with the followup album winning a Grammy. However, it was with his first solo lead role, as the wisecracking and determined Detroit cop Axel Foley in "Beverly Hills Cop," that he proved himself ...

Many of the hottest films of 1984 are still popular and being re-imagined today, including "Beverly Hills Cop" and "Ghostbusters." Here are some of the biggest films turning 40 this year.

IT'S HARD TO explain to people who weren’t alive in the 1980s exactly how big Beverly Hills Cop, and in turn Eddie Murphy, became. The 1984 buddy cop action comedy, made for an estimated $13 ...

Three years after the events of Beverly Hills Cop (1984), street-smart Detroit detective Axel Foley returns to posh Beverly Hills. This time, he's on a mission to help Detectives Billy Rosewood ...