<Tr> <Th> Budget </Th> <Td> $35 million </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $43 million </Td> </Tr> <P> The Snowman is a 2017 British crime thriller film directed by Tomas Alfredson and written by Hossein Amini and Peter Straughan, based on the novel of the same name by Jo Nesbø . The film stars Michael Fassbender, Rebecca Ferguson, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Val Kilmer, J.K. Simmons, and Chloë Sevigny, and follows a detective who tries to find the identity of a killer who uses snowmen as his calling card . </P> <P> Principal photography began filming on 18 January 2016 in Norway . The film premiered on 7 October 2017 at the Haifa International Film Festival and was released by Universal Pictures on 13 October 2017 in the United Kingdom and 20 October 2017 in the United States . It grossed $41 million worldwide and received negative reviews, with critics calling it "clichéd and uninvolving ." </P>

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