Zoolander

Zoolander
Theatrical release poster
Directed byBen Stiller
Screenplay by
Story by
  • Drake Sather
  • Ben Stiller
Based onCharacters
by Drake Sather
Ben Stiller
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyBarry Peterson
Edited byGreg Hayden
Music byDavid Arnold
Production
companies
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • September 28, 2001 (2001-09-28)
Running time
89 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$28 million[2][3]
Box office$60.8 million[2]

Zoolander is a 2001 American comedy film directed, co-produced, co-written by and starring Ben Stiller. A satire on the fashion industry, the film follows fashion model Derek Zoolander (Stiller) who is tricked by fashion mogul Jacobim Mugatu (Will Ferrell) into assassinating the Prime Minister of Malaysia, whose progressive laws on the fashion industry would harm his businesses. The cast also features Owen Wilson, Christine Taylor, Milla Jovovich, Jerry Stiller and Jon Voight.

The film contains elements from a pair of short films directed by Russell Bates and written by Drake Sather and Ben Stiller for the VH1 Fashion Awards television specials in 1996 and 1997.[4] It is the last film from Paramount Pictures with the involvement of Village Roadshow Pictures.

Zoolander was released to theatres on September 28, 2001. It received generally positive reviews and was a box-office success. A sequel, Zoolander 2, was released in February 2016.[5] An animated film follow-up, Zoolander: Super Model, was released on Netflix in the UK in August 2016.[6]

  1. ^ "Zoolander (12)". British Board of Film Classification. October 5, 2001. Archived from the original on March 5, 2016. Retrieved December 27, 2014.
  2. ^ a b "Zoolander (2001) - Financial Information". The Numbers.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference mojo was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Morris, Daniel (March 8, 2023). "Film Talk: Looking Back – Hitting the catwalk with Zoolander". Express & Star. Retrieved April 9, 2023.
  5. ^ "'Zoolander 2' Coming February 2016". SlashFilm. March 10, 2015. Retrieved March 10, 2015.
  6. ^ Hughes, Josiah (November 17, 2016). "Watch the Trailer for the 'Zoolander' Cartoon Movie". Exclaim. Retrieved August 19, 2016.

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