After a successful festival tour in Rotterdam and Göteborg, Michael Noer’s drama Northwest released by Nordisk Film on 66 prints, went straight to the top of the Danish charts for its opening week, selling over 30,000 tickets and pushing down from number one Tom Cruise’s sci-fi movie Oblivion.

“We are very pleased with Northwest. Not only did it get great reviews across the board, but the audience loved it as well,” said Nordisk Film Distribution’s Acquisition Manager Rasmus Krogh. Another Nordisk Film release, the Norwegian epic Kon-Tiki, playing on 96 screens held well despite good weather in Denmark last weekend. The film was number four in the top 10, and total admissions after three weeks are nearing 120,000. The local family film MGP Missionen by Martin Miehe-Renard offered by FC/SF on 70 screens was number eight in its fifth week. Total admissions have reached 85,712. 

In Finland the local comedy 21 Ways to Ruin a Marriage released by Nordisk Film continues to play extremely well after 11 weeks on national screens. Johanna Vuoksenmaa’s film dropped only 25% from the previous weekend, from fourth to fifth place behind I Give it A Year (SF), The Croods (SF/Fox), Oblivion (FK/Universal) and the top scorer and new opener Scary Movie 5 (Future Film). 21 Ways has now sold a record 364,810 tickets. Meanwhile Kon-Tiki made its entry on the Finnish chart at number 10, selling 1,667 tickets from 22 screens for Atlantic Film. Aleksi Salmenperä’s documentary Alcan Highway released by SF Film opened at number 12, selling 1,416 tickets from 32 screens.

In Iceland two local films were in the Top Ten last weekend: Ágúst Gudmundsson’s comedy Spooks and Spirits released by Samfilm was number six with 8,706 total admissions after four weeks, and False Bird distributed by Sena, opened at number seven. Sena also had two Danish films in the Top 20: The Hunt (number 11 after nine weeks) and A Hijacking (number 13 after two weeks).

In Norway the children’s film Caspen & Emma-Best Friends was the only Nordic title in the local Top Ten last weekend. Arne Lindtner Næss’s film produced and released by SF lost only 17% admissions after ten weeks on national screens and total admissions so far are 197,973.

In Sweden Thomas Vinterberg’s The Hunt released by Nordisk Film dropped only 10% in its second week. The film kept its third place at the Top Ten, after the US blockbusters The Croods (20th Century Fox) and Oblivion (UIP/Universal) and total admissions from 87 screens for the Zentropa film are at 30,832. Svensk Filmindustri’s comedy drama Bäst Före directed by Mats Arehn was number five in its fifth week, with 103,502 tickets sold so far from 88 screens.