Zoolander

Zoolander
Zoolander
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Ben Stiller
Screenplay by	Drake Sather; Ben Stiller; John Hamburg;
Story by	Drake Sather; Ben Stiller;
Based on	Characters; by Drake Sather; Ben Stiller
Produced by	Scott Rudin; Ben Stiller; Stuart Cornfeld;
Starring	Ben Stiller; Owen Wilson; Will Ferrell; Christine Taylor; Milla Jovovich; Jerry Stiller; Jon Voight;
Cinematography	Barry Peterson
Edited by	Greg Hayden
Music by	David Arnold
Production; companies	Village Roadshow Pictures; VH1 Films; NPV Entertainment; Red Hour Productions; Scott Rudin Productions;
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	September 28, 2001;
Running time	89 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$28 million
Box office	$60.8 million

Zoolander is a 2001 American comedy film directed by and starring Ben Stiller. The film contains elements from a pair of short films directed by Russell Bates and written by Drake Sather and Stiller for the VH1 Fashion Awards television specials in 1996 and 1997. It is the last film from Paramount Pictures with the involvement of Village Roadshow Pictures.

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 film received generally positive reviews and was a box-office success. A sequel, Zoolander 2, was released in February 2016. An animated film, Zoolander: Super Model, was released on Netflix in the UK in August 2016.