourke was attached. Then Rourke walked. Sylvestor Stallone came on board for an even bloodier version that never came to fruition because it would have been too expensive (reportedly Stallone took many of that version's ideas and made Cobra. I'm assuming it was most of the really bad ideas). So what did the studio do with what was once a serious tale of revenge? They made it a comedy.
- 12/5/2009
- by Andre Rivas
- Rope of Silicon
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