Market share for local films drop from 23.9% (2016) to 18%. 

In a year marked by the lack of local blockbusters of more than 700,000 - such as The King’s Choice (714,000 in 2016) or The Wave (833,000 in 2015) that topped the cinema charts the past two years, total admissions in 2017 dropped by 10,4% year on year, from 13,119,180 in 2016 to 11,764,384, and local films from 3,132,678 in 2016 to 2,123,323 last year.

The family film The Ash Lad: In the Hall of the Mountain King (354,034) was the second biggest film of the year after Star Wars: The Last Jedi, and biggest Norwegian hit, although it didn’t perform as well as the top three Norwegian films of 2016 The King’s Choice, Santa Swap-Merry Christmas Mr Andersen (496,760) and Børning 2 (438,137).

As always, family films were audience favourites, as four of the five biggest local films were for kids and youth: The Ash Lad: In the Hall of the Mountain King, In the Forest of Huckybucky (that sold 209,006 admissions in 2017 for a total of 435,702), Twigson the Explorer (146,249) and Casper & Emma Go Hiking (136,532). Although released at the end of 2017, on Christmas day, the epic war film The 12th Man was the second best film of the year (213,420). After 2 weeks on screens, the film directed by Harald Zwart has sold more than 370,000 tickets and will most likely, be among the 2018 best-selling titles.

Among quality local arthouse films, Iram Haq’s What Will People Say was a surprise hit with 107,908 admissions, while the music documentary about pop idols Marcus & Martinus-Together gathered as many as 141,532 fans in the cinemas. The top Nordic film was the Sweden’s Solsidan-The Movie with 85,020 admissions. 

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