On This Day

Hot Fuzz released

April 20th 2007

10:53 20 April 2024

Following its release in cinemas in the UK and Ireland a couple of months earlier, 'Hot Fuzz' opened in theaters across North America on this day in 2007. Edgar Wright's buddy cop action film was the second and most successful of the Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy, following 'Shaun of the Dead' (2004) and preceding 'The World's End' (2013).

The movie follows Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg), a big city cop who, after he is transferred to the sleepy village of Sandford, teams up with local bobby Danny Butterman (Nick Frost) to help solve a series of grisly murders. Edgar Wright, who also co-wrote the script with Simon Pegg, said he wanted to write and direct a cop film because "there isn't really any tradition of cop films in the UK... We felt that every other country in the world had its own tradition of great cop action films and we had none". 'Hot Fuzz' was a box office hit, grossing $80 million worldwide.