But three other local comedies, dramas and crime thrillers were in the domestic Top 5 in Denmark and Finland.
School holidays in both territories will further boost attendance figures this upcoming week. Meanwhile in Sweden, Palme has now sold over 155,000 tickets, making it the biggest Swedish documentary film in 30 years.
In Denmark, the sixth instalment in the Father of Four franchise kept its first place in the domestic Top Ten in its second weekend. Scanbox increased the print run from 99 to 132 and total admissions are at 125,850.
The queen of comedy Hella Joof's new offering Sover Dolly på ryggen (Almost Perfect) starring Nikolaj Lie Kaas and Lene Maria Christensen was also available on more screens (107 vs 94) and moved up one rank to the second place in its second weekend Total admissions for the Nordisk Film release have reached 73,920.
Bille August's Marie Krøyer is stable at number four in its third weekend and total tickets sold so far for the FC/SF release are at 171,313. In its sixth week, Susanne Bier's comedy Love is All You Need also kept the same position at number five, steadily adding bums on seats. The Nordisk Film/Zentropa release is still playing on 70 screens and total admissions so far are 563,092.
Chasing Talents, the feature debut of stand-up comedian Jonatan Span opened at number six for FC/SF selling 15,174 tickets from 75 screens. The sixth Danish film in the Danish Top Ten, A Hijacking under Nordisk Film banner clocked in another 7,261 admissions and total tickets sold after a month for the Tobias Lindholm drama are 112,753.
With tough competition from Father of Four at Sea and Disney's Tinkerbell: Secrets of the Wings 3D that opened head to head last weekend, the new Danish animation film Marco Macaco by debut director Jan Rahbek only opened at number 11 despite good reviews in the Danish press. The film sold 11,351 tickets from 80 screens for FC/SF.
In Finland Niko2-Little Brother, Big Trouble went straight to number one in its opening weekend, selling 26,647 tickets from 115 screens. This is 20% up from the original Niko & the Way to the Stars released in 2008. The film was released by Nordisk Film, just like the number two Vares-Tango of Darkness, last of six films based on Reijo Mäki's crime novels. The new investigations by inspector Jussi Vares sold another 11,196 tickets from 77 screens, pushing total admission figures to 38,855.
The US film Step Up: Revolution (Nordisk Film) squeezed in at number 3 for its first weekend, pushing Mika Kaurismäki's Road North (FS Film) from third to fourth place. The road movie is holding on very well after eight weeks on national screens and total tickets sold so far are at 230,877. The Finnish Oscar entry Purge sold another 6,035 tickets from 59 screens in its sixth weekend. Cumulative admission figures are 173,816 so far.
Lasse Hallström's Swedish Oscar hopeful The Hypnotist opened at number six for FS Film, selling 7,927 tickets from 51 screens.
In Iceland, Baltasar Kormákur's Oscar candidate The Deep is still ruling at the Box Office chart after four weeks. Total admissions for the Sena release are at 38,978. Sena's other local film, the comedy Ávaxtakarfan dropped from number seven to ten in its seventh week, while its new Scandinavian entry Love is All You Need opened at number four.
In Norway Kon Tiki (Nordisk Film) has reached 819,723 total admissions and is by far the biggest film of the year. After eight weeks on national screens, the epic adventure movie shows no sign of losing its momentum: admissions only dropped by 18% from the previous weekend and the film had the second best screen average after Taken 2.
SF's The Hypnotist was number eight in its second weekend (18,665 total admissions total) , Nordisk Film's chiller Escape number nine after three weeks (48,661 total admissions total) and the local comedy Tina & Bettina (Nordisk Film) number 10 after six weeks (180,507 total admissions).
In Sweden The Hypnotist (SF) was number three after the US movies Taken 2 (Scanbox) and Ted (UIP/Universal). Lasse Hallström's Swedish film has sold 183,252 tickets so far and is currently playing on103 screens.
The most amazing performance is the 155,808 tickets sold after five weeks to Kristina Lindström and Maud Nycander's film Palme, making it the most successful Swedish documentary in three decades. The Scanbox release dropped only by 1% from the previous weekend, and the film is still playing on 91 screens. Palme opened yesterday in Denmark and will be released on October 23 in Norway.
Bille August's Danish language Marie Krøyer (SF) just made it in number 10, selling 6,736 tickets from 55 screens.
Source: FAFID, Danish Film Institute, Finnish Film Foundation, SMAIS, Film & Kino, Filmweb.no, Filmägarnas kontrollbyrå.