In Denmark, Nordisk Film's comedy The Reunion increased its box office by 6% from the previous weekend and kept its second place at the Top Ten. Total admissions after three weeks have reached 291,978 for Niels Nørløv's film. After five weeks, Scanbox's family franchise Father of Four-Back to Nature also didn't move from the previous weekend's third place, pushing total admissions up to 386,172. Still playing on 39 screens after seven weeks, the Norwegian thriller Headhunters was number six last weekend and total admissions are nearing 200,000 for Nordisk Film.
In Finland, the local period saga Where Once We Walked slid from second to fourth place in its second weekend. The screen adaptation of Kjell Westö's novel has sold over 26,000 tickets so far for Scanbox. Life for Sale (Kotirauha), the new film by the champion of the Finnish box office, Aleksi Mäkelä didn't catch fire as expected and fell from third to sixth place (26,975 total admissions).
A good local performer though is Aki Kaurismäki's Le Havre that managed to up its score from the previous weekend. Finland's Oscar entry has sold over 97,000 tickets in nine weeks for Future Film, making it the second best result for an Aki movie at home after The Man Without a Past (176,000 admissions in 2002).
In Iceland, the local 3D animation film Thor-Legends of Valhalla shows no sign of weakness after four weeks on domestic screens. The film kept its second place at the Top Ten after Tintin and total admissions are close to 20,000 for Sena. Olaf de Fleur's thriller City State came in at number six for Myndform and total admissions after four weeks have passed 14,000. Sena had two other Nordic films in the Top Ten: the Norwegian thriller Headhunters, number nine and Iceland's Oscar entry Volcano, number ten after six weeks on domestic screens.
In Norway, the Big Cinema Day on Saturday was as successful as in 2006 and 2008 with nearly 53,000 tickets sold. The tenth episode of Bergen private eye Varg Veum opened strongly at number two after Tintin, with over 36,000 admissions. "Never before has a Varg Veum movie opened so strongly," noted producer Silje Hopland Eik (Cinemiso). The kids franchise Twigson in a Pinch (Knerten i knipe) doubled its takes from the previous weekend, selling another 16,564 tickets to reach 301,475. The Paradox production is now the second most successful Norwegian film of 2011 after Headhunters (548,591).
The Danish animation film Freddy Frogface (Orla Frøsnapper) opened at number eight for SF with over 16,000 admissions.
In Sweden, the Norwegian thriller Headhunters entered the Top Ten at number six, selling over 10,000 tickets from 127 screens. The other Nordisk Film release Svensson Svensson The Movie passed 101,000 admissions after four weeks for a ninth place. On its heels, the thriller False Trail (Jägarna 2) on SF's slate added 9,755 admissions to reach an impressive 510,111 in ten weeks.