{"id":462,"date":"2007-02-21T22:33:55","date_gmt":"2007-02-21T22:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/archives\/2007\/02\/21\/hot-fuzz-tops-the-uk-box-office\/"},"modified":"2007-02-21T22:33:55","modified_gmt":"2007-02-21T22:33:55","slug":"hot-fuzz-tops-the-uk-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2007\/02\/21\/hot-fuzz-tops-the-uk-box-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Fuzz tops the UK Box office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is good to see that <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0425112\/\">Hot Fuzz<\/a> <\/strong>has topped the British box office.<\/p>\n<p>The Guardian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/boxoffice\/?region=uk\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hot Fuzz, the police-procedural-thriller-action-comedy from the team behind Shaun of the Dead, shot to the top of the British box office at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>With a lineup featuring the cream of British comedy &#8211; Bill Bailey, Bill Nighy and Martin Freeman among others &#8211; alongside heavyweight thesps such as Billie Whitelaw and Timothy Dalton having a ball, the story of an overachieving police officer in a sleepy crime-free village laughed all the way to the bank. It raked in an opening haul of \u00a35.9m.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Some people I know who&#8217;d seen it were a little disappointed &#8211; the common refrain seemed to be that it wasn&#8217;t as good as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0365748\/\"><strong>Shaun of the Dead<\/strong><\/a>. Much as I like that 2004 zombie spoof, I do think the Fuzz is better &#8211; more gags, more ambition and a little more verve.<\/p>\n<p>> <a href=\"http:\/\/film.guardian.co.uk\/news\/story\/0,,2017895,00.html\">The Guardian story<br \/>\n<\/a>> <a href=\"http:\/\/film.guardian.co.uk\/news\/story\/0,,2017895,00.html\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/boxoffice\/?region=uk\">Top films at the UK Box Office<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is good to see that Hot Fuzz has topped the British box office. The Guardian reports: Hot Fuzz, the police-procedural-thriller-action-comedy from the team behind Shaun of the Dead, shot to the top of the British box office at the weekend. With a lineup featuring the cream of British comedy &#8211; Bill Bailey, Bill Nighy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}