Klown

Release

Klown premiered in Denmark on 16 December 2010 and managed, during the two remaining weeks of December, to become the most watched Danish film of 2010.

By February 2011, the film 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 ten 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. 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.

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 limited North American release in Los Angeles, New York City and Austin as well as being available through video on demand services. The following weeks it expanded to several other theaters throughout the US.

Critical reception

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.

Sequel

A sequel, titled Klown Forever, was released in Denmark in 2015 and is due for release in the United States in late 2016.

The first trailer was shown in front of Sausage Party screenings at Alamo Drafthouse theatres.

American adaptation

Warner Bros. has bought the rights to remake Klown with Todd Phillips named as a possible director with Danny McBride to star. On 3 November 2016, it was announced that Sacha Baron Cohen would headline the remake.