Hot Fuzz

Not to be confused with the debut album by The Killers, Hot Fuss.
Hot Fuzz
Film poster of two men dressed as British police officers. The man on the left is looking down and is holding a shotgun and a handgun. The man on the right is behind the man on the left with a shotgun and toothpick in his mouth and an explosion behind them. Poster has the film's title and the main stars names.
British theatrical release poster
Directed byEdgar Wright
Written by
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyJess Hall
Edited byChris Dickens
Music byDavid Arnold
Production
companies
Distributed by
Release dates
  • 16 February 2007 (2007-02-16) (United Kingdom)
  • 20 April 2007 (2007-04-20) (United States)
  • 18 July 2007 (2007-07-18) (France)
Running time
121 minutes[2]
Countries
LanguageEnglish
BudgetUS$12–16 million[4][5]
Box office$80.7 million[1]

Hot Fuzz is a 2007 action comedy film directed by Edgar Wright, who co-wrote the film with Simon Pegg. Pegg stars as Nicholas Angel, an elite London police officer, whose proficiency makes the rest of his team look bad, causing him to be re-assigned to a West Country village where a series of gruesome deaths take place. Nick Frost stars alongside him as Police Constable Danny Butterman, Angel's partner. Jim Broadbent co-stars.

Hot Fuzz is the second and most commercially successful film in the Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy, succeeding Shaun of the Dead and followed by The World's End. Over 100 action films were used as inspiration for the script.

Principal photography took place in Wells, Somerset for eleven weeks and ten artists worked on VFX, which involved explosions, gory gunfire scenes and a flip book. Released on 16 February 2007 in the United Kingdom and 20 April in the United States, Hot Fuzz received acclaim from critics and grossed US$80 million worldwide on a budget of $12–16 million. In 2020, Empire named it the 67th-greatest film of the 21st century.[6]

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  2. ^ "Hot Fuzz (15)". British Board of Film Classification. 2 February 2007. Archived from the original on 3 August 2017. Retrieved 4 August 2013.
  3. ^ a b c "Hot Fuzz (2007)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 3 August 2017. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
  4. ^ Collins, Andrew (19 July 2013). "Simon Pegg: The World's End is $4 million shy of double what Hot Fuzz cost". Radio Times. Archived from the original on 3 August 2017.
  5. ^ "Hot Fuzz Financial Information". The Numbers. Nash Information Services, LLC. Archived from the original on 20 April 2019. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
  6. ^ "The 100 Greatest Movies Of The 21st Century: 70 - 61". Empire. 23 January 2020. Retrieved 1 April 2021.