Klown

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Klown
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Mikkel Nørgaard
Produced by Louise Vesth
Written by Casper Christensen
Frank Hvam
Starring Frank Hvam
Casper Christensen
Marcuz Jess Petersen
Music by Kristen Eidnes Andersen
Cinematography Jacob Banke Olesen
Editing by Morten Egholm
Studio Zentropa Productions
Distributed by Nordisk Film
Drafthouse Films
Release dates
  • December 16, 2010 (2010-12-16)
Country Denmark
Language Danish

Klown (Danish: Klovn - The Movie) is a 2010 Danish comedy film starring Frank Hvam and Casper Christensen and directed by Mikkel Nørgaard. It was developed from the successful Danish TV sitcom Klovn, in which Hvam and Christensen play fictionalized versions of themselves.

The movie premiered in Denmark 16 December 2010 and managed, during the two remaining weeks of December, to become the most watched Danish movie of 2010. By February 2011 Klown had sold 848.500 total tickets in a nation with a population of 5.5 million, a figure comparable to the comedy films of Susanne Bier and Lone Scherfig 10 years earlier.

The movie had its North American premiere at the Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal in July 2011, where it won the Cheval Noir award.[1] The film was also shown in the United States at the Fantastic Fest where it won as best picture and best screenplay in the Gutbuster comedy feature category.[2] In the autumn of 2011 it was sold for distribution in the United States to Drafthouse Films and 27 July 2012 it was given a small release to US cinemas in Los Angeles, New York and Austin as well as being available through video on demand services. The following weeks it expanded to several other theaters throughout the US.

The comedy is based on "uncomfortable" humor featuring self-satire and humorous treatment of taboos. Reviews would often compare it to The Hangover and Curb Your Enthusiasm.[3]

Warner Bros. has bought the rights to remake Klown with Todd Phillips named as a possible director with Danny McBride to star.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Etan Vlessing (7. august 2011). "'Attack the Block' Takes Fantasia Audience Award". The Hollywood Reporter. 
  2. ↑ Fantastic Fest 2011 Award Winners Include Horror Hit ‘You’re Next’ And Charming ‘A Boy And His Samurai’
  3. ↑ The Hangover: The New York Times, . Curb your enthusiasm:
  4. ↑ Hot Trailer: ‘Klown’

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