<Tr> <Th> Budget </Th> <Td> $20 million </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $300 million </Td> </Tr> <P> Beverly Hills Cop II is a 1987 American action comedy film directed by Tony Scott, written by Larry Ferguson and Warren Skaaren and starring Eddie Murphy . It is the sequel to the 1984 film Beverly Hills Cop and the second installment in the Beverly Hills Cop series . Murphy returns as Detroit police detective Axel Foley, who reunites with Beverly Hills detectives Billy Rosewood (Judge Reinhold) and John Taggart (John Ashton) to stop a robbery / gun - running gang after Captain Andrew Bogomil (Ronny Cox) is shot and seriously wounded . </P> <P> Although it made less money than the first film and received mixed reviews from critics, the film was still a box office success, making $153.7 million domestically . Aside from box office success, the film was nominated for an Academy Award and for a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song, for Bob Seger's "Shakedown". </P>

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