In Denmark director Mikkel Nørgaard reached a new high with Klown Forever, sequel to his own 2010 hit starring Frank Hvam and Casper Christensen. The new comedy released by Nordisk Film on 127 screens sold 184,180 tickets (including previews), making it the third best opening ever for a Danish film.
The feel-good football movie Summer of 92’ released by FC/FS took the fourth place in its fifth week. The film is now the third biggest local success of 2015 with 267,398 admissions. UIP’s release Everest dropped by 43% from its previous week and placing it at number 4 in its second weekend for a total of 24,796. The Danish Oscar entry A War by Tobias Lindholm also lost more than 40% of its audience in its third weekend and is nearing 58,000 admissions for Nordisk Film.
In Finland three local films were in the Top 10 last weekend. Antti J. Jokinen’s love story The Midwife stays in the number two slot in its fourth week on screens. The Nordisk Film release has now sold 158,969 tickets, making it the third biggest Finnish title of the year. At number eight, Homecoming by Mika Kaurismäki sold an extra 2,341 tickets from 44 screens, and pushed total admissions to 77,825. The sketch comedy Distractions by Aleksi Salmenperä dropped from number 5 to 9 in its third week. Total tickets sold are 15,770 for the SF Film release. The Finnish co-production 1944 representing Estonia at the Oscars opened at number 11 for Atlantic Film, selling 1,938 tickets.
In Iceland Everest continues to rule the domestic chart in its second weekend. Admissions are already at 34,334 for Myndform.
In Norway the animated film Knudsen & Ludvigsen and the Horrible Rasputin received rave reviews in the national press and went straight to number one for its opening weekend. The Norsk Filmdistribusjon sold 42,305 tickets from 171 screens. The disaster film The Wave continues to establish its supremacy as this year’s top grossing film. After five weeks on screens the Nordisk Film release has sold more than 662.000 tickets. Everest stayed at number four, (with 41,331 total admissions), followed at number five by the local pre-kids movie Casper & Emma on Safari, so far the 11th most successful film of 2015 with 190.976 admissions for SF Norge. The Swedish film My Skinny Sister opened at number twelve for Arthaus, with 1,736 admissions from 30 screens.
In Sweden UIP’s Everest opened at number two after Disney’s Inside Out. The first local title – Greetings from the North (Glada Hälsningar från Missångerträsk) had to do with a fifth place for its opening weekend. The comedy starring Ola Rapace and Martina Haag benefitted from a wide release on 218 screens via Nordisk Film, but sold only 13,582 tickets.
The other local comedy – Heaven on Earth by Kay Pollak dropped 43% in its fourth week on screens. The Svensk Filmindustri release has attracted 194,890 total cinemagoers.
The documentary Ingrid Bergman-In Her Own Words is holding on well after 5 weeks on screens and so far 128,198 Swedes have watched the Stig Björkman film released by NonStop Entertainment.
As for the award-winning My Skinny Sister by Sanna Lenken, it has dropped only 17% in its second weekend and is now number 13 at the local charts. The Scanbox release is playing on 55 screens and has had 10.989 admissions so far.
Sources: FAFID, DFI, SMAIS, Filmikamari, Norske Filmbyråers Forening, Filmweb.no, Filmägarnas Kontrollbyrå.