In her first centrepiece Hollywood role since The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Swedish star actress Noomi Rapace is dominating the Scandinavian screen space with Ridley Scott's sci-fi movie Prometheus that went straight to number one last weekend for 20th Century Fox. Denmark was the only Nordic territory where a couple of local titles offered some resistance to US fare.

In its third week, the Danish 3D animation film Jelly T by Michael Hegner kept its third place at the Danish Top Ten, pushing admission numbers up by 17,994 from 150 screens to 91,913 in total for FC/SF.

Meanwhile the historical film A Royal Affair represented by Nordisk Film climbed up from eighth to sixth place, boosted by Mads Mikkelsen's Cannes Best Actor award for The Hunt. Nikolaj Arcel's drama has now passed 500,000 admissions in its tenth week and shows very strong legs, like the other Danish historical film Hvidsten gruppen (This Life) that has sold over 750,000 tickets in 14 weeks. The resistance film released by UIP/Regner Grasten is the second most successful Danish film of the last decade after the comedy Clown-The Movie and A Royal Affair is the ninth biggest local film, just above A Funny Man (Dirch) with 472,000 admissions.

In Finland the only local title that stayed in the Top Ten last weekend was Ricky Rapper and Cool Wendy. The children's film has sold over 202,000 tickets in 17 weeks, making it the most popular film of 2012 so far. The sci-fi spoof Iron Sky just dropped out of the Top Ten in its ninth week. Total admissions have passed 176,000 for the Disney release.

Iron Sky is also playing in Iceland and Sweden and total admissions after two months are 3,579 and 44,228 respectively. The Icelandic crime thriller Black's Game is still at number 13 in its 14 weeks on local screens and total admissions for Sena have passed 61,000.

Nordic films playing in Sweden's Top Ten include A Royal Affair (37,887 admissions from 10 screens for Nordisk Film), and the animation film Kalas Alfons! (15,828 admissions from seven screens for Folkets Bio).

Two Nordic animation films released by Nordisk Film have also carved themselves a niche on the Norwegian theatrical market. Sweden's Lilla spöket Laban: Var inte redd for farbrorn opened at number six last weekend and sold 3,319 tickets. The Icelandic film Thor-Legends of Valhalla was number seven and total admissions in four weeks are nearing 20,000.

(Sources: FAFID, SMAIS, Filmikamari, Filmweb.no, Filmägarnas kontrollbyrå).