Denmark: The Nordisk Film release The Way to Mandalay posted 91,531 admissions from 122 screens and a 655 admission per screen average, making it the best opening for a Danish drama since The Hunt in 2013, and Ole Bornedal’s best opening film to date. The film produced by Miso Film focuses on the popular Danish singer/songwriter John Morgensen and his turbulent life as a father and a husband.

Frederik Honore, Director of Nordisk Film Distribution believes the film has a chance to beat Bornedal’s previous BO record holder The Night Watch which sold 465,000 tickets in 1994.

The animated film Hodja by Karsten Kiilerich was 8th last weekend in its fifth week on screens. The total admission count so far for the M&M Production released by UIP/ML is 138,225. The Norwegian fantasy film The Ashlad: in the Hall of the Mountain King opened last weekend at number 11 for Nordisk Film and sold 3,687 tickets. The biggest Danish hit of 2018 so far is Christian Tafdrup’s A Horrible Woman with 188,808 admissions.

Finland: The new Finnish opener Heavy Trip released by Finnkino/Scanbox, came in at number 4 after Coco, Black Panther and The Shape of Water, and posted 8,223 admissions from 106 screens. The feature debut of music video specialists Jukka Vidgren and Juuso Laatio produced by Making Movies, tells of metal band Impaled Rektum, on its way to the wildest heavy metal festival in Norway.

Other Finnish comedies that made it in the Top 10 are Storage 2 by Taru Mäkelä (Nordisk Film) which has sold nearly 70,000 tickets after four weeks, and the children’s film Super Furball by Joona Tena (SF Studios), second most popular local film of 2018 so far with 114,355 admissions, just after My Brother’s Keeper by JP Siili about rapper sensation Cheek (118,094 admissions for SF Studios).

Last year’s top grossing film The Unknown Soldier by Aku Louhimies is still playing locally on 17 screens after 20 weeks. The SF Studios release has attracted a record 1,010,717 people.

Two Nordic films are currently playing in the top 20: the Danish film A Horrible Woman (Cinema Mondo) opened last weekend at number 13 and sold 2,197 tickets, while the Swedish comedy hit Solsidan-the movie (SF Studios) has successfully crossed borders with nearly 180,000 admissions. 

Iceland: No less than three local films - all distributed by Sena - were in the top 10 last weekend. The animated film Ploey was number 4 after six weeks on screens. Total admissions so far are 19,221. Isold Uggadóttir’s debut film and Sundance winner And Breathe Normally opened at number 6 and attracted 1,540 Icelanders, followed at number 7 by Anton Sigurðsson ‘actioner Fullir vasar, seen by 7,046 people after three weeks.

Norway: Erik Poppe’s drama U-July 22 released by Nordisk Film, took the top of the local chart for its opening weekend with 51,333 admissions from 151 screens, making it the strongest opening for a Norwegian film so far this year. The film about the Utøya massacre that shook Norway in 2011, received rave reviews across the board, with 5 stars in Aftenposten, Nettavisen, VG and 6 stars in NRKP3 and Dagsavisen.

The local comedy Opportunity Knocks by Arild Frölich, came in at number 2 after two weeks at number 1 for Nordisk Film. The reboot of an all-time classic, with Dag star Atle Antonsen in multiple parts was produced by Kjetil Omberg (Dead Snow) and Jørgen Storm Rosenberg (Magic Silver). Christian Lo’s youth film Los Bando which screened at Berlin’s Generation, has posted 25,093 admissions for Kontxtfilm after four weeks on screens. So far the biggest film of 2018 is the Norwegian survival drama The 12th Man with 633,714 admissions for Nordisk Film.

Sweden: For the second weekend in a row, Filip Hammar and Fredrik Wikingsson’s comedy The Cake General crowned the Swedish charts, with 80,026 total admissions from 273 screens for SF Studios. Mikael Persbrandt plays the eccentric Hasse Pettersson who sets on a mission to create the world’s longest sandwich cake to puts his little native town on the map. So far the Nexiko film is the best rated Swedish film of 2018, just ahead of the biopic Ted-Show Me Love by Hannes Holm, which is nearing 400,000 admissions for Fox/Nordisk Film.

Sources: FAFID, Danish Film Institute, FRÍSK, Filmikamari, Finnish Film Foundation, Norske Filmbyråers Forening, Filmweb.no, Filmägarnas Kontrollbyrå, Swedish Film Institute.