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The Grump & Co controlled 27% of the Finnish market

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- Dome Karukoski’s comedy took 458,637 admissions, while seven other local films reached more than 100,000 in 2014

The Grump & Co controlled 27% of the Finnish market
The Grump by Dome Karukoski

Last year, Finnish director Dome Karukoski’s comedy The Grump [+see also:
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, about a die-hard old man facing the changing world, became the fourth Finnish movie since 2000 to exceed 400,000 admissions: it sold 458,637 tickets of the more than two million that were sold for local fare, which controlled 27% of the market.

It was only the third time since the start of the collection of Finnish cinema statistics in 1970 that local films accounted for more than two million admissions tickets, according to the annual figures published by the Finnish Chamber of Films.

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“It was a good year for domestic films in general, with 32 feature films released – eight Finnish productions passed 100,000 attendance, and three qualified for the chart of the five best-grossing films,” explained international communications officer Kati Nuora, of the Finnish Film Foundation.

Standing out among the international achievements, Selma Vilhunen’s short Do I Have to Take Care of Everything? was nominated for an Oscar and Leif Lindblom’s Raspberry Boat Refugee won the Nordic Film Award in Haugesund. J-P Valkeapää’s They Have Escaped [+see also:
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was selected for both Venice and Toronto, and Xavier Picard and Hanna Hemilä’s Moomins on the Riviera [+see also:
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, which premiered at the BFI London Film Festival, was sold to more than 40 countries.

Finland: Top ten films of 2014
1 The Grump (Finland), dir: Dome Karukoski, prod: Solar Films. 458,637 admissions
2 The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (US), dir: Peter Jackson. 350,405 adms
3 Ricky Rapper and the Slick Leonard (Finland), dir: Timo Koivusalo, prod: Artista Filmi. 265,907 adms
4 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (US), dir: Peter Jackson. 179,974 adms (446,000, including 2013)
5 Towards The Day of Doom (Finland), dir: Aleksi Mäkelä, prod: Nummela-Filmi. 178,345 adms
6 Jill and Joy (Finland), dir: Saara Cantell, prod: Zodiak. 177,161 adms
7 Moomins on the Riviera (Finland), dirs: Xavier Picard and Hanna Hemilä, prods: Handle Productions, Pictak France. 174,428 adms
8 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 (US), dir: Francis Lawrence. 172,018 adms
9 Rio 2 (US), dir: Carlos Saldanha. 161,590 adms
10 Frozen (US), dirs: Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee. 151,566 adms (192,000, including 2013)

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