In its second weekend on 80 Danish screens, Charlotte Sachs Bostrup's Karla & Katrine has climbed from a fourth to second position in the Top Ten, pushing admission figures up to 106,466 for Nordisk Film. With her second film adaptation of Renée Toft Simonsen's Karla's stories, Bostrup should easily beat the 150,000 admissions for Karla's Game in 2007.
In Finland, Dome Karukoski's original and delicate portrayal of forbidden love in Forbidden Fruit, has made it straight to number two at the local Top Ten in its opening weekend. The Helsinki filmi production supported by Nordisk Film & TV Fond was released by Sandrew Metronome on 48 screens for 17,978 admissions. Aleksi Mäkelä's Hellsinki has sold another 10,003 tickets from 59 screens in its sixth week. Total admissions are now at 208,970 for Nordisk Film.
Norway's champion at the local box office Max Manus has passed the magic one million admissions and has still a long life ahead. In its ninth week, the film managed to climb from fourth to third place, totalling 1,071,800 admissions from 76 screens for Nordisk Film. The family film The Junior Olsen Gang and the Black Gold follows with 92,347 admissions for Nordisk.
In Sweden, Glowing Stars (I taket lyser sjärnorna) took the fifth place at the Top Ten last weekend and total admissions are now at 81,000 for Lisa Siwe's debut feature. Sandrew Metronome has added another six prints to sustain the demand during school holidays. After a month on Swedish screens, Mammoth was number eight at the Top Ten.
In Iceland, Samfilm took the top three positions with Beverly Hills Chihuahua, Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Friday 13th, but Sena had the best screen average of the weekend with the new opener The Wrestler and Fridrik Thor Fridriksson's documentary The Sunshine Boy has now sold over 12,570 tickets for Sena.
Max Manus, Glowing Stars, and The Sunshine Boy have all been supported by Nordisk Film & TV Fond.
Sources: DFI, bio-tal, Finnish Film Foundation, SFI, Sandrew Metronome Sweden, Filmweb rapportserver, SMAIS.